The Bee=Keepers' Review 



For 1904 



THE Review never had more sub- 

 scribers, better correspondents, 

 greater mechanical facilities, or 

 a more experienced editor; in short, it 

 was never more fully equipped, than 

 at present, for helping bee-keepers. It 

 will use all of these advantages the 

 present year in talking up and discus- 

 sing two of 



The Most Important 

 Subjects 



connected with bee-keeping, viz., the 

 production of large quantities of honey, 

 cheaply, and the selling of It at a high 

 price. The first few issues of this 

 year will be especiallyi devoted to the 

 discussion of the first-mentioned topic, 

 then, in July or August, marketing 

 will be taken up and continued through 

 the year. I do not mean that other 

 important matters will not be touched 

 upon, but that special attention will 

 be given to these two. 



For instance, last year, Mr. F. E. 

 Atwater, of Boise, Idaho, with only 

 one helper, 



Managed 11 Yards 



scattei'ed from seven to eighteen miles 

 from home, and in the January Re- 

 view he had a long article describing 

 the hives, implements, and methods, 

 that enabled him to accomplish this 

 feat. 



Mr. E. D. Townsend, of Remus, 

 Michigan, is 



The Most Extensive 



Apiarist 



in this State; managing out-apiaries 

 with the least possible amount of 

 labor, much of it unskilled at that, and 

 making money out of the business, and 

 he is telling the readers of the Review 

 "how he does it." Four articles from 

 his pen have already appeared and 

 there are three more on hand. More 

 will follow on marketing and winter- 

 ing. 



Another correspondent, over the find- 

 ing of which the Review is congratu- 



lating itself, is Mr. E. W. Alexander, 

 of Delanson, New York. He has had 

 nearly 



Fifty Long Years of 

 Experience 



with bees. His looks are white, but 

 liis eyes are bright, his step elastic, 

 and he still has the fire and enthusi- 

 asm of youth. His views on overstock- 

 ing are certainly radical, and it is pos- 

 sible that they are not applicable in 

 evex-y locality, but some ideas that he 

 advances, and the experience that he 

 gives, are certainly worthy of con- 

 sideration. This month he tells how 

 to make the most out of weak colonies 

 in the spring, and how sometimes it 

 is possible by the right kind of feeding 

 in the spring, to change what would 

 have been a season of failure into one 

 of profit. A simple, inexpensive, con- 

 venient method of feeding is describ- 

 e-d. The next month he will describe 

 his tank and methods for disinfecting 

 combs from colonies infected with 

 black brood. By his thoroughness, he 

 has been successful on a large scale. 



The beginning and the end of the 

 lioney season are 



Critical Points. 



To induce the bees to promptly take 

 possession of tlie supers, to wind up 

 the season with nearly all of the sec- 

 tions completed, yet lo*-e none of the 

 honey that the bees can store, are 

 most desirable accomplishments; and 

 James A. Green, of Grand Junction, 

 Colorado, has sent me an article tell- 

 ing how all these things may be man- 

 aged by what he calls his "Combina- 

 tion System." It appears in the April 

 issue of the Review. 



Mr. M. A. Gill, of Longmont, Colo- 

 rado, last year, with the assistance of 

 his wife, and one other helper, man- 

 aged 1,100 colonies, increased them to 

 l.fiOO and shipped. 



Two Carloads of Comb 

 Honey. 



Within the next month or two the Re- 

 view will publish an article from Mr. 



