A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 

 $L00 A YEAR. 

 w. z. HOTCHiNSON. Editor and Proprleloi. 



VOL. XVIII. FLINT, MICHIGAN, DEC. 15, 1905. NO. 12 



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W. Z. HUTCHINSON. 



^7 HE interest shown in tlie Review- 

 T^ apiary is just a wee bit flattering-. 

 Quite a number have written and in- 

 quired how the increase was made. 

 Others liave wished to know if any 

 feeding- was done. Still others would 

 like to know if any surplus was 

 secured. Another says that "most of 

 bee-keepers try to keep down increase, 

 but 3-ou seem to work in the opposite 

 direction, and we would like to know 

 why and how you did it." 



WHY I HAVK AGAIN TAKKN UP BEE- 

 KEEPING. 



In the iirst place, let me tell why I 

 have gone again into bee-keeping. It 

 was not that I had not sufficient work. 

 There is the g-etting- out of the Review, 

 which is really more than enough to 

 keep one man busy. There is the look- 

 ing- after foul brood. The work as 

 Secretar}' of the National Association, 

 Then, during the past year I have 

 written and published the new edition 

 of Advanced Bee Culture, which will 

 be in the hands of its readers now in a 



few days. On top of all this I started 

 in to build up on apiary. My love for 

 the work was one very strong motive. 

 After being- without bees for three or 

 four years, the long-ing- for them be- 

 came so great as to be almost irresisti- 

 ble. Another point is this: I have for 

 years urged bee-keepers to keep more 

 bees; to seek a good location and estab- 

 lish out-apiaries, and make a business 

 of their business. I have urged that it 

 is an easy matter if the bee-keeper will 

 only turn his mind and energies in 

 that direction, and now I have started 

 in to "show them how to do it," or else 

 fail in the attempt, in which case my 

 readers will have the benefit of the per- 

 formance. I have said repeatedly, that 

 a bee-keeper in an ordinary location 

 could take 15 or 20 colonies of bees and 

 build them up into a good sized apiary 

 in a single season. For this reason I 

 have said that there is little excuse in 

 saying that you would keep more bees 

 if you only had them. You can get 

 them in a very short time if you set out 

 for it in the right wa3^; and one object 



