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The BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



train to the convention bee-keepers 

 would be on the lookout for brother bee- 

 keepers if all go'njj to the convention 

 wore a badge or a button. This might be 

 called the button age. Almost every- 

 body wears a button of some kind. Why 

 shouldn't bee-keepers wear a button ? 

 This is the point that I started to make 

 when I began writing. Instead of spend- 

 ing from 115.00 to I25.00 each year for 

 badges, why not have a neat, handsome, 

 appropriate button made that will last 

 each member a life time ? To each of 

 the members that we now have, send one 

 of these buttons. When a man joins, 

 give him a button. Let him wear that 

 button as long as he is a member, and 

 not get a new badge for each convention. 

 If we are going to pay for only one but- 

 ton, once, for each member, we can 

 afford to have something really good, 

 instead of some little three-cent affair. 

 I don't know as it would be advisable to 

 have the buttons made of silver. Per- 

 haps celluloid would answer every pur- 

 pose, but the design and workmanship 



should be neat, attractive and appropriate. 

 The button should be something that we 

 would be proud to wear, simply for the 

 sake of its appearance, aside from its em- 

 blematical nature. It should be hand- 

 some but not gaudy. I would not have 

 the button large enough to remind one of 

 a sign-board. I think that three-fourths 

 of an inch would be plenty large enough. 

 Instead of having it round, I would have 

 it hexagonal. As an emblem, I think of 

 nothing more suitable than a bee on a 

 clover head. If the body of the button 

 were drab, the clover could be white, the 

 bee leather-colored with bands of gold — 

 gemiine gilt. As a motto, above the bee 

 and clover, I would suggest "By Industry 

 we Thrive." At the bottom I would 

 have the initials "N. B. K. A." 



Now then, I have outlined a plan, will 

 the niembers criticise and make sugges- 

 tions i* If the plan should meet the ap- 

 proval of bee-keepers generally, the 

 board of directors could decide the mat- 

 ter in time to have the buttons used first 

 at the Denver convention. 



MIXED UP JOURNALISM 



The Same old Complaint — The Bee Journals 

 are not Strictly Bee Journals. 



ially devoted to the topic — and then make 

 us pay for the mixture if we want what 

 bee news they contain. When we re- 

 monstrate they ask us if we are not get- 

 ting full value for otir money? No! 

 Not as values go in the literary world to 

 day. 



A vigorous writer, who signs himself 

 John Hardscrabble, hits off apiarian foi- 

 bles, each month, in the American Bee 

 Keeper. In the April issue he pays his 

 respects to apicultural literature. Among 

 other things he says: — 



But when one gets to looking for real 

 bee-papers, where are they ? Most of 

 them are pseudo-social-farming-religious- 

 psychological-real estate, etc., publica- 

 tions. Thev call themselves "bee pa- 

 pers," and then mix in a lot of mediocre 

 material which some of us don't believe 

 in, and manv of us are not interested in — 

 or if we are we get the best papers spec- 



"THE BUSY BEE." 



A Humorous but Instructive Magazine 



Article. 



Bee keeping has reached that stage 

 where the magazines consider it of suf- 

 ficient iniportance to occasionally pub- 

 lish an article on the subject. The Cos- 

 mopolitan, Harpers's and Saturday Eve- 

 ning Post have all had articles on the 

 subject. Now Ainslee's Magazine lays 



