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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Julv 3, 1902. 



Let us take the other horn of the dilemma, or the sec- 

 ond proposition, viz.: the Board did noi have the power to 

 accept Mr. Secor's resignation and elect his successor. Mr. 

 Secor tendered his resignation the second time to the Board 

 of Directors, and the Board unanimously declined to enter- 

 tain it. Mr. Secor has notified the Board that he will con- 

 tinue in office till his successor is elected and qualified. 

 This avoids all complications ; and if the Board can not fill 

 a vacancy caused by voluntary resignation, then it has 

 done the proper thing by refusing to entertain a resignation 

 it could not accept (if Mr. Abbott is corrrect), and leave the 

 man in office who was elected at the last regular ^XecWow, 

 when every member of the Association had a chance to vote. 

 If Mr. Abbott's claim is correct, then the only thing that 

 can be done is to leave the matter as it is, and wait till the 

 next general election — only six months away. 



My understanding of the matter is that Mr. Secor's 

 resignation is not " before the membership." It has been 

 returned to Mr. Secor marked " Not accepted." He has 

 been unanimously requested by the Board, to whom he is 

 responsible, and from whom he receives instructions, to fill 

 out his unexpired term, and this he has consented to do. 



For the complication that has arisen I do not wish to 

 shift all the blame on Mr. Abbott, by any means. Among 

 other things I should have made it my business to see that 

 the resignation of Secor was accepted before I called for a 

 vote for his successor, and then I should have declared the 

 vote myself. While it is easy to see what might have been 

 done it is not always easy to rectify past mistakes. 



To go into all the details of this would require a good- 

 sized volume, and I forbear. It is a matter of deep regret 

 that Mr. Abbott, an able and capable man, should so per- 

 sistently go against the Board of Directors. If he had 

 quietly acquiesced in the first place, it is my opinion he 

 would have been finally elected General Manager by the 

 Board. 



I will conclude by saying that this business has been 

 the most disagreeable of any I have undertaken. 



E. R. Root, 



Former Acting Chairman of the Board of Directors. 



Prevention of Increase. — A plan that is in use in Ger- 

 many with box-hives may also be used with movable-frame 

 hives. When a colony swarms remove the old queen and 

 return the swarm. Eight days later cut out all cells that 

 can be reached but one. (In a box-hive only part of the 

 cells may be within reach, but in a movable-frame hive all 

 are accessible.) If a swarm issues, hive, and in the evening 

 return to the old colony. That will be the end of swarming 

 for the season, and the whole force of the colony will be left 

 to make good work at storing. A variation of the plan that 

 has been recommended in this country is to destroy the old 

 queen and return the prime swarm, then wait till the young 

 queen is heard piping in the evening, and in the morning 

 of the ne?t day cutout all queen-cells. 



\ * The Weekly Budget. « l 



Mr. Wm.Rohrig, of Maricopa Co., Ariz., wrote us, June 

 17, that " there will be very little honey produced in Arizona 

 this year ; it is so very dry." 



A. I. Root has gone back to his cabin in the woods of 

 northern Michigan, interesting himself in peach-trees, 

 chickens, angle-worms, etc., leaving the younger fry to run 

 things at "The Home of the Honey-Bees." 



The Apiary of C. C. Ch.^mberlin — the owner wrote 

 us as follows when sending the picture shown herewith : 



"I commenced keeping bees when I commenced taking 

 the ' Old Reliable,' in 1S93. My hives are all the 8 frame 

 Langstroth size, and ray own make. You will notice in the 

 picture that they are all packed in outer cases. The pack- 



APIART OF C. C. CHAMBERLIN, OF MACOMB CO., MICH. 



ing material is leaves from the forest, and wheat chaff 

 cushions on top. 



" My entire crop of honey last year was 1000 pounds, 

 mostly white clover in plain sections. Nearly all was sold 

 for 14 and IS cents a pound. From 23 colonies, last spring, 

 I increased to 46, and lost one in winering. 



"To-day (March 2>') the bees are gathering pollen from 

 the willow, and the weather is fine." 



A Live Exhibit .\t St. Louis. — "The liveliest live 

 exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 will 

 come from Colorado." Thus spoke Van E. Rouse, the Col- 

 orado Springs mine-owner and capitalist, during his visit 

 to St. Louis lately with the Colorado World's Fair Commis- 

 sion, of which he is an active member. " The world gen- 

 erally knows that as a mining country Colorado leads all 

 nations on the globe," continued Mr. Rouse, "and this has 

 naturally created the impression outside of Colorado that 

 all the wealth of our magnificent State is hidden under- 

 ground. Our exhibit at the World's Fair will show Colo- 

 rado to be not only great in mining, but that it is a world- 

 leader in horticulture and agriculture. 



" The World's Fair management, in their plan and 

 scope of the Exposition, declared they wanted live exhibits, 

 so in casting about for plans to make our exhibit conform 

 to that idea, we interested one of our wealthiest and most 

 public-spirited citizens — Hon. G. W. Swink, of Otero 

 County. Mr. Swink is an apiarist, and he has one of the 

 largest bee-plants in America. He is going to bring his 

 bees to the World's Fair, and they will work here from the 

 time the Exposition opens until it closes. Mr. Swink's 

 plan, which will cost fully S10,000 of his own money, is to 

 bring to St. Louis enough hives containing bees to con- 

 struct in miniature a counterpart of the Colorado State 

 House at Denver. The bees will then be turned out to find 

 material for honey in the country surrounding the World's 

 Fair grounds. It will require about 640 hives to construct 

 the little State House, and in it about five and one-half 

 million bees will work. It will be a great exhibit. In Col- 

 orado we have the finest honey in the world. We have one 

 bee-man who works his bees all the year through. In sum- 

 mer they work in his alfalfa fields in Colorado, and in the 

 fall he ships them to his plantation in Florida, where they 

 work among the flowers and orange-groves until time to 

 return thoni to the West in the spring." 



The Apiary and Home of Thaddeus Smith, on Pelf-e 

 Island, Ontario, appears on the first page. Perhaps we 

 would better say that the picture shows a part of the apiary, 

 with a view of the residence in the background. It will be 

 seen that the hives are all chaff hives, or other double- 

 walled hives. The location is on the northwest point of 

 the Island, and this point is surrounded by water almost on 

 three sides, making it very much exposed to the wind from 

 off the Lake. There is no windbreak, and such a location 

 makes outdoor wintering much more difficult, so Mr. Smith 

 generally suffers some loss. For several seasons he has 

 greatly reduced the number of colonies now kept. 



Mr. Smith certainly has a beautiful home. 



