. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June 29, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 409 formed that we shall need more funds than are now in sight if we continue the work. Pure food legislation and impure food prosecutions are the lines of work laid out for especial effort this year. Other matters are also receiving attention, but the largest ?expenditures will probably be in the direction named. Yours truly, Eugene Secor. General I\[anager. United States Bee-Keepers' Association. Now, the foregoing candid statement of proposed ef- fort, and appeal for funds, ought to induce several thousand bee-k
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June 29, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 409 formed that we shall need more funds than are now in sight if we continue the work. Pure food legislation and impure food prosecutions are the lines of work laid out for especial effort this year. Other matters are also receiving attention, but the largest ?expenditures will probably be in the direction named. Yours truly, Eugene Secor. General I\[anager. United States Bee-Keepers' Association. Now, the foregoing candid statement of proposed ef- fort, and appeal for funds, ought to induce several thousand bee-keepers to forward their dollar membership fees to Mr. Secor at once. It certainly would be discouraging to get into the midst of costly prosecutions and then not have funds sufficient to push them to a finish, and to victory for the association. There ought to be a membership of at least 1,000 in the United States Bee-Keepers' Association by the time of the Philadelphia convention—Sept. 5. Why not send your dollar now to Mr. Secor, if you are not already a member ? Address him thus : Hon. Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. Or, if more convenient for you, send the amount to us, and we will forward it to Mr. Secor, when he will mail you a re- ceipt therefor. Now, please don't read this and. then do nothing. Your help is needed in the work projected and that which is already begun. Some Honey Prospects in California.—Thomas G. Newman, of San Francisco, Calif., general manager of the National Bee-Keepers' Union, wrote us as follows June 17, in reference to the prospects for honey in Southern Cali- fornia : The following item from the San Diego, Calif., Daily Vidette, of May 30, 1899, shows that the honey crop in Southern California is better than it was feared it would be. The drouths here are killing, and we had two j-ears of such. This year is much better in the northern part of the State, where we had plenty of rain ; but San Diego was not so blest. It is the largest county in
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