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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



attend to them and manage his own 

 business than any State Inspector 

 could possibly be. 



The is no magic in a State inspector- 

 ship of bees, or anything else to cure 

 the ills that may exist. It is said this 

 measure is asked for by the honey 

 raisers to suppress contagious diseases 

 among bees. But they can by meeting 

 together and exchanging ideas, do for 

 themselves what the State cannot do 

 through this bill. If all together they 

 are unable to cope with the situation, 

 how can one of them named as Inspec- 

 tor, do better ? 



The principle of the measure is pa- 

 ternalistic and not in accord with the 

 democratic theory of government. The 

 Inpsector is authorized to go into any- 

 one's home, and if he should not like 

 the way the bee-hives are conducted 

 he could for some real or imaginary 

 disease annihilate the whole brood, 

 leaving the owner without remedy, but 

 for all of which the Inspector would 

 receive $4 a day. 



The point that some men are igno- 

 rant regarding foul brood, not only 

 ignorant, but, perhaps prejudiced, 

 and will refuse to listen to instructions 

 from those who know, and continue to 

 keep diseased colonies until they per- 

 ish, and the neighboring bees carry 

 home the honey and the seeds of the 

 disease, that all this can happen yet 

 there is no law to compel them to get 

 rid of the disease, this point, the 

 pivotal point of the whole matter, 

 seems to have escaped the Governor's 

 notice. Had the bee-keepers seen to it 

 that some one in whom the Governor 

 had confidence had gone to him and ex- 

 plained this matter, the termination 

 would probably have been different. 

 I have written the Governor a letter. 

 It will probably do no good, but it cer- 

 tainly can do no harm. Bee-keepers 

 of Missouri will have their work all to 

 do over again in two years, and I feel 

 sure that this point will not be neglect- 

 ed next time. 



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A New Organization. 

 In this issue of the Review will be 

 found the Prospectus and Constitution 



of a new organization — the Honey Pro- 

 ducers' League. A reading of the 

 Prospectus and Constitution will leave 

 little more to tell. I have been send- 

 ing out copies of this, and urging 

 manufacturers, dealers and bee-keep- 

 ers to help in this work. By reading 

 between the lines of some of the letters 

 that come to me, I can see that the first 

 obstacle is going to be a belief that 

 this organization is going to be a com- 

 petitor, or antagonistic, to the old 

 National — that it is designed to sup- 

 plant the older association. Nothing 

 could have been further from the minds 

 of the promoters of the League. The 

 desire is to work in the utmost har- 

 mony with the National — to be auxil- 

 iary to that, so to speak — to take up 

 a special line of work, that of adver- 

 tising and popularizing honey. As to 

 whether the new organization will be- 

 come a permanent institution remains 

 to be seen. It has a lot of big work to 

 do right now, and, if it does no more 

 than to kill the Wiley lie during the 

 next 3'ear, it will not have labored in 

 vain. No, friends, the National will 

 go on year after year, if rightly man- 

 aged, while circumstances alone will 

 determine whether the League shall 

 exist beyond its first year. If you have 

 any desire whatever to help improve 

 the honey markets, right now is when 

 you can do it, and never think for a 

 moment that you are thereby putting 

 down the grand old National. 



Here is a list of those who have, 

 thus far, joined the League: Dr. 

 C. C. Miller, $10; Geo. W. York, $25; 

 Geo. C. Lewis (for G. B. Lewis Co.,) 

 $210; H. M. Arnd (for York Honey and 

 Bee Supply Co.), $15; E. Whitcomb, 

 $1; Arthur L. Boyden (for the A. I. 

 Root Co.), $610; E. Kretchmer (for 

 Kretchmer Mfg. Co.), $50; W. Z. Hutch- 

 inson, $13; C. P. Dadant (for Dadant 

 & Sons), $70; Griggs Bros., $11; F. A. 

 Salisbury, $30; Gus Dittmer, $22; J. A. 

 Green, $10; C. A. Hatch, $10; Robt. A. 

 Holekamp, $6; J. C. Davis, $5; John 



