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few minutes she got started, and away she 

 went. The other twin had already learned 

 to ride on the wheel of a friend. Three of 

 us learned to ride in as many hours ! Don't 

 hesitate about buying a wheel for fear that 

 you can't learn to ride — you can. When I 

 bought a type writer I wondered if I could 

 afford it. After using it awhile I wondered 

 how I could afford not to have a machine. It 

 is the same now with the bicycle — I wonder 

 how I could afford so long to be without one. 

 lean slip down town and back so quickly. 

 And then if the brain ligs, and the work 

 moves slowly, take a spin of twenty minutes 

 over the smooth walks of the outskirts of 

 the city, and come back with the pulses 

 bounding and the " blues " left scattered by 

 the wayside. My Bro. editor, Ernest Root, 

 will know exactly how I feel, and so, I hope, 

 do many other of my readers. I am really 

 hopeful that, by another summer, wife and 

 I will be chasing each other over hill and 

 dale — on wheels. 



What has all this to do with bee-keeping ? 

 W'ell not so very much perhaps, but I will 

 say this : if I were running out-apiaries, I 

 think that I should see to it that everything 

 needed to work with was taken to each api- 

 ary, and then I should use a wheel as a 

 means of conveying myself from one yard 

 to another. 



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THE UNITED STATES BEE-KEEPEKS UNION. 



I fear that the great majority of bee-keep- 

 ers do not really understand what was done at 

 the last meeting of the North American Bee- 

 Keepers' Association. It changed its name 

 to the one at that stands at the head of this 

 article, and adopted a new constitution that 

 will enable it to take on new and important 

 functions. This constitution has been pub- 

 lished in most of the bee journals. It has 

 not appeared in the Review, but I think now 

 that it ought to have been published there ; 

 however, I presume that most of my readers 

 have seen it. If they haven't. Gleanings 

 or American Bee Journal will gladly mail 

 any one a copy containing it. In January 

 the members of the National Bee - Keepers' 

 Union will vote if they and their money 

 shall be merged into this new, United States 

 Union. If this is not done, if amalgama- 

 tion does not take place, then the new, or 

 United States Union w ill go on, regardless 

 of the old Union, and do the work that is 

 necessary to do, the prosecution of honey 

 adulterators for one thing, and the old Na- 



tional Union can sit still and do nothing ex- 

 cept to guard, and brag of, the !j;700.00 that 

 it has amassed since it stopped doing any- 

 thing. I don't wish to be disrespectful, but, 

 honestly, the work for which the National 

 Union was called into existence has been fin- 

 ished, practically finished, and other work 

 of a hundred fold more importance is loom- 

 ing up and growing greater and greater as 

 the months and years go by. A good lot of 

 money in the treasury is a good thing, but 

 good accomplished with this is better than 

 the money itself. In the Extracted Depart- 

 ment of this issue of the Review you will 

 find that I have written more fully upon 

 this subject. I hope that every member of 

 the old National Union will consider well be- 

 fore he votes. We need just one good, 

 strong, wide-awake enthusiastic, National 

 association of bee-keepers, and that is 

 enough. Ouly get the thing started right 

 and there is no question but what it will 

 "go." Already money is being sent to the 

 Secretary of the new United States Union, 

 Dr. A. B. Mason, Sta. B. Toledo, Ohio, to join 

 the Union " that is going to prosecute dis- 

 honest commission men. " Just as soon as 

 it is really evident that we are going to have 

 a Union that will do something, there will be 

 no lack of members. Let us have amalga- 

 mation, then will follow plenty of members, 

 and there will plenty of money, and then, 

 with the right men at the helm, men with 

 "go," determination and enthusiasm, much 

 good will come to bee-keepers as the 

 result. The times are ripe for this move — 

 let us move. 



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SOME OUT APIABIES NEAB FLINT; AND HOW 

 THEY AKE MANAGED. 



I take not a little pleasure and some 

 pride in showing the pictures of some out- 

 apiaries located near Flint. They are the 

 property of a German by the name of Char- 

 ley Koeppen, and have been built up under 

 such a lot of bad luck As would have dis- 

 couraged any ordinary mortal. Almost his 

 first experience was that of paying $300 for 

 thirty colonies of bees that were affected 

 with foul brood and died the next year. Of 

 course, he was not well enough versed in 

 bee-keeping to know that they had foul 

 brood when he bought them. The bees 

 were in chaff hives, and, by the way, he 

 still has those hives in use. He disinfected 

 them with a solution of carbolic acid so 



