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the reason is worth considering. He says: 

 "A reason that I should give why a prose- 

 cuted member of the National Association 

 should be expected to bear at least a por- 

 tion of the expense of a suit at law, pro- 

 voked by him, is the same that causes 

 fire insurance companies to insist that 

 the insured shall carry one-third of the 

 risk. Sometimes, some people, like 

 Dean Swift, get awfully quarrelsome, even 

 cranky, if they have a powerful ally to 

 fight all the battles that they can precipi- 

 tate. It is no doubt well that the prosecu- 

 ted member should meet a small, caution- 

 ary part of the expense." 



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TRY AND REAI^IZE YOUR HAPPINESS. 



Many men are working hard and prac- 

 ticing economy, making the old overcoat 

 do one more winter, looking forward 

 hopefully to the time when fortune may 

 smile on them and they will be happy. 

 No matter how rich they may become, 

 such men will never be any happier than 

 they are right now. The man who is 

 working and saving to buy a home, who 

 has a loving wife by his side and little 

 children clambering over his knees, is 

 drinking the wine of life. 



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ARTIFICIAI^ HEAT FOR WINTERING BEES. 

 In one of my recent trips as inspector 

 of apiaries, I came across a man near St. 

 Clail-, a Mr. Richard J. Radike, who has 

 for several years been wintering his bees 

 in an old store-building, keeping them 

 warm with a fire in a coal stove. The 

 number of colonies varied from 25 to 60, 

 the size of the room was about 20 feet 

 square, and a small fire kept burning all 

 the time. There was no attempt to keep 

 the temperature at a certain point, but it 

 hovered around 50 degrees most of the 

 time. For the first year or two it seemed 

 as though the air in the repository was 

 too dry, and a dish of water was finally 

 set upon the stove and this seemed to 

 remedy the difiiculty. The bees wintered 

 perfectly, but it always was necessary to 

 set them out early as they became uneasy 



as soon as the warm days began to come. 

 Usually they were set out the latter part 

 of March. The building was not even 

 plastered, simply sided up on the outside 

 and ceiled upon the inside. The stove 

 was kept in the same room with the bees. 



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APPRECIATIVE WORDS. 



When one has worked hard for the ac- 

 complishment of a worthy object, it is 

 pleasant to know that there has been 

 something accomplished. Every little 

 while there is a line or two in a letter that 

 is quite cheering. For instance, one sub- 

 scriber writes: "I like the Review be- 

 cause it tells us what to do, and then en- 

 courages us to do it.'" I think the mission 

 of the Review was never described in 

 fewer words. Another writes: "I may 

 say,, candidly, with no desire to flatter, 

 that your appeals to 'spread out' have 

 been a great incentive to me. I now have 

 205 colonies, and expect to increase to 

 300 another year." 



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SHORT CUTS AND SIMPLER METHODS. 



Most beginners in bee-keeping do a lot 

 of useless work. Useless in one sense, in 

 another it is not. It teaches what to do 

 and what not to, and the latter is fully as 

 important as the former. In the primitive 

 bee-keeping of some years ago, the hiving 

 of the swarms, the putting on of the sur- 

 plus arrangements, and the taking off of 

 the crop, was about all that was done. 

 Between this and the fussing of the ama- 

 teur lies the golden mean. Learning how 

 to do things had to come first — now many 

 of us are studying how 10 avoid doing 

 things. 



A bee-keeper had 60 colonies of bees. 

 When it came swarming time, for about 

 six weeks he gave most of his time to 

 working with his bees. He had to be 

 there, or thought he had to, in order to 

 hive swarms and do whatever manipula- 

 tion was necessary. Last year he sold 

 the bees as they took up so much of his 

 time that he was neglecting his farm. 

 The man who bought them (I might as 



