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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 





EDITORIAL 



Keep your troubles to yourself; 

 Put them on the uoper shelf." 



Keep an eye on the main chance. 



A Gold Medal was awarded C. W. 

 Higgins, Wapato, Wash., at the recent 

 A. Y. P. Exposition, Seattle. 



H. C. Ahlers, of Wisconsin, is now in 

 Lousiana, and will ship home a car load 

 of bees (300 colonies) May 1st. 



Connecticut bee keepers will hold 

 their 19th annual convention at 10:50, 

 Friday, April 8th, 1910, in Banquet Hall, 

 Y. M. C. A., Hartford, Conn. No evening 

 session. This is to be an important 

 meeting, and a large attendance is 

 desired. Plans for the fall honey exhibit 

 will be discussed. Come and join hands 

 with those who are striving to promote 

 the interests of every bee keeper in the 

 State. Jas. A. Smith, Sec'y- 



The Michigan State Bee Keepers' 

 Association dues were raised this year to 

 $1.50. Of this 50 cts. per member goes 

 to sustain membership in the National 

 Association. This leaves $1.00 per 

 member for the use of the home Associa- 

 tion, which is none too much. I have 

 often thought that the Association was 

 hampered in its work by lack of funds. 

 This has now been remedied, and, with 

 the energetic Secretary that we now 

 have, things will hum the coming year. 

 Let other Associations go and do likewise. 



An Apendix to the Jones Book. 



Since I wrote the comments following 

 the copying of the Jones book on swarm- 

 prevention, the author has gotten out a 

 new edition, to which he has added an 

 apendix. The gist of the new matter is 



that some of his friends have prevented 

 swarming by simply cutting out the 

 drone brood and the queen cells. 1 

 agree with the Doctor in thinking that it 

 might be effective if there were con- 

 siderable drone brood, but. if there are 

 only a few scattering cells, as is often 

 the case, there would be swarming unless 

 some of the worker brood, also, was 

 uncapped. 



Qualities that Make for Success. 



No great success can be hoped for 

 without courage, persistence, enthusiasm 

 and resourcefulness. In addition to 

 these, there is such a thing as the habit 

 of success. A man possessed of these 

 attributes can undertake and carry for- 

 ward to success an enterprise that would 

 fail in the hands of one less favorably 

 equipped. Some men don't recognize 

 such a thing as failure. They have such 

 a masterful way of meeting and over- 

 coming obstacles, as to compel success 

 under almost any conditions. The man 

 who "wonders if he will succeed," who 

 will "try it and see how it goes," is quite 

 likely to fail. His mental attitude favors 

 failure. Not so with the man who knows 

 he will succeed. Study the situation 

 carefully and thoughtfully; let the de- 

 cision be a wise one; but, once it is made, 

 never court failure by doubting. 



Fortunately, these success-attributes 

 are capable of cultivation. 



Gross and Net Weight of Honey Packages. 



The question is often asked as to 

 whether we should weigh in the package, 

 and count it as so much honey, or should 

 the package contain a certain amount of 

 honey, net weight? The first year that 

 we produced extracted honey in large 

 quantities, we weighed in the 60-pound 

 tin cans, putting in about 58 pounds of 



