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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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and that the Board oi Directors had 

 selected E. T. Abbot, of St. Joseph, 

 Mo., to fill out his unexpired term. 

 But tlie Board, in reviewing its work, 

 after a great deal of writing I)ack and 

 forth, during which valuable time has 

 been lost, finally discovered that Mr. 

 Secor's resignation was never formally 

 accepted; that the procedure was ir- 

 regular and out of order by which Mr. 

 Abbot was supposed to be elected. 

 Some complications having arisen, it 

 was decided by the Board not to accept 

 Mr. Secor's resignation, and to request 

 him to fill out the unexpired time, or 

 till the next general election. To this, 

 Mr. Secor has agreed. All dues and 

 membership fees, hereafter, should be 

 sent, as before, to Mr. Eugene Secor, 

 Forest City, la., who is still the Gener- 

 al Manager, and will continue to be 

 such till his successor is elected and 

 qualified. E. R. Root, 



Acting Chairman of Board of Directors. 



MR. SWIXK AT THE TOP. 



The followilng extract from a letter 

 sent out by the pi-e.ss bureau of the 

 Louisiana Purchase Exposition man- 

 agement, is quoted from a speecli of 

 Mr. Van E. Rouse, Colorado Springs, 

 Col., before the World s Fair commis- 

 sion at St. Louis, where the big sliow 

 is to be held in 1904: 



"The "World's Fair management in 

 their plan and scope of the Exposition 

 declared they wanted live exhibits, so 

 in casting about for plans to make 

 our exMbit conform to that idea we 

 interested one of our wealthiest and 

 mo«t public spiri'ted citizens, Mayor 

 Swnnk of Rocky Ford. Mr. Swink is 

 an apiarist, and be nas, perhaps, the 

 largest bee plant in America. He lis 

 going to bring* his bees to the World's 

 Fair, and they will work here from the 

 time the Exposition oi>ens until it 

 closes. Mr. Swink's pian, which wtill 

 cost fully .$10,000 of his own money, is 

 to bring to St. Louis enotigh beehive.? 

 to construct in minature a counterpart 

 of the Colorado State House at Den- 

 ver. The bees ■will then be turned out 

 to find material for honey-making in 

 the country suroundiing the World's 

 Fair grounds. It will require about 

 640 hives to construct the little State 

 House and in it about five and one-half 



niilliou bees will work. It will be a 

 great exhibit. In Colorado we make 

 the finest in the world. We have one 

 bee man wbo works Ms bees all the 

 year through. In summer tliey work 

 in his alfalfa fields in Colorado, arid in 

 the fall he ships them to his planta- 

 tion in Florida, where they work 

 among the flowers and orange groves 

 until time to return them to the west 

 in the spring." 



FROM DELAWARE. 



The following, clipped from The 

 Times. Smj^rna. Del., for Mav 28. 1902, 

 was sent us by a Philadelphia reader, 

 and gives a pleasant glimpse of the 

 situation about the apiary of an old 

 Bee-Keeper subscriber. It would af- 

 ford us much pleasure to receive pho- 

 tographs of the many neat and attrac- 

 tive apiaries of otir readers, such as Mr. 

 Smith's evidently is: 



One of the largest apiaries on the 

 Peninsula is situated at Willow Grove, 

 and is the property of former Sheriff J. 

 Colby Smith. There are about seventy- 

 five colonies of the bees, which are ar- 

 ranged in rows and numbered. Mr. 

 Smith has laid out a good-sized park, 

 but instead of the green sward, he has 

 cleared the ground and it is entirely 

 bare of the grass. Rose bushes of fine 

 varieties adorn this park, and in the 

 centre is a small lake from which the 

 bees get water. As many as six 

 swarms may be seen daily on this bee 

 farm of Mr. Smith, flying in the air. 

 The bees are fed principally on scarlet 

 clover, now. Mr. Smith has just fin- 

 ished clipping the queen bees' wings, 

 preventing them from flying away, 

 and thus losing the swarm. Sheriff 

 Smith expects to have at least two tons 

 of honey this summer. 



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He that expecteth nothing generally 

 gets it. — Max O'Rell. 



