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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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It's Alive. " When I think of the Re- 

 view I think of it as being alive.'" So 

 writes one of my subscribers, and, to 

 me, it seems about the highest compli- 

 ment that has ever been paid to the 

 Review. 



The Specialist wlio establishes out- 

 apiaries ought not to establish tliem 

 permanently, but be ready to get up and 

 get out at any time, to a more favor- 

 able locality, so said Mr. K. F. Holter- 

 mann at the Chicago convention. 



" Don't Handle on two- wheel trucks," 

 is what S. A. Niver puts in big letters 

 on the top of his shipping crates of 

 comb honey. Combs are broken by 

 bumping them along in the slanting 

 position that they are placed ni when 

 wheeled upon a tw.)-wheel truck. 



The Wisconsin State Bee Keepers' As- 

 sociation will meet in Annual Conven- 

 tion, at the Capitol City of Madison, 

 February 6 and 7. 



An interesting program is being 

 prepared; several bee-keepers of prom- 

 inence preparing papers, on subjects 

 of special or general interest, which 

 will be discussed. 



The Question Box will however be 

 the main feature. 



1', rate round trip, on all Wisconsin 

 railroads. 



Gus. Dittmer, 



Secretary. 



Gleanings for Dec. 15th, in its holiday 

 issue, was reallj' the equal of the popu- 

 lar magazines of the day. The Ameri- 

 can Bee-Keeper sparkles in a waj' that 

 it never did before. The Rural Bee- 

 Keeper is fresh, clean and progressive. 

 In short, the apicultural journals are 



a credit to the class that they repre- 

 sent. 



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Advanced Bee Culture is now out. It 

 contains over 200 pages, is beautifully 

 bound and printed, and profusely illus- 

 trated. Nearly all of the engravings 

 are from photographs made by myself. 

 As most of 30U know, photography has 

 been my hobby for a dozen years. I 

 have studied it as you study bee-keep- 

 ing; and this book contains between 50 

 and 60 of what might be termed the 

 gems of my collection. 



I try to say it with becoming mod- 

 esty, but, in m3' estimation, this book 

 is the master-piece of my life. It is 

 the result, the ripened fruit, so to speak, 

 of 30 3'ears of actuiil work in the 

 apiary, of extensive travel among bee- 

 keepers, of attending manj' conven- 

 tions, of reading all of the bee books 

 and journals, of editing the Review for 

 18 3'ears. If this book could have been 

 put into m3' hands 25 years ago, and I 

 had followed its teachings, I might 

 now have been the owner of several 

 apiaries, been free from debt, and had 

 a few thousands of dollars in the bank; 

 but, of course, much that it contains 

 was not known 25 years ago. 



By the way, I am starting in nozv to 

 carry out its teachings, to put them 

 into actual practice, by starting in to 

 establish a series of out-apiaries in the 

 raspberry region of Northern Michi- 

 gan, and the vim, and courage, and 

 delight, with which I am taking up 

 this work, is a surprise even to my- 

 self. I shall puff the smoker, wield 

 the hone3' knife, and whirl the extractor 

 with my oivn hand. I sliall feel one de- 

 gree closer to m3' readers, in that I 

 shall be a hone3' producer with the rest 

 of them. 



