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upon, but I never carried it quite to that 

 point. However, one can aflford to spend 

 considerable thout^ht, time and money in 

 making pennaucnt improvements that 

 will simplify and lessen labor. 



Just one more little point: Although 

 my nuclei were scattered about the yard 

 in a promiscuous manner, done purposely 

 to avoid losses in the mating of queens, 

 yet I had a certain route that I always 

 followed in working with them — just as 

 a milkman has a route that he always 

 follows in delivering milk. I began in 

 the morning and went over the entire 

 yard, taking the nuclei in the regular 

 order according to the route that I had 

 mapped out. .\ glance at the register on 

 a nucleus would show instantly whether 

 there was any occasion to examine that 

 nucleus. If a cell or a virgin queen had 

 been given a day or two previous, I open- 

 ed the nucleus and glanced at the unseal- 

 ed brood. If there was no unsealed brood, 

 a small piece was given. If no queen 

 cells were started on the unsealed brood. 



it was safe to assume that a queen was 

 present. A nucleus containing a queen 

 nine or ten days old was examined to see 

 if the queen was laying. If found Inying, 

 the pin was turned to "laying," and the 

 other pin to the date. If she was not 

 found laying, and there were no queen 

 cells started, the queen was hunted up to 

 see is she was imperfect in any way. 

 And so I went on through the yard. If 

 anything called me from the work, when 

 I went back I picked up the work right 

 where I left off; whether it was that day 

 or the next. 



My system may not have been the best 

 for friend Davis, or friend Doolittle, or 

 for any other man, but it was a good sys- 

 tem for nie\ and I wish to say in conclu- 

 sion that in whatever business a man em- 

 barks he must study it thoroughly, and 

 reduce it to a system that fits himself and 

 his environments. He must get it down 

 "fine," as the boys say ; and the finer he 

 gets it the greater will be his success. — Ed. 

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The Denver Convention will be 

 held Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 

 the 3rd, 4th and 5th of September. Re- 

 presentative Hall, in the State Capitol, 

 will be the place of meeting; and the 

 first session will be on the evening of the 

 3rd. 



The Second Evening of the Denver 

 convention will be devoted to a talk by 

 Prof. C. P. Gillette, on "The Outside and 

 Inside of a Honey Bee." In other words, 

 it will be an illustrated lecture on the an- 

 atomy of the bee, a stereopticon being 

 used to illustrate the subject. I know of 

 no one more capable to do this subject 

 justice, than is the man that has been 

 chosen. 





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C.\t,iFORNi.\ would be given first place 

 by Mr. Root, as a honey producing State, 

 the census reports to the contrary, not- 

 withstanding; because, in the year in 

 which the report was taken, California 

 had a short crop, and we all know that 

 the difference between a short crop and a 

 large crop is considerable — in California. 



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The Second Super, or the third one, 

 for that matter, ought to be put on soon 

 enough — sooner, perhaps some imagine. 

 Mr. Gill makes a good point in this issue 

 when he calls attention to how few bees 

 are needed to fill a super, or can find 

 room in it, when the combs are all drawn 

 out and ready to seal. The honey ripens 

 as rapidly when the super is raised up. 



