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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



are to blame for this feeling upon the part 

 of so many readers. They have favored 

 and encouraged it until it has become a 

 habit. I don't like it. But that mal<es no 

 difference; the man who wishes for the 

 greatest success must not waste his time 

 bemoaning conditions, but adapt himself 

 to them. 



1 was willing to keep on sending the 

 Review a reasonable length of time after 

 a subscription had expired, but, I could 

 never bring myself to the point of forcing 

 the Review upon any one; not even the 

 few who might not wish it continued. 



Finally 1 decided to continue sending it, 

 giving notice to that effect, and asking 

 those who did not care for it to drop me 

 a postal, or ask their postmaster to notify 

 me. A notice to this effect is published in 

 each issue of the Review, and any sub- 

 scriber who prefers to have his journal 

 stopped at the expiration of the time paid 

 for can say so when renewing, and his 

 request will be heeded. At the end of 

 each quarter, a notice is sent to each 

 delinquent subscriber; and upon each no- 

 tice this request is repeated, to let me 

 know, when renewing, if he prefers to 

 have his journal stopped when the time is 

 out. 1 wish to please all of my subscrib- 

 ers, and they have only to let me know in 

 regard to their wishes, and I'll follow in- 

 structions. 



With all of the pains that 1 have taken 

 in this direction, I still sometimes get a 

 sharp letter because I have kept on send- 

 ing the Review- yes, and in the same mail 

 may come a letter containing $1.00, and 

 a few courteous words thanking me for 

 my kindness in thus continuing the Re- 

 view. Once more, dear readen tell me 

 your wishes when renewing, and they 

 shall be respected. 



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A New Contributor for Next Year. 



It sometimes seems as though the Re- 

 view was favored by fortune in the way 

 of capable correspondents; and the last 

 stroke in that direction was in securing 

 the services of Mr. Eiias E. Coveyou, of 



Petoskey, Michigan, whose first article of 

 a long series appears in this issue. Mr. 

 Coveyou's first experience with bees be- 

 gan some 15 years ago, when he was a 

 boy in his teens; and has been continued 

 specially and enthusiastically ever since. 

 He was among the first to see the possi- 

 bilities of "keeping more bees," and has 

 gradually increased his numbers until he 

 now has three apiaries under his man- 

 agement. His special forte seems to be 

 that of short cuts; e'Specially the invention 

 of labor saving devices that can be m.ade 

 to take the place of labor, or, at least, to 

 greatly multiply the results of labor. For 

 instance, when 1 employed an electric 

 alarm to notify ma when a can was full 

 of honey, I took one step; but Mr. Cove- 

 you took still another, and made an ar- 

 rangement that not only rings a gong 

 when the can is full, but it automatically 

 closes the gate: and a bell rings continu- 

 ally until the can is removed. 



He is the first man in Michigan to ex- 

 tract a crop of honey (1906) with a gaso- 

 line engine as power for running his ex- 

 tractor — an eight-frame automatic. One 

 man controls the extractor, putting in the 

 full combs, removing the empty ones, and 

 changing the cans when the Perfection 

 Duplicating Scale says one is full, while 

 three men do the uncapping, standingalong 

 the side of an uncapping box, that will 

 hold the cappings from 10,000 pounds of 

 honey. He is planning to bring all of his 

 honey home another year, and extract it 

 there, after warming it up with steam 

 heat. 



There is no one in Northern Michigan, 

 and 1 doubt if there is any one in the 

 State, who has put up as much honey for 

 the retail trade, as has this Petoskey boy; 

 and into this bottling business he has car- 

 ried that same inventive spirit that char- 

 acterizes his work in the bee yard and 

 extracting room. For instance, he has a 

 device that enables nim to fill a whole 

 tray of four dozen jars without moving 

 one of them, and the flow of honey is 

 checked only the smallest fraction of a 

 second between the filling of one jar and 



