THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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As to my system of bee-keeping being see 1 am not crowding any one here at 



compared with the cattle Barons of the 

 West. 1 would say. 1 have bees the four 

 ways of the compass; one yard each way, 

 about four miles from here. When 1 came 

 here there was one small yard of bees 

 here; and all the territory adjacent to my 

 yards is still open for bee-keepers; so you 



Remus. The only place in Michigan that 

 1 know of, that is stocked with bees, is 

 Kalkaska Co., and a part of Antrim Co.; 

 so the Barons have not gobbled up all the 

 bee-territory in Michigan. 



E. D. TOWNSEND. 



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High Ideals should be cherished, and 

 lived as near to as possible. 



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Don't Attempt to solve sorrie diflficult 

 question when sick or tired. \Vait until 

 morning, or until you have recovered. 

 When sick or tired you can't get a true 

 perspective — diflficulties and troubles ap- 

 pear all out of proportion; just put these 

 matters all aside until you feel better, 

 and you will be astonished to see how 

 differently everything appears. 



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The Strain of bees has nuch to do with 

 the manner in which the comb in the sec- 

 tions are built out and attached to the 

 wood. Dr. A. M. Aulick, of Bradford, 

 Kentucky, writes me of his experience in 

 buying queens; the bees from one lot 

 would not attach the combs to the bottoms 

 of the sections, nor to the lower part of 

 the sides, even when the sections were 

 filled full of foundation. 



The Review is being appreciated by the 

 great mass of bee-keepers as it has never 

 before been appreciated. For the last 

 two or three months it has taxed my wife 

 and myself to the utmost to take care of 

 the mail. We begin work at daylight, and 

 the coming of night often finds us with a 

 big pile of letters still unopened. One 

 result of this prosperity is the new dress 

 of type with which this issue of the 

 Review is printed. 



Paragon is the name of the type from 

 which the Review is now being printed. 

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Advertising in the Review will bring 

 results if you have something that the 

 people want and offer it cheaply enough. 

 I offered som: second hand extractors, 

 and I know 1 could have sold them twenty 

 times over. Orders came by telephone 

 and telegraph, and by mail, and are still 

 coming. 



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Another Apiary, of 100 colonies, is 

 something that 1 bought over near Port 

 Huron, since getting out the last issue of 

 the Review. The moving of these bees 

 north next spring is looked forward to 

 almost as though it were something of a 

 lark. This makes about 600 colonies 

 that will be under the management of my 

 brother and myself the coming season. 



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I Swept up the bees in my cellar at 

 home a few days ago. There are 100 

 colonies in the cellar, and this is the first 

 time I have swept the floor. There was a 

 coal scuttle full of dead bees. This is a 

 moderata loss from 100 colonies in three 

 m.onth's of confinement. We are often 

 toid that old bees do not winter well. 

 There was no honey gathered here after 

 t'.ie close of the clover harvest in July, 

 and none of the colonies were fed. 



