136 

 COLORADO 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



June, 



BEE-KEEPERS. 



Please Sit Up and Take Notice. 

 Boulder, Colo., April 17, 1907 

 To the Bee-Keepers of Colorado: 



I, as a member of the Colorado equal to or in'excess of all you can 



and therefore, that you are going to 

 attend the next State Bee-Keepers' 

 Convention and help to make it a 

 success, and in so doing be in the 

 front ranks with the bee-keepers of 

 the state and get of their experience, 

 which I know you will, an abundance 



W. P. Collins. 

 President State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation. 



Bee-Keepers' Association, do most bring, 

 earnestly desire your audience for a Very truly yours, 

 few moments, on a question of vital 

 importance both to you and the mem- 

 bers of our association. 



If you, dear reader, happen to be a 

 person with your eyes wide open, a 

 person of keen perception, which you 

 ■must be if you are an up-to-date bee- 

 keeper, you surely have notjced, 

 long before this, that organization 



AWAKE, COLORADO BEE- 

 KEEPERS. 



Erie, Colo., April 20, 1907. 



along co-operative lines, for mutual To The Bee-Keepers of Colorado, 



benefits and protection, is the order Greetmg: 



of the day. AH lines of industry are At the last convention of the Colo- 

 rushing to the beneficent cover of rado State Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 co-operative organization. And well which met in Denver, January 22 and 

 they may, for the stress of competi- 23, 1907, I was elected secretary of 

 tion in this day, when one improve- the association. In looking over the 

 ment succeeds another with almost list of names I find there are barely 

 the rapidity that one drop of water 50 active members that belong to our 

 follows another down the river-bed, association. At one time there were 

 and the thought governing our nearly 200 members in our organi- 

 actions today will be deserted to zation. 



give place to a more advanced What has been the cause of the 

 thought tomorrow, I say well may decrease in membership? 

 we seek co-operative support, lest I may say one of the greatest dis- 

 we get lost in the whirlpool of couragements to bee-keepers any- 

 events. The hour is not far distant where is a failure of the honey crop, 

 when financial interests are going to such as was experienced in Colorado 

 set about controlling the price of our in 1905, the depressing efifect of 

 product, honey. They already con- which was noticeable at our conven- 

 trol the price of our supplies and tion of that year, although many of 

 freight rates, and we in our divided, us had enthusiasm enough to get to- 

 individual, selfish interests are an gether and discuss the probable rea- 

 easy prey for the combinations that sons of the failure. 



fatten off our cupidity. Therefore, I 

 say, brother bee-keepers, come in 

 under cover, join a bee-keepers' asso- 

 ciation, if you are not in our beauti- 

 ful state of sunshine and flowers, 



Again, a very large number of in- 

 dividuals who keep bees are not 

 wholly dependent upon them for a 

 livelihood, hence are not "bee-keep- 

 ers" in the true sense oi the word. 



Colorado, then join your own state and not interested in bee-keepers' 

 association; and if in Colorado, send associations, and in many instances 



your $1.00 to S. Francis, of Erie 

 Colorado, for a year's dues and be- 

 come a member of the Bee-Keepers' 

 Association. But do not stop there, 

 or it will do you very little good. 

 As soon as you have joined, imake 



do not subscribe to any bee journal. 



There may be other reasons for the 

 lack of interest in bee-keepers' asso- 

 ciations, but I think these are the 

 most important. 



We have arranged with the editor 



up your mind at once that you are of The American Bee-Keeper to use 



not going to be one who is willing a portion of his journal for the pub- 



to receive and not give, but that lication of items concerning bee-keep- 



you are going to experience the full- ing in Colorado, and for the advance- 



ness of the old, old statement, "That ment of our State Bee-Keepers' As- 



it is better to give than to receive," sociation, by pressing the needs of 



