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might err in their decisions, but it 

 would not b(> lilvoly tliat tlio majority 

 of a dozen would make a wrong de- 

 cision. Over in Ontario there are 13 

 Directors in their Association, and 

 their expenses are paid when attend- 

 ing the meetings of the Association, 

 hut there are two factors over there 

 wliicli allow of this: First, there are 

 not such enormous distances to be 

 traveled as we have this side of the 

 line, and, second, the Association has 

 a grant of $500 annually from the gov- 

 ernment. It is possible that we may 

 yet compromise the matter by cutting 

 down the number somewhat, say, for 

 instance, to eight, and paying a part of 

 their expenses, say one-half of their 

 railroad fare, or, possibly, all of it. 



The other proposed change is that 

 of allowing each State, or a group of 

 States, to elect the Director who is to 

 represent said State or group. The 

 whole country at large can not know 

 so well whom to elect m California 

 as Director, as the Californians them- 

 selves know. The men in Michigan 

 would have no trouble in deciding 

 v.-hich man they wanted for their Di- 

 lector, but the men in Texas might be 

 quite at sea in the matter. Now then, 

 suppose we reduce the number of Di- 

 rectors to only eight: :!:' any State in 

 the Union contains one-eighth of the 

 members of vhe Association, let the 

 members in that State elect one of 

 the Directors. If any two adjoining 

 States contain enough members in the 

 aggregate to make one-eighth of the 

 membership, let those two States elect 

 some man in one of those two States 

 as one of the Directors. In some in- 

 stances it might require three adjoin- 

 ing States to furnish enough members 

 to entitle that district to a Director. 

 In other instances, it might require 

 half a dozen, or more. States; but by 

 a little care in districting the coun- 

 try, each State, or a group of adjoin- 



ing States, could elect its own Direct- 

 or, liy this plan, that portion of the 

 country containing the most members 

 would get the most Directors, which is 

 as it should be. If it should be pos- 

 sible that one State should have one- 

 fourth of the members, then that 

 State should have two Directors. In 

 other words, we would have each Di- 

 rector representative of a certain num- 

 ber of members, just as each State is 

 allowed a certain number of electors, 

 according to its population, in elect- 

 ing a Tresident of the United States. 

 This maimer of choosing the Directors 

 strikes me very favorably. 



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A SUCCESSFUL BEE-KEEPER MUST BE A 



BROAD-MINDED, THOROUGH 



GOING MAN. 



The Review sometimes touches- 

 lightly— upon topics lying upon the out- 

 skirts of bee-keeping, perhaps entire- 

 ly outside her borders; and the de- 

 fense is this: That bee-keeping, suc- 

 cessful bee-keeping, is something 

 more than manipulation and methods. 

 A man may be a good bee-keeper, in 

 a narrow sense, yet not make a suc- 

 cess of life as we understand that 

 word. He may know how to winter 

 his bees successfully, how to manage 

 them through the trying months of 

 spring, when to put on suppers, how 

 to manipulate the colonies through the 

 vexations of swarming, how to ex 

 tract honey to the best advantage, how 

 to bring all of his colonies through the 

 season in the best possible condition 

 for winter, in short, he may be a most 

 excellent bee-keeper, so far as manip- 

 ulation is concerned, and yet not make 

 much money at the business. In other 

 words, a successful bee-keeper must 

 be something more than a bee-keeper 

 in order to suceed. He must be broad- 

 minded, far-seeing, alert, courageous, 

 thorough, quick to take advantage of 



