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organization is often greatly needed, and it 

 is quite likely that we will have better sea- 

 sons again, even if they are not so good as 

 some of those in the past. Mr. Hunt said 

 that in his locality there had been eleven 

 good seasons in succession, then there came, 

 an abrupt change. He says that the floral 

 conditions are the same now in his locality 

 as they were in the years of plenty. This 

 is hopeful. Mr. Aspiuwall called attention 

 to the fact that we had had more rain and 

 snow in the past few months, than we had 

 had for the same length of time in several 

 years, and he predicted that we would, in a 

 measure, have an old fashioned season. 

 The next convention will probably be held 

 in the Northern part of the State — perhaps 

 at Mt. Pleasant. 



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"How Natube CDEEs"is the title of a 

 §2.00 book published by Stillman A- Co., 319 

 W. 40th St., New York. I have read this 

 book with a pleasure equaled only by that I 

 enjoyed when reading Bellamy's " Looking 

 Backwards. " While the author believes 

 that it is folly to say that drugs or medicines 

 are never needed, he shows most conclusive- 

 ly that correct methods of living will enable 

 ns to avoid their use entirely, and that they 

 are very seldom needed even when we are 

 seriously ill, provided that proper hygienic 

 treatment is given. Keeping well is simply 

 the result of wearing proper clothing, pay- 

 ing attention to the right kind of bathing, 

 breathing pure air in a proper manner, and, 

 most important of all, eating the right kinds 

 of food, which means, of course, using the 

 right kind of drink — pure water. All this is 

 very simple, and yet there are so many points 

 that I did not thoroughly comprehend or ap- 

 preciate until I read this book. If I conld 

 have read it twenty years ago I am well- satis- 

 fied would have saved me dollars and dol- 

 lars in doctor's bills and medicines, and time 

 worse than wasted in weeks and months of 

 suffering. I wish everybody could read this 

 book. Mr.E. T. Abbott called my attention 

 to it and I want to thank him for it. 



P. S. — Let me say to my good friend 

 Merrill of the American Bee Keeper, that 

 it is not personal vanity that leads some of 

 us bee-keeping editors to speak of the sick- 

 ness in our families and of the food we are 

 eating, but because we have suffered so se- 

 verely, and. hfiving found a way of escape, 

 are anxious that others should know of the 

 way. 



UNFAIB OKITICISM. 



In the last issue of the Canadian Bee 

 •lournal is an editorial berating Bro. Hasty 

 and myself because we have not changed 

 our views regarding sugar honey, or because 

 we do not rejoice as he does over the pas- 

 age of the sugar honey law. I have said 

 repeatedly that I did not believe that the 

 Canadians would get a law against the pro- 

 duction and sale of sugar lioney. I did not 

 think that one was needed. It seems that 

 I was mistaken in thinking that they would 

 not secure the passage of such a law, but 

 neither Mr. Hasty nor myself have said or 

 done anything to indicate that we are " sore " 

 or "sad "because of its passage. Bro. 

 Holtermann says that those who advocated 

 the production of sugar honey have never 

 changed their opinions. .Just as though 

 opposition, or the securing of the law on 

 that subject, would change our opinions I 

 When the great majority of bee-keepers 

 protested against the discussion of the sub- 

 ject, I deferred to their opinion, and prom- 

 ised that the adfocacy of sugar honey pro- 

 duction shonld end in the Review, at least 

 until there should be a change of public 

 opinion on the subject. I have lived up to 

 that promise. Even Bro. Holtermann him- 

 self has publicly commended me in his 

 journal for the faithfulness with which I 

 have kept my promise, and now to publicly 

 condemn me for what may be my private 

 opinion on the matter strikes me as unfair. 



Discussion of this subject may have been 

 foolish, and, if so, then those who joined in 

 it must suffer for their folly, but don't get 

 so far back in the dark ages as to expect ns 

 to recant and say we don't believe what we 

 do. 



A Condensed View of Current 

 Bee Writings. 



E. E. HASTY. 



mHIS View is to be all Round Up; and pret- 

 T ty dry and brief in the effort to catch 

 up. The first thing I get hold of is that 

 queenless swarm that lived more than three 

 times the usual summer life of a bee, and 

 had 8,000 live bees still left. Review 120. 

 It's getting plain that vim and longevity in 

 bee life are correlative, like force and veloc- 

 ity in mechanics — the more of the olc the 

 less of the other. A queenless colony has 



