THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



ship back into the hands of a man who 

 has said over his own signature that 

 "Having been absent from home all win- 

 ter, attending a session of the General 

 Assembly, and not having a competent 

 clerk to attend to my correspondence, 

 the work of the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Association has been neglected." A man 

 who accepts a position is expected to have 

 a competent clerk, or else attend to it 

 himself, therefore, it seems to us that the 

 time has come for this "neglect" to stop, 

 and we protest against letting this matter 

 go back into the hands of Mr. Secor. 

 Not on personal grounds, but for the good 

 of the Association. We are inclined to 

 think that a majority of the membership 

 will join with us in this protest when 

 they know all the facts in the case. As 

 things are shaping now, this whole thing 

 seems to us like a conspiracy on the part 

 of a few to kick the editor of the Modern 

 Farmer entirely out of the management 

 of the Association, yet he may be wrong. 

 He is perfectly willing to retire entirely, 

 if this is the desire of the memVjership, 

 but he does not propose to retire to satis- 

 fy a few disgruntled Directors. We sim- 

 ply demand that this matter be given to 

 the membership, and that they be per- 

 mitted to elect, or select, such a General 

 Manager as they may wish, without any 

 further delay. 



The question at issue now is not in re- 

 gard to the comparative abilities of Messrs. 

 Secor and Abbott. If Association work 

 was neglected during Mr. Secor's ab-sence 

 as a legislator, that is no assurance that 



Bro. Abbott's administration of affairs 

 would be above criticism. It is not now 

 a question of who is the best man for the 

 position, but of who is legally entitled to 

 it. Whether or not the directors have 

 the legal right to pass upon Mr. Secor's 

 resignation, they have voted not to accept 

 it. Certainly this act has not deprived 

 him of his office. The executive com- 

 mittee has not accepted his resignation. 

 This leaves Mr. Secor still Manager; and 

 so long as he has consented to serve un 

 til the end of the year, there is no occas- 

 ion to "give this matter to the members 

 that they may be permitted to elect such 

 a General Manager as they wish." They 

 elected Mr. Secor last December, and al- 

 though he does not wish the office, he 

 has consented to fill out his unexpired 

 term, simply to help the directors out of 

 a muddle into which they have fallen as 

 the result of a lack of definiteness, on 

 some points, in the constitution, and of a 

 lack of knowledge on the part of some of 

 the members regarding parliamentary 

 usages. If this trouble leads to a correc- 

 tion of these failings, it will not have been 

 entirely useless. When there is pointed 

 out some act of the Board that will justify 

 the use of such words as "disgruntled 

 members," "conspiracy," etc., then it 

 will be in order to make some defense. 



SELLING HONEY. 



Acquaintanceship and Confidence a large 

 Share of the Stock in Trade. 



The convention of bee keepers held 

 last December in Chicago was a good 

 convention. It was reported by a short- 

 hand reporter and th^ American Bee 

 Journal has been, and is yet, publishing 

 the report. I begin by glancing at it, 

 and usually end by reading the whole 

 thing. The very pith of this matter of 

 selling honey to retailers and consumers 



was brought out in a recent issue. Mr. 

 Moore, the genial Secretary of the Asso- 

 ciation, was called upon the carpet, and 

 asked to give the best plan for working 

 up a paying demand for honey in a city 

 market. Here is what he said : — 



It is a lifetime business. Above all, it 

 means to get out and get acquainted with 

 people you are going to sell honey to, 

 and that, it seems to me, is a settler of 

 the whole question. Get out and see 

 them; go up and down the streets and 

 get acquainted with people day after day, 

 month after month, and year after year. 

 If you are an honest man, and have good 

 things, good goods, they will swear by 



