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on up in time to have the matter thor- 

 oughly disfussed before the holding 

 ot another annual convention. 



HOW TO FILIy TIN CANS WITH HONEY. 



In tilling the GO-pound tin cans with 

 honey, particular attention must be 

 paid to Icnow when a can is full. One 

 method is to place the can upon the 

 scales and watch to see when the 

 right amount has run in. All of this 

 can be avoided by the use of a tin pail 

 with a hole in the bottom near the 

 side of the pail. This hole in the bot- 

 tom of the pail is a little smaller than 

 the hole in the top of the can, and 

 pieces of boards are laid on the top 

 of the can for the pail to sit upon. 

 When the pail is tilled it is placed in 

 position, the plug pulled from the hole 

 in the bottom of the pail, when the 

 honey will run out into the can with- 

 out further attention. Now then, find 

 exactly how full the pail must be 

 filled, twice, to exactly fill the can, 

 and then place some mark on the in- 

 side of the pail, showing how full it 

 must be filled. The pail can be filled 

 to the mark very quickly, the hole 

 first having been plugged up with a 

 long wooden plug that will reach clear 

 down through the honey, when the 

 pail is full. When the pail is filled up 

 to the mark, placed in position upon 

 the can, and the plug pulled out, no 

 more attention is required until the 

 honey has all run out, and there is no 

 danger of running the can over. Mr. 

 N. E. France gave me the foregoing 

 when I met him at the Chicago con- 

 vention. 



BEES VERSU.S MANIPULATION, 



For two years the Review has been 

 lu'ging its readers to keep more bees; 

 instead of keeping only from 50 to 

 100 colonies in the home-apiary, and 

 spending much time in manipulations, 

 establish more apiaries, and adopt 



short-cut methods. At the Michigan 

 convention, when some of the mem- 

 bers were telling how they accom- 

 plished such and such things by at- 

 tention and care, one member arose 

 and said he preferred to keep more 

 bees and do less fussing. He said he 

 had four apiaries. One of them was 

 50 miles from home, and he visited it 

 only four times during the year. 

 '•But." he concluded, "it paid me $100 

 a visit." Nothing said at the conven- 

 tion did me more good than those few 

 words. That is the kind of bee-keep- 

 ing that the Review has been advo- 

 cating, and trying to arouse its read- 

 ers so that they could see its advant- 

 ages. I can see from my correspond- 

 ence that many bee-keepers are wak- 

 ing up to the possibilities of bee- 

 keeping rightly mmanaged. I receiv- 

 ed a letter recently from a bee-keeper 

 in Ohio asking if I could direct him to 

 some good locality in Michigan where 

 he might go and establish a series of 

 out-apiaries. About the same time I 

 received a letter from a bee-keeper in 

 Western Michigan asking to . know 

 where he could secure the services of 

 a young man to go into partnership 

 with him in the establishment of out- 

 apiaries. Another bee-keeper with 

 whom I talked at Lansing told me 

 that he was done "fooling away his 

 time" with a few bees. He has now 

 secured 200 colonies, and is making 

 arrangements for more. "If I am go- 

 ing to spend my time, I may as well 

 make a business of it," was his wise 

 conclusion. Mr. Tyrrell, the newly 

 elected Secretary of the ^Michigan As- 

 sociation, is also making arrange- 

 ments for more bees, and will estab- 

 lish out-apiaries. These are simply 

 straws showing which way the wind 

 is blowing. Simply keeping a lot of 

 bees will not make a man rich. They 

 must be kept in the right locality, and 

 be rightly managed; but, on the other 



