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glilanings in ]!]<]•: cui/iuuh:. 



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lishers .iiul editors are anxious to know 

 just what those families wish to have in the 

 way of a bee journal. 



KOKCKD SWAHMING AS PKACTICKD BY J. K. 

 HK'rJIICKINGTON AND 1'. H. KLWOOJ). 



In this issue there is an article by P. H. 

 lOlwood, who has been associated for many 

 years with Capt. J. 10. lletherinf,^ton. The 

 latter has owned as many as 3()()() colonies, 

 and Mr. lOlwood something- over 1000. 

 They, tofi^ether with Mr. Cof^gshall, of 

 West (Jroton, same Slate, come near beinj^ 

 the most extensive bee-keepers in tlie worhl. 

 It appears that Mr. lOlwood and Mr. Ileth- 

 ering-ton have for years jiracticed forced 

 swarminf^ in one form or another. 



A rriCNTION, HKK-KKKPKKS; THl-; NATIONAL 

 GOVKKNMICNT TO OUK All). 



(JiJK subscribers are urj^ed to write a let- 

 ter at once to the Hon. Ked field Proctor, 

 Chairman of the Committee on A},^riculture 

 anil Forestry, of the United States Senate, 

 luf^ini:;- an addition to the appropriation fur 

 apicultural investij^ation. JJe sin-e to make 

 the particular i>oint that i/iis is to he in ad- 

 dition lo the present sum proposed for the 

 Department of JCntoinotof^y. 1 am informed 

 that, as the matter now stands, the funds 

 of the Division could be used, but probably 

 not unless we }^et somethinj^'- added to the 

 amount now available. Apiculture is now 

 named in tiic bill reported fr<-)m the House 

 to the Senate, and referred to tiie committee 

 of which Hon. K'ed field Proctor is Chair- 

 man, 'i^his is very imnortant; ;intl now that 

 our subscribers have the opportunity to ffet 

 a more substantial rccoj-^nition in the way 

 of financial aid for exjierimental work cm the 

 part of the j,'-overnment of the United States, 

 they should write at once, or, still better, 

 send a telegram to the address g^iven above. 



IMPKOVICMKNTS AT THK RICVIKW OFFICE; 

 THK MUSIC OF HKAVY MACHINKKY. 



I HAVio just noticed by the Jiee-I;eepcrs' 

 AVz^/Vrf that my CO- laborer, W. Z. Hutchin- 

 son, is also trying- the eccentricities of a 

 g-asoline-engine, not in an automobile, but 

 to run two printing^-presses. Somehow I5ro. 

 Hutchinson strikes on the same hobbies 

 that I have had, and one of them has been 

 amateur ])lu)tog-raphy. 



But I5ro. Hutchinson has put in a gaso- 

 line-engine, shafting, and a l)ig- cylinder 

 press, to run off the Revieiv . Formerly he 

 set the type at home, and hired the print- 

 ing- done up town. Now he has rev<.M-sed 

 the process — has his type set by machinery 

 up town, and does his printing- at home. 

 He writes very graphically of his experience 

 in writing- editorials anil preparing copy 

 for the k'evie^v amidst the "fussiness of a 

 gasoline-engine," and the "clank, clank, 

 grind, g-riiul," of two presses going on in 

 the room below. He writes: 



I am likf ail t-clitor I once icail al)oiit. Some one 

 asked him if llu- noise oftiie presses il id not disUirl) 

 him. " No," he ci led, ■' Ih.it is sweetest music in my 

 cars. -What worries me 's when 1 don't liear it." It 



may seem strange to some, but noise of this kind does 

 ru)l disturb me. Some of my best writinjj has 1 een 

 done on a railroad train. The monoionous noise acts 

 ;is a curtain, sliutting out all other disti actions. 



For several years I have dictated my 

 "stufT" in a room just above the press-room. 

 The "clank, clank, grind, grind," express- 

 es the situation exactly ; and 3'et these things 

 never disturb me. On the other hand, if 

 the noise stops I wonder what the matter is. 

 Just now there are two cylinder presses, 

 both driven by electric motors, rumbling 

 beneath me. In an adjoining room, just 

 back of nie, the book-binding is done, with 

 its combination of noises. In another near- 

 b3' room is the chuckety-bang of platten 

 job presses. Then there is the rumbling of 

 heavy trucks, and the moving of heavy 

 freight, in the packing-rooms, and every 

 now and then the roar of a ponderous 

 fieight train carrying- coal froin the near-by 

 mines to the lake; and yet, strange as it 

 seems to me, I am never annoyed by any of 

 these things. 



now TO GET-WIOLI. AND KKICP VVFLL; SCIKN- 



riFic KxicKCisi'; ; an icxpickifnck ok 



THIC KDirOK THAT MAY HlC USKFUL 

 TO SOMK OTHICK UKOrHKK OK 



sisricK. 



In this issue I have referred to the fact 

 that my father's health has gre. tly im- 

 proved during his stay in Ctiba. Some of 

 our friends and readers have been learning 

 indirectly that my health has been f.iiling. 

 The strentiuus life of a manufacturer and 

 of- trying- ti) get out a bee JDurnal has been 

 rather wearing on a little chap like me; 

 but I am glad to announce lo our subscrib- 

 ers that I am now on the mend again. 



Something over eight yeais ago I broke 

 down with what the lioctors called nervous 

 prostration, and then I went on the beef 

 diet — see Gi-fanings for 18%, pages 67f>, 

 708, 710, 785. I fell awav in weight from 

 140 to 107 lbs.; but after taking the diet I 

 got up to 155 lbs. The trementlous stimu- 

 lus I then received has lasted me up till 

 within a few months back. But again my 

 nerves, or something, beg-an to fail; and 

 again I looked lotiie beef tliet, and to Dr. J. 

 M. Lewis, of Cleveland, in the Kose Build- 

 ing-, to ptill me otit of my troubles. 



l*'or a few weeks b.-ick I had not been 

 able to sleep well. My mind would keep 

 on with the busy whirl of the factory; but 

 I had not been on the diet for three days 

 before that beautiful child sleep came back, 

 and I have been having those dreamless 

 sliunbers of fully eight hours for the last 

 five wteks. 



For the benefit of some our newer read- 

 ers, and for the benefit of those who have 

 ii-Kpiired what has l:)i-ought about this mO'it 

 I)leasing ch.inge, I will repeat very briefly 

 the essentials of the treatment. 



Round steak of mature beef with all the 

 fat cut off from it, preferably ground and 

 broiled, is the chief article of diet. A little 

 bit of dry toast, dried clear through, mind 

 you, so that it is as brittle as a ]>icce of 

 glass, constitutes the other portion of the 



