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dales to succeed the following' officers, 

 whose terms of office expire January 1, 

 1906. 



President, Jas. U. Harris; Vice 

 President, C. P. Dadant; Secretary, 

 W. Z. Hutchinson; General Manag'er 

 and Treasurer, N. E. France; Direc- 

 tors, J. M. Hamhaugh, C. A. Hatch 

 and Dr. C. C. Miller. 



All members of the National are re- 

 quested to send their votes on a postal 

 card, or by letter, to N. E. France, 

 Platteville, Wisconsin, thereby ex- 

 pressing their choice of candidates to 

 succeed each of the above mentioned 

 officers. Votes must reach Mr. France 

 by September 20th. The two men re- 

 ceiving the highest number of votes for 

 each respective office will be considered 

 the candidates to be voted for at the 

 annual election in November. 



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Are You a Bee-Keeper in Michigan ? 



If so, you should join the Micliigan 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association. This 

 Association is not alone for those who 

 make bee-keeping their chief business 

 in life. It is just as anxious to have 

 those who keep a few bees as a hobby 

 or side-issue. The Association can 

 help you. Those who make it their 

 chief business got their start much the 

 same way as you got yours. The An- 

 nual Conventions are practical, in- 

 structive, and fraternal in spirit. 

 Outside of the regularly prepared 

 program, the exchange of ideas of one 

 bee-keeper with another, perhaps sev- 

 eral together, is worth the whole trip 

 to the Convention. You meet men there 

 who stand high in the business of bee- 

 keeping, men whose names you are 

 familiar with in the journals. 



The Association is helping the bee- 

 keeper to sell his honey. It is getting 

 out 5,000 booklets giving the names and 

 addresses of its members, together 

 with the kind and quantity of honey 

 each has to sell, sending the booklet 



out to leading grocers and buyers of 

 honey, thereby creating a larger 

 demand; and the logical outcome will 

 be better prices. 



If you are a bae-keeper in Michigan 

 you cannot afford not to belong to the 

 Michigan State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion. Send one dollar to the acting 

 Secretary, E. M. Hunt, Bell Branch, 

 Mich., and this will also make you a 

 member of the National Association 

 with its report and protection of your 

 interests. 



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Some Suggestions Regarding Candidates 

 for Office in the National. 



In another column will be found a 

 call for votes to nominate candidates 

 for election to office in the National 

 Association. I know there are a few 

 in our ranks who are opposed to any 

 discussion regarding the merits or 

 choice of possible candidates, but I do 

 not agree with those views. I think 

 nothing should be published that would 

 wound the feelings of any present 

 officer, or wny possible candidate, but 

 the good points of possible candidates 

 can be pointed out without doing this; 

 and I am going to show you how it 

 may be done. 



First is the office of President. The 

 man who occupied the chair last year 

 at St. Louis, Mr. Jas. U. Harris, of 

 Grand Junction, Colo., is one of the 

 best presiding officers we ever had — • 

 perhaps the best — but, for many years, 

 we have been following the plan of 

 giving the President two terms, and 

 then passing the honor on to some one 

 else — usually to the Vice President. If 

 this practice is continued, it will place 

 in the chair for the next two j^ears, the 

 present Vice President, Mr. C' P. Da- 

 dant, of Hamilton, Ills. For this 

 reason, I shall vote for Mr. Dadant as 

 our next President. As a candidate 

 for Vice President, I shall vote for Mr. 

 Geo. E. Hilton, of Fremont, Michi- 

 gan. Mr. Hilton is a man of fine ad- 



