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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



In like manner, as the board of direc- 

 toi's lias power to till a vacancy in 

 the executive committee, I think any 

 resignation of a member of that com- 

 mittee ouyht to be sent to the chair- 

 man of the board, and then the whole 

 board should act upon it before elect- 

 in.i;- a successor. As the board has, or 

 should have, power to remove the gen- 

 eral nianagi'r and till the vacancy, 1 

 think the resignation of the general 

 manager ought to go to the chairman 

 of the board, and be passed upon by 

 the whole board. In other words, the 

 resignation ought to be sent to the 

 body that has power to fill the va- 

 cancy. With such a rule as this, all 

 of our trouble of last year would have 

 been avoided. 



It has been suggested, also, that the 

 general manager hold his office three 

 years, the same as the directors hold 

 theirs. I thiidi this a good idea. A 

 man scarcely gets the work well in 

 hand, before the year is gone. 



At present the constitution says 

 that in order to have a change in the 

 constitution, notice must first be given 

 at the annual convention, and then it 

 can be voted upon at the Decemlier 

 election. I would suggest that a pro- 

 posed amendment must first be ap- 

 ]iroved by tlu> annual convention— in- 

 stead of simply a notice given. As 

 it is now any member can bring iip 

 some trivial matter, give notice at the 

 annual convention, and the manager 

 nuist put the matter before the whole 

 membership for a vote. Any matter 

 that would not meet the approval of 

 the annual convention is not of suf- 

 fici(Mit importance to recpiire the vote 

 of the whole membership. In short, 

 the annual convention should be a 

 committee that would cut olf trivial, 

 or undesirable matter th.at might oth- 

 ei'wise be dignified with a vote from 

 the v/hole membership. 



The above are some of the anu>nd- 

 meuts that have come to my mind, or 



been siiggested to me by others. 1 



shall be thankful to hear from any 



member with suggestions, criticisms, 

 or additional changes. 



^exYracted^ 



A NATIONAL HONEY EXCHANGE. 



A [Man Outlined for a National Or>fanization. 



Something About the California 



Fruit Exchange. 



Last month I copied from the Amer- 

 ican I>ee Journal an article by Prof. 

 A. J. Cook, in which he gave reasons 

 why National organization of a com- 

 mercial character was needed by the 

 bee-keepers of this country. At the 

 close of that article he promised to 

 give an outline of a plan for such an 

 organization. Said outline appeared 

 in the American Bee Journal for Fel). 

 12, and is as follows: 



"In a late number of the American 

 I'ee Journal I gave what seems to me 

 a fair description of the signs of the 

 times in regard to combination, 

 whether of capital or Avork and the 

 great importance of co-operation in 

 all lines of work. I there stated that 

 I would in a succeeding article out- 

 line what seemed to me a feasible 

 course for the bee-keepers to pursue. 

 This is not visionary or a mere theory. 

 It is indeed what has already proved 

 a success with the citrus growers of 

 Southern California. I need not, 

 however, say Southern California 

 now, because our Citrus Fruit Ex- 

 change has already entered and cap- 

 tured central C.-ilifornia, ami is even 

 gaining a foothold in the northern 

 part of the Sl:ite. What I give then, 

 is no theory, it is a sort of evolution. 

 Althotigh the Citrus Fruit Exchange 

 started nine years ago it is today an 



