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Poppleton criticises Osborn's comb cart 

 that it ueeds to be higher, aud expose less 

 houey at ouce to robbers, aud especially 

 that the combs should not haug crossways 

 aud flop together while ou the road. Gleau- 

 iugs ")17. 



Eruest Koot, challeuged to find any fault 

 with our staudard or Dadant honey pails, 

 thinks a perfect pail should be one that 

 would ship at ouce without waiting for tlie 

 houey to caudy, aud wliich could not easily 

 be opened by uaughty boys or trainmen ou 

 the route. Gleanings .">1!). 



Doolittle sets new swarms at building all 

 worker combs by coutracting their brood 

 chamber, and giving sections at once over 

 an excluder. Some bait sections should be 

 among them. With a chauce to build drone 

 comb above they are not so tierce to build it 

 below. And especially when they build comb 

 because the queen wauts some more comb to 

 lay in it will be all right. He says swarms 

 with virgin queens can bi trusted to do a 

 good deal cf building without changing 

 over to drone size. \'aluable fact to kept in 

 mind under some circumstuces; but, alas, 

 colonies with virgin queen I mostly want to 

 put back where they came from. The next 

 chunk of wisdom is more practical for me. 

 Wait till the parent colony gets nicely to 

 brooding with its young queen and then in- 

 sert two empty frames for them to fill. 

 Gleanings '>'2:2. Strikes me that this will 

 sometimes result in drone comb. 



Ernest's conclusion about the hanging 

 out difficulty is that giving a new hive, and 

 making their quarters over new as much as 

 possible — as if they had swarmed and been 

 hived, is the best remedy. Gleanings f/Jit. 



( >bservatory hive of bees exposed in a 

 shop window as an apvertisement for your 

 honey for sale within. Editorial. Glean- 

 ings '>'2X 



The foul brood law of Michigan, which 

 seems to have slept in disu"tude since its 

 passage in 1'<-'^1 is published in Gleanings 

 i'l'J'i. I for one don't like it. No permission 

 to cure the bees or boil the fixtures is possi- 

 ble uuder it — nothing but total destruction. 

 It's very well to allow a commissioner to 

 order distraction in extreme cases, but this 

 law gives no one any option. Right mind- 

 ed men do not wish to be law breakers: aud 

 every one who huHcitreil a rolonyin Michigan 

 for the last sixteen years is a law breaker. 

 The law bids him destroy immediately upon 

 finding the disease. 



KiOHABDS, Ohio. Nov. 11, is;»7. 



The Constitation of the United States Bee- 

 Keepers' Union. 

 The constitutiou of the United States 

 Union has never appeared in the Review, 

 and I think it is high time that the Review 

 lays it before its readers; and, now that 

 some changes are proposed, it is especially 

 fitting that the constitution and the propos- 

 ed changes be made familiar to the mem- 

 bers. Here is the old constitution as adopt- 

 ed at the Liucolu convention in 181)0. 

 ARTICLE I.— Name. 



This organization shall be known as the 

 United States Bee-Keepers' Union. 



ARTICLE II.— Objects, 



Its objects shall be to promote and protect 

 the interests of its members; to defend them 

 in their lawful rights); to enforce laws 

 agaiust the adulteration of honey; to prose- 

 cute dishouest houey commission-men, and 

 to advance the pursuit of bee-culture in 

 general. 



ARTICLE IIL— Membership. 



Sec. 1. — Any person may become a mem- 

 ber upon the payment of a membership fee 

 of one dollar annually to the Secretary or 

 General Manager ou or before the first day 

 of January of each year, except as provided 

 in Section 8 of Article VI of this constitution. 



ARTICLE IV.— Officers. 



Sec. 1. — The officers of the Union shall 

 be a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary 

 and a board of Board of Directors which 

 shall consist of a General Manager and six 

 Directors, whose terms of office shall be for 

 one year, or .mtil tlieir successors are elect- 

 ed and qualified; aud the Director, aside 

 from the General Manager, receiving the 

 largest number of votes shall be chairman of 

 the Board of Directors. 



ARTICLE V. — Election of Officers. 



Sec. 1. — The President, Vice-President, 

 and Secretary shall l)e elected by ballot by a 

 majority of the members present at each 

 annual meeting of tlie Union, and shall con- 

 stitute the Exective Committee. 



Sec. 2. — The General Manager and the 

 Board of Directors shall be elected by ballot 

 during the month of December of each year 

 by a majority of the members voting; 

 blank Postal Card ballots for this purpose, 

 accompanied l>y a full list of the member- 

 ship, shall be mailed to each member by 

 the (jeueral Manager: and said ballots shall 

 be returned to a committee of two members, 

 who shall be appointed by the ICxecutive 

 Committee, whose names and postoffice ad- 

 dresses shall be sent to the (Jeneral Mnna- 

 ger by said Executive Committee on or be- 

 fore the ir)th of the November preceding the 

 election. Said conunittee of two shall 

 count the ballots and certify the result to 

 the General Mimager during the first week 

 in January. 



