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be organized. Sections can be formed in 

 territory not covered by branches as well as 

 in territory covered by them ; in fact, neither 

 kind of parts need cover all of the country, 

 for only distinctively bee-keeping territory 

 need be organized into parts ; yet no bee- 

 keeper in our country will be excluded from 

 membership in the society. Should any 

 part choose to give up its organization it can 

 do so, and yet its members will still be mem- 

 bers of the society. This is probably the 

 most complete system of general, district 

 and local organization. Could anything be 

 more perfect? 



I think that once in two or three years is 

 often enough to hold the general meetings 

 of the society. Annual meetings are too 

 costly and make too much trouble. The 

 meetings of the parts should be held an- 

 nually, and everything should be done to 

 make all the meetings interesting. Reports 

 of the work done by the society, and its 

 parts should be issued each year for the 

 benefit of the members. As every true 

 patriot prizes more highly his national 

 citizenship, so each member will be apt to 

 take more pride in his membership of the 

 general society than in any of its parts, and 

 herein is one of the greatest advantages of 

 this system of organization. For this reason 

 I believe it will secure a larger membership 

 than any other system. 



The general meetings and the meetings of 

 the parts I would have consist of two kinds 

 of members — representative and honorary. 

 The first to be chosen by the members of 

 the society in proportion to members, and 

 the latter to be such members of the society 

 as may attend the meetings. The object of 

 this arrangement is to secure all the ad- 

 vantages of a representive body and a mass 

 meeting combined in one — to bring out the 

 best thought among bee-keepers, and to 

 give those bee-keepers of the surrounding 

 country where the meetings are held a chance 

 to have a general good time with their broth- 

 er bee-keepers who attend the meetings, for 

 social features of such meetings should not 

 be over-looked, but should be brought out 

 as prominently as prudence and circum- 

 stances will permit. Bee-keepers as well as 

 all other agriculturists should get away from 

 home once a year and mingle together and 

 leave behind for a short time, at least, the 

 cares and perplexities of life. Only repre- 

 sentive members of the meetings are to have 

 the right to vote at the meetings. This 



system of organization is offered to the bee- 

 keepers of our country for their consider 

 ation and it is hoped will meet with their 

 favor. 



White House Sta., N. J., Aug. 8, 1895. 



[When I first read over the article of our 

 New Jersey friend it seemed to me that 

 about the only new thing that he had to offer 

 was that of reversing the plan that has 

 usually been proposed. Almost every one ■ 

 has urged the forming of local societies, and ■ 

 having these tributary to State societies and 

 the States tributary to a national society. 

 This seems to be a very natural course, the ■ 

 rivulets forming brooks, and the brooks ■ 

 uniting in a river. Mr. Daggitt's plan seem- 

 ed to be simply the forming of a river and 

 then dividing it up into branches, but I think 

 it is something more than that. If I mis- 

 take not he would advocate the plan of 

 organization adopted by some of the frater- 

 nal orders. Odd Fellows and Free Masons 

 have lodges all over the country yet a 

 member of one of these is a member 

 of the great organization as it exists all 

 over the country. There is also, occasionally, i 

 I must confess I don't know how often, a i 

 grand rally from all over the country. This, 

 to a certain extent, corresponds to our year- 

 ly convention. I do think that the time is 

 ripe for a better organization among bee- 

 keepers, and no plan that has about it the 

 air of feasibility should be cast aside un- 

 considered. — Ed. ] 



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Notes From Foreign Journals. 



F. li. THOMPSON. 



T EipziGER BiENENZEiTUNG. — Herr Pehl 

 O sent samples of foul brood to Dr. Koch 

 of Berlin, apparently the one famous for his 

 investigations of microbes, who cultivated 

 the £oul brood germs from the samples. What 

 Dr. Koch thought about it Herr Pehl does 

 not say, but as he goes on to give an 

 opinion in his own person, we may suppose 

 that he obtained it from Dr. Koch. This 

 opinion is that as the foul brood bacillus be- 

 longs to the family of fungi which increase 

 by division, which depend on a certain de- 

 gree of moisture for their existence, and as 

 all remedies must necessarily be given in a 

 weak solution to avoid killing the bees, 

 they will be not only not effectual against 



