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offset in it, which will allow the end of the stick to come to the 

 middle of the top bar, when the offset is slid along the edge of the 

 top bar. Take this stick in the right hand and the sheet of founda- 

 tion in the left. Place the foundation, lying flat, so that it will lay 

 with the edge just past the middle of the top bar. Wet the hard- 

 wood stick and slide it along on top of the foundation, bearing 

 down on it hard enough to fasten the foundation. You will get it 

 done so much faster than you did the first time with the grooves, 

 and so much better, that you will wonder what those same grooves 

 were made for. I got the idea from Air. W. H. Laws, of Beeville, 

 Texas. 



Mesilla Park, New ^Mexico. 



A Real National Co-operative Organization for 



Bee-Keepers. 



GEO. W. YORK. 



President Xational Bee-Keepers' Association. 



"^Jl T BEGINS to look as if the long-time dream of some of us is 

 ^ about to be fulfilled, or come true. Co-operation in many lines 

 has been "in the air" for years. In some lines, for instance, it 

 has been realized quite fully, but in many lines of benefit it has 

 been only a hoped-for benefit. But since the last meeting of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association at Minneapolis there has been 

 "something doing," and it would seem that it must result in ines- 

 timable benefit to the bee-keepers of America. 



In the first place, the present live set of Directors are pushing 

 things. This is no reflection upon the excellent Directors and JNIan- 

 ager of other years. But through the adoption of a new constitu- 

 tion, which permits progressive action along many lines, bee-keepers 

 can easily see now that the way is rapidly opening up so that their 

 National Association is going to be of increased service and value 

 to them. What is most needed now is that every bee-keeper in the 

 land shall become a member of the National, and thus a regular 

 reader of its official organ, the Bee-Keepers'" Review. In that way 

 they will learn how they can co-operate with all the other members 

 in a way that cannot but help being beneficial to every individual 

 member of the Association. 



No, sir ; don't drop your subscription to the other bee papers. 

 If you want to make the largest success of bee-keeping, you will 

 need all the best literature you can get on the subject. Besides, the 

 subscription price of each is so small, that just a half-witted bee- 

 keeper should be able to "extract" from its pages many times its 

 cost in valuable instruction along lines that are bound to make his 



