THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Harry LaThrop, of Wisconsin, will 

 tell the readers of the Review, next 

 month, how he produces extracted honey 

 with eight-frame hives; and I will give 

 a view of his home-apiary — the^very pic- 

 ture of comfort and neatness. 



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O. I.. Hershiser, an old-time compet- 

 itor of mine at fairs, who is a well known 

 lawyer and bee-keeper of Buffalo, N. Y. , 

 has chosen one of Canada's fair daughters 

 as a bride — Miss Margaret Jane Mc- 

 intosh, of Toronto. May they receive 

 their full share of life's nectar. 



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Non-SwarmerS still prove a success 

 with Mr. Aspinwall of Jackson, Michigan. 

 He writes that a pressure of other work 

 prevented him from giving his apiary the 

 attention that it ought to have had last 

 summer, yet there were only two swarms 

 out of fifty-four colonies. He says these 

 might have been prevented if he had given 

 them the proper attention. Not only this, 

 but he secured a small crop of honey, and 

 the approach of winter found his hives 

 well supplied with stores, while his neigh- 

 bors got no honey whatever. 



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Mr. T. F. Bingham, of Farwell, ]Mich- 

 igan, writes me that he has discovered 

 that bees are quiet and contented in an 

 atmosphere having a temperature of 50°. 

 but so lacking in oxygen that it will not 

 support combustion. A lantern in it will 

 not burn one second. That the amount 

 of oxygen needed by bees in winter is cer- 

 tainly very small, has been proven re- 

 peatedly. All the bees that I now own 

 are buried under three feet of earth with 

 no ventilation except what filters through 

 the earth. 



State convention, and he gives a word of 

 caution to those who may be thinking of 

 pulling up stakes and starting for this 

 Western eldorado. He says that the good 

 localities are already overstocked. There 

 are certain portions of the State, now 

 !)arren deserts, that would become verita- 

 ble garden spots if some way could be 

 discovered of elevating water several 

 hundred feet. 



color.\do as a BEE-corxTRY. 

 Colorado is now one of the foremost 

 States in the production of honey. So 

 rapidly has it come to the front that many 

 are the longing eyes cast in that direction. 

 Mr. Root, editor of Gleanings, was out 

 there lately in attendance at the Colorado 



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FIVE DOLLARS FOR AN ARTICLE. 



For the best article received before 

 March 31, for publication in the April Re- 

 view, I will pay 15.00 in cash. For each 

 article, aside from the prize-article, that 

 is accepted, I will advance the writer's 

 subscription to the Review one year and 

 send him, next summer, a Superior Stock 

 queen. 



Please use black ink, on good, white 

 paper, and write on only one side of the 

 paper. 



The style in which the article is written, 

 and its length, will have little influence 

 in the making of the award. What is 

 wanted is such information as will aid a 

 bee-keeper in making of his business a 

 more safe, pleasant and profitable pur- 

 suit; in other words, preference will be 

 given to practical articles, that is, those 

 that tell "how to do things." 



DR. mason's DEPARTMENT OF "OOOD 



THINGS FROM OTHER JOURNALS" 



TO BE DISCONTINUED. 



In its ambitious way, the Review has 

 started too many departments. The num- 

 ber of departments was increased until 

 there was not room for satisfactory work 

 in any of them. "Notes from Foreign 

 Bee Journals" has been crowded out for 

 several months. This month I find there 

 is no room for "Good Things from Other 

 Journals;" and the more I think about it, 

 the more I believe it better be left out all 

 of the time. It is really a counterpart of 

 the Extracted Department, except that it 

 reflects the views of another man insteajj 



