THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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BKHS FOR BUSINESS. 

 In his address at the Chicago conven- 

 tion, President E. R. Root said that too 

 much attention had been paid to the 

 breeding of handsome bees — bees for 

 color. We should work to develop a- 

 strain of bees with Ioniser tongue— long 

 enough to work on red clover. The 

 matter of shortening the corolla-tubes of 

 red clover ought also to receive attention. 



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The Stkreopticon feature of the Chi- 

 cago convention was a very enjoyable 

 part of the meeting. When we have 

 steady discussion from morning until 

 night, something of a different nature is 

 a welcome change. Perhaps 200 pictures 

 of apiaries, bee-keepers, implements and 

 parts of the bee were shown, accom- 

 panied by appropriate remarks. The 

 pictures were perhaps fifteen feet in 

 diameter. Most of them were bright and 

 clear and reflected credit upon Bro. Root 

 in this his first attempt at lantern slide 

 making. I took with me the materials 

 and paraphanalia for developing a plate 

 in my room in the evening, and the next 

 day the negative was taken to the Mcin- 

 tosh Co. who made a slide from it, and 

 the next evening it was the last picture 

 thrown on the screen — the picture of the 

 members themselves as they had gath- 

 ered in a group the day before. 



CHICAGO CONVENTION 1'H0T0(;R.\PH. 



It is seldom that so many prominent 

 bee-keepers are gathered together as 

 were present at the Chicago convention; 

 and, in making a photograph of so large 

 a group I have never succeded so well as 

 I did in this instance — of the 175 faces 

 every one stands out bright and clear and 

 easily recognizable. The picture is 8 by 

 10 inches in size, printed on Aristo 

 Platino paper which has a matt surface and 

 is absolutely fadeless, and mounted on a 

 heavy, carbon-black mount. It is suita- 

 ble to be framed and hung in the home 

 of any bee-keeper as a momento of a 

 pleasant gathering; besides furnishing 



good portraits of a large number of bee- 

 keeping friends. 



Photograi)hic supplies have advanced 

 in price to such an extent that I shall be 

 obliged to ask 75 cents for copies of the 

 photograph; but no one need send any 

 money until he has first seen the photo- 

 graph — and not then unless he is satis- 

 fied with the picture. Simply send me a 

 postal saying that you would like to see 

 the Chicago convention photograph, with 

 a view to buying it if it suits you; and 

 vipon receipt of the card, I will mail you 

 a copy of the photograph. If it suits 

 you, you can send me 75 cents. If you 

 are not pleased with it, you can return it, 

 and there will be no charge. 



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CO-OPERATIVE ORGANIZATION. 



At the Chicago convention Mr. R. C. 

 Aikin read a most excellent paper having 

 the above title. The greatest need of co- 

 operation is in the selling of honey. This 

 is especially true with small producers 

 who are a long ways from some desira- 

 ble market; the local fi eight rates prac- 

 tically prohibiting the shipment of small 

 lots to a distant market. The trouble is 

 that honey producers are so scattered, 

 and the product so limited in a given lo- 

 cality, that there is no inducement to put 

 in proper facilities for handling honey as 

 there is for the handling of grain. Small 

 producers of honey are often poor and 

 compelled to sell, and the result is that 

 the market price is lowered. If a large 

 producer attempts to buy up the small 

 lots he soon finds that it does not require 

 many small lots to make them cost hun- 

 dreds, or even thousands of dollars. In 

 short, even the large producer "has 

 troubles of his own." He nmst struggle 

 to keep from being eaten by still larger 

 fish. What is needed is co-operation; the 

 facilities for gathering the product and 

 relieving the small producer by paying 

 him for his honey and wax. These facili- 

 ties must reach out from some central 

 point, yet come close enough to the little 

 apiaries so that their product may be de- 



