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the annual report could be published and distributed for about one- 

 third the present cost if we had a regular organ through which it 

 could go to its members. A part of the report might be published 

 in each number of the Review for a few months and give about as 

 much as the average person would care to read at one time. I 

 remember the New York Tribune, some fifty years ago, used to 

 print the reports of the Xew York Farmers' Club, I believe it was 

 called, and those reports interested me more at that time than any- 

 thing else in the paper. 



Perhaps I am a little previous as the matter of printing- a report 

 of the annual meeting has not even been mentioned among the 

 directors that I am aware of. But some one will say that this is 

 only an experiment and a rather costly one. Well, most new meth- 

 ods of doing business are experiments. This has seemed to the 

 directors an experiment worth trying. \\'e expect to succeed. We 

 shall certainly try very hard to do so. 



J. E. Crane, Director, 



Middleburv, A^t. 



A Way for Your Association to Become a National Branch With- 

 out Waiting for Your Next Annual Meeting. 



(The following resolutions are, in a measure, self-explanatory. 

 They are needed in order to quickly organize the different branches 

 without waiting for their next meeting. They are given you in 

 response to many requests received at this office from Association 

 officers asking how their Association can be treated as a branch 

 until their next meeting, when formal action can be taken.) 



Whereas, It is the desire and object of the National Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association to unite the bee-keepers of the United States and 

 Canada in one vast organization and to promote the organization 

 and work of branches in every state and province ; and 



Whereas, The formation of a separate National branch in anx- 

 state or province where a local bee-keepers' association is already 

 established would necessarily conflict with the work of the associ- 

 ation ; and 



Whereas, The majority of the state and provincial associations 

 did not have an opportunity to thoroughly consider the National 

 plans and take such action as was necessary to become a local 

 branch at their last convention, due in some cases to the conven- 

 tion being held before the new National constitution was adopted, 

 and in other cases the work and plans of the National not being 

 thorough!}' understood ; and 



Whereas, The National Association now having purchased the 

 Bee-Keepers' Review, and having an official organ of their own, it 



