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the State associations branches of the 

 National; each State association sending 

 one or two delegates to the National 

 convention, the expense being paid from 

 the general fund. These National meet- 

 ings to be a law making body for the 

 whole. 



Very properly, Bro. York says: "We 

 must get away from the minor things of 

 bee keeping at our great, annual. National 

 conventions. The matters of the best 

 way to produce honey, the best way to 

 introduce queens, and the best way to do 

 a lot of things in bee keeping, can best 

 be left to the columns of the bee papers. 

 These National gatherings should be 

 devoted to the larger things of honey 

 production. They should be business 

 meetings throughout, and have mainly to 

 do with the marketing and distributing 

 of the honey crop." 



Again he says: "The time has come, 

 I believe, when the National Association 

 can well afford to employ a man to look 

 after this work for them. One live man 

 —I say a live man— devoting his whole 

 time to organizing the bee keepers of this 

 country, could make the National associ- 

 ation go forward by leaps and bounds." 



To accomplish all this, the dues must 

 be placed and held at $1.00 — no ac- 

 cepting of State association members at 

 half price 



Bro. York says that it has been inti- 

 mated to him that, unless the National 

 takes these advanced steps, another 

 organization is likeiy to be formed to take 

 up this work. Continuing, he says: "The 

 National should lead, as it always has 

 led; but in order to continue doing this, 

 it must adapt itself to the demands of 

 progress and advancement"" 



These changes were emphatically ap- 

 proved at the Albany meeting. 



Read the Companion 40 Years. 



I wonder if my readers could guess 

 what paper I have read the longest, that 

 1 read the most thoroughly and enjoy the 

 most — it is the Youth's Companion. I 

 have been figuring it over, and I find 



that I have read it continuously for 40 

 years. I remember once, saying to my 

 mother: "If I were going to edit a paper 

 I would want it to be like the Youths' 

 Companion." A faint smile flitted 

 across her face as she said: "Well you 

 might." Many judge, from its name, 

 that it is a child's paper, but it isn't. The 

 matter that it contains is of interest to a 

 person of any age who is old enough to 

 understand it. 1 doubt if it is possible 

 to secure elsewhere, for the same 

 amount of money, so large an amount of 

 fresh, entertaining and instructive read- 

 ing matter. The value of the Companion 

 in a family of growing children is beyond 

 comparison. It cheers, interests and 

 instructs; it becomes a liberal education 

 to the one who reads it; above all, it 

 encourages the setting up of high 

 standards. 



Although the Companion has recently 

 been enlarged by the addition of an 

 amount of reading matter in the year 

 equal to 400 ordinary magazine pages, 

 the price remains the same, $1.75 per 

 year. New subscribers receive the rest 

 of this year free, also an Art Calendar 

 for 1911, lithographed in IS colors and 

 gold. Sample copies sent free by the 

 Youths' Companion. Boston, Mass. 



If more convenient, when renewing 

 for the Review, new subscriptions for the 

 Companion may be sent to this ofifice — 

 in fact, it will be a favor to have you do so. 



Don't Condemn Doctors and Drugs. 



My article in the Review on hospital 

 treatment has brought me a number of 

 letters. One suggests that I ought to 

 read Terry's book and his writings, and 

 the intimation is that I would not 

 need hospital treatment. I am an ad- 

 mirer, and believer, to a great extent, of 

 Mr. Terry's. I have read all that he has 

 written for the last 25 years. I have 

 visited him in his home and seen how he 

 lives. He is doing a lot of good; but I 

 don't agree with him in his wholesale 

 and unqualified condemnation of doctors 

 and medicines. He even goes so far as 



