THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



299 



four-frame extractors. Don't imag-ine, 

 however, that we are "going it blind.' 

 We ker-; a careful account of every cent 

 that is i- cpended, and every hour of labor, 

 as well a '^ keeping tab on the receij..!^. 

 anc. will eventually be ablo to teil ho'-v 

 profitable has been the vent'^re. I wii! 

 frankly admit, that tl.ere v.'as no profit 

 the first year; we just about got back our 

 expenses and pay for our lib'-r " ■ -^ 

 year there will probably be a pv ; 

 nothing startling, as wh have beer, bu.,:;-, 

 hives, foundation, ere bui v/e hftVe. moC 

 yet "figured up.' and ■; .^'tdo so ve'^y ac- 

 curately until the end ■, i" the yya.;- 

 There is one consolation, liove- 

 that the soundnes.i of the- doc :•. . 

 specialty, the running of out-apiaries and 

 the "keeping of.more riees,"dofciS r^nt'depend 

 upon the financial success of this North- 



ern Michigan enterprise of ours. Other 

 men have thus met success, even if we 

 should not; and I know of no reason why 

 we will fail. As ! have already said, we 

 are only just getting fairly settled, but 

 there is brother Towncend, who has been 

 "keeping more bees," lo, these many years, 

 and in this very issue of the Review show 

 a. baiarice sheet of an ap.ary operated in 

 the very region where our yards are lo- 

 cated, and during the very poorest season 

 that has ever been experienced in this 

 part of the Stale. ! know this is not giv- 

 ing my financial experience, but it must 

 answer for the present. 1 thank brother 

 Cady for his very interesting letter; the 

 •r .hrif, he brings up is all-important, 

 will only be as patient as he 

 '■•:!• ■ ' "i. he shall eventually have 



hi-s EDITOR.] 



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Some Comments on 



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tchinson 



System, Reaueuriini^ 



H/aXKY Lf'J'llR-. 



URIEND Hutchinson: The August Re- 

 ^ view came last evening, an i i ■■-'--'• • 

 nearly all through before I c 

 seemed so much like a personal Icml. 'ci 

 me that I can't resist the feeling t.",a'. 1 

 should reply to it. 



1 think you have done the rig! t cbirig 

 in launching out into hee-keaping .-is yoi' 

 have. I like your plan for the niost part, 

 and it is the one that we, are '-iiov/ing 

 pretty closely. 



I can not help noticinrr the coni.raEt be- 

 tween your method of producing extracted 

 honey, and the one descritjt-_ . _■ Mr. 

 Facey, of Minnesota. His method, it woul'J 

 seem to me, would not produce the th'ck. 

 rich, honey that you describe; and yet. it 

 seems to succeed with him. I am. quite 

 certain the yield will be greatly reduced 

 by failure to extract full combs, unless 



other." jre p,':v. .'i ^nUMpiiy, arid only a few 

 )-.r.r -■.,.. -r-^r ■.,-. . M-x-^'c.nt combs to al- 

 \h¥. white honey 

 .-t;.'!^.: ■ , : .' without extract- 



ing 



0>; /ju roa'iOh.bor ;;he little girl at our 

 hous!.. t::e one vvho srood by the big dog 

 vvi'v-i. 'ou vves-:; taking the picture of our 

 i\^or;rci: apiary 7 V/oH, that little girl is 

 nfj". \'i yeari oid, ard had entire charge 

 ot ciiat yard ti!:^, :• 'nmer akcr the bees 

 wtre piaoed on ti^ir stands and queens 

 clipped. She did very well, but when I 

 made an inspection Aug. 13th I was sur- 

 prised to find many hives plugged with 

 honey, all srjiie,d from top to bottom. 

 They had 1 •■; doing better than 1 ex- 

 pected they ./■.">u!d, and Amy did not real- 

 ize the tru?^ situation. She was extract- 

 ing some, but I am satisfied we lost honey 



