-54 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



A mistake was made somewhere in the Pierce article, January 

 Review, in giving dimensions of his bee house. It should read T ft. 

 high, not 5, as that would be altogether too low for a person to work 

 in comfortably. 



The National Association Aggressive. 



The National Association needs an organizer, or several of them. 

 The Review should have a representative to attend as many local 

 conventions as possible, and also organize locals wherever possible. 

 He would supply the ginger where such might be lacking. An or- 

 ganizer's work would be to efifect the organization of live locals that 

 would subscribe for the Review in a body, advertise in the Review, 

 make up co-operative car orders or less of supplies, and sell their 

 honey through the organizer-agent, or, if selling locally, maintain a 

 uniform price. 



There should be three or more such organizers or National 

 agents: one in the west, one in the central states, and one in the east. 

 It is possible to try this matter out without any financial aid on the 

 part of the National treasury, but if it succeeds it will put funds in 

 the treasury. 



Send your delegates to the National convention instructed to sup- 

 port such a move, and remember this is one of the most important 

 works of the National to be undertaken. We must build up the 

 membership and income of the organization, and we cannot do it 

 without making it an object for bee men to join. 



Bent County, in the Arkansas valley, has thirty thousand acres 

 in alfalfa and five thousand acres in sugar beets. I'he proportion of 

 acreage in alfalfa in comparison with beets is increasing. There are 

 some less than five thousand colonies of bees in the county, so that 

 on the average there is at least five acres of alfalfa for each hive of 

 bees. 



It is well within the figure to place the acreage of alfalfa in the 

 Arkansas valley at one hundred thousand acres. In the valley there 

 are perhaps twenty-five thousand colonies of bees that produced on 

 the average thirty-five pounds of honey. The Arkansas valley, com- 

 prising Prowers, Bent, Otero, Crowley, Pueblo and Fremont counties, 

 is one of the principal honey producing areas of Colorado. 



The enclosed report of the status of the honey industry in Col- 

 orado, printed in the New Year's edition of the Rocky Mountain News, 

 covers conditions very fairly, taking everything into consideration. 

 It should, however, be mentioned that the figures given for honey 

 crop is shipping production, while total production would probably 

 be twenty-five per cent larger. It is as follows : 



The production of honey is becoming a more and more important sideline of 

 activity with Colorado farmers, year after year. This is best shown by the 



