pleasant and perhaps profitable meeting! That is all. We receive no lasting benefits; we do not feel that the association amounts to a row of pins during any other portion of the year except at convention time. What we want is an association whose influence we will feel during the whole year. An influence which shall not only help us by its instruction, but by the aid it will give us in making our pursuit more profitable. I have been pondering for many days over the proposition set forth by Mr. Newman, at the North American Association meeting, that we should form a honey company as a branch of the association proposed. I had much doubt whether such a company was either desirable or feasible; but after much reflection I believe we must have something of that sort in the country to make an international association a success. Let it begin in a small way and extend gradually. A representative association would be a good thing, and the only hindrance to such a plan is the distance and cost of travel to the meetings. I refer here to a body where representation was a necessity to existence. The association must be one great unit. Each man in any way connected must be a member. The central body should be called the international association, and the rest _State_ or _County_ associations. The _whole_ must be the international, and all the different conventions but meetings of grades and sections; just as in freemasonry all members are brothers in the order, though they may belong to widely separated lodges. I therefore submit a plan for consideration. It might be put into execution in this as a trial, and then the international formed on the same plan if this is a success. First of all the New York State Association of Bee Keepers should be _incorporated_, thus establishing its claim to _the_ state association. Each county then, who desired to form an association, could apply to the proper officers of the state association and obtain a charter, as it were, and call themselves members of the state association forming a sub association called after the name of their county. There might be a state association honey lable having a design copyrighted by the state, to be used only by the members of the association, and soon everywhere the label would be known as always being attached to the pure article. Confidence in pure honey would return, and the consumption of the sweet largely increase. The question of fees or yearly dues would be absurd to discuss at this early stage in the movement, but I would say that they will in no wise be greater than the benefits the members would receive. I do not desire to forstall Mr. Isham in what he will soon have so ably to say, but I think I can point out that the influence of such an association as outlined would be great, with fair managers. An organization, representing as we do a shifting membership to a great extent, can have very little weight with that class of persons. Finally I commend this matter to your most earnest consideration, feeling sure in the formation of an International Bee Keepers' Association your seed '' will fall on good ground and bring forth fruit an hundred fold.'' From the N. Y. Times. APPLE-BLOSSOM HONEY. What a Producer Says About its Superiority Over Cthors. Deckertown, N. J., July 10.--''Bee men always think that honey made from sumac is the best there is,'' remarked a large producer of honey the other day; '' but I've just discovered something that beats sumac honey all hollow,'' he continued. '' Here, taste of this, and tell me what you think of it.'' And he produced a jar of strained honey, which in its clearness and purity, seemed fit for the gods to sip. It was tasted, and found to possess a peculiarly delicious flavor--a flavor which all said they had never noticed in honey before. '' That's apple-blossom honey,'' explained the bee man, as he watched with delight the effect of his saccharine product on the palates of his listeners. '' When the apple-blossoms came out there wasn't much of anything else for the bees to work on, so they put in their best lacks in the apple trees, and they soon stored away a good many boxes of this here honey. I was examinin' the hives one day, and tasted some of the honey, when I noticed how much pleasanter it was than any other honey I had ever seen, so I concluded to find out what it meant. Recollection' that the bees had had nothing' much but apple blossoms to work on, and noticing' the apple blossom flavor to the honey, I soon came to the conclusion 'twere these flowers that made the honey taste so good. When the apples had done blooming I removed the honey and kept it separate. A good many people have eaten it, and they are all so delighted with it that I believe I could sell tons of it for a cent or two more on a pound than even sumac or white clocur we honey will bring," remarked the bee farmer as he disposed of his last box of honey to an eager customer.