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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVl' 



needed, and as the bees could not get to any 

 part of the outside of these sections they 

 were so clean and nice that they caused ad- 

 miration wherever seen. I sold many tons 

 of honey in them and a little later I made 

 some cases out of % inch stuff 1% find 15 

 inches inside. In these I slipped eight of 

 the sections, two of these just covering a 

 hive. I have many of these cases yet in the 

 shop-loft, and when I first saw friend Root's 

 case for selling honey just as it comes from 

 the bees, illustrated in his catalogue, I 

 smiled and went and took a look at my " ex- 

 actly same " cases which I had laid aside 

 years ago. I know friend Root will pardon 

 me for saying that I wrote to him frequently 

 describing the things I was using, but he 

 was wedded to his early love, the Simplicity 

 hive and its furniture, and always returned 

 about the same answer, "too much ma- 

 chininery." I hold no spite at friend Root 

 for this, as each of us is justified in clinging 

 to our own offspring. 



Now friends, allow me to call your atten- 

 tion to the fact that nearly all the most pop- 

 ular hives and furniture for surplus now be- 

 fore the bee-keeping public is but my tiering 

 up hive of early date in improved form, and 

 our T supers of to-day are just my early 

 shallow cases of 18()3, altered to accommo- 

 date one pound sections, and I see that the 

 junior Root is now being won over to tier- 

 ing-up hives for brood chambers, and, after 

 a more extended trial of this method than 

 that made by any person living, as I believe, 

 I say on the right road. 



After my inspiring success in 1863, I could 

 hardly wait for the coming year. I had my 

 new tiering-up arrangements all ready and 

 was impatient for swarms, but the middle of 

 June came and swarms did not. I had no- 

 ticed that the ground around a hive that set 

 near our window had been, for some days, 

 covered with white immature bees, but I was 

 ignorant then, and did not understand, and, 

 in a day or so, I resolved that if the " moun- 

 tain would not come to MahOmet, Mahomet 

 would go to the mountain," so prepared to 

 force matters by making artificial swarms. 

 I drummed out the bees from a strong col- 

 ony, examined the combs, and found them 

 perfectly destitute of honey ; and an exam- 

 ination proved the whole yard to be in the 

 same fix. There was a little fall honey that 

 year, and the bees got good winter stores, 

 but I did not build the new house next year ; 

 /nstead, by working out some for neighbors 



at carpenter work, and sleeping on beds 

 without sheets, and using old rags for tow- 

 els, we found bread for some half-dozen 

 needy mouths. 



But next year the bees flourished agaiu, 

 and, fifteen years later the new house was 

 made, a photograph of which I send you with 

 this article. 



FoEESTViLLE, Miun. Jan. 6, 1895. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Propiietor. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. JAN. 10. 1895. 



The American Bee-Journal has changed 

 its form, reduced the number of its pages 

 but made them correspondingly larger, is 

 using a better grade of paper, has secured 

 some excellent contributors and two more 

 sub-editors, and, all in all, starts the new 

 year with flying colors. 



Irving Kinyon, of Camillus, N. Y., who 

 has just returned from a two-months inves- 

 tigation of the honey producing business in 

 Cuba, writes that he prefers New York to 

 Cuba as a place to keep bees, while the so- 

 cial advantages of the latter are far inferior 

 to those of the former. In Cuba honey is 24 

 cents a gallon, a trifle more than two cents 

 a pound, while flour is .f9.80 per barrel. He 

 says that those who are thinking of going 

 there should read the article of Mr. Somer- 

 ford's (in Gleanings) about .50 times. 



Apioultur\l Literature was never bet- 

 ter than it is to-day, and this in the face of 

 about the hardest times financially and api- 

 culturally that we have seen in a long time. 

 As journal after journal came in for Decem- 

 ber, all bright, fresh, well printed and illus- 

 trated, and crammed with interesting and 

 helpful articles I fell to wondering if my 

 own journal appeared as attractive to the 

 other editors as theirs did to me. If it did I 

 am satisfied. Bee-keepers have every reason 

 to be proud of their literature. 



