THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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this iiispiriiii;- "MtniositlKM'o" — miuI I 

 cii.jtiy it. Sui-fiy my lines ol' lilt' Ikivc 

 (.•illcn in pic.-is.iiit; jilnci's. 



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Mr. II. V. Iloltrriiiniiii writes to 

 Gieaiiliiiis his cxporicMu-o in trying to 

 have 'iiKHMis fortili/AMl in contincMnont. 

 lie hnilt a lai'.no t(Mit of nettin.L;- I'as- 

 tiMK'd on a franie-work. similar to that 

 (lesi-ribod in the Review two y(>ars 

 a.ifo. The tent was 2.") feet hiyli and 

 30 feet in diameter. There was no 

 difficulty in securing;- the natural 

 liiuht of drones, those that liad never 

 tlown in tlie open air. but tlie queens 

 worri(>d themselves in trying to pass 

 out tlu'ougli the queen-excluding metal 

 on the outward entrances of the hives, 

 instead of flying from the open inner 

 entrances. Mr. Root suggests that 

 virgin queens of the right age for mat- 

 ing miglit liave been liberated in the 

 tent at a time Avhen the drones were 

 Hying, and. possibly have been mated, 

 wlien they might have been caught and 

 returned to their hives. A INIr. Row- 

 some, who was at one time a student 

 of Mr. Holtermann's. and later a lec- 

 turer on apiculture at the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College, reports having been 

 successful in mating queens with 

 drones in a large, glass carboy. Mr. 

 Root says that Huber Root AviU be at 

 home from school the coming siimmer. 

 and Avill turn his hand to experiment- 

 ing in the apiary; among other things 

 h(> may tacl:le this matter of securing 

 the mating of queens in confinement. 

 I have faith that it will yet be made 

 a practical success. There is no ques- 

 tion l)ut what there have been occa- 

 sional successes. 



CONGR.\TUI.ATlONS TO THE ROCKY MOUN- 

 TAIN BEE JOURNAL. 



The Rocky Mountain R»h> Journal is 

 prospering. A look at its pages shows 



that and the (Mliidr says it is. It 

 has prospered in sjiite of a lack of 

 capital at the beginning, and also in 

 the face of what was probably a stib 

 greater drawback, in that it had to bo 

 built up over the graves of several 

 ^V(■steru .onrnals. There was a fear 

 that it would soon go the way of its 

 predeci'ssors. 'rime alone could over- 

 come this terrilile handicap; but Bro. 

 Morehouse had the staying qualities 

 that brought him through victorioiis. 

 He has just added a lot of new type 

 and material, in fact, he says he now 

 las a conq)letely etpiipped printing 

 office, press excepted, which will be 

 added as soon as the necessity arises. 

 He attributes his success to his will- 

 ingness to l)(>gin modestly, and grad- 

 ually grow to the proportions that 

 others would endeavor to attain at a 

 single bound; and to the help that 

 came from the nimble fingers of the 

 "faithful partner of his joys and sor- 

 rows." who sets most of the type and 

 is "chief push" on mailing day. In 

 short, his success is almo.st identical 

 with the manner in which the Review 

 struggled into existence. I trust my 

 Western brother will excuse me if I 

 mention two or three reasons why he 

 has succeeded: I'irst, he is a practi- 

 cal bee-keeper; second, he is a prac- 

 tical pi-inter. and third, he is well 

 stocked with that somewhat rare 

 commodity, good common sense. Con- 

 gratulations Bro. Morehouse. That 

 your Journal may continue to grow, 

 and become a ])ower in the land for 

 the good of apiculture, is the earnest 

 wish of the Review. 



A MAN CAN'T KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT 

 HIS BUSINESS. 



Last December I sent out 1.000 cir- 

 culars to men who had asked for 

 samples of the Review, yet had never 

 subscrib.^d. In this circular I asked 

 them, as kindly and courteously as I 



