THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 453 



Published Monthly 

 E. B. TYRRELL, Managing Editor. 

 Office — 230 JVoodland Ave., Detroit, Michigan 

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EDITORIAL 



National Convention. Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. ISth and 13th. 



We have tried hard the past year to give you a Review that 

 would please you. We shall try to give you an even better one dur- 

 ing 1913. We appreciate the support given us by the subscribers 

 and advertisers, and thank you for the same. 



The year 1912 has marked an important epoch in the history of 

 the Review and the National Bee-Keepers' Association. It has been 

 one of adjustment to the new conditions. Our progress has been 

 such that we surely can enjoy a ''Merry Christmas," and the Re- 

 view hopes that each of its readers can say the same. We wish 

 you, one and all, a "Merry Christmas." 



Co-Operation. 



If one bee-keeper should place an order with his supply dealer 

 for say 100 bee hives, nothing particular would be thought of the 

 transaction, for it would be of an every-day occurrence. But if one 

 were to inquire what the same dealer would furnish 2,000 hives for, 

 he would "sit up and think," this being a much larger order than 

 the regular, and fearing some other firm would under-quote him, a 

 very close price would be the result. Two thousand hives would 

 be rather more than would be needed by a single individual, but it 

 would be a common occurrence that twenty bee-keepers would need 

 a hundred hives each. If the twenty would "get their heads to- 



