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similar results may not be obtained in 

 the future. If you have the courage to 

 branch out. there is no reason why you 

 need not do as well as these men — you 

 will have their experience as a guide. 



The Wisconsin State Bee Keepers' 

 Convention will be held Feb. 25 and 24 

 at the Court House in Madison, Wiscon- 

 sin. SIO cash premiums--S5.00, S5.00, 

 S2.00 for three best five-minute papers 

 of valuable information for Wisconsin 

 bee keeping. N. E. France will be there 

 and display his steam-heated uncapping 

 knife, that for two cents a day, for oil, 

 did the work of two men in former years. 

 He will also display Mr. Cyrenius' double 

 bee brush that, at a single stroke, frees 

 all the bees from a full-size comb. He 

 will also exhibit a new measuring honey 

 faucet, to weigh any amount of honey; 

 a hive cover 15 x 24, that can be made 

 for 8 cents each in material,— will not 

 warp, leak, rust or decay. The wind 

 does not blow it off, nor will ants or bee 

 moths cut holes in it. Secretary, Gus 

 Dittmer, now in Los Angeles, will also be 

 with us, and give a description of Cali- 

 fornia as a honey country. President, J. 

 Huffman, will have report as delegate to 

 Albany, N. Y. convention. 



Gus Dittmer, Sec'y. 



Attention, Michigan Bee Keepers! 



At Grand Rapids, last November, at 

 our State meeting, a legislative committee 

 was appointed to draft a new bill in 

 regard to bee diseases in Michigan, and 

 introduce it during the present term of 

 the legislature, now in session. At this 

 date, Jan. 9th, a proposed law is nearly 

 ready to introduce, and is along the line 

 of the one proposed by Dr. Phillips of the 

 apiarian department at Washington. 

 We are asking for considerable more 

 money and the privilege of appointing 

 several inspectors, instead of one, as our 

 present law provides. There are only 

 two or three months of the year when it 

 is of much use to inspect bees for 

 disease, and one man can do little in this 



limited time. We ought to start ten men 

 out next spring, and will, providing we 

 can get this law passed. Hon. Geo. E. 

 Hilton, who is our representative will go 

 to Lansing this month, (January) and 

 introduce this bill. Now, the object of 

 writing this letter, is to ask every Michi- 

 gan bee keeper to write both his repre- 

 sentatives, now in Lansing, to lend their 

 support to this bill. 



If this is not done, we may as well do 

 nothing, for, already Governor Osborn 

 has sent a message to the legislature ad- 

 vising economy in all branches of the 

 legislature and it will be a hard pull at 

 best, to get this bill through. We are 

 depending upon you, and you alone, 

 brother bee keeper of Michigan, to get 

 this measure through for it will be 

 hopeless, unless every one of us lends 

 a helping hand and keep "dinging" at 

 our representative, until he just has to 

 vote for this bill to get rid of us. Let us 

 all remember our duty. 



Fraternally yours, 



E. D. TOWNSEND. 



Shall the Review have a Monthly Index? 



Several times, when I have asked for 

 suggestions as to how the Review might 

 be improved, some one has asked that 

 there be a list of "contents" published in 

 each issue. When a copy of the Review 

 is received, it seems as though no index 

 is needed. Each issue is not so very 

 voluminous, and the number of articles 

 or items is not so great; besides, I sup- 

 pose it IS usually read from cover to 

 cover. At the end of the year an index 

 is printed covering the whole year, which 

 would render the monthly index of no 

 value. The only time that I can see 

 when a monthly list of contents would 

 be of value is when, some time during 

 the year, a reader wishes to find an 

 article in some back number of that year. 

 In this instance, the list of contents of 

 each issue could be looked over sooner 

 than all of the articles could be examined. 



Now I have no interest in the matter, 

 except to please my readers. If the 



