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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



and, above all, I think I found my life 

 work when I bej^an publishing- the Re- 

 view, and I had better keep an eye 

 sing-le to that service. But if I were a 

 young" man just beg^inning; in bee-keep- 

 ing-, or a middle-ag-ed man, for that 

 matter, and trying- to m^ike a living 

 keeping bees in a poor locality, I should 

 certainly g-o to Northern Michig-an. I 

 would not do it rashly. I would not sell 

 a good home, pack up my things, and 

 drop down almost anywhere — I should 

 spend a year or two in investigation, 

 and learn from personal observation. 



thing, he is very particular. The hives 

 must all stand exactly so, and the covers 

 be put on square, and so on with every- 

 thing-. Perhaps these thing-s in them- 

 selves do not bring success, but the 

 trait of character that demands them, 

 is quite likely to command success. He 

 has a bed, stove and dishes in the house 

 near his apiary, and he literally lives 

 with his bees during- the working- se^l- 

 son, cooking- his own meals. His father 

 lives in town, a mile and a half away, 

 and when it comes time to ]->ack the bees 

 for winter they are hauled home and 



APIAKV OF IRA D. BARTLETT, EAST JORDAN, MICH. 



Mr. Bartlett began with a single colony, when he was only 14 years old, has steadily increased, 

 with no winter losses, until last spring found him old enough to vote, and the possessor of an even 

 100 colonies, which he has this year increased to 150, and secured 4,000 pounds of comb honey, besides 

 extracting 7,o('0 pounds. He dresses in white duck from head to toe, and believes that the use of this 

 light colored clothing saves him many stings and much annoyance from the bees. A train of car 

 was passing when this picture was being taken. 



long- continued, the best place to go. 



In this region bees are wintered both 

 indoors and out, but the most successful 

 wintering that I came across was that 

 of the bees belonging to Ira D. Bartlett, 

 of East Jordan. It was described in 

 the August Review, on page 243. Al- 

 though Mr. Bartlett is a young man, 

 and unmarried, he has miide a wonder- 

 ul success of bee-keeping. For one 



packed in the boxes that stand in his 

 father's back yard. In the spring- the}' 

 are unpacked and liiitiled out to the 

 apiar}'. The rea.son he gives is that 

 he wants them imder his eye all the 

 time, and where they will not be mo- 

 lested by prowling marauders. Mr. 

 Bartlett's onward and upward career 

 as a bee-keeper is one that I shall 

 watch with pleasure. 



