. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. PubUsltt Weelily- at lis AIicJ»ig-an Street. $ a Veor—Sajup/e Copy Free. 37th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., DECEMBER 2, 1897. No. I Report of the Buffalo Conventioa of the United States Bee-Keepers' Union. BT DR. A. B. MASON. The 2Sth annual convention of the United States Bee- Keepers' Union was held at Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 24, 25 and 2(5, 1S97. By way of preface I would like to apologize to the mem- bers of the Union for the delay in furnishing these proceed- ngs for publication. ceedings, which, as I understood it, he consented to do, and I made no
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. PubUsltt Weelily- at lis AIicJ»ig-an Street. $ a Veor—Sajup/e Copy Free. 37th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., DECEMBER 2, 1897. No. I Report of the Buffalo Conventioa of the United States Bee-Keepers' Union. BT DR. A. B. MASON. The 2Sth annual convention of the United States Bee- Keepers' Union was held at Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 24, 25 and 2(5, 1S97. By way of preface I would like to apologize to the mem- bers of the Union for the delay in furnishing these proceed- ngs for publication. ceedings, which, as I understood it, he consented to do, and I made no attempt to keep any track of the proceedings. Owing to the heart-rending afflictions through which he was called to pass at the close of the convention, and his being very busy at the fairs, I received a few days since from him what he had prepared, and of which he says : "The notes are not nearly so full as I should have taken if I had been taking them for the Association, for the purpose of publication. I was taking them for my own private use only. I am sorry that a fuller report was not taken of the discussions, but I suppose that this Is the best that I'an be done under the circumstances. I am sorry, too, that I could not have written them out sooner, but the other tasks and burdens in the way ; No one feels the want of a complete report of all the pro- ceedings and discussions more keenly than I do, and as there seems to have been a misunderstanding between Mr. Hutchin- son—on whom I relied for a full report—and myself, but little besides the papers read can be publisht. When the time had come for opening the convention President York had not arrived, the train on which he and Dr. Miller and Mr. E. Whitcomb, of Nebraska, Rev. E. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original w
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