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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



B. A. Hadsell of Buckeye, Arizona, one 

 of the largest bee keepers in the world, 

 has made three trips to Mexico investi- 

 gating that country as a bee country, 

 and is so infatuated with it that he is 

 closing out his bees in Arizona. He has 

 been to great expense in getting up a 

 finely illustrated pamphlet describing the 

 tropics of Mexico as the Bee Man's 

 Paradise, which he will mail free by 

 addressing him. B. A. Hadsell, Lititz, 

 Pa. 



Honey Secretion, or the law govern- 

 ing its secretion, still remains something 

 of a mystery. For instance, R. F. 

 Holtermann writes that he has had good 

 crops of honey when clover was scarce, 

 and poor yields when it was plentiful. 

 I have had similar experiences. It some- 

 times seems as though electrical or at- 

 mospheric conditions contained the secret, 

 but exactly how we don't know. Per- 

 haps, if we did, it would not help us any. 



men are well adapted to the places they 

 are to fill; and I am especially pleased 

 with the choice of Secretary. Mr. Tyrrell 

 has done wonders for our Michigan State 

 convention; and I prophesy that the 

 National will double its members and 

 usefulness inside of two years. 



Have Faith in Your Business. 



1 have a feeling of kind regard, in fact, 

 I might almost say, affection, for bee 

 keepers. I like to see them succeed. I 

 am doing all in my power to help them to 

 succeed. I wish to drive from their 

 minds all doubts and fears, and hesitancy. 

 I wish to inspire them with faith in their 

 business; so that they will dare to go 

 ahead and increase their business; and 

 start an apiary here and another one 

 there, and make money so that they can 

 ride out to their apiaries in an automo- 

 bile. When I am dead and gone I wish 

 to deserve the epitaph: "He taught us 

 to keep more bees." 



Overstocking is an elusive question. 

 Sometimes I have felt that we paid too 

 much attention to it — feared it too much 

 — then something will turn up to make 

 me fear it. For instance, W. L. Cogg- 

 shall, of New York, who has been a very 

 successful bee keeper, writes me that he 

 made the most money out of bees in 1881 

 with only 100 colonies. He gives as a 

 reason that the winter losses were so 

 great that only a few bees were left in 

 the country — there are 1 colonies now 

 where there was only one then. 



Which was your most Prosperous Year? 



What year, or about what year, did you 

 make the most money out of bees? 



How much honey did you produce, and 

 which was it, comb or extracted? 



How many colonies did you have? 



How and where did you market it, and 

 what prices were obtained? 



What were the peculiar conditions that 

 enabled you to secure such wonderful 

 results that year? 



Is there any reason why they may not 

 be repeated in the future? If not, why 

 not? 



Election of officers for the National re- 

 sulted as follows: President, Geo. W. 

 York, Chicago, Ills.; Vice President, W. 



D. Wright, Altamont, N. Y.; Secretary, 



E. B. Tyrrell, Detroit, Mich.; General 

 Manager, N. E. France, Platteville, Wis., 

 Directors, Jas. A. Stone, Springfield, Ills.; 

 O. L. Hershiser, Kenmore, N, Y.; H. A. 

 Surface, Harrisburg, Penn. All these 



E-xtracted Versus Comb Honey. 



Ernest Root recently told me that most 

 of us would be surprised at the extent 

 that bee keepers are dropping the pro- 

 duction of comb honey and taking up 

 that of extracted honey. He says they 

 are making this change simply because 

 they can thereby make more money. 

 But here is a thought: When the 



