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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



done for the next few months. Per- 

 haps I may have said before, I write 

 as well on the train as anywiiere. The 

 monotonous noise acts as a curtain, 

 shutting out all disturbances. In 

 some localities there Avould be a strong 

 temptation to look out of the windows, 

 but I have been over the Michigan 

 roads so often that the scenery has 

 lost its novelty. I carry a note book 

 in my pocket, and work in the spare 

 moments, not only on the train, but 

 when waiting for trains at junction 

 points, nights and mornings at hotels, 

 etc. For years I have been schooling 

 myself in this direction, and now find 

 little difficulty in isolating myself, al- 

 most completely, from my surround- 

 ings. I take the bee journals with me 

 and read them on the train. Some- 

 times a bundle of letters are taken 

 with me and answered during spare 

 moments, as I can catch them. In 

 short, the Review office, to a certain 

 extent, goes with me wherever I go. 

 It is only by adopting this method 

 that I would be able to take care of 

 the Review, and at the same tim.^ at- 

 tend to my duties as ins])ector of 

 apiaries. 



THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN BEE JOURNAL 

 SECURES MORE ' 'HELP. ' ' 



I supposed I knew how to chronicle 

 the event when new help was added 

 to the office force, but I will yield the 

 palm to Bro. Morehouse, of the Rocky 

 Mountain Bee Journal. In his last 

 issue he has the following: 



"The rapid expansion of our busi- 

 ness has made necessary the employ- 

 ment of additional help. We have 

 been looking for some one whom we 

 hoped would prove a capable assistant 

 for some months past, and on Sunday, 

 March 15, he made his appearance. 

 He arrived hatless, coatless, pantless, 

 shirtless, bald-headed and— nameless. 

 He Is nameless, still, but is otherwise 



pretty well provided for so far as his 

 immediate necessities are concerned. 

 We have engaged him to tarry vnuler 

 our roof for at least twenty-one years, 

 and we shall hope to admit him to an 

 equal partnership at the expiration of 

 that tiuic. As this is the rirst assist- 

 ant to the firm of Ourself & Wife, 

 we feel considerably 'stuck up' over 

 the matter, and any discrepancies in 

 this issue of the Journal must be at- 

 tril)uted to that cause. While our feet 

 are still stumbling over the clods of 

 mother earth, our head is (it feels like 

 it is) floating somewhere away up in 

 the etherial blue." 



HIVING SWARMS IN A CONTRCATED 

 BROOD-NEST. 



A subscriber in the West writes m<> 

 that he has trouble from swarms com- 

 ing out and absconding when hived 

 in a single section of the Ileddon hive 

 —it is too small. He thinks of mak- 

 ing it about an inch deeper and using 

 nine frames instead of eight. As I 

 have been through those same trou- 

 bles, let me tell my Western friend 

 how I overcame them. 



When bees swarm they are in an 

 excited condition. They are hot ;nid 

 full of honey. Put your face down 

 close to a sAvarm of bees that has been 

 shaken down in front of a hive, and is 

 running into it. You can feel the lH>at 

 radiate, only in a less degree, as 

 you wotild from a cook-stove. Take a 

 crowd of people who had been exer- 

 cising violently, running a foot race, 

 playing football, or baseball, oi- ten- 

 nis, and by crowding them into .m 

 small room, see how quickly i\\o\ 

 would rush out. It seems to take the 

 bees two or three days to <iuiet dmvn 

 and cool off after going on a swarm- 

 ing spree. During this time they need 

 abundant room. When I began using 

 thP Heddon hive, putting a swarm 



