. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Oct. 24 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 677 during- all of my experience in attend- ing the meetings of the National Bee- Keepers' Association, and I have at- tended all of them for a number of years, and I said this means well ; but a remark by the Mayor has explained the whole matter to me. I understand why it is. The Mayor is of German descent, and the Germans are the best bee-keepers there are in America, and, notwithstandinf;^ the fact that America is in advance of Germany in bee-keep- inff, yet there is more enthusiasm in Germany with regard to the
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Oct. 24 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 677 during- all of my experience in attend- ing the meetings of the National Bee- Keepers' Association, and I have at- tended all of them for a number of years, and I said this means well ; but a remark by the Mayor has explained the whole matter to me. I understand why it is. The Mayor is of German descent, and the Germans are the best bee-keepers there are in America, and, notwithstandinf;^ the fact that America is in advance of Germany in bee-keep- inff, yet there is more enthusiasm in Germany with regard to the industry than in America, and there are more Germans who have a clear and intelli- g-ent conception of farm bee-keeping than any other class of people ; there are more Germans who are making it profitable in connection with other agriculture—for I look upon it as a branch of agriculture. And now I am glad that the people of Buffalo have had the good sense to elect to this high office the gentleman who was so closely in touch with Mother Earth—so closely in touch with the soil, from which all the wealth of the land, and out of which all the glory and beauty of this great city have been builded. I say I am glad to know that the people of Buffalo have had the good sense to do a thing of that kind. It speaks well for the future of the country, for what is needed is to bring the country and the city in close touch which each other, to get the farmer to understand that he is not a " hayseed," to get the citizen of the great city to understand that all the brain doesn't walk abroad on asphalt pavements ; to get these facts, these two facts, clearly before the American people will be worth a great deal; when commerce and trade and traffic join hands with the man who holds the handles of the plow, when rural pur- suits and citv commerce move hand in hand and co-operate with each other, then we will have reached what I believe to be the ideal nation. I am not surprised, of
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