1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



685 



him by the Board of Directors, or by this Constitu- 

 tion. 



Sec. 6. At the time of sending- the ballots to the 

 m.embers, for the annual election of the Board of 

 Directors, he shall also send to each member a 

 statement of the financial condition of the Associa- 

 tion, and ;i report of the work done by said Board 

 of Directors. 



Sec. 6. The Board of Directors shall pay the Gen- 

 eral Manager such sum for his services as said 

 Board maj' deem proper, but not to exceed twenty 

 percent of the receipts of the Association. Said 

 Board shall meet at such time and place as it may 

 decide upon. 



Sec. t.—B<iar<l nf DircctiDv. The Bojird of Direct- 

 ors shall determine what course shall be taken by 

 the Association upon any matter presented to it for 

 consideration, that does not conflict with this con- 

 stitution; and cause such extra, but equal, assess- 

 ments to be made on each member as may become 

 necessary, g-iving- the reason to each member why 

 such assessment is required; provided that not 

 more than one assessment shall be made in any one 

 fiscal year, and not to an amount exceeding the an- 

 nual membership fee, without a majority vote of all 

 the members of tlie Association. 



Sec. 8. Any member refusingr or neg-lecting to 

 pay said assessment as required by the Board of 

 Directors shall forfeit his membership, and his 

 rig-ht to become a member of the Association for 

 one year after said assessment becomes due. 



article VII.— funds. 

 The funds of this Association maybe used for 

 any purpose that the Board of Directors may con- 

 sider for the interest of the members of the associ- 

 ation and in tlie interest of the pursuit of bee cul- 

 ture. 



ARTICLE VIII.— vacancies. 



Any vacancy occurring in the Board of Dii'ectors 

 maj' be filled by the Executive Committee; and any 

 vacancy occurring in the E.xccutive Committee 

 shall be filled by the Board of Directors. 



article IX.— meetings. 

 This Association shall hold annual meetings at 

 such time and place as shall be agreed upon by the 

 Executive Committee. 



article x— amendments. 



This Con.stitution may be altered or amended by a 



majority vote of all the members, provided notice 



of sard alteration or amendment has been given at 



a previous annual meeting. 



THE NO-DRIP SHIPPING-CASE. 



We have advertised these for some time; but 

 supposing that nearly every one knew about 

 the use of paper trays in the bottom of the 

 shipping-cases, and little sticks to raise the 

 sections off from the said bottom, we have not 

 been sending along any directions. Mr. G. M. 

 Doolittle, in his usual department, describes 

 exactly such a case as we have been selling. A 

 few days ago, however, one of our customers 

 complained that our shipping-cases, or at least 

 the ones we sent to him, were too deep for the 

 sections; and that, in his opinion, our packer, 

 evidently recognizing the fact, had very kindly 

 (?) put In some little sticks which he (the cus- 

 tomer) thought were to be piled on top of the 

 sections to fill out the space between them and 

 the cover. This, he thought was a rather 

 botched way of sending out shipping-cases. 



It did not take us very long to explain to him 



that the cases were made so on purpose, and 

 that his trouble was due to the want of direc- 

 tions. In another column Mr. Doolittle de- 

 scribes this form of shipping-case; and it is no 

 other than he himself and other bee-keepers 

 of York State and elsewhere have been using 

 with much satisfaction, and which we ourselves 

 adopted during the past season because of the 

 request of bee-keepers and commission houses. 



NO DKIP SHII'PING-CASE. 



The no-drip shipping-case is the same as any 

 other case, only a trifle deeper. With each case 

 we send along a sheet of paper a little larger 

 than the inside dimensions of the case. This is 

 folded up into a paper tray, as shown in the 

 annexed cut, just under the shipping-case. It 

 is then inserted, strips laid in 4^4 in. from cen- 

 ter to center, and nailed as shown. Perhaps 

 some of you may ask, "But ivhy these strips? 

 Why not set the sections right down on to the 

 paper tray itself ?" Did you ever notice that, 

 when sections get to dripping, and stand upon 

 a flat surface, how those sections will stick and 

 hang to the surface? The liule film of honey 

 that enters between the surface and the bottom 

 of the section seems to act just like so much 

 glue. To remedy this, the sections should be 

 set up a little on cleats or strips of wood thick 

 enough to raise them up anywhere from 's to 

 fg from the paper tray. Now, then, if any drip 

 runs down it runs on to the paper tray, and 

 does not come in contact with the sections, 

 except that it may touch where the corners of 

 said sections rest on the cleats. Ever since we 

 began sending out these shipping-cases, we 

 have received the hearty approval of bee keep- 

 ers and commission men. The idea is old, and 

 has been in use for a number of years. It was 

 originated, I believe, by that prince of Ameri- 

 can bee-keepers, Capt. J. E. Hetherington, of 

 York State, the man who has the reputation of 

 owning and operating the largest number of 

 colonies of any one bee-keeper in the world. 

 One of these cases was sent to us by a friend of 

 the captain's two or three years ago. I knew 

 at the time it was a good thing, but neglected 

 to bring it before our readers. 



