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 VARIOUS NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



BY DK. C. C. MILLEK. 



Constitution and By-Laws of the N. A. B.-K. A. — I don't know just why the 

 publication of the Constitution and By-Laws of the North American have been 

 called for (see page 361) unless it be to see whether something in them needs 

 mending. Certainly they were not carefully considered by every one at the time of 

 their adoption six years ago. The report of that convention says they were adopted 

 " with but a very little discussion or consideration." Indeed 1 have no distinct 

 recollection that there was any discussion. Not, I think, that any one tripd to rush 

 them through, only that no one seemed to care enough about it, and the committee 

 that had been appointed a year before to report on them, had perhaps forgotten all 

 about it. 



Possibly it doesn't make so very much difference what they are, for the princi- 

 pal thing that bee-keepers want when they get together is to have a good, practical 

 bee-talk. Still, if they are to be reconsidered, it might be well to have some 

 changes and omissions, and it may not be out of place to call attention to a few 

 points. 



In Art. Ill, item 1, says: "This Association shall consist of its officers, life- 

 members, annual members, honorary members, delegates from affiliated local asso- 

 ciations, and ex-presidents." Why should officers and ex-presidents be mentioned ? 



The payment of $1.00 makes any person interested in apiculture an annual 

 member, no vote being needed, but a life-member must not only pay his $10, but 

 receive a majority vote. Why ? 



I think no mention is made as to the particular time when the President goes 

 out of office. For very good reasons, it has been the custom for years, for the 

 President to continue in office until the close of the annual convention which 

 occurs in the year following the year in which he is elected. Might it not be well 

 to have this mentioned ? 



Art. IV of the By-Laws makes it the duty of the Secretary " to call the names 

 of the members of the Association at the opening of each annual meeting." Is this 

 desirable? Has it ever been done ? What use at St. Joseph to call the names of 

 those who attended last year at Chicago? 



Perhaps I would better hold up, for a whole lot of things more need considera- 

 tion if anything is to be considered. 



Kissing. — Look here, Mr. Editor, can't you speak to Dr. Peiro and tell him to 

 keep in his place ? There he goes on about kissing, on page 364, and kissing is 

 neither a medicine nor a disease. Hold on, let me think. I'm not sure but it is a 



