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benefit of the experience thereby gained. 

 1 believe this is of more importance than 

 that of getting out each issue of the Re- 

 view with exact promptness. When a 

 man takes a newspaper he wishes to be 

 able to read it before the news becomes 

 ancient history, but in a technical journal 

 like the Review, the information given is 

 just as valuable (if seasonable) given the 

 20th of the month, as though received on 

 th3 15th. It is the character of the jour- 

 nal that gives it value, rather than the 

 exact date it is received. 



I could publish each issue of the Re- 

 view upon exactly the same day of the 

 month, but, in order to do so, would 

 sometimes be compelled to sacrifice some 

 things that seem to me to be of more im- 

 portance. 



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Success Comes to Him Who Endures or 

 Perseveres. 



Once this summer 1 witnessed a ball 

 game between two league teams — the 

 first game I had seen in five years. The 

 teams were very evenly matched, and 

 neither side scored until the 12th inning, 

 when Battle Greek put four men over the 

 plate inside of five minutes. It all came 

 about through the pitcher of the Flint 

 team becoming tired out. I noticed that 

 the balls did not come in with their usual 

 whiz, they came in slow, and one after 

 another, the boys, "found them," and 

 knocked out some grounders that went 

 cavorting clear across the grounds. You 

 see, this game was lost because the 

 pitcher could not endure to the end. 



As usual, 1 tried to apply this lesson to 

 bee-keeping. Last fall the cold weather 

 and snow came on unusually early and 

 caught us before our bee cellars were 

 dug, and we had to "endure"" cold and 

 discomforts in getting the cellars com- 

 pleted and the bees into them. Then 

 came the long, cold spring in which we 

 had to protect and feed our bees. White 

 clover turned out to be a failure, and we 

 had to move the bees at Flint to the 



alsike fields and to the raspberry regions. 

 We are now planning to move some of 

 the bees to the buckwheat fields. 



Had we not persevered and got the 

 bees into good cellars, v/e v/ould not have 

 wintered them; had we not protected 

 and fed them last spring, there would 

 have been no bees when the berries 

 bloomed, and had we not moved the bees 

 to where they could find pasture, there 

 would have been no crop gathered. You 

 see, it is often a question of endurance — 

 of perseverance. 



The Hutchinson System. 



Perhaps it is claiming too much to call 

 it the Hutchinson system, as it contains 

 nothing particularly new. The most that 

 can be said of it is that it is a combina- 

 tion of other systems or methods. 



There is nothing new about having 

 plenty of supers of empty comb and tier- 

 ing up, leaving the honey on the hive un- 

 til the end of the flow, lots of others have 

 done that, and I am just a little at a loss 

 to decide why this plan has not been 

 more generally adopted. Perhaps the cost 

 of the supers and combs has been one 

 drawback, but the interest on the money 

 invested is nothing compared to the ad- 

 vantages. How some bee-keepers have 

 to hustle to extract the honey during a 

 good flow in order to give the bees room. 

 See how easy it is if there is an unlimited 

 supply of supers and store combs at each 

 yard. Simply give each colony that needs 

 it, another super. 



Another thing that has discouraged 

 bee-keepers from adopting this method, 

 is that robbers give much trouble when 

 taking o.ff honey in the usual manner 

 after the season is over. Bee escapes will 

 allow of the removal of the honey at any 

 time with no trouble whatever from rob- 

 bers. "Yes," says one, "but how about 

 extracting the honey ? Won"t it be too 

 cold and thick ?"" Now we are getting to 

 the root of the matter. It will. And if 

 left on the hives until all capped, and 



