American bee journal . other duties that take so largea .share of his time, he has now givenup the idea that the bee-world will allgo to smash if he does not put a newhive on the market, nor write a bee-book, nor start a new periodical. The number of colonies of bees hehas kept, has never exceeded 50. Hisaim has been to keep the number sosmall that he could manage them with-out hired help, and at the same timeattend to more profital)le while bee-keeping has l)een pur-sued for the pleasure and education itaflorded, he has alwajs ma(b> it he says he has 50 colonies, hedo
American bee journal . other duties that take so largea .share of his time, he has now givenup the idea that the bee-world will allgo to smash if he does not put a newhive on the market, nor write a bee-book, nor start a new periodical. The number of colonies of bees hehas kept, has never exceeded 50. Hisaim has been to keep the number sosmall that he could manage them with-out hired help, and at the same timeattend to more profital)le while bee-keeping has l)een pur-sued for the pleasure and education itaflorded, he has alwajs ma(b> it he says he has 50 colonies, hedoes not mean that he has that manyhives tcith been in, but expects everyone to yield a profit. He endeavorsto keep down increase, and keep u^)the production of tlie colonies. He was a member of the late NorthAmerican Bee-Keepers Society, andVice-President for Iowa for two is a member of the Iowa State Bee-Keepers Society, and only avoidedbeing its President for the currentyear by a vigorous protest on his CONVENTIONS. The IXcw Con§liliition and ByLiiAis—Essays. Written for the Aiii^ricaii Dee MmnmlBY 1)U. C. C. MILLER. I am very glad that at this early daythere is interest taken in what I hojjcmaj be a very profitable meeting atBrantford, Out. On jiage 747 of theAmerican Bee Journal for 1888, Sec-retarj- Holtermann takes up withearnestness some points especially i-e-latiug to the change in the Constitu-tion, and does it so good-naturedlytliat it will be an easy matter to talkover any points on which we objected to the name, The Inter-national American Bee-Association,because it seemed to me rather cum-bersome, and although AmericanBee-Society, as Mr. Newman says, isshort, expressive, and appropriate,still there ma_y be other names equallygood. Is the proposed striking out ofthe word American, however, fromthe original name, that which will giveus what we want ? International Bee-Association isa more comjirehensive term than theoriginal name, and is
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