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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



BusiMESS Management is fully as 

 important as successful management in 

 the apiary. Mr. Heddon once wisely re- 

 marked that "A man may be a successful 

 bee keeper, yet fail to make a compe- 

 tency." In other words, a man may 

 understand how to get good results in the 

 apiary, but show very poor judgment in 

 the management of these results. If you 

 are not succeeding in life as j'ou think 

 you ought, it might be well, before 

 throwing up bee keeping, to look into 

 your affairs, and see if the trouble is 

 with the business in which you are en- 

 gaged, or in the way you handle the 

 proceeds. 



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Bee Escapes are now in use, or soon 

 will be, and it is an appropriate time for 

 me to tell my readers of a little item sent 

 me some time ago Mr. Henry E. Horn, 

 of California. He says that he has ob- 

 tained the best results by putting the 

 escape in the center, and then have four 

 strips of wood tacked to the top of the 

 escape-board, each strip extending, diag- 

 onally, from the escape to the corner of 

 the board. Then when the bees begin 

 racing around the edge of the board, 

 looking for an outlet, these strips lead 

 the bees to the center where the escape 

 is located. 



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The Mating of queens, by drones 

 from some selected colony, has been se- 

 cured, probably, by confining the queen 

 and drones until the other drones had 

 finished flying, and then stimulating the 

 young queens and drones by feeding 

 honey to the colonies containing said 

 drones and queens. Mr. Horn of Cal- 

 ifornia writes me that Dr. Dzierzon ad- 

 vocates the choosing of a bright and 

 sunshiny morning, when, as soon as the 

 bees go out to work, some thinned honey 

 is squirted in between the combs con- 

 taining the queens and drones. The col- 

 onies so treated are thus stimulated to a 

 premature activity, and, as a result, the 

 queens and drones take their flight be- 

 fore the other drones are in the air. 



Preventing Swarming, or forestall- 

 ing it, by shaking off the bees, or most of 

 them, just as the colony is making prep- 

 arations to swarm, thus closely imitat- 

 ing natural swarming, seems to me about 

 the most practical method of solving 

 the swarming problem when managing 

 out-apiaries for comb honey. A weekly 

 examination of each colony in an apiary, 

 and the "shaking" of each colony that 

 has started queen cells, practically does 

 away with swarming, its annoyances and 

 uncertainties. 



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Organization and co-operation are 

 the order of the day to an extent that 

 never has been equaled. Perhaps I am 

 telling tales out of school, but our enter- 

 prising neighbors across the line, the 

 Directors of the Ontario Bee Keepers' 

 Association, are gathering information 

 with a view to forming a Honey Associa- 

 tion. Colorado already has such an As- 

 sociation in excellent working order. 

 California is trying to do something in 

 this line. Perhaps the National Asso- 

 ciation ma}' yet do something to assist 

 in co-operation in marketing honey. 



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"Bee Keeping, from the Atlantic to 

 the Pacific, as seen Through the Camera 

 and Stereopticon," is the title of one of 

 the parts assigned to Bro. Root for the 

 coming convention at Denver. Bro. 

 Root has sold his old instrument, and 

 bought a new one that is about the finest 

 thing of the kind in the United States. 

 He also has a new lens, larger in size, by 

 means of which he can throw a small 

 picture a greater distance. He will use 

 a calcium light; and when we remember 

 that Bro. Root has practically travelled 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific with his 

 camera, and knows how to supplement 

 his pictures witn entertaining and in- 

 structive description, we can well be- 

 lieve that this part of the convention, 

 which is booked for the first evening, 

 will be strictly first-class, and very en- 

 joyable as well as instructive. 



