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strong-er and better colonies to put 

 put away. 



Then, another thing to look after is, 

 at all times to keep the best combs in 

 the center of the hive. Bear this in 

 mind whenever you handle them, and 

 do not forg-et to see that there are sev- 

 eral pounds of nice capped clover 

 honey in the outside combs for winter. 

 I spend half the summer preparing- 

 my bees for winter, and I never thought 

 much of patching them up late in the 

 fall as some do, and then complain 

 that there is no money in the bee busi- 

 ness. To be sure there is no money in 

 it, as some run it; neither is there any 

 money in any other business if run in 

 a careless, shiftless, slipshod way. 

 Give me a man who takes pride in his 



business ; who wants the best of every- 

 thing connected with it, and is willing 

 to study and work until he shall have 

 accomplished the desired end. Such a 

 man will succeed in whatever he un- 

 dertakes. 



I hope a few of the many readers of 

 the Review will find it to their advan- 

 tage to adopt and put into practice 

 some of the suggestions I have given in 

 my articles for this paper; and, if so, 

 please give friend Hutchinson the 

 credit, for, had it not been for a very 

 urgent request he gave me last fall to 

 write for the Review, it is not at all 

 likely that I should ever have written 

 an article for publication. 



Delanson, N. Y., Aprils, 1904 





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BY S. A. NIVER. 



ONE October day, in the year 1894, 

 there was a bee-keepers' convention 

 held'in Miles Morton's supply-factory 

 in the village of Groton, N. Y. It was 

 mi impromptu affair — just a few bee- 

 keepers from the neighboring farms, 

 happened to be "down to the village," 

 and nothing was more natural nor 

 more common than to gather at Mor- 

 ton's shop to "talk bees." W. L. 

 Coggshall had "come over" from West 

 Groton; Mr. Barrows had "come 

 down" from the East hill; Morton's 

 brother, George, and the writer, made 

 up the crowd. We had visited the 

 honey-house, a few steps away, where 

 a fine crop of comb honey was crated 

 ready for shipment. Every section 

 had been scraped and polished clean 

 and white; graded carefully — not a 

 cull in the whole lot. On the waj' 



back to the shop we had filled our 

 hands with apples and pears, each 

 taken an easy position on a bench or 

 the lumber pile, and then trouble com- 

 menced. 



THE PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 



That confab led to results that fixed 

 it on my mind so that I remember the 

 gist of each one's ideas. Morton said 

 first: "I will agree with you, that is 

 the finest lot of comb honey, from a 

 mechanical standpoint, I ever saw. 

 The combs are straight and trim (have 

 to be with our fence separators); no 

 propolis nor travel stains; and all the 

 combs well filled and sealed. It has 

 taken lots of study, care and work, 

 and we cannot hope to advance much 

 further on these lines, — we are now at 

 th e end of cur halter. Still further 



