THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Three Cei>its Is the price of the 

 Columbia jar — not two cents as g^iven 

 by Mr. Smitli in his article of last 

 month — that was error. 



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Mr. Geo. W. Brodbeck has pub- 

 licly withdrawn his candidacy for the 

 Secretaryship. This leaves the office 

 without a nominee, and everybody free 

 to vote for just whomsoever they 

 please. 



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Minnesota bee-keepers will hold 

 their l9th annual convention December 

 7th and 8th, in the First Unitarian 

 church, corner of 8th street and Mary 

 Place, Minneapolis. A good prog"ram 

 is being- prepared, and G. W. York 

 and E. R. Root are expected to be 

 present. Mr. Root will give a stereop- 

 ticon lecture on the evening of the first 

 day. 



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House- Apiaries are reg-arded as ob- 

 solete, but the December Review will 

 contain several illustrations and de- 

 scriptions of house apiaries now in use, 

 some of the factors in their management 

 being decidedly novel. For instance, 

 one man is able to tell when any stock 

 is making preparations for swarming, 

 without so much as taking a comb 

 from a hive. 



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Mistakes, or the fear of making 

 them, ought not to retard one's pro- 

 gress, but often 'tis the cause. I be- 

 lieve it is said of Geo. B. McClellan, 

 at one time commander-in-chief of the 

 Union army, during the war of the 

 rebellion, that he was so afraid of 

 making mistakes, so careful, that he 

 practically did nothing at all with the 

 army. Don't be afraid of making 



mistakes. We all make them, all of 

 us that do anything, in fact, it has 

 been said that the man who never made 

 a mistake never made anything else. 

 Plan to the best of your ability, but 

 don't let the fear of making mistakes 

 prevent you from making progress. 



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The Harmoniousness that prevailed 

 at the St. Louis convention is re- 

 garded by the American Bee-Keeper as 

 "not a very broad claim for a National 

 Association." Perhaps not, but when 

 a man has attended two conventions in 

 which the principal topic was a sort of 

 "scrap," it certainly was gratifying to 

 hold a convention upon the burying 

 ground of the hatchet. 



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The Report of the General Manager 

 of the National Association, together 

 with a report of the St. Louis conven- 

 tion, has been printed, and I presume 

 it will reach the members before this 

 copy of the Review is in the hands of 

 its readers. It is a book of nearly 200 

 pages, giving a list of the "cases" 

 looked after and defended or settled by 

 the General Manager, his financial 

 statement for the year, the constitution 

 of the Association, a verbatim report 

 of the proceedings of the convention, 

 and about 20 pages of advertisements 

 of the leading dealers in supplies, etc. 

 It is a book that would, ordinarily, sell 

 for at least half a dollar, yet it will 

 cost the members only 20 cents a copy, 

 including postage. I don't mean that 

 members will have to pay that in order 

 to get a copy, but that is what it costs 

 to print and mail them. Any member 

 will be able to sit by his fireside, and 

 read all that was said and done at the 

 St. Louis convention. He can also see 



