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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



down the swarming. One member re- 

 marked that that would keep him busy 

 all of the time, without any other work. 

 True, but what other work would be ex- 

 pected of him during swarming? If a 

 man is going to wait about getting his 

 supers in readiness until he knows 

 whether he is going to use them or not, 

 he will never manage 500 colonies of bees. 

 The report that I gave was no dream. It 

 was a wide awake fact. Of course every- 

 thing was in readiness at each apiary 

 when the season opened. One day was 

 spent at one apiary, the next at another, 

 and so on. No time was spent in putting 

 sections together and putting in founda- 

 tion, and crating honey for market, or 

 rendering beeswax, etc., during the 

 swarming-season. Mr. Gill and his wife 

 of Colorado, care for 700 colonies, scat- 

 tered in several apiaries. They work to- 

 gether, going to a different apiary each 

 day in the week. Some of our bee-keep- 

 ers better wake up, instead of doubting 

 the achievements of those who are wide 

 awake. 



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Comments upon the typographical 

 changes in the Review have been very 

 few. I think that Dr. W. B. House, of 

 Detour, Mich, probably came near the 

 truth when he said "These points are 

 merely incidentals." Then he went on 

 to say "What I really enjoyed in the last 

 number was your editorials — especially 

 that one on 'friendship,' which I consid- 

 ered so good that I used it, the next eve- 

 ning, as the basis for a little talk at our 

 prayer meeting." 



Mr. R. H. Rhodes, of Ft. Lupton, Colo, 

 took the pains to express his approval of 

 the changes. He said: "Glazed paper is 

 hard on old eyes, or weak eyes, and there 

 are lots of them. Then, again, too much 

 of a good thing is worse than none at all. 

 We have had a surfeit of pictures in all 

 of our papers, and it would be a jolly 

 good thing if Hutchinson would inaugu- 

 rate a reform along this line. Zinc etch- 

 ings, or wood cuts will fully represent all 

 that may be needed in the mechanical 



department of the Review. One or two 

 good half tones will be appreciated for 

 their variety. I have no doubt that the 

 Review will be appreciated more than 

 ever." 



J. F. Michael, of Winchester, Ind. 

 wrote me as follows: "I have been cheer- 

 ed many times by reading the Review, 

 but the last issue seems the best of all. 

 The Review comes only once a month, 

 but its good cheer goes on year after 

 year." 



A. A. Ferrier, of Osceola, Out., wrote 

 "You have surpassed yourself in getting 

 out the April Review. I think 3'ou must 

 have been inspired when you wrote 

 those editorials^especially the ones 

 'Enjoy the Little Pleasures of Life' and 

 'Keep More Bees.' They have aroused 

 my enthusiasm for our business more than 

 anything el.se I have ever read; they have i 

 done me good. I read both of them to ^ 

 my wife, and I could not help stopping 

 occasionally to say 'what clear headed 

 reasoning that is.' I can say amen to 

 every word. You have found your right 

 sphere in life, Bro. Hutchinson. Long 

 may you be spared to write such articles. 

 The rest of the Review is also good. It is 

 worth to me five times it cost." 



FROM CHICAGO, TO DENVER. 



The people of the West will need no 

 urging to induce them to attend the 

 National convention at Denver. Neither 

 will they need to be told how to "get 

 there," but to the people of the East, to 

 those east of Chicago, the "getting there" 

 is a serious problem. Those east of Chica- 

 go, or, at least most of them, will proba- 

 bly pass through Chicago, and it would be 

 a very enjoyable thing to have all from 

 the east of Chicago, or from near Chica- 

 go, to meet in that citj' at an appointed 

 time and place, and all go from there on 

 the same train. Others on the route, be- 

 yond Chicago, could board that same 

 train. The Colorado bee-keepers are 

 going to hold their business meetings in 

 the forenoon and afternoon of Tuesday, 



