(ESTABLISHED 1888) 



OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE 

 NATIONAL BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



AND ITS AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS 



E. D. TOWNSEND, Managing Editor, Nokthstar, Mich. 

 WESLEY FOSTEK, Assistant Editor, Boulder, Colo. 



Entered as second-class matter, July 7, 1911, at the post office at Detroit, Michigan, under 

 the Act of March 3, 1879. 



Terms — $1.00 a year to subscribers in the United States, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Hawaiian 

 Islands, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, and Shanghai, China. To all other countries the rate 

 is $1.24. 



Discontiniiauces — Unless a request is received to the contrary, the subscription will be 

 discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. At the time a subscription expires a 

 notice will be sent, and a subscriber wishing the subscription continued, who will renew later, 

 should send a request to that effect. 



Artvertising rates on aitplicatioii. Forms olo.se 25th of each niontli. 



MANAGING OFFICE. NORTHSTAR. MICHIGAN 



DETROIT OFFICE, 214 HAMMOND BLDC. 



VOL. XXvI DETROIT, MICHIGAN, JULY 1, 1913 No. 7 



Subscriber-members will take notice that the address of The 

 Bee-Keepers' Review is now Northstar, Michigan, not Detroit, as 

 formerly. Address all communication in connection with the Re- 

 view, both subscription and advertising, also membership to the Na- 

 tional, and, finally, all orders for supplies to The National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, Northstar, Mich. 



President Burton N. Gates, Amherst, Mass.. as specified bv the 

 constitution, will act as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the 

 National. Any new business, suggestions, disputes between mem- 

 bers, or between members and dealers or others, and legal trouble 

 between members and neighbors, should be addressed to the chair- 

 man, as above. 



National Co-operation. 



The National Association has some large problems to settle, and 

 their settlement will require all the help the membership can give. 

 The progress made will be necessarily slow. Each local secretary 

 has first the growth of the affiliated body to foster. Then he can 

 devote but a small amount of time to the National. 



The biggest problem before us is that sug-g-ested by Mr. Crane — 

 the eliminating of the too numerous middlemen ; the bringing about 

 of more direct dealing with the retailer and consumer. 



