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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



entire hive and care for all the brood the 

 queen can supply. 



Having the stock so protected, we have 

 but little work to do in the apiary till toward 

 May. Occasionally, however, we go through 

 the apiary when the bees are flying freely 

 and look for sign • of robbing. Should any 

 colony show signs of being robbed, we close 

 the entrance so but one or two bees can pass 

 abreast. < )ccasionally a colony will be queen- 

 less, and such must be protected from rob- 

 bers until they can be united with others. 

 It does not pay to keep a queenless colony 

 until a queen can be reared in the spring. 

 The honey consumed by a queenless colony, 

 at that time of year, is worth more in some 

 other colony being converted into bees, or 

 saved for feeding later. 



Some time near the latter part of March 

 or first of April, being guided as to that by 

 the state of the weather and the apparent 

 condition of t' e bees, we examine each col- 

 ony to learn the condition of each one, as 

 regards queens and amount of bees. Those 

 that are queenless we unite with such colon- 

 ies as have but few bees, and ah are again 

 snugly covered up, and a record of the con- 

 dition of each colony is kept. 



This brings me up to the time when spring 

 work in the apiary begins in earnest, and so 

 in our next we will enter more into the de- 

 tails of spring management. 



LovELAND, Colo., 



Dec. HI, 1891. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN, FEB. 10. 1892. 



The doob leading to success ought to be 

 labeled " PUSH." 



After having spent enough time, money 

 and energy to produce results the equal of 

 any in a certain line, why not spend some 

 more time, money and energy in the same 

 direction, and thus excel all others ? Supe- 

 riority brings both honor and profit. 



R. L. Tailor's address at the Michigan 

 State convention was the best and most 

 comprehensive attempt to show how much 

 honey costs, or ought to cost, that I 

 have seen. While it was being delivered, 

 Ernest Root whispered that I " Ought to 

 make that subject the topic of a special dis- 

 cussion." What do the brethren think V 

 Has any one any criticisms to otter on that 

 address ? 



ADVERTISEMENTS CROWD OUT EDITORIALS. 



The Review never before contained so 

 many large attractive advertisements as it 

 has at present. Please look them over, 

 admire them, and when you patronize 

 those who are enterprising enough to thus 

 make known their business, " please men- 

 tion the Review." 



Ry the way, this rather unexpected in- 

 crease in advertising, a large share of it 

 coming in just as the Review was almost 

 ready to "make up," has crowded out two 

 or three pages of those short editorials that 

 I so delight in giving. Yes, I suppose I 

 might have left out some of the correspon- 

 dence, but it would be difficult to say what ; 

 as it is, several most excellent articles on the 

 " Grading of Honey," and on " Writing for 

 the Bee -Tournals," are left over for the Mar. 

 issue. As no new topic is to be taken up 

 next month, I presume there will be room 

 for more editorials in that number ; I hope 

 so. as there are several subjects that I wish to 

 notice. 



eXXRMOXED. 



Impossibility of Grading Honey as Regards 

 Quality. 



Mr. .1. A. (Ireen very clearly points out, in 

 an article in Gleanings, the difficulties in the 

 way of grading honey in regard to color and 

 quality. He says : — 



" I must say that I am not at all satisfied 

 with either of the systems of grading comb 

 honey that have been proposed. That 

 adopted at the Northwestern convention was 

 rather too exacting in some of its require- 

 ments, and in some respects was incomplete. 

 I think this would be admitted by a good 

 share of those who voted for it. At best, it 

 was a compromise adopted with the expecta- 

 tion that it would be further revised before 

 being accepted as a system of grading. But 

 while it placed the standard too high, I think 

 the system adopted at the North American 

 convention went to the other extreme. Any 

 bee-keeper who is up to the times in the 



