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record being kept. The ''Annual Colony Record" will, for instance, 

 be at the top of each page headed something like this: Date; No. 

 of Colony; Kind of Hive; Queen — age; Supers — given, removed; 

 Honey — lbs. ; Feed — cost ; Variety of Bee ; Gentleness ; Swarming — 

 supersedure ; Capping; Rating; Colonies on Hand, etc. 



With such books it requires but a momnet to enter permanently 

 the full details of any operation or transaction and one can, for all 

 years to come, satisfy themselves as to what each colony has done, 

 or is doing. 



If the intention is to breed only from selected stock, it becomes 

 at once imperatively necessary that, as well as one of the progress 

 of hatching cells, etc., some definite record of the yield and other 

 characteristics of individual colonies be carefuly kept. Otherwise 

 there will remain no practical means of determining which to select. 

 Moreover, it is no less necessary that this record be kept in book 

 form, as one summer is entirely insufficient to prove the true worth 

 of any queen. 



Germania Apiaries, Germania, Ark. 



Co-Operative Comments. 



BY C. STIMSON. 



^^ ECEXTLY there was a discussion as to how the ownership 

 T*^ of bee ranges could be acquired. No one was able to ad- 

 vance a plan by which it could be done. It is too much like 

 acquiring title to air or sunshine. None of the correspondents 

 seemed to realize our troubles are caused by the individital ownership 

 of those things which are collectively used. The large machinery of 

 the present da}^ compel us to produce and distribute socially. We 

 still retain the primitive system of individual ownership which we 

 had when the machines were so small that a single individual could 

 own and operate them. The workers produce and distribute their 

 products by socialized efifort. They receive a bare existence price 

 for their labor. These products are sold at a high price, and the 

 numerous profits are retained by the non-working owners of the 

 machinerv. 



The members of the National Bee-Keepers' Association realize 

 that the present planless method of producing and distributing their 

 supplies causes them enormous useless expense. The individual 

 ownership of the supply factories results in bee supplies made in 

 Ohio being shipped to New York, and supplies made in New York 

 being shipped to Ohio. Redwood lumber is shipped to Missouri 

 to be made into hives. White pine supplies are sent from Ohio to' 

 the coast. In the way of advertising, each bee-keeper receives 

 numerous catalosTS describing: the same goods. In each railroad 



