. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 192 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REV IE /c . those who would show plainly that they have never read a book on bee keeping in their lives, and know nothing in regard to dis- puted points in the higher realms of apicul- ture. Capt. Hetherington attended once, as I have said, at Cleveland ; Manum and Doo- little once at Detroit; Heddon twice when the meetings were so near him that he could hardly help going. I could name many who did not care to go when the meetings were near them. In any effort to lift the organ- ization out of its present rut, there must be included
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 192 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REV IE /c . those who would show plainly that they have never read a book on bee keeping in their lives, and know nothing in regard to dis- puted points in the higher realms of apicul- ture. Capt. Hetherington attended once, as I have said, at Cleveland ; Manum and Doo- little once at Detroit; Heddon twice when the meetings were so near him that he could hardly help going. I could name many who did not care to go when the meetings were near them. In any effort to lift the organ- ization out of its present rut, there must be included a dropping of this feature of pri- mary instruction, an abolition of the ques- tion box, a suppression of the supply busi- ness, and an elevation of the annual meeting to a far higher plane" generally. If this were done the North American should have something to give in return to local societies for sending delegates. Bee-keepers as a class have always lacked what the French call Esprit-de-corps, a phrase for which we have no English equiva- lent. There has been, I think, though some deny it, a sort of mutual admiration society among them, but very little of the enthusi- asm of a pursuit, regardless of its doUar- and-cent features. I could name a score of bee-keepers on the continent of North America with whom I would gladly meet in convention for three days or a week at my own cost. For that matter 1 have always paid my own expenses except at the Keokuk meeting when the Ontario Bee-Keepers' As- sociation paid my expenses. I have never pursued bee-keeping for the money there is iu it, and herein, some tliink, I have been greatly to blame and have proved myself of no great account in connection with the business. Well, I look at nothing in this world merely through a money medium. You may hold up a silver dollar to your eye and shut out all the glories of the sun. Bee- keeping lias paid me in other ways far more than all it has cost, and I firmly believe the North American
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