1901 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



178 



pictures of its ntw home, at Flint, 

 Mich. Brother Hutchinson is in- 

 deed cozily quartered; and his 

 artistic maijazine is in every way 

 worthy of its present pretty sur- 

 roundings. Success to the Revieicl 



A correspondent has noted that 

 Editor York, of the American Bee 

 Journal has recovered from his 

 ''bad spell;" and says the attack 

 was not nearly so severe as he had 

 thought. He further suggests that 

 he now sees no reason why Mr. 

 Quirin and several others may not 

 pull through. 



The Australian Bee-Keepers' Re- 

 viexo is a new monthly which had its 

 birth in June last at Cave Creek, 

 N. S. W. It is published by Geo. 

 Colbourne, Jr., and is made up 

 largely of extracts from the Ameri- 

 can press; though Mr. Colbourne 

 evinces a thorough knowledge of 

 bee-keeping. 



Mr. Edwin Austin, of Moravia, 

 N.Y., is an ardent admirer of Mr. 

 Doolittle's plan in having queens 

 mated in upper stories. In a re- 

 cent letter to The Bee-keeper, Mr. 

 Austin states that he has had two 

 queens laying uninterruptedly in 

 the same hive for two months. He 

 does not say whether this harmo- 

 nious co-operation was terminated 

 by the bees or by himself, however. 



Our old and esteemed correspon- 

 dent, F. H. Bussler, of Orizaba, 

 Mexico, has been traveling through 

 the United States, Porto Rico and 

 Europe for nearly two years past. 

 He is again back among his bees and 

 hard at work straightening out the 

 remnant which he found upon his 

 return. We expect to have some- 

 thing occasionally from his. pen 

 hereafter. 



a Western trip, and in consequence 

 thereof has become enthusiastic in 

 regard to the great extent and di- 

 versity of things apicultural in that 

 quarter. His mental expansion is 

 already evinced in his journal to a 

 marked degree. The fact that he 

 quotes Horace Greely, in his admo- 

 nition to young men, however, 

 strongly suggests that he has not 

 yet "done'" the South. 



Mr. W.W. Somerford, of Caimito, 

 Cuba, has five apiaries in trim for 

 the opening of the bellfiower this 

 season. He thinks he wid have 

 work enough to keep several hands 

 out of mischief from November to 

 March, It beats all how business 

 does keep up down that way, when 

 we consider the reported "rotten'" 

 condition of the Island, from end to 

 end, with foul -brood. Whether 

 "trust" or mistrust is responsible 

 for the reduction is not clear; but 

 the fact remains that talk is getting 

 cheaper every day. 



The editor of Gleanings has taken 



"We have had more swarming 

 this season than in years," writes 

 Mr. N. L. Stevens, of Venice, N.Y., 

 "and, while the clover yielded well, 

 the flow from basswood was light, 

 considering the extent of the 

 bloom.' Mr. Stevens' main crop, 

 however, comes from buckwheat, 

 which had not yet bloomed at time 

 of writing. With all its adversities 

 the Empire State holds some very 

 cheerful bee-keepers this Fall. Any 

 degree of success which may come 

 to them is abundantly merited; for 

 none are more progressive. 



Notwithstanding the destruction 

 of its home by the great fire of May 

 3, the Florida Magazine, published 

 at Jacksonville, the ill-fated metro- 

 polis of the "Land of Flowers," 

 continues to appear each month 

 with its characteristic cheerfulness. 



