30 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Spraying- the fruit trees while they were in bloom with poison- 

 ous materials was recognized by the bee-keepers as a great damage 

 to the bee industry. Several hundred colonies were killed during 

 the spring of 1912 in Pecos Valley from this cause. 



Officers were elected as follows: President, R. B. Slease, elected 

 for the fourth time ; secretary-treasurer, Henry C. Barron, of Hager- 

 man, New Mexico ; vice-presidents, Henry Adams. Greenfield ; Ed- 

 ward Scoggin, of Hope, and AI. N. Cunningham, of Carlsbad. 



Program National Bee-Keepers' Association to be Held at Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio, February 12th and 13th. 



At 10 a. m., the l"2th, the meeting will be called to order and the 

 proper committees appointed, including the committee on credentials. 

 Meeting will then adjourn to enable the delegates to file their cre- 

 dentials with this committee. 



At 1 p. m. the meeting will again be called to order, when the 

 regular business will be taken up by the delegates. This meeting 

 will be open to all members, but the voting can only be done by the 

 regularly elected delegates. 



At 7 p. m. the meeting will be called for a general program, in 

 which all visitors will take part. 



At 8 a. m., the loth, the delegates will again take up the busi- 

 ness matters, and should they be able to conclude their l)usiness 

 before noon, the balance of the time will be taken up with a general 

 program. 



At 1 p. m. ihere will begin another general meeting of all pres- 

 ent. 



Headquarters arranged for us by the Cincinnati Chamber of 

 Commerce, and list of hotels and their rates will be given in full in 

 the February bee journals. — E. B. Tyrrell, secretary. 



Convention of the Washington Branch, N. B. K. A. 



This will be held Wednesday and Thursday, January 8 and 9. 

 A complete program has been outlined for the two days. There 

 will be two sessions each day, one beginning at 9 a. m. and one at 

 1 :30 p. m. Among the items mentioned will be an address of wel- 

 come by Mayor A. J. Splawn ; response by President A. E. Burdick ; 

 paper, by Mr. A. A. Byers ; "Spring Management of Bees," by Rob- 

 ert Cissna ; address, by Geo. W. York, president National Bee-Keep- 

 efs' .. Association ; "Preparing Bees for Winter," by Virgil Sires; 

 paper from the Dadants ; paper from A. G. Kuykendall, "Should We 



