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3b FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 



also for purposes of which we have no present adequate idea, 

 it is absolutely necessary that we should unite — cooperate. 



The National Association, which a few years ago num- 

 bered only as many members as met together each year at 

 one selected spot in the United States, now numbers some- 

 thing over two thousand members. Although this is a great 

 increase, it is nothing compared to the possibilities of co- 

 operation, whenever we convince our brother bee-keepers that 

 it is to their interest to imite for the common good. Instead 



C. p. DADANT. 



of two thousand, we must have twenty thousand members. 

 Each State must form a nucleus, sending its delegates to the 

 meetings of the National congress, and the Association must 

 sooner or later send its ramifications to every spot where bees 

 are kept, in the length and breadth of the land. When this 

 is done, our bee-keeoers will no longer go to their town 

 groceries and ask them what prices thev pay for honey, but 

 each will be posted from headquarters, and will go to the 

 retailer with a statement something like this; 



