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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



ter to have published the call in the jour- 

 nals. Those circulars are mainly a list of 

 men having bees or honey for sale, and of 

 those v/ho wish to buy, and may not be 

 read as thoroug-hly as a bee journal. As 

 for myself, I never noticed the call for 

 nominations until the above article called 

 my attention to it. 1 kept watching- the 

 bee journals for the notice, and wondered 

 why it did not appear, not dreaming 

 that it would come in a circular mixed 

 with other matter. 



I presume that President Aspinwall did 

 not write to Mr. France as he did, ex- 

 pecting that it would be published in an 

 official circular, and 1 still further expect 

 that Mr. France did not give the matter 

 sufficient consideration when he published 

 it, but it will be seen, after a moment's 

 thought, that that one little line practical- 

 ly elects Mr. Hilton. I have nothing to 

 say against Mr. Hilton. He is an excel- 

 lent presiding officer, and, personally, I 

 would like to see hi in elected, but above 

 and beyond all this there is a spirit Ci 

 fairness that must be satisfied before 1 

 can vote for any rmn. For a few ye .ir.-. 

 some of the hot-headed, disgruntled mei-^ - 

 bers have been shouting "ring," ")in.7," 

 when there was not a semblance ap- 

 proaching^- a ring, and we must so ;orduct 

 the affairs of the Association th it there 



never will be any such semblance. Let 

 the rank file once get it i'lto their heads 

 that the Association 's managed by a 

 "ring,"' and its usefulness is r^one forever. 

 In this matter of nominations, the mem- 

 bers should be left vree *,o express their 

 choice with no offi:ial influence brought to 

 bear upon them. 1 tiiink it all right to 

 electioneer thro.igh legitimate channeh, 

 such as the bee journals, but official docu- 

 ments ought to b-j entirely free from it. 

 Mr. Miller says that some members would 

 prefer sorro other man than Mr. Hilton, 

 but it is njw too late to give their candi- 

 date the advantage of a public "boost," in 

 ad vane ^, an.l through the official circular. 

 In a s .-'irit of fairness 1, too, would like to 

 place some other man in nomination. 1 

 woi'id like to nominate Mr. M. A. Gill, of 

 Cciorado, who came very near being 

 e'ected last year, but it is now too late to 

 uo anything of this kind, and the only 

 thi.ig that we can do is to enter our pro- 

 test against future official electioneering. 

 In regard to the election of supply 

 dealers to office I have heretofore ex- 

 pressed my views. In my opinion, the ob- 

 jection is very slight, but, so long as there 

 is a faction that objects, and there are 

 plenty of capable members who are not 

 dealers, it seems to me that, other things 

 being equal, we better choose those who 

 are not dealers.- -Editor. 1 



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Helpful Hints in Extensive Bee- 

 Keeping". 



E. D. TOWNSEND. 



'7\iT this time an average colony was 

 ^' ^ placed upon a set of scales. There is 

 a rural mail route by this yard, thus I was 

 able to get a daily, postal card report 

 from this scale hive. A report of the 



once of the drouth that cut short the last 

 end of the honey season. I also kept in 

 touch with the progress the bees were 

 making in their suoers, knew when they 

 began to cap their sections, etc., and was 



weather was also sent, hence I knew at thus able to give occasional suggestions 



