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the mud-slinger ; strap up the kicker, 

 and give the weak-kneed fellow a hypo- 

 dermic injection of "ginger," and you'll 

 be all right. Co-operation is all right, 

 bovs, success to you. 



Mrs. Hutchinson Expresses Thanks. 



Since the death of Mr. Hutchinson, 

 Mrs. Hutchinson has received so many 

 letters of condolence and sympathy, that 

 she has been unable to reply to them all 

 personally, and desires to express her 

 thanks in the following letter : 



"To the Dear and True Friends of W. 

 Z. Hutchinson : I extend my sincere 

 thanks for your kindness and sympathy 

 for me in this sad bereavement. I can 

 go around with tearless eyes, caring for 

 the feeble ones left in my care, but the 

 world will never know of the lonely 

 hours passed, and to come. 



Dear Friends, think of me kindly 

 sometimes, and please do not forget the 

 Review, for he loved it dearly. 



Mrs. W. Z. Hutchinson." 



Has Your Letter or Remittance 

 Been Acknowledged? 



Since the death of Mr. Hutchinson 

 there has been a mass of correspond- 

 ence, remittances, etc., which it has been 

 impossible to care for promptly. Then 

 came the work of getting out the Re- 

 view, moving the office to Detroit, and 

 getting a line on the work. By the time 

 this issue gets into the hands of the 

 readers I hope to have had all corre- 

 spondence cared for, l)ut if you have 

 not had a reply to your letter, received 

 an acknowledgment of your remittance, 

 or received the April or May issues of 

 the Review, please drop me a card at 

 once and I shall take pleasure in giving 

 the matter immediate attention. 



excluder, queen cells will be built and 

 queens hatched. I know this from the 

 experience of hundreds of cases, during 

 several years ; but have never tried to 

 have the queens fertilized and begin lay- 

 ing in these upper stories. As nearly as 

 I can learn, the plan of getting queens 

 fertilized has not proven a practical suc- 

 cess. Mr. G. M. Doolittle made a suc- 

 cess of it, and so reported in his Scien- 

 tific Queen Rearing. Later he reported 

 that he could succeed only during the 

 flow of honey that comes during the 

 basswood harvest. Now he reports fail- 

 ure even during the basswood flow, and 

 he admits that he does not learn why. 

 Of course, the keeping of nuclei over a 

 strong colony, to get the benefit of its 

 heat, is a different "proposition," as 

 they say, than where there is a com- 

 mingling of bees between the upper and 

 lower stories, with only a queen ex- 

 cluder between. W. Z. H. 



Having Queens Mated Above 

 Excluders. 



In at least one-half the cases where 

 imsealed brood is placed above a queen 



The Aspinwall Hive. 



Quite often a new invention is rushed 

 on to the market with a "hip" and a 

 "hurrah" before there has been any time 

 to properly test it out. Inventors are 

 usually over enthusiastic. Not so, how- 

 ever, with the Aspinwall hive. Mr. As- 

 pinwall has been working on this hive 

 for twenty-two years. Even now, when 

 in his opinion it is a complete success, 

 he is putting out only a Ihiiitcd number, 

 preferably in the hands of experienced 

 hec-kccpcrs. He wants to be sure of 

 its success under all conditions before 

 its general introduction. 



While the claims for this hive are 

 somewhat extravagant (that of abso- 

 lute swarm control and double the 

 amount of comb honey), yet I should 

 hate to say they would not be realized. 

 While in the inventor's apiary last sum- 

 mer, the amount of comb honey, and 

 the condition of the same, that was \in 

 those hives was a revelation to me. I 

 believe the hive worthy of a trial. 



