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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



good friend J. P. Moore, whose stock I 

 sold for several years under the name 

 of Superior Stock. For more than 20 

 years he had been breeding the same 

 stock with no introduction of fresh 

 blood, steadily working away, by se- 

 lection, until he now has what is prob- 

 ably as good stock as there is in this 

 country — perhaps the best. 



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Specialty in Bee-Keeping. 

 At the Chicago convention, Mr. E. D. 

 Townsend had a paper entitled "How 

 Many Bees Shall a Man Keep?" 

 Among other things he advised the 

 scattering of out-apiaries, so as not to 

 be dependent upon a single source for 

 the honey. Let one apiary be in a 

 clover region, another in the raspberry 

 region, and another where a crop 

 might be expected from buckwheat, etc. 

 By this management a man is almost 

 certain of a crop from some source, 

 each year. He then showed how such 

 apiaries might be managed, even 

 though 50 or 100 miles from home, by 

 visiting them at stated intervals. I 

 was just a trifle an.used by the com- 

 ments of one speaker. He said that, of 

 course, Mr. Townsend could manage 

 bees in that manner, as he had nothing 

 else to do, but he (the speaker) had been 

 obliged to give up out-apiaries because 

 they interfered with the other irons 

 that he had in the fire. That is the 

 very point; the one upon which I have 

 been hammering away for years. If 

 you are going to be a bee-keeper, and 

 wish for the highest success, then drop 

 these other hampering pursuits. Mr. 

 Townsend v.rote me, not long ago, that 

 he had sold $1,800 worth of honey this 

 year. I presume that a few bee-keep- 

 ers have done better than this, and I 

 also doubt if many that mix farming, 

 and gardening, or poultry, with bees, 

 have done any better, while Mr. Town- 

 send has avoided all of those annoy- 

 ances that come from having several 

 interests all calling for attention at the 

 same time. As a writer says in a re- 



cent number of Success: "Neman ever 

 rises above mediocrity until he rids 

 himself of conflicting ambitions." 



Michigan State, Bee-Keepers' Convention. 

 Michigan State bee-keepers will hold 

 their annual convention Feb. 1st and 

 2nd in the parlors of the Blackman 

 hotel at Jackson. The Michigan Dairy- 

 men will hold their annual convention 

 at the same time in Jackson, and the 

 holding of two conventions at the same 

 time secures sufficient attendance to 

 allow the railroads to give reduced 

 rates — one and one-third fare, provid- 

 ing that your fare going to Jackson 

 amounts to as much as 75 cents. When 

 buying your ticket ask for a certificate 

 on account of the Michigan State 

 Dairymen's conyention, and, when the 

 Secretary of that Association signs 

 your certificate you can bu}^ a return 

 ticket for one-third fare. 



SOME WHO WILL BE PRESENT. 



The following bee-keepers have prom- 

 ised to be present: — 



E. R. Root, Medina, Ohio. 



Geo. W. York, Chicago, Ills. 



R. F. Holtermann, Brantford, Ont., 

 Canada. 



A. G. Woodman, Grand Rapids. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint. 



E. D. Townsend, Remus. 



W. J. Manley, Sandusky 



C. A. Huff, Clayton. 



Edward Willson, Whittemore. 



Clyde English, Manchester. 



A. H. Guernsey, Ionia. 



Floyd Markham, Ypsilanti. 



W. D. Soper, Jackson. 



Jay North, North Adams. 



A. E. Wurster, Ann Arbor. 



O. H. Townsend, Otsego. 



L. A. Aspinwall, Jackson. 



G. A. Bleech, Jerome. 



Clyde Cadj', Grass Lake. 



A. D. D. Wood, Lansing. 



TOPICS THAT WILL BE DISCUSSED. 



Management of Out-Apiaries. 

 The Control of Increase. 



