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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



It is Better than anything^ else, that 

 the world should be a little better be- 

 cause a man has lived — even ever so 

 little better. 



The Washington State bee-keepers will 

 hold their annual convention at the 

 State Agricultural Colleg^e, in Pull- 

 man, Jan. 7, 8 and 9. Several promi- 

 nent bee-keepers have promised to be 

 present, and a stereopticon lecture will 

 be one of the features. There is a cor- 

 dial invitation to all. 



The Foul Brood laws of the different 

 States are, occasionally, of special in- 

 terest — where an effort is being made, 

 for instance, to secure such laws. 

 When the occasion arises, it may be 

 well to know that the U. S. Bureau of 

 Entomology, at Washington, D. C. has 

 Issued a bulletin (No. 61) entitled 

 "State an I Territorial Laws Relative 

 to Foul Brood." This bulletin gives 

 the foul brood laws of all the different 

 States and Territories. 



The National election of officers re- 

 sulted as follows : — 



Whole number of votes cast for Presi- 

 dent, 752, of which L. A. Aspinwall 

 receives 403, M. A. Gill 340, and scat- 

 tering 9 votes. 



Whole number of votes cast for Vice- 

 President 797, of which Geo. E. Hilton 

 received 315, E. W. Alexander 299, W. 

 H. Laws 179, and scattering 4 votes. 



Whole number of votes cast for Sec- 

 retary 801, of which Jas. A. Green re- 

 ceives 436, George W. York 306, W. Z. 

 Hutchinson 56, and scattering 3 votes. 



Whole number of votes cast for Gen- 

 eral Manager 807, all of them being 

 cast for N. E. France. 



Whole number votes cast for Direc- 

 tors 2283, of which G. M. Doolittle re- 

 ceives 620, Jas. A. Stone 515, R. A. 

 Holekarnp 442, Wm. Russell 303, J. J. 

 Cosby 243, E. E, Pressler 164, and 

 scattering 6 votes. 



The Kansas State bee-keepers will 

 hold their annual convention at the 

 National Hotel, in Topeka, Dec. 27th 

 and 28th. Subjects of interest to bee- 

 keepers will come up, and all are 

 invited to attend. 



A Special Feature af the Review for 

 the coming year will be accounts of my 

 own work with the bees — just as I tell, 

 in this issue, for instance, how I make 

 brood frames. Last year my time and 

 energies were largely devoted to find- 

 ing locations, moving bees, fixing up 

 and building up honey houses, cellars, 

 etc.; now things are all nicely settled, 

 and I can turn my whole attention to 

 actual work in the apiary; and all my 

 mistakes and successes shall be faith- 

 fully reported. 



E. D. Townsend, of Remus, owns the 

 most bees of any man in Michigan, and 

 I believe that he is making the most 

 clear money of any bee-keeper in the 

 State. He has a system of his own 

 that is peculiarly adapted to the man- 

 agement of bees in large numbers. He 

 has written more or less of this sj'stem, 

 perhaps as much for the Review as for 

 any journal, but his writings have 

 been broken and fragmentary — a 

 glimpse here and there, published in 

 this journal and that, but now he is 

 going to write for the Review in a con- 

 secutive manner — just as though he 

 were writing a book, beginning at the 

 beginning, and going on and on until 

 he has told the whole storj'. His 

 opening article appears in this issue. 



Of course, there will be more or less 

 of a repetition of some things that he 

 has already written, it can't be other- 

 wise, but, considering the advantages 

 of having his methods described con- 

 secutivel}', from beginning to end, I 

 feel that even the older readers will hail 

 them with delight, and read them with 

 profit, while to new readers about to 

 engage in extensive bee-keeping, they 

 will come as a Godsend. 



