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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



iesues that are continually springing up. 



The AsBociation is invited to hold one ses 

 sion (say in the evening of the first day) at 

 the home of the Review, corner of Wood 

 and Saginaw Streets, where there will be an 

 opportunity to sample that delicious orange 

 blossom honey from California, mentioned 

 in another column. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Sec. 



8UPEBIOE STRAIN OF GOLDEN ITALIANS. 



Mr. Ira Barber of De Kalb Junction, N. Y., 

 has sent me a long letter in which he is very 

 enthusiastic in his praise of some golden 

 Italian stock that came from Mr. Chas. D. 

 Duvall. 



Last summer he had thirty colonies of this 

 strain of bees in his yard with 120 other col- 



comb to fill, which was not the case with the 

 others. Mr. Barber had 0,000 pounds of 

 comb honey, but says if all had done as well 

 as his light colored bees he would have had 

 three times as much. He has kept a large 

 stock of bees for more than forty years, and 

 he says that these are the first perfect bees 

 he has ever had. Very truly he concludes 

 that " The bees that will stick by the sec- 

 tions through hot and cold, through rain and 

 shine, and work for all they are worth, are 

 the bees that will gladden the heart of the 

 honey producer." 



Occasionally we see reports telling what 

 miserably poor things are the light colored 

 bees and how the darker bees will out-strip 

 them at honey gathering. The truth proba- 

 bly is that there are both superior and in- 

 ferior strains of bees in either variety. 



THF HOME - APIAKY OF JAMES HEDDON, DOWAOIAC, MICH. 



onies of all the other different varieties of 

 bees in this country, and the light colored 

 bees outstripped all others. They are gen- 

 tle, industrious, good comb builders, enter 

 the sections readily and not inclined to 

 swarm. Only one of these thirty colonies 

 offered to swarm, and that was a case of 

 superseding the queen, while from the other 

 colonies came >«> swarms. Wet weather for 

 three or four days did not stop these bright 

 bees from comb building, they kept right on 

 at work and when it cleared up they had 



A VISIT TO MK. HEDDON S. 



As mentioned in the last Review, I stop- 

 ped on my way to Chicago and made Mr. 

 Heddou a visit. We drove out nine miles to 

 take a view of his Glenwood apiary. One of 

 the fascinations of photography is that you 

 are not always sure what you have got until 

 you develop the plate. When we reached 

 Glenwood it was about noon, and it was 

 neither bright sunshine, nor exactly cloudy. 

 It was "bright cloudy," but nearer bright 

 sunshine than I judged it was and the result 



