THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Use ot a Queen Excluder in Produc- 

 ing- Extracted Honey. 

 I Is Foreign Honey AiTectiny tlie Prices 



of Our Honey? 



What Section is the Best? 



What is the Best Way of Ripening- 

 Hone}'? 



What Kind of Bees are the Best? 



Do we Need More Inspectors in Mich- 

 igan? 



Sliipping Cases for Comb Hone}'. 



Selling Hone}' at Retail. 



Grading and Shipping Comb Hone.v. 



How to Take Different Kinds of Kx- 

 tracted Honey Separate, and yet Have 

 the Honey Well-Ripened. 



Best Methods of Making Increase. 



Best Temperature for a Bee-Cellar. 



Upward Ventilation Versus None. 



Wintering of Bees in the Cellar. 



Can Bees Have Diarrhoea when pol- 

 len is kept out of their reach? 



Producing Both Comb and Extracted 

 Honey in the Same Super. 



Advertising the More General Use of 

 Honey. 



Does It Pay to Buy Queens at Fancy 

 Prices to Improve Our Stock? 



PRIZES THAT ARE OFFERED. 



For the best 12 pounds of Comb Honey 

 the A. I. Root Co. offers $5.00 worth of 

 Supplies at Catalog Prices. 



For the best ten pounds of Extracted 

 Honey, the G. B. lycwis Co. offers $5 00 

 worth of Supplies at Catalog Prices. 



For the best ten pounds of bees ■ ax, 

 A. G. Woodman Co. offers $2.50 worth 

 of Supplies at Catalog Prices. 



For the most practical new inve ntion, 

 M. H. Hunt & Son offer $2.50 w jrth of 

 Supplies at Catalog Prices. 



For the best pound section of Honey, 

 W. D. Soper offers a copy of the new 

 Edition of Advanced Bee Culture. 



In addition to the above the Bee- 

 Keepeis' Review will give a 3'ear's 

 subscri'ition to the Review to each per- 

 son who wins one or more of rhe above 

 prizes. 



Geo. W. York & Co. will give a year's 

 subscription to the American Bee Jour- 



nal to each person who wins one or 

 more of the above prizes. 



The first session of the convention 

 will be held at 1 :30 p. m., Thursday, 

 Februar}' 1st. 



E. M. Hunt, Acting Secretary. 



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The Chicago Convention. 



The Chicago convention has come and 

 gone. Taken all in all it was a pleas- 

 ant, peaceable, profitable gathering. 

 From my point of view, the greatest 

 criticism that can be brought against 

 it is, that the program was a little too 

 full, thus cutting short the question 

 box department. After I had it all ar- 

 ranged with one paper for each even- 

 ing session, and two for each day ses- 

 sion, other matter came up for consid- 

 eration, and it was hard to say nay. 

 I don't believe in doing away with 

 papers entireU', but I do think that one 

 paper for an evening session, and two 

 for the forenoon and the same for the 

 afternoon, are sufficient; then let the 

 rest of the time be devoted to the ques- 

 tion box. There were several very im- 

 portant questions that had been sent to 

 me by mail, and to the discussion of 

 which the convention might have profit- 

 ably devoted quite a little time, but the 

 time spent upon the regular program 

 was so great that the question box 

 received scant attention. It was not 

 reached until the last evening, and 

 when it was seen how many questions 

 there were to be answered, it was voted 

 that on'y iioo answers should be given 

 to each question, which proved to be 

 only a farce — few questions can be 

 properly and satisfactorily discussed 

 by two persons speaking onl}' once 

 each in an audience of 150 to 200 per- 

 sons. I feel the more free to criticise 

 this point, as I am the man who made 

 up the program. Well, I'll know bet- 

 ter next time. 



One very enjoyable episode was the 

 presentation of two gavels, one to the 

 National and one to the Northwestern, 



