THE BEE-KEErERS' REVIEW. 



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Bee-Keepers'Review 



I'UHMSHKD MONTHLY 



W. I. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Pul.lislicr 



Entered as second-class matter at the Flint 

 I'ostoffice. Feb. 2, 1888. Serial number, 190. 



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Flint, Michigan, Sept. 10, igoj 



The American Bee Journat^ has the 

 sincere thanks of the Review for the use 

 of the cuts showing tlie officers of the 

 NdUonal Association for 1904. 



The Review has never been too free 

 from typographical errors, but I beheve 

 none has ever been bad enough to destroy 

 the sense until last month, and that oc- 

 curred in the little motto at the head of 

 Arthur C. Miller's article. It ought to 

 have read: 



"Errors like straws upon the surface flow. 

 He who would search for pearls must dive be- 

 low." 



The compositor made the word "pearls' 

 read "parts" and the proof reader (W. Z.) 

 let it slip through. I could give a good 

 excuse — but what's the use? 



THE ISOLATION OF CALIFORNIA APIARIES 

 In speaking of the question of whether 

 a beekeeper should pull up stakes and 

 seek a better location, if the one he pos- 

 sesses is a poor one, the American Bee 

 Journal says: "Climate, home, surround- 

 ings, are all of importance. Some of the 

 Northern bee-keepers in attendance at 

 the National convention at L,os Angeles, 



who had cast longing looks toward that 

 golden land, went home entirel}' satisfied 

 to remain where they were, after seeing 

 some of the California apiaries. Of 

 course, all locations in California are not 

 the same, but some of them are dreary 

 enough. To get the advantage of pastur- 

 age an apiary is located in some canyon, 

 away from the haunts of men, the near- 

 est neighbor half a mile or so away, out- 

 side of the sound of bell of church or 

 school. Willi many it is a life of exile 

 during the honej' season, the rest of the 

 year l)eing passed elsewhere, but all 

 would not like a life of that sort." 



Yes, Mr. Bie Journal man, and the 

 work IS hard, too, if we may judge from 

 ■A large printed placard that I saw posted 

 up in one apiary that I visited, presum- 

 ably for tlie benefit of hired help; it read 

 as follows: "Work on a ijee ranch is no 

 sunimer picnic." 



California is so different from the 

 Ejst thil it is not to be wondered al that 

 some of the Eastern visitors should come 

 hotue pretty well satisfied with their 

 homes in the East. A man who had al- 

 ways lived in California would probably 

 go home from a visit to Michigan with 

 feelings that California was a pretty good 

 place to live. Those who have lived 

 there for years are enthusiastic in its 

 praise, and it is a grand good thing to be 

 sitisfied and feel at home in the S ate 

 where yoti live. S) much by way of an 

 introduction, and now let me quote a 

 little from a private letter just received 

 from an old man who was one of our 

 "carload" party, Mr. J. J. Shearer, of 

 Plymouth, Michigan, who went West, 

 partly, to visit "the hole in the groiuid" 

 (mine) where he worked 51 years ago. 

 Among other things, Mr. Shearer says: 

 "I left the last of our car-companions at 

 'Frisco, and made my way home by daj'- 

 light, the better to see the country. At 

 the mines, at Nevada City, where I work- 

 ed 51 years ago, I found pine trees two 

 and one-half feet through growing on the 

 ground that we worked over. It seems 



