268 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



as branches as their officers have consented to act as branch officers 

 until their association has a chance to consider the matter at its 

 next meetino'. 



Director Wesley Foster Gives Some Excellent Reasons for the 

 Purchase of The Review. 



Fclloiv Bcc-Kccf'crs — The National Bee-Keepers' Association is 

 in business for the bee-keepers. It is your organization, and you 

 have the opportunity to receive the advantages. Btit you have not 

 the right to ask "What benefit is the National to me,'' only. You 

 must also ask yourself: "\Miat benefit can I be to the National?" 

 The National Association is partly an attempt and partly a realiza- 

 tion. I can find bee-men over the whole country who have said 

 that the National was no good to them, and it was partly because 

 they were no good to the National. If you are not willing to take 

 the benefits of the National partly on faith, you are not at heart a 

 co-operator and the logical thing for you to do is to withdraw from 

 all associations. 



But if you will sit down and figure prices on <:ans and freight 

 rates and take up with Mr. Tyrrell the problem of selling your 

 honey, it will not be long before you will begin to realize the ben- 

 efits. Then there is national and state legislation on bee culture 

 that the National is working on. Yoti should belong, if for no other 

 reason than that you want to help. 



The Review is now yours, and we want you to make every pos- 

 sible use of it. Get new subscriber-members, advertise your bees, 

 queens, etc., for sale in the classified cohunns and induce your neig^h- 

 bors to patronize the Review. 



If during the coming year you are not able to get ideas from 

 the Review worth five times what the membership amounts to, it 

 will be because you "know it all" or are incapable of applying new 

 knowledge. But there are very few of the latter kinds of bee-men, 

 and we know that the National and the Re\iew are just coming into 

 their own. I am glad that I have had a little to do with bringing 

 about the coalition. 



As one of the directors, I have favored an official organ, such 

 as we now have in the Review, from the first. There is one reason 

 that is uppermost in my mind now, why we need such an organ. 

 Heretofore, we have had no mouthpiece of our own, through which 

 we could say the things to each other that should be said. The 

 privately owned journals could hardly be expected to fight some of 

 the more disagreeable battles for us and then stand the chances of 

 financial loss by losing patronage. If the National gets into a strug- 

 gle with some common enemy of bee-keepers it should have a 

 mouthpiece through which the membership can be apprised of the 



