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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIE . 



the industry at all of the institutes of the 

 State. Failing to bring it about in this way, 

 then let bee-keepers see the secretary, who, 

 as I said above, generally employs the speak- 

 ers, and get him interested in apiculture, 

 and then the rest of the work will be com- 

 paratively easy. If he cannot be prevailed 

 upon to employ a bee-keeper as one of the 

 regular speakers, then let local bee-keepers 

 in each community where institutes are held 

 attend all of the meetings, and wheji an op- 

 portunity offers, talk b^es the best he or she 

 knows. Where there is a will, there will be 

 found away. Of course, no craukson special 

 lines, nor venders of patent hives should be 

 permitted to represent the industry, for if 

 they are, the institute people will soon shut 

 down on the whole business. If the bee- 

 keeper can talk poultry, as I have at the in- 

 stitutes in Missouri this year, or any other 

 branch of agriculture, he will be that much 

 more likely to get a hearing and be employed 

 by the State. The secretaries, or those who 

 engage the speakers, are always looking out 

 for good men, and one may be assured, if 

 he has something of value to say, and knows 

 how to say it, and when to stop — a vera im- 

 portant point — he will not want for a chance 

 to tell what he knows. T. B. Terry spends 

 all of his time during the winter in this kind 

 of work, and is in constant demand, simply 

 because he has something to tell of real val- 

 use to the farmer, and the States are glad to 

 pay him for telling it. 



I may say further, that it will be better if 

 the man who talks bees at a farmers' insti- 

 tute does so from the standpoint of apicul- 

 ture on the farm, and not as a specialty. If 

 he does not believe that the farmer and hor- 

 ticulturist should keep bees, he would better 

 stay away from the institutes, in my opinion. 



If all these plans fail in securing a hear- 

 ing, then I think it would pay the State So- 

 cieties of each State to employ a man at 

 their own expense and send him to all of the 

 institutes held in the State. But if we can 

 make the members of the various Boards of 

 Agriculture feel that bee- keeping is an in- 

 dustry of some importance to the farmer, 

 and that we as bee-keepers are ready to co- 

 operate with them under all circumstances, 

 then I do not think there will be any trouble 

 to get a hearing. 



St. Joseph, Mo. 



Dec. 17, 1894. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN, DEC. 10, 1894. 



The Prevention of Swarming, as de- 

 scribed by Mr. Heddon is not new : so writes 

 Mr. C. Spaeth, of Berne, Mich. He says that 

 Mr. Gravenhorst of Germany reported suc- 

 cess with this same plan two or three years 

 ago. 



The Clasps worn by wheelmen to save 

 their trousers from being soiled by their 

 wheels may be worn to keep the bees from 

 running up inside your trousers, says S. M. 

 Keeler in the American Bee-Keeper. Re- 

 member this next season. 



Ontario Bee-Keepers will hold their an- 

 nual convention at Stratford, Jan. 22, 23, 

 and 24. The editor of the Review expects 

 to be present and read a paper entitled 

 " Will the Bee-Keeping of the Future Dif- 

 fer From that of the Past ?" 

 ii;»it«ii »»»»»»» 



Feeding in the spring before the queen 

 commences laying, or in the fall after she has 

 stopped laying will induce the bees to ball 

 her, so writes J. W. Tefft, of Buffalo, N. 

 Y. Has any one else noticed this ? As a 

 rule, but little feeding is done at such times, 

 and it ought not to be either. 



Apicultural Literature bobs up for dis- 

 cussion about once in so often, and, as Mr. 

 Heddon has lately given the subject an up- 

 ward tendency, I thought it might be inter- 

 esting if he would lead in its discussion at 

 the coming convention of Michigan bee- 

 keepers. In reply to my request for his at- 

 tendance and an essay on the subject he 

 wrote as follows : 



" Of course, I am not perfectly sure that 

 my health and business will both admit of 

 my going to the convention, but I shall try 

 it very hard and consequently will be glad to 

 have you put me down for the topic you sug- 



