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"My dear Mr. Dadant: 
   At the Annual Banquet of the Wis- 
consin State Beekeepers' Ass'n., after 
the Egyptian Medal presented to you 
had been handed over by Prof. Wilson 
to your son, Maurice, the members 
spent a 'Dadant Half Hour'. 
   Your beekeeper is as a rule a poor 
orator, but rich in gratitude and sen- 
timent, and they rose to the occasion 
At thie conclusion they honored me 
by asking that I write you, expressing 
by the written word what they wished 
you could have heard. 
   Wisconsin beekeepers   well know 
that you are the 'last of a great race', 
that you are the only remaining link 
with the past great decades of great 
beekeeping and great beemen. Those 
surely were 'Giants in the land in 
those days'. 
   They wish to express their deep 
gratitude for all your noble contribu- 
tions to bee literature, and for all your 
dignified conduct of the printed page, 
from which we have all derived so 
much benefit. 
   They also wish to express their 
abiding affection for you; they are 
grateful that you have been spared so 
long after the allotted span, and pray 
that you may be spared for many days 
to come, to enjoy the company of 
your splendid family and your in- 
numerable friends, 
     and I remain, dear Mr. Dadant, 
        with much affection 
           your friend, 
             Joseph M. Barr 
 
   Entertainment at the banquet con- 
sisted of vocal solos rendered by Miýs 
Rose Deutsch and young Jim Barr, ac- 
companied on the piano by Mrs. Jim 
Barr, which were exceedingly delight- 
ful because of their classic setting and 
appropriateness. 
   A suggestion was made that a pil- 
grimage be made during the summer 
of 1932 to visit the Dadant home, and 
to extend to Mr. Dadant an appre- 
 
 
ciation from the beekeepers who might 
be able to attend. We all concluded 
with the hope that Mr. Dadant might 
continue on to his 100th birthday. 
   It was the desire of those present 
that a letter of Greetings be sent to 
Mr. N. E. France and Mr. Gus Ditt- 
mer, and that regret be expressed that 
they were unable to attend the meet- 
ing. 
          FRIDAY MORNING 
   The meeting was called to order at 
9:45 by President Seefeldt. 
   Mr. E. C. Alfonsus, Instructor in 
Beekeeping at the University of Wis- 
consin, Madison, in his talk on "Sup- 
ercedure  and  Swarming", said, in 
brief-' "Supercedure  and   swarming 
are two closely related occurrences, de- 
pending on environmental conditions 
of the bee colony.   It has been ex- 
perienced ;that some colonies rather 
supercede than swarm, which offers 
the possibility of selecting such colon- 
ies for breeding stock to produce a new 
strain of non-swarming bees which 
would solve the problems of swarm 
control."   Mr. Alfonsus' paper will 
be published in an early issue of this 
magazine. 
   Mr. Lewis Parks, Chairman of the 
Board of Directors of the American 
Honey   Institute, Watertown, Wis- 
consin, presented a paper on "The 
American Honey Institute"; this paper 
will be published at an early date. Mr. 
Parks described the work being done 
by the Institute, and stressed the ne- 
cessity of the beekeepers helping in 
the support of this organization, due 
to the necessity of reduced support 
by some of the large contributors to 
the Institute. 
   We are indebted to Miss Annette 
M. Snapper, Director of the Educa- 
tion Department of the Pabst Corpor- 
ation of Milwaukee, for her excellent 
talk on how women react to the work 
of the Home Economic Demonstrators 
in selling foods. Miss Snapper's paper 
 
 
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