. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 35th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., OCT. 31, 1895. No. 44. Report of the Proceedings OF THE Twenty-Sixth Annual Convention OP THE North American Bee-Keepers' Association, HELD AT TORONTO, Ont., Sept. 4, 5 and 6, 1895. W. Z. HUTCHINSON, SEC. (Continued from pa^e 679.) The following address should have appeared the first thing in the report of the morning session of the second day, but owing to an unavoidable delay in receiving a copy of it from Mr. Holtermann, I am compelled to put it in out of its proper place : Xlie President's Address. In the few remarks to w
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 35th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., OCT. 31, 1895. No. 44. Report of the Proceedings OF THE Twenty-Sixth Annual Convention OP THE North American Bee-Keepers' Association, HELD AT TORONTO, Ont., Sept. 4, 5 and 6, 1895. W. Z. HUTCHINSON, SEC. (Continued from pa^e 679.) The following address should have appeared the first thing in the report of the morning session of the second day, but owing to an unavoidable delay in receiving a copy of it from Mr. Holtermann, I am compelled to put it in out of its proper place : Xlie President's Address. In the few remarks to which I shall confine myself I would say, that looking upon bee-keeping as an occupation, we are making progress in many desirable directions. There is still with some, unfortunately, a slight tendency to belittle bee- keeping by giving the impression that any one can keep bees and succeed with but little capital, no experience, no labor; and others we find, who, if they do not express it, have a ling- ering thought in their mind that the advantages of the occu- pation and the experience of able men should not be presented. All this we are leaving behind us, and we are emerging, in fact standing upon a broad and liberal platform, our industry being recognized as a wealth-producing power of the country ; and we can justly be proud of our occupation. Much has been said, and much has been conceded along the line of the interesting study of the marvelous honey-bee. The study of its life history has thrown open to scientific men some of the most beautiful laws in Nature, in that way in- creasing our reverence for the Creator of all things, who has set these laws in force. But we cannot emphasize too much the facts that bee-keeping may offer an opening to many in rural districts, who otherwise have to resort to the city, un- able to find profitable openings in the country with the capital in hand; that bee-keeping displaces no other crop on the farm ; that in taking the honey crop it
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