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are ready to graduate into specialty. 

 They understand bee keeping tiioroughly, 

 yet they dally along, for years, with a 

 single apiary of less than 100 colonies, 

 dividing their time with some other 

 business that is just about half-managed 

 as it ought to be. Many men in this 

 position could adopt bee keeping as a 

 specialty, greatly to their profit. Many 

 have done it; as I know from the letters 

 that I receive. Such a letter came only a 

 few days ago from a man who once was 

 a farmer with a small apiary. Now he 

 has dropped everything except the bees, 

 and keeps several hundreds of colonies. 

 One little sentence in his letter is very 

 pertinent: "I don't even keep chickens. 

 The proceeds from one colony of bees 

 will buy all the eggs and chickens that 1 



want for a year, and I can care for this 

 colony of bees with one-tenth of the 

 work that I would haye to spend on a 

 small flock of chickens." The poultry 

 specialist could put up a similar argu- 

 ment. The proceeds from half a dozen 

 hens would buy his honey for a year, 

 with much less trouble than trying to 

 raise his own honey. 



Many men who are not specialists, but 

 ought to be, need shocking; need to be 

 waked up; to set to thinking. They have 

 lived along in the same old way so long 

 that to make a change does not occur to 

 them. All I ask is that a man give the 

 matter serious thought for a few days, 

 or possibly, weeks, and if he decides that 

 specialty is not for him, I have no quarrel 

 with him. — Editor.] 



EDITORIAL 



The Ontario, Middlesex, bee keepers" 

 association will hold its spring meeting 

 in the City Hall, London, on Saturday, 

 May 7th, commencing at 10:00 a. m. 

 Mr. Morley Pettit, of the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College, will be present and take 

 up the subject of "Co-operativa Experi- 

 ments in BeeKeepmg." Other prominent 

 bee keepers are to take a part. 



E. T. Bainard, Secretary. 

 Ambrose Dowswell, President. 



The Morris Method of Introducing 



Queens. 



Mr. W. C. Morris, of Yonkers, N. Y., 

 writes me of a somewhat novel plan for 

 introducing queens, one that he says has 

 yet to fail with him. Take from the 

 hive two combs with the adhering bees, 

 and, by the use of a tin, sugar-shaker, 

 dust the bees thoroughly with powdered 

 sugar, then sprinkle the queen well with 

 sugar, and allow her to run in between 



the two combs; returning them, of course, 

 to the hive. 



information Wanted on Honey Dew. 



Dear Mr. Hutchinson: Since honey 

 dew was so abundant in many parts of 

 the eastern United States during the 

 past season, it would be well for the 

 bee keeping industry to know, if possible, 

 what conditions brought this on. I 

 should very much appreciate it if the 

 readers of the Bee Keepers' Review, 

 who had honey dew last year, would 

 answer the following questions, and, in 

 addition, give any facts which might 

 help in solving this problem. 



Was there any honey flow from flowers? 



Did bees work on honey dew and 

 flowers at the same time? 



What was the average amount of 

 honey dew per colony? 



On what kind of tree or trees were 

 the insects which produced the honey 

 dew? 



Give dates showing the duration of 

 the honey dew yield. 



