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THE AMERICA X BEE-KEEPER 



89 



lUBLISllKI) MONTlll.V JiY 



THE,W. T. FALCONER MANFG. Co. 

 H. E. HILL, - EDITOR. 



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Mr. L. L. Andrews, Corona. River- 

 side County, California, writes that the 

 season in his vicinitj^ is fully a month 

 later than last year. 



Send for sample copies for your bee- 

 keeping friends. 



The next annual convention of the 

 National Association will be held in 

 Denver, Colorado, in September. 



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 favor upon us. 



The budding young apiarist shown on 

 page 62 last month, is a son of Mr. Ar- 

 thur C. Miller, of The Bee-Keeper's 

 regular staff of contributors. By an 

 oversight, this fact was not stated. 



Subscriptions for several months past 

 have been coming at a rate to beat all 

 previous records. New subscription 

 books and more help have to be added 

 this month. We greatly appreciate this 

 increasing patronage. 



Most of the exchanges which regu- 

 larly publish a list of the officers of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association, ap- 

 pear to have overlooked the fact that a 

 new president was elected last year at 

 Buffalo. Is it not due to our president 

 that these lists be revised? 



An early spring is reported by Mr. 

 A. C. Miller, Providence, R. I. Mr. 

 Miller states that his bees gathered 

 their first pollen of the new crop, 

 March 24; while the season's first hon- 

 ey was gathered from maple, March 

 .31st. Prospects there are favorable for 

 the season. 



We regret to learn that the Hon. Eu- 

 gene Secor, Forest City, la., has found 

 it necessary to resign his position as 

 general manager of the National Asso- 

 ciation. It is improbable that the As- 

 sociation's future history shall disclose 

 more earnest or efficient ability in its 

 general manager than has been shown 

 by Mr. Secor. The board of directors, 

 it appears, have appointed Mr. E. T. 

 Abbott, St. Joseph, Mo., to fill the un- 

 expired term. 



Dr. Miller, in Gleanings, insinuates 

 strongly that super is not correctly pro- 

 nounced either "sooper" or "supper." 

 He fails, however, to favor the frater- 

 nity with the proper pronunciation, a 

 thing which he is doubtless well quali- 

 fied to do. Since the Doctor has re- 

 cently been finding fault with those who 



