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we expect that by the time of your next annual meeting to have 

 convinced you all that you cannot afford to stay out of the Na- 

 tional from a dollar and cents viewpoint, and that you will all be 

 with us during 1913. 



Six thousand strong by January 1st, 1914, is the slogan. 



E. D. TowxSEXD^ Chairman. 



Why Should the National Bee-Keepers' Association Buy the 

 Bee-Keepers' Review? 



This is a question many will be asking at this time. All will 

 doubtless admit that the usefulness of this organization will depend 

 much upon the means at its disposal and economy of expenditure. 

 But to have means it must have members. How shall they be 

 secured? 



You may ask a member of a local branch to join the National 

 organization and you may be met very promptly with the question : 

 "What inducements have you to offer?" "Wliy, sir, you can attend 

 the annual meeting and vote or elect a delegate to vote for you." 

 "But that will cost me fifteen or twenty dollars. No. I guess not," 

 "But, sir, you can get your tin cans for shipping your honey to 

 market at cost." He replies that he does not produce extracted 

 honey and tin cans, however cheap, will do him little good. "But, 

 my dear sir," you add, "you can get the annual report." This is 

 something of an inducement, but to very many bee-keepers it would 

 seem rather high. 



Suppose you say that for $1.50 you can have all the advantages 

 of your local organization and a good reliable journal, monthly, 

 with the annual report thrown in, as well as the notices and items 

 of information about the National organization with them with 

 arrangements so you can save many times the cost of membership 

 fee yearly in buying your yearly supplies, 



A few years ago I was asked to address the Connecticut Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, ^^^^en I reached the hall I found the presi- 

 dent engaged in dividing up large quantities of comb foundation 

 into small lots. On inquiry, I was told how the Connecticut Asso- 

 ciation could buy large quantities of foundation for much less than 

 individuals could, and so when they came together they divided the 

 foundation so each could get just the amount he wanted. 



Economy, in Conducting the Business of the Xational Association. 

 — I notice in the last annual report of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association that the largest bills were for printing and postage and 

 mailing the annual report. Now I must confess I do not know 

 very much about the publishing business, but it seems to me that 



