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settling tip, and the timber has to be cut away to make room for 

 other crops. Fires are continually burning up the young growth. 

 Thousands of acres that were formerly covered with thickest of 

 young trees, have been swept away by the fire. The remaining 

 timber lands are mostly being pastured, which soon kills most of 

 the larger trees, especially on the higher land. The tramping of 

 stock packs the soil, and the rains do not enter the ground but run 

 off, and the trees soon die from lack of moisture. There are pieces 

 of timber land where one-third of the trees are already dead from 

 this cause. There are large tracts of rather light sandy and stony 

 land and also some that is too hilly for cultivation. Such lands could 

 be planted to forest trees and made to produce a good crop of tim- 

 ber. There are varieties of trees that do well on such lands. 



Many farmers have to buy their wood at the present time, and 

 wood is cheap compared with the limited supply, but it will not 

 long remain so tinder present conditions. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 1901, MINNESOTA BEE-KEEPERS' 



ASSOCIATION. 



DR. t,. B. LEONARD, SEC'Y, MINNEAPOLIS. 



The annual meeting of the Minnesota Bee-Keepers' Association 

 was held Dec. 4 and 5, 1901, at Minneapolis. It was a very inter- 

 esting and profitable meeting to the members present. It was un- 

 fortunate that no stenographer was provided for, as a number of 

 interesting talks were made which as far as publication is concerned 

 are a dead letter. 



Mr. William Russell, president of the association, called the 

 meeting to order. The first business was a report of the commit- 

 tee appointed last year to look after the adulteration of honey in 

 this state. The committee has kept in touch with the Dairy and 

 Food Commission of the state and has urged, in season and out, 

 the necessity of obtaining samples of honey and having them' an- 

 alyzed and reported upon and the seller and manufacturer warned 

 if the goods were not as represented. This has been done in a 

 number of cases this year, as well as in several years past, and 

 although there has been little prosecution, the moral effect seems 

 to be growing, and there is not by any means the proportion of 

 adulterated honey sold now as has been in the past. This mat- 

 ter of adulteration is one that must be constantly looked after by 

 somebody, and in the end is bound to be stopped. 



During the year the Minnesota State Fair Association built 

 a new and spacious building at the state fair grounds, and 



