THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



277 



OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL BEE- 

 KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION TO BE 



NOMINATED IN ADVANCE 

 OF ELECTION. 



One of the latest amendments to the 

 constitution of the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Associiition provides that the 

 Board of Directors may "prescribe 

 equitable rules and reg^ulations g^ov- 

 erning- the nominations for the several 

 olificers, " and the Board has just decid- 

 ed that the General Manag-er shall, in 

 Aug-ust, publish in the bee journals a 

 call for a postal card vote of the mem- 

 bers of the Association for the nomi- 

 nation of candidates for the several 

 offices (stating- the offices) to be filled 

 at the next election. On October 1st 

 the General Managfer and one other 

 disinterested member chosen annually 

 by the Board of Directors, shall count 

 the votes, and the two men receiving- 

 the g-reatest number of votes for each 

 respective office are to be candidates 

 for said office; the names of the nom- 

 inees and the offices for which they are 

 nominated to be published, at once, in 

 the bee journals. 



In accordance with the foregoing-, I 

 hereby ask all members of the Nation- 

 al Bee-Keepers' Association to write 

 me their choice of men as candidates 

 for the following- offices: 



To succeed Jas. U. Harris, of Grand 

 Junction, Colo., as President. 



To succeed C. P. Dadant, of Ham- 

 ilton, Ills., as Vice President. 



To succeed Geo. W. Brodbeck, of 

 Los Ang-eles, Calif., as Secretary. 



To succeed N. E. France, of Platte- 

 ville. Wis., as General Manager. 



To succeed E. Whitcomb, of Friend, 

 Neb., as Director. 



To succeed W. Z. Hutchinson, of 

 Flint, Mich., as Director. 



To succeed Udo Toepperwein, of 

 San Antonio, Texas, as Director. 



October 1st the votes will be counted, 

 and the names of the two men receiv- 



ing- the most votes for each respective 

 office will be published in the bee 

 journals, then, in November, a postal 

 card ballot will be taken which will 

 decide which of the nominees shall 

 hold the office. 

 Send all votes to 



N. E. FRANCE, 



Platteville, Wisconsin. 



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THE KIND OF WORK IN WHICH THE 

 REVIEW DELIGHTS. 



Perhaps the Review is not entitled 

 to any credit for the results as shown 

 in this month's frontispiece, but that 

 is exactly the kind of bee-keeping that 

 it is advocating— secure a good loca- 

 tion and then spread out and occupy 

 it. Mr. E. D. Townsend has been 

 spreading out for several years, and 

 now he has ventured into a new field — 

 one in which tliere are thousands and 

 thousands of acres of wild raspberries 

 — thus adding another factor of safety 

 to his business. Just beyond where 

 those saw-logs are "banked" is a rail- 

 road, equipped, at this particular 

 spot, with a side track. Mr. Town- 

 send's two portable honey-houses and 

 tent are not more than three or four 

 rods from the side-track. There are 

 two regular trains each waj-, daily, 

 and they will stop on signal. Kal- 

 kaska, the county seat, is only four 

 miles away, so you will see it is al- 

 most like living in the woods with a 

 street car passing by the door. There 

 is no necessity for keeping a horse, as 

 freight will be dropped off if prepaid, 

 and a car will be placed on the side- 

 track if there are several thousand 

 pounds of honey to ship out. This 

 railroad is a branch of the Pere Mar- 

 quette, is about 30 miles in length, and 

 runs through a raspberry region. 

 When the timber is cut off for saw- 

 logs, as is seen in the illustration, the 

 berries come in and occupy the soil, 

 and stay right there for years and 

 years. Mr. Townsend and his brother 

 now have 275 colonies at this place 



