THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



In the spring of 1888 you had a good start 

 in bees, and it" you had kiiqwu to a certainty 

 of a iirst-class white honey-range in the 

 North don't you think it would have paid 

 you to have moved your apiary to it? I 

 think you will say ye.-. Well, sir, I do think 

 that such a range can be found every year by 

 a proper effort — and were it not for my 

 splendid honey trade up here, during the 

 fall and winter, I should be willing to give 

 the matter a thorough trial. 



But I am sure it will not pay to make 

 more than one move from Soutli to North, or 

 rice versa. And why? Because bees should 

 be up here, or up in Wisconsin early in the 

 month of May so as to recruit any loss in 

 brood and bees (on the trip North) that they 

 may be in good strength to gather the crop 

 of white honey in .June and July. It won't 

 do to wait, as Flanagan did in 1884, until the 

 middle of June to ari-ive here. That year 

 the honey season here was half gone at that 

 date ! It is my opinion that the honey har- 

 vest is good during May near Kenuer, La. 

 I know it was good on May 4th, in 1880 — the 

 day we left there with Perrine's bees — and I 

 am informed that the honey flow continued 

 all through that month. This being the 

 case, I see no chance to get a crop of honey 

 between here and New Orleans and to be up 

 here in season. Do you? 



In going South I think it just as necessary 

 to get down there, to be in season for the 

 fall crop, just as soon as the apiary can be 

 gotten ready after our white honey is se- 

 cured, say sometime in August, or Septem- 

 ber. I am not so sure about this, as I am 

 about the time when the bees should reach 

 the North. You know better about the fall 

 crop of honey down South, and when the 

 yield comes, than I do. 



Then one move only each way also saves 

 work and expense, which must not be over- 

 looked. 



I must send you the Review, or rather the 

 numbers giving the discussion on Migratory 

 Bee-Keeping, as you may be interested in 

 reading what others have to say on that 

 subject. Will order them sent to you as I 

 wish to keep my iile of the Review unbroken 

 and for reference. 



Byron Walker is interested in a traveling 

 apiary, but I look upon his experience the 

 present year as a partial failure. He bought 

 100 colonies last spring, to start with, in 

 Tennessee, and moved them up to W^iscon- 

 sin in June. He should have been there 

 early in May. Had he bought 100 colonies 

 in Wisconsin early in May he could have 

 closed the season with more honey and more 

 bees than he did secure in both Tennessee 

 and Wisconsin, and at less expense. Mr. 

 Walker is not discouraged, however, as he 

 now proposes to move his apiary down 

 South somewhere and then stop it at divers 

 places on his return up the Mississippi river 

 so as to catch a multitude of harvests a la 

 Perrine. He thinks the river route better 

 than the railway. I think he will know 

 more about the matter after he has tried it. 



Where is friend Williams? Please write 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. JANUARY 10, 1890. 



THAT APIAKIAN PKEMIUM LIST. 



The premium list that was proposed by the 

 Review for use in the apiarian department 

 at fairs and exiiositions received a most 

 thorough discussion at the last meeting of 

 the Michigan State Bee Keepers' Association. 

 It was approved, with the following addi- 

 tions: "Display of Comb Honey by a Lady," 

 and "Display of Extracted Honey by a 

 Lady." Small premiums were also offered 

 upon "Assortment of Honey Candies, quality 

 to govern;" and "Display of Pastry made 

 with Honey." 



me again. 



M, M. Baldkidge. 



SOME OF OUK CONTEMPORABIES. 



It is well nigh impossible to make any 

 mechanical improvements in the "get up" of 

 the A. B. J., so Bro. Newman celebrated the 

 beginning of the year by laying in a stock of 

 new tyye, for which his paper stood in no 

 very urgent need. 



As an appropriate addition to its Christmas 

 number, (r^enH/jif/.s gathered together sixteen 

 pages of some of the views of apiaries and 

 apiarian exhibits that it has given during its 

 seventeen years of existence. Gleanings has 

 a host of rather new readers, and, to many of 

 these, a large number of the engravings will 

 come with all the freshness of new acquaint- 

 ance. 



Bro. Alley has changed the lettering upon 

 the front cover of the Apiculturist to a style 

 more neat and artistic, and introduced the 

 following new departments: " Foreign 

 Notes," conducted by L. Stachelhausen ; 

 "(Jueen Breeders' Department," conducted 

 by E. L. Pratt: and "Sittings in Bee Cul- 

 ture," filled with short, crisp extracts called 

 forth by M. A. Kefly's reading of the ex- 

 changes. The query department is also re- 

 sumed, with a new set of contributors to 

 answer the queries. All in all, the "^jjt." 

 makes a good start for 1890. 



