THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



17 



Let Us Get Together 



The coming meeting of the Na- 

 tional Bee-Keepers' Association at 

 Denver in February opens up the 

 question of the possibilities of organ- 

 ized effort to uplift the honey bus- 

 iness. As Secretary of the National, 

 I frequently receive letters asking the 

 benefits of co-operation, and the ben- 

 efits of sustaining the National As- 

 sociation. In the past, trade and 

 other conditions have not been favor- 

 able for the National to assist to any 

 very great extent in the material ben- 

 efit of the members. Things have 

 changed until now it is possible to 

 assist in a very material way to "In- 

 crease the consumption, stimulate the 

 demand and stiffen the price of 

 honey." Does not this appeal to you 

 as being worth while? If you be- 

 long already, "keep boosting," and 

 if you do not belong, get in, and we 

 can use you. We want snappy men 

 to give life and enthusiasm to field 

 meetings and hold them in every 

 state, and in different portions of the 

 state. Get the local people interested. 

 Have them to take a part and stir 

 up local enthusiasm. Plans are be- 

 ing perfected to form circuits of con- 

 tiguous states so as to arrange grand 

 state meetings. Publicity and sales 

 plans will be arranged and conducted 



by local bee people, in an organized 

 and systematic way. Other plans are 

 being arranged and we trust that the 

 honey business is to see a great 

 awakening in the near future. If you 

 are a local producer and have not yet 

 developed your market to its limit, 

 you ai-e losing a valuable opportunity. 

 The time is short. A honey route 

 will be a valuable asset. The Na- 

 tional the next year will tell you how 

 to develop it. 



Your first allegiance is to your lo- 

 cal association, and then you owe it 

 to yourself to join the National. If 

 you have honey to sell it will aid you 

 to do it. If you buy honey it will as- 

 sist you. What would a railroad ac- 

 complish without co-operation and or- 

 ganization ? What can we not ac- 

 complish with thorough organization? 

 If every beekeeper, little as well as 

 big, were to join in the general move- 

 ment to more and more popularize 

 honey, this country would consume 

 twice the present production at a 

 much better price. If you hang back, 

 you delay just that much the desired 

 results. We will all agree on this 

 one thing if we do on no other. "Get 

 together and 'boost' to increase the 

 consumption, stimulate the demand 

 and stiffen the price of honey." 



More Suggested Changes of the National Constitution 



The officers of this Association shall 

 be selected as follows: Nominations 

 may be made in the official organ at 

 any time previous to the annual 

 meeting of the Association and each 

 afiiliated body shall choose from this 

 list the names of the respective per- 

 sons it desires to fill the various of- 

 fices to be filled. Each affiliated as- 

 sociation shall be entitled to one vote 

 for each ten (10) actual members in 

 good standing in said affiliated asso- 

 ciation for said selections, and the 

 persons receiving a plurality of such 

 votes shall be declared to be the of- 

 ficers of the National Association. 

 These votes may be presented by a 

 duly accredited representative, in per- 

 son, or by mail to the National Sec- 

 retary, in which case they shall be 

 properly attested and mailed to him 



not less than ten (10) days previous 

 to the annual session of the National 

 Association. 



Changes In the Constitution. 



All desired changes in the constitu- 

 tion shall be published in the Review 

 at any time previous to or not later 

 than the October issue of said Re- 

 view, and be acted on by the various 

 affiliated associations making up the 

 National body, and these returns shall 

 be presented to said National Asso- 

 ciation at its annual meeting succeed- 

 ing such action. They may be pre- 

 sented by the duly accredited repre- 

 sentative, or mailed to the National 

 Secretary not less than ten (10) days 

 previous to said annual meeting. If 

 said affiliated associations ratify said 

 changes by a two-thirds vote of all 



