THE BEE-KEEPERS' RIvVIEW. 



made niorry by day and the mosquitoes 

 sang at night, yet there was a new 

 wire screen door lyinj? in the kitchen 

 waiting,' for liim to "get time" to hang 

 if. 



He spent half a day driving around 

 witli me visiting bee-lieepers and ex- 

 amining tlieir bees and several times 

 he mentioned that some crop of his 

 was not quite so good as the one I was 

 admiring. He had been so behind 

 with his Avork that he did not get it 

 in soon enough. He finally admitted 

 that he "might better have left the 

 bees alone; that it would have been 

 money in his pocket if he had." Now 

 Diey must l)e treated for foul brood, 

 \\ hicji \\()uhl .'idd to his labors. 



I sincerely sympathized with this 

 poor fellow that had so many irons 

 in the lire, but but there are many 

 others just like him. When he bought 

 those liees and brought them home, 

 it would probably have been money In 

 his pocket if he had at once burned 

 them up. He would then have had 

 more time and thought to have l>e- 

 stowed upon his farm. 



What comfort is it, what benefit is 

 it, to any one, for a man to so burden 

 himself with a multiplicity of duties 

 that he never completes one task with- 

 out seeing about him a dozen others 

 that ought to be completed. 



A multiplicity of businesses add 

 greatly to a man's worries. I presume 

 that Mr. Gill, with his 1.100 coiouies 

 of bees is not hurried and worried as 

 Is this man with his 120-acre farm, and 

 Ihirty colonies of bees, and there is 

 no question as to which is making 

 the most money. 



It was hard work for me to give 

 up setting vip, with my own hand, the 

 advertise iients in the Review, to give 

 up "making up" the "forms" myself, 

 to allow some one else to help about 

 answering the mail, to put down the 

 carpets for Mrs. Hutchinson, to mow 



the lawn, etc., it was hard to give up 

 these things that I had always done, 

 but other duties that seemed more im- 

 portant, came crowding in and I was 

 oliliged to drop sunu'UiiTig else, or 

 br«nik dowia from overwork. 



By the way, a good friend of mine, 

 upoii whose shoulders rest a multiplic- 

 ity of burdens, wrote me not long 

 ago: "You can thank your lucky 

 slars, ^V. Z., that you have only the 

 Ke\ie\v to look after." 



PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CON- 

 STITUTION OF THE NATIONAI. BEE- 

 KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



Pi'esident's Office National Bee-Keep- 

 ers" Association. 

 Flint, Mich., June 27, 1903. 



The following amendments to the 

 constitution of the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association have been approved by 

 a majority of the Board of Directors, 

 and of the Executve Committee, but 

 l/efoiv layiiig them before the coming 

 convention at Los Angeles, it is de- 

 sired that all shall have an opportuni- 

 ty to crilicise and suggest, hence their 

 publication. Suggestions and criti- 

 cisms may be sent to President Hutch- 

 inson, who will lay them before the 

 committtH» having the matter in 

 charge. 



ARTICLE II.— Membership. 



Sec. 1. To be amended to read as 

 follows: 



Sec. 1. Any i)erson who is inter- 

 ested in bee culture, and in accord 

 with tln> purpose and aim of this As- 

 sociation, may become a member by 

 the payment of !f!l.(K) annually to the 

 General Manager or Secretary; and 

 said membership shall expire at the 

 end of one year from the time of said 

 payment, except as provided in Sec. 

 10 of Art. V of this constitution. No 

 member who is in arrears for dues, 

 as shown by the books of the General 



