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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Mary had a swarm of bees. 



And Ihey, to save their lives. 

 Must gro wherever Mary went — • 



'Cause Mary had the hives. 



Barrels, when filled with honey, should 

 have the hoops driven tigfht, and tacked 

 fast; then a barrel should not rest 

 upon its side when being shipped, or 

 carried in a wagon, as the whole 

 weight then rests upon a single point. 

 Set the barrel on end. 



Michigan Bee-Keepers will hold their 

 annnal convention Feb. 1st and 2nd at 

 the Blackman Hotel in Jackson. This 

 hotel is a first class temperance house, 

 and a room for holding the meeting 

 will be furnished free. Lodging 50 

 cts., and meals 50cts., each. Further 

 particulars will be given soon. 



Original, or new methods, are some- 

 times an improvement upon old ones, 

 and Mr. J. B. Hall said, at the late 

 Ontario convention, that he would set 

 an inexperienced man at work doing a 

 piece of work, if he wanted to get an 

 original way of doing it — he would be 

 almost certain to do this in an original 

 manner. The experienced man is in a 

 rut, and can't see out of it. 



Three Inspectors of Apiaries for Canada. 

 Ontario bee-keepers will ask their 

 legislature to pass a law dividing the 

 Province into three districts, with an 

 Inspector of Apiaries for each district; 

 these Inspectors to report to the On- 

 tario Bee-Keepers' Association the 

 names and addresses of the owners of 

 apiaries inspected, number of diseased 

 colonies found, treated, or burned. 



My Bees have now, Dec. 9, been in 

 the cellar a month, and are very quiet; 

 the great, golden-brown clusters hang- 

 ing down below the frames in that de- 

 lightful way so cheering to the heart 

 of the bee-keeper. The mercury stands 

 at 50 degrees, which might be consid- 

 ered rather high, but it must be re- 



membered that both the covers and the 

 bottom-boards have been removed, and 

 the frames have been covered only with 

 a piece of rag carpet. I have just 

 finished sweeping up the bees on the 

 floor for the first time, and there was 

 not over a quart from the whole 100 

 colonies. 



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Results of the Election. 



Mr. Leonard S. Griggs and myself 

 counted the votes cast for the election 

 of officers for the National for 1906, and 

 the results are as follows: 



Whole number of votes cast for 

 President 876, of which 724 are for C. 

 P. Dadant, 149 for O. L. Hershiser, 

 one for H. G. Surface, one for W. Z. 

 Hutchinson, and one for Jas. U. 

 Harris. 



Whole number of votes cast for Vice 

 President 810, of which Geo. E. Hilton 

 received 68r), C. P. Dadant 91, W. F. 

 Marks 8, J. A. Green 6, the rest scat- 

 tering. 



Whole number of votes cast for Sec- 

 retary 889, of which W. Z. Hutchinson 

 received 763. J. A. Green 111, the rest 

 scattering. 



Whole number of votes cast for Gen- 

 eral Manager 878, of which N. E 

 France received 852, Wm. Rohrig 28, 

 the rest scattering. 



Whole number of votes cast for Di- 

 rectors 2,560, of which F. Wilcox re- 

 ceived 491, C. A. Hatch 490, E. R. 

 Root 466, E. W. Alexander 444, M. H. 

 Mendelson 333, Walter S. Pouder 288, 

 the rest scattering. 



The Secret of selling a large crop of 

 honey is looked upon by some as really 

 a secrei. Here is the way Mr. J. T. 

 Hairston, of Salina, Ind. Ter., talks 

 about it in a letter to me. He says: "I 

 notice in the October Review that Mr. 

 E. D. Townsend has sold his 20,000 

 pounds of honey at 7}4 cts. I can beat 

 him badly. My 1903 crop was 14,000 

 pounds; my 1904 crop was 15,000 

 pounds, and it was all sold at an 



