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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



don't think hives will gather honey, 

 but conditions will cause the bees to 

 store surplus honey if it is to be had. 

 But here is the trouble, this Root, 

 chaff-hive is so unhandy to handle 

 that it is out of the question. 



I have never had a very good chance 

 to build an up an apiary, as I have 

 had no place to keep them, and was 

 away to work in the summer when 

 they needed most attention. Three 

 years ago I bought a small place 

 three miles from F. A. Salisbury's 

 and one mile from the street-car line. 

 I work for Mr. Salisbury, in the sup- 

 ply business, in Syracuse, N. Y., 

 four daj^s a week, so I am building up 

 from one colony, bought three years 

 ago. I now have 27. I got 750 pounds 

 of comb honey from 16 colonies. I 

 took the queens away to prevent 

 swarming, and I like the plan. I 

 made my increase by building up 

 nuclei. To make a success of this 

 the queen should be taken out of the 

 hive. Some cage the queen and leave 

 her in the super, but the bees will 

 swarm some in that case as soon as 

 they have queen cells sealed. I want 

 to increase the 27 to 45 this summer. 



I ,wish to mention something which 

 I have found handy. If you have an 

 old Bingham knife that you don't use, 

 cut off the handle, and bend a piece of 

 sheet iron, or galvanized iron, around 

 a }i inch rod, and then rivet it on one 

 edge of the knife, and you will have 

 the nicest thing going for scraping 

 hives, supers, bottom-boards or any- 

 thing else. 



I think I have been helped most by 

 reading the bee-papers. Like j'our- 

 self, I prefer the four-piece sections, 

 and, I glass my honey. 



QUERIES REGARDING NORTHERN 

 MICHIGAN. 



Your description of Northern Mich- 

 igan just makes me wish I could go 

 up there to keep bees. Plenty of 

 bee pasturage, and a new country. I 

 would just enjoy being in such a 



place. Of course, I suppose, it has 

 some disadvantages or it would be all 

 taken up before this. Are the roads 

 very bad up there? Isn't it quite a 

 place for malaria, and fever? I 

 should think a bee-keeper could em- 

 ploy his spare time in the winter 

 trapping, and, if he were like myself, 

 he would enjoy it. I should like to 

 go up there, with a partner, in the 

 fall, fix up a camp, and make a busi- 

 ness of trapping. Do you think it 

 would pay? A year ago this summer 

 I went to the Adirondack woods for 

 two weeks, and I think such a trip 

 does one more good than a barrel of 

 medicine. We were in 12 miles from 

 the nearest house. One fellow said 

 it was so still you could hear a fly's 

 wing drop. There were four of us 

 and we had everything we wanted to 

 eat, and it cost us only $9.85 each, in- 

 cluding our R. R. fare from Utica. 



SOME CRITICISMS ON THE MAGAZINE 

 "SUCCESS." 



Now you ask for criticisms, if we 

 have any. Well, I have onlj' one. 

 This may hit in a sore spot, and may 

 be you will not feel the same toward 

 me if I tell you, but you ask for hon- 

 est opinions so here it comes: It is 

 your indorsement of that paper called 

 "Success." This paper holds up the 

 idea that anybody can be the presi- 

 dent of a R. R. or something similar, 

 if he will do as someone else has done. 

 If you will look closely you will see 

 that that those so-called successful 

 men have gone up in proportion as 

 they were willing to push others 

 down. I once had occasion to wait 

 an hour in a business man's office, 

 and he gave me something to read — a 

 copy of Success. He remarked as he 

 handed it to me, "This means get 

 the best of the other fellow. " I think 

 he couldn't have expressed it better. 

 No one likes to see people succeed 

 better than I do, but I like to see them 

 succeed by their own labor, and not 

 by crushing others. You have made 



