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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 14. 



The officers of this Union shall be a President, a Vice-Presi- 

 dent, a Secretary, and a Board of Directors, which shall con- 

 sist of a General Manager and six Directors whose term of 

 office shall be for three years, or until their successors are 

 elected and qualided, except that the term of office of the two 

 Directors having received the smallest number of votes at the 

 time of voting for Directors in March, 1897, shall expire 

 Dec. 81, 1897 ; and that the term of office of the two Direc- 

 tors having received the next largest number of votes at the 

 said time of voting shall expire Dec. 31, 1S9S ; and that the 

 term of office of the two Directors having received the largest 

 number of votes at the said time of voting shall expire Dec. 

 31, 1899." 



" Section 2. —The Board of Directors shall choose their 

 own chairman." 



That Sectiou 2 of Article V be amended so as to read ■ 

 "The General Manager and the two Directors to succeed the 

 two whose term of office expires each year, shall be elected by 

 ballot during the month of December of each year by a ma- 

 jority vote of the members voting ; and the Board of Direc- 

 tors shall prescribe how all votes of the members shall be 

 taken." 



That the words "at the annual meeting," in Section 3 of 

 Article VI be substituted by the words, " whenever requested 

 by him ; to make a report at the annual meeting of the Union, 

 and whenever requested to do so by the Board of Directors, of 

 all moneys received and paid out by him since the last annual 

 meeting." 



That Section 5 of Article VI be amended so as to read : 

 "At the time of sending the ballots to the members for the 

 annual election, he shall also send to each member a list of 

 the names of all members, and an itemized statement of all 

 receipts and expenditures of the funds of the Union by the 

 Board of Directors, and a report of the work done by said 

 Board of Directors." 



That the words " altered or," in Article X, be erased. 



A. B. Mason, Sec. 



The amendments are now before the New Union's mem. 

 bers as they will be presented to be voted upon later on. As 

 all of them were almost unanimously approved at Buffalo, 

 they will doubtless be adopted and become a part of the Con- 

 stitution in December. 



TJ?e Weekly Budget. 



The One-Piece Section Co. (formerly the Wauzeka Sec- 

 tion Co.) has recently removed from Wauzeka to Prairie du 

 Chien, Wis. Mr. W. P. Keyes is the manager of the concern. 



Dr. F. W. Rich, of Cook Co., 111., dropt in to see us one 

 day last week. He is one of the new bee-keepers, and will 

 make a success with his bees. He anticipates going into the 

 business extensively another season. 



Mr. W. C. Lyman, of Dupage Co., III., gave us a short 

 call this week. He increast from about 50 colonies the past 

 season to 80, and took about one ton of honey. He sells in 

 the home market. He will attend the Northwestern conven- 

 tion next month hero in Chicago. 



Rev. a. B. Mettler, of La Salle Co., III., called on us 

 last week, when attending the annual session of the Rock 

 River Conference of the Methodist church being held in this 

 city. Mr. Mettler is a bee-keeper as well as a preacher. We 

 regretted not seeing him, as we happened to be out of the 

 office when he called. 



Hon. a. S. Hardv, Premier of Ontario, Canada, In his 

 boyhood days cultivated a taste for honey. The Canadian 

 Bee Journal reports that at the recent Toronto Exposition Mr. 

 Hardy spent some time at the tent where bees were exhibited, 

 and also visited the honey exhibit. No wonder our Canadian 

 bee-keeping friends are proud of their Premier. Most men In 

 high official position have but little time to even noMce things 



outside of their special office. But the majority of them 

 would be interested in such sweet things as honey and bees if 

 they had half a chance. 



Mr. D. W. Heise— one of the many bright and original 

 Canadian bee-keepers — contributes to the Canadian Bee Jour- 

 nal quite regularly an interesting column or two called "Notes 

 and Pickings." Whenever he begins "Picking" on us, we'll 

 make "Notes " of it, and then he'll likely be about as "hot" 

 as his name would indicate when pronounced in Germany. 



C. L. BowEN, of Ray Co., Mo., referring to a lost copy of 

 the Bee Journal last month, said : 



"My paper failed to come last week — the first time in 10 

 years." 



We hardly need be ashamed of a record like that — only 

 one copy of a weekly bee-paper missing in 10 years ! 



Mr. F. Grabbe, of Lake Co., III., dropt in upon us a week 

 ago yesterday. Besides his bees he is interested in the sale 

 of a very fine table or drinkiug water that flows at the rate of 

 six gallons per minute from a spring on his place. What a 

 fine thing it would be if he could get all the people in Chicago 

 to drinking his clear, pure water. Then we'd have no saloons, 

 75 per cent, less policemen to pay for, but few criminal court 

 cases — in fact, a very desirable place to live. 



Now New Subscribers 



4 September— Oct.— Nov.— December 4 

 4 MONTHS FOR 25 GTS. 



Get Your Bee-Keeping Friends and Neighbors 

 to Take the Old American Bee Journal. 



We would like to have each of our present readers send us 

 two new subscribers for the Bee Journal before November 1, 

 1897. That surely will not be hard to do, when each will 

 need to pay only 25 cents for the last -1 months of this 

 year, or only about (3 cents a month for the weekly 

 American Bee Journal. Any one with only a colony or two 

 of bees should jump at such an offer as that. 



Now, we don't ask you to work for us for nothing, but 

 will say that for each t'wo new 25c. subscribers you send us, 

 we will mail you your choice of one of the following list: 



Wood Binder for the Bee Journal 20c. 



50 copies of leiflet on '" Why Eat Honey?" ■!0c. 



50 '• " on •' How to Keep Honey " 20c. 



50 ■' " on " Alsike Clover" 20c. 



I copy each " Preparation of Honey for the Market "(10c.) 



and Doollttle's " Hive I Ubo " (5e.) 15o. 



1 copy o;ich Dadants' "Handling Bees" (8c.)and " Bee- 

 Pasturage a Necessity " (lOc.) 18c. 



Dr. Howard's boob on " F )ul Brood," 2oc. 



Kohnke'B "Foul Bro-d " boo it 25c. 



Cheshire's " Foul Brood " book (10c.) and Dadants' •• Hand- 

 ling Bees" [8c ] 18o. 



Dr. Foote's Hand-Book of Health 25o. 



Hural Life Book 25o. 



Our Poultry Doctor, by Fanny Felld 25o. 



Poultry for Market and Profit, by Fanny Field 25c. 



Capons and Caponizlng — 25c. 



Turkeys for Market and Profit 25c. 



Green 8 Four Books on Frult-G rowing 25c. 



Kopp Commercial Calculator No. 1 25c. 



Silo and Silage, by Prof. Cook 25c. 



BleneuKultur [German] 40c. 



Kendall's Horse-Book [English or German] S5c. 



I Pound While Clover Seed 25c. 



1 " Sweet " " 2oo. 



1% " Alsike " " 25c. 



1« •■ Alfalfa " " 25c, 



H4 " Crimson " " 25c. 



The Horso— How to Break and Handle 20c. 



We make the above offers only to those who are now sub- 

 scribers ; In other words, no one sending in his own 25 cents 

 as a new subscriber can also claim a choice of the above list. 



