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then in turning selling- the same product again as wholesalers, 

 jobbers, etc., thus taking two or more profits on the same goods. 



We also know how provoking it is to have an inferior grade 

 sold for first-class grades or fancy stock. 



I have been looking forward to the time when the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association should be able to act as an agent between 

 the producer and retail dealer to the mutual advantage of both. 



Frank Eric Millen, 



Michigan's new State Apiarist, was born 

 in Kent County, England, on a very aus- 

 picious day, July 4, 1883^. Born right on 

 the farm from agricultural ancestors, he 

 has inherited a love for natm'e that decided 

 him to take up bee-keeping, first as a 

 hobby, finally as a business. 



Air. Millen x^^as educated at Wrei^ht's 

 School. Faversham. from which he entered 

 the dry goods business, spending his spare 

 time with poultry, bees, etc. Right here 

 the old call, "back to the land," asserted 

 itself and a trip to New York resulted. 

 After spending a few vears farming and 



FRANK ERIC MILLEN i • i , tv r ' i ^ /-x 



traveling through Massachusetts and On- 

 tario, with a year at i\Tonnt Hermon, and a short course at Guelph, 

 the four-years' course at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, 

 was commenced in 1906. Working his way througli, and with a 

 three-years' break, Mr. ]\'Iillen graduated in May. 



During his college course, Mr. Millen spent two years with the 

 Provincial Apiarist as one of the Ontario Apiary Inspectors. This 

 experience, which brought him in close contact with the various bee 

 diseases in all stages, and Avith many types of bee-keepers, must 

 always be valuable. Besides the inspection work, Mr. Millen run 

 his own apiary and assisted in the management of others. 



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Australian Bee-Keeping. 



By W. A. COLLINS, Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia. 

 HAVE been told by several that our honey produciu'^- metliods 

 are equal to any. Their idea of things is more from an imag- 

 inative point of view, I think, than from the empirical. 

 The honey flow here worth considering comes from the eucalypt. 



