CONSTITUTION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. Article 1.-Name. This Association shall be known as the Pennsylvania State BeeKeepers' Association. Article 2.-Object. The object of this Association shall be the promotion of scientific and practical bee culture, and the securing of such legislation as is necessary to protect and further the bee-keeping industry, and to advance the interests of its members. Article 3.-Officers. The officers of this Association shall be a President, three VicePresidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Executive Committee of five members, all of whom shall be members of this Association. Their duties shall be such as usually devolve upon the respective officers of similar associations. Article 4.-Membership. Section 1. Any person complying with the regulations of this Association, and paying one dollar yearly to the funds thereof, at any time, shall be a member, and shall be entitled to vote at the annual election of officers, and to participate in the deliberations of the Association, and receive the publications of the same, and also by so doing shall be a member of the National Association, entitled to its publications, legal protection and benefits. Section 2. Any person interested in bee culture (including ladies) may become honorary members by a majority vote at a regular meeting. Article 5.-Meetings, Election and Quorum. Section 1. A meeting of the Association for the election of officers, transaction of business, presentation of papers and the discussion of topics of interest to progressive bee-keepers shall be held annually at such time and place as the Association shall direct. Section 2. Special meetings may be called by the President and Secretary. Section 3. Seven members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may enter upon a discussion of important topics and adjourn to some future day. Article 6.-Amendments. This Constitution may be amended by a majority vote at any annual meeting, of which amendment 30 days previous notice shall have been given, in writing, to every member of the Association. A full list of the members of this Association will be published in the next annual report giving also their addresses and the following facts about them as far as they can be ascertained: 1. Name and Address. 2. Number of Colonies. 3. Kind of Bees. 4. Kind of Hives. 5. Amount of comb honey produced in 1905,. in 1904,. in 1903,. in 1902,. 6. Amount of extract of honey produced in 1905,. in 1904,. in 1903,. in 1902,. and the number of colonies each season that were engaged in the production of the above mentioned honey? 7. What periodicals or journals on Bee-Keeping are taken? 8. Chief honey-producing plants and date of blooming of each. 9. Membership in State, National and Local Bee-Keepers' Associa tions. All persons keeping bees in the State of Pennsylvania, whether members of the Association of not, are requested to send to the President, at Harrisburg, such detailed replies to the above questions as they can give, either of their own apiaries or those of their neighbors, whose names and addresses are also requested. CIRCULAR OF INFORMATION. The following circular was sent by the Secretary to every BeeKeeper whom he could reach in this State: The Pennsylvania State Bee-Keepers' Association. The Pennsylvania State Bee-Keepers' Association was organized at Williamsport, April 12, 1904, and held its First Annual Convention in Harrisburg, December 6th and 7th, 1904. The officers for the year ending December, 1905, are as follows:-President, Prof. H. A. Surface, State College, 1st Vice President, E. E. Pressler, Williamsport, 2d Vice President, W. A. Selser, Philadelphia, 3rd Vice President, J. N. Prothero, DuBois; Secretary, D. L. Woods, Muncy; Treasurer, E. L. Pratt, Swarthmore; Executive Committee, Richard D. Barclay, State College, Charles N. Green, Troy; E. N. Phillips, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; E. A. Dempwolf, York, and John D. Costello, Harrison Valley. The chief purpose of this organization is to promote Apiculture in Pennsylvania and it is to be accomplished by efforts made along the following lines: (1) To secure legislation for the promotion of bee-keeping. (2) To suppress the diseases of bees, especially foul brood, by legislation and by the appointment of a competent State Inspector with deputies or assistants. (3) To secure and promote instruction in bee-keeping at Farmers' Institutes. (4) To secure a series of lectures at the normal sessions for Farmers' Institute Lecturers each year. (5) To make it possible for persons to obtain instruction in apiculture at the Pennsylvania State College. (6) To induce and promote investigation and experimentation in apiculture at the Pennsylvania State Agriculture Experiment Station. (7) To induce and promote investigations and publications by the Division of Zoology of the Pennsylvania State Department of Agriculture. (8) to Enforce the laws against the adulteration of honey. (9) To secure laws against spraying fruit trees while in bloom. (10) To obtain statistics concerning bees and bee-products within our State. (11) To enter upon a crusade of apicultural education in this State, both for producers and consumers of honey. (12) To instruct fruit growers and farmers as to the practical value of bees as agents in the fertilization of the bloom of their plants, and to show the fact that they are wholly beneficial and never injurious. (13) To raise the rank of Pennsylvania as a honey-producing state from fourth in the Union to first, if possible. (14) To band together all the bee keepers of the State for the purpose of good fellowship and that strength, which is to be obtained only by union. (15) To make it possible for persons not now keeping bees to add to their revenues by the production of honey, and to increase both the quantity and quality of the honey produced in this State. The first year of the Association's history has not been insignificant. The membership has not become what it should, but is by no means discouraging. Our industry was given place on the program of the Normal Farmers' Institute Lecture Course in October, 1904, at Bellefonte. The First Annual Convention, mentioned above was by no means unimportant, consisting as it did of five sessions, the proceedings of which will be published in the Report of the Department of Agriculture. As one of the results of the Association's work, instruction in Apiculture may now be obtained by correspondence from State College, and experiments and practical investigations in bee-keeping are now commenced there. An attempt was made to secure the passage of a bill providing for the suppression of bee diseases. Was it a failure? Yes, for this time. But it must not be in the end. Will you help next time? It is now necessary as far as possible, to enlist every bee-keeper in the State to give his personal support and influence to the Association that its membership may be largely increased, and the full advantages of its avowed purposes may be obtained for all beekeepers. To this end, every person receiving this circular is urged to become a member and is asked to assist in getting others to do so by sending lists of bee-keepers' names to the secretary, and by speaking to their bee-keeping friends about this important subject. The membership fee is one dollar a year which includes the fee for membership in the National Bee-Keepers' Association. All members will receive (free), the publication of both Associations. Dear reader, are you interested? If so will you not promptly fill out and return to the secretary the accompanying application blank with One Dollar for the payment of your membership fee? Its receipt will be promptly acknowledged. Correspondence is carnestly solicited. D. L. WOODS, Secretary, Muncy, Pa. H. A. SURFACE, President, Harrisburg, Pa. Application for Membership in the PENNSYLVANIA BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. Please enroll my name as a member of the Pennsylvania State Bee Keepers' Association. I enclose one dollar ($1.00) in payment of my first annual membership fee, with the understanding that the secretary will forward fifty cents ($.50) of the same to the National Bee-Keepers' Association, and that thereby I shall be constituted a member of both Associations. Name Town Number of colonies kept County REPORT OF THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA, HELD AT HARRISBURG, PA., DECEMBER 6 AND 7, 1905. The attendance throughout was good and much interest manifested in the papers and discussions. This being the first meeting there was considerable important business transacted, all of which is carefully recorded in the minutes of the Secretary. Therefore it is not necessary to publish the details of the business section, but the program and the following papers are here recorded because of the great value of the facts contained in these papers, which were prepared by men who rank among the most prominent in the world to write on such subjects. Although the important discussions of these valuable papers must be omitted from this report, it is hoped that it may be found possible to insert such in the next. Program of the First Annual Convention of the Pennsylvania State Bee-Keepers' Association, held in Harrisburg, Pa., December 6 and 7, 1904. 2.00 P. M. Tuesday, December 6. Minutes of the Williamsport (Organization) Meeting. Report of the Treasurer. Reports of Committees. Appointment of Committees. Unfinished Business. . New Business for the consideration of the Association. Report of Convention of the National Bee-Keepers' Association, Mr. E. E. Pressler, of Williamsport. 7.30 P. M. Tuesday, December 6. Address by the Governor. Response and President's Address. Paper by Dr. E. F. Phillips, of the University of Pennsylvania. (Title to be announced later.) 9.00 A. M. Wednesday, December 7. Reports of Committees. Diseases among Bees and Their Treatment, Hon. N. E. France State Inspector of Apiaries for Wisconsin and General Manager of National Bee-Keeper's Association. Bee Keeping as a Business, O. C. Fuller, Northumberland county. Bees and Horticulture, Gabriel Hiester, Harrisburg. |