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presses did not disturb him. "No," 

 he replied, "that Is sweetest music in 

 my ears. What worries me is when 

 I don't hear it." It may seem strange 

 to some, but noise of this kind does 

 not disturb me. Some of my best 

 writing has been done on a railroad 

 train. The monotonous noise acts as 

 a curtain, shutting out all other dis- 

 tractions. 



But to return to the busy times at 

 the Review office. All of these changes 

 came at the beginning of the year, 

 when new subscribers, renewals, and 

 discontinuances are coming in by the 

 handfuls at every mail. To crown all, 

 almost every day brought three or four 

 letters regarding the "election mud- 

 dle," complaining of this or that, sug- 

 gesting this or that, and asking advice 

 regarding this or that point. When 

 night came it required a pretty strong 

 exertion of the will-power to leave a 

 desk upon which lay from 200 to 300 

 unanswered letters, put aside the cares 

 of the day, and go to bed and to 

 sleep; but I did it time and again, 

 knowing that I would be the gainer 

 ill the end. rather than to over-work. 

 It is not very pleasant, however, nor 

 conductive to business success, to re- 

 ceive a letter asking: "Why do I not 

 receive a reply to my letter of a week 

 or more ago?" If some of you have 

 not received prompt replies, if this is- 

 sue of the Review is not so strong as 

 usual in the editorial department, if it 

 is later than usual in reaching you. 

 If It shows some Imperfections in the 

 presswork, you will know why; that 

 some radical changes have been made. 

 Once the Review was set up here at 

 homo, and the presswork done down 

 town; now the type is set down town 

 by machinery, and the presswork is 

 (lone here at home. At present I am 

 experiencing the pleasure of installing, 

 comprehending, and learning the man- 

 agement of a gasolene engine and a 



cylinder press. Have a little patience, 

 and I promise you that, when we get 

 things strtiightened out a little, the 

 Review will be brighter and better, 

 and out on time. Heretofore, I have 

 often had to wait for the presswork 

 to be done. We would work hard to 

 catch up, and then, when a form 

 would be taken down to be printed, 

 we would find a "long run" on the 

 press, and might be compelled to wait 

 several daj'S. 



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FOUI. BROOD AND THE ONTARIO ACT. 



The Ontario Foul Brood law was 

 the first of its kind in America. 

 Among other things, it imposes a tine 

 of $20 to $50, or imprisonment for one 

 or two months, for concealing the fact 

 of the existence of the disease among 

 one's bees. Anyone who is aware of 

 the existence of foul brood among his 

 own hives, or elsewhere, and does not 

 notify the President of the Ontario 

 Bee-Keepers' Association is liable for 

 a fine of five dollars. At the recent 

 Ontario convention, the President rec- 

 ommended that there be a sub-inspec- 

 tor in each district, so as to save trav- 

 eling expenses incurred by one Inspec- 

 tor going from one end of the prov- 

 ince to the other. 



Inspector McEvoy, by request, re- 

 peated to the convention his well- 

 known method of curing foul brood. 

 That is, by twice shaking, first on 

 starters, then on full sheets. He em- 

 phasized the necessity of doing this 

 during a good honey flow— not in fruit 

 bloom for fear of a sudden cessation 

 of flow and consequent dead brood, 

 and In the evening. If done In the 

 ninrning the bees are liable to swarm 

 out and take their diseased honey into 

 some other colony. To dispose of the 

 brood, leave some bees with It, pile It 

 uj) for 10 or 12 days, or until most of 

 the brood Is hatched, treat for foul 

 brood again, and give the bees a 



