THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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The Review does not have for its 

 object that of out-doing, or out-shin- 

 ing other bee journals. The one idea 

 always kept in view is tliat of helping 

 bee-keepers; and in doing this it stands 

 ready at all times to join hands with 

 any or all of the other journals. 



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Mr. Geo. W. Brodbeck has been 

 compelled to retire from the the presi- 

 dency of the California National Honey 

 Producers' Association, on account of 

 ill health. He is succeeded by Mr. T. 

 O. Andrews. I hope Mr. Brodbeck 

 will be able to attend the National 

 convention at St. Louis, next Septem- 

 ber. 



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An Even Temper is an excellent 

 thing to cultivate; not only in regard 

 to angry passions, but all other pas- 

 sions as well. Some men not only al- 

 low misfortune to rob them of hope 

 and cheerfulness, but a little success 

 fairly takes them off their feet. We 

 should never be unduly cast down, nor 

 unduly elated. 



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"All Things come to him who 

 waits," is an old saying with which I 

 never felt entirely satisfied. It is all 

 right to wait if necessary, but tliere 

 must be something more. Here is the 

 way that Thos. A. Edison puts it, and 

 it adds the one thing needful. He says 

 "All things come to him who hustles 

 while he waits." 



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Staples are something of which I 

 drove about a peck into my frames 

 when I first began bee-keeping. I did 

 this because everybody was talking 

 staples. I have been pulling them out 

 ever since, and they are for sale cheap. 

 We buy too many of these traps that 

 we would be better without. Keep on 

 telling us what ?ioi to do — there has 

 been too much telling us what to do. — 

 C. Crank, Mio, Mich. 



The Western Bee Journal is the 

 name of the new , journal formed from 

 the union of the Pacific States and 

 Rocky Mountain bee journals. It is 

 a monthly at $1.00 a year. It is club- 

 bed with the Review at $1.75 for both 

 journals. 



Cleaning Sections can be very 

 easily and quickly accomplished by 

 rubbing them over a piece of coarse- 

 mesh wire cloth stretched over a stout 

 wooden frame, provided the propolis is 

 not down in a "bee-way" where the 

 wire can not reach it. Plain sections 

 can be very easily cleaned in this way. 



Mr. C. A. Olmstead described this 

 plan last winter at one of the bee con- 

 ventions that I attended in York State. 



Bicycles have been recommended 

 as a means of reaching out-apiaries, 

 but here is something that I found 

 penciled upon the back of a sheet of 

 manuscript: "When a man goes to an 

 out-apiary on a bicycle, he has done a 

 day's work before he gets there." 

 Any bee-keeper in the business very 

 extensively needs a horse for many 

 purposes, and it is doubtful if, all 

 things considered, there is a more de- 

 sirable method of going to out-apiaries 

 than with a horse. 



Mr. M. a. Gill has, in this issue of 

 the Review, placed the question of 

 over-stocking in the clearest possible 

 light, viz., that there are occasional 

 flows of honey when it is well-nigh 

 impossible to overstock the field, but in 

 ordinary seasons, or light flows, it is 

 an easy matter. As I have said be- 

 fore, each man must judge for himself; 

 and, after years of experience and ob- 

 servation, about all of the satisfaction 

 that he will get will be that of think- 

 ing that he knows somewhere nair how 

 many colonies it is profitable to keep 

 in certain locations. 



