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tianity; I believe did not belong to a church; but if you can read the above 

 article and did not feel a spirit of reverence shining through the whole of it, 

 you can do better than I can. 



The article tells a story. Here was a man who could find his pleasures and 

 inspirations in the little brook, the unbroken forest; each had a message of love 

 and comfort for him. Picture the view he describes seeing from that open win- 

 dow. How many of us, looking out of that same window, would have seen 

 what he did? 



For one year I have been saving this article. It is the only one I have from 

 Mr. Hutchinson. I am publishing it now as a fitting remembrance of the man 

 who founded the Review, and whose last number was the May number for 1911 — 

 just one year ago. Surely the bee-keepers lost much in the death of Mr. W. Z. 

 Hutchinson, May 31st, 1911. 



The care of the old mother and the invalid daughter now falls on the widow, 

 Mrs. W. Z. Hutchinson, who still resides at Flint, Michigan. Bravely she is 

 doing her duty as she sees it, and I hope she will pardon me for telling you that 

 the road at times is dark indeed. How much the bee-keepers owe to Mrs. 

 Hutchinson for her part in Mr. Hutchinson's work you will never know, but I 

 assure you it was no sm.all part that she did. I wish many ot 3-ou might write 

 her a letter of good cheer when you read this, but don't ask her to answer it, 

 as it would be a severe task on her time. I assure you she would appreciate it.) 



How Bee-Keepers in Switzerland Mark Their 



Queens. 



STEPHEN ANTHONY. 



^^^ O the Editor of the Bee-Kei-lpkrs' Rrniew : — Re-marking queens 

 \^j with paint. On page 317 of your journal you raise a ques- 

 tion as to paint for queens' backs for the purpose of easier 

 finding -them. Once more, "there is nothing new under the sun." 

 The Swiss bee-keepers have been using such paint for the last eleven 

 years, and right here before I start I must acknowledge my indebted- 

 ness to Dr. Kramer's book. "Rassenzucht fiir Schweizer Imker." 

 obtainable from Paul A\'aetzel. Freilnirg im Baden, Germany; price 

 50 cts. The name of the publisher in Gleanings is wrongly spelt. 

 The marking was adopted by the queen-breeders principally for the 

 purpose of preserving the purity of the Swiss race of brown queens 

 and is practically continued for that purpose only. Of course, the 

 bright mark on the back materially helps finding the queen even in 

 a populous colony. And the occasion for adopting the mark was 

 this: 



Often a queen sent by the breeder and introduced by the pur- 

 chaser is lost in the introduction or in the first examination ; and if 

 the queen raised by the bees does not do good work, complaints are 

 raised against the breeder. The adoption of the mark has made all 

 these sort of troubles a thing of the past. 



However, there are no unmixed blessings in this world, and so 

 the mark also has a very serious drawback, because the process of 

 putting it on, and probably also the mark itself, excites the queen 



