. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 310 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, May 17, Report of the Northeastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania Bee-Keepers' Convention. The Northeastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania Bee- Keepers' Association held their 19th annual convention at Andover, Ohio, Jan. 12 and 13, 1900. Owing to the fact that a farmers' institute was being held in tlie neighbor- hood, and, as nearly all the bee-keepers were farmers, they were reallj' more interested in the farmers' meeting. The attendance at the bee-keepers' convention was rather slim. In fact, the convention was more
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 310 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, May 17, Report of the Northeastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania Bee-Keepers' Convention. The Northeastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania Bee- Keepers' Association held their 19th annual convention at Andover, Ohio, Jan. 12 and 13, 1900. Owing to the fact that a farmers' institute was being held in tlie neighbor- hood, and, as nearly all the bee-keepers were farmers, they were reallj' more interested in the farmers' meeting. The attendance at the bee-keepers' convention was rather slim. In fact, the convention was more informal than regular. Nevertheless, the enthusiasm displayed would have done credit to a mucli larger assemblage. All those in attend- ance felt that their time had been well and profitably spent, and all departed for their homes avowing renewed alle- giance to the association, and promising their best efforts for the success of future meetings. It was at Andover that the association had been or- rganized 20 years before. In fact it was, I believe, one of "the pioneer bee-keepers' associations of this country. It was here that some of their most enthusiastic and largely at- tended conventions had been held. These earlier ineetings were attended by some of the best bee-keepers in the coun- try. The early records of the association show that Thomas ?G. Newman, then editor of the American Bee Journal, was one of those who attended and took an active part in the affairs of the association. Among those in attendance at the last session was a number of those who had signed the roll at the initiatory meeting 20 years before. The first day's session was gifen over to a kind of an ?historical reminiscence of the association and its earlj' •members. One of the most pathetic incidents of the con- vention was when Mr. M. E. Mason, one of the founders of the association, took the old record-book and called the roll that had been signed at the first meeting in 1880. As the names were
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