THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Mr. N. E.. France has mailed his 13th 

 annual report as inspector of apiaries for 

 Wisconsin. Besides his regular report it 

 contains much other useful and enter- 

 taining matter. 



Vermont will have a fine crop of honey 

 this year. My old friend. J. E. Crane, 

 writes me that they will have about 

 30,000 pounds of comb honey and 

 10,000 of extracted. 



The Raspberry honey crop was a com- 

 plete failure in Northern Michigan on ac- 

 count of drouth. Bees are working nicely 

 now on willow herb with every prospect 

 of securing a fine crop. 



of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.' 

 brightened the Review office by a call in 

 June. He was making a tour of Michi- 

 gan, Ohio, and I believe part of Illinois 

 and Indiana. He was doing this that he 

 might study the foul brood situation from 

 a close, actual, personal view. He is 

 making colored maps of the different 

 states, showing the regions where Ameri- 

 can and European foul brood abound. 

 This department is gathering an immense 

 list of bee keepers, securing them largely 

 through postmasters, and to this list is 

 sent educational literature on the subject 

 of foul brood. The Department is using 

 every effort to combat bee diseases. If 

 you find any diseased brood in your 

 apiary, and are at all doubtful, write to 

 Dr. Phillips. 



The National bee keepers' association 

 will hold its annual convention in Albany, 

 N. Y. October 12 and 13, 1910, in the 

 common council chamber of the city hall. 

 Other details will be given later. 



Several Dealers were invited to con- 

 tribute to the discussion on marketing 

 honey. Thus far, only two have re- 

 sponded — their articles appear in this 

 issue. I would be glad to have them 

 present their side of the case. 



An Announcement of the marriage of 

 Bro. York of the American Bee Journal 

 has been received at the Review office. 

 It reads as follows: 



Mrs. Josephine Hitchcock announces 

 the marriage of her daughter Grace to 

 IMr. Geo. W. York on Saturday, July 

 second, nineteen hundred and ten, 

 Kingston, Ills. At home after September 

 first, 4522 North Ashland Avenue. 

 Ravenswood, Chicago. 



The Review wishes Bro. York and his 

 bride a long, happy and useful life. 



Dr. L. F. Phillips, in charge of apicul- 

 ture, Bureau of Entomology, Department 



Selling Honey to the best advantage 

 is a subject that will largely occupy the 

 pages of the Review during the next two 

 or three months. It will be remembered 

 that I opened my recent editorial on the 

 subject by quoting from a circular sent 

 out by the secretary of the ' Michigan 

 state bee keeper's association, to the 

 effect that most of us spent the whole 

 season in producing a crop, but sold it 

 in about 15 minutes. It was amusing 

 to see how much attention was bestowed 

 upon this point. The most of them 

 seemed to think it was all right to sell 

 in 15 minutes — that that was time enough 

 in which to effect a sale. They seemed 

 to miss the real point of Bro. Tyrrell's 

 graphic little sentence. What he meant 

 was that the subject was given only that 

 much time for consideration Of course, 

 if the matter of price, market, etc., have 

 all been duly considered, 15 minutes is 

 enough to say: "You can have it." 



Thickness of Top Bars. 



Dr. Miller calls attention to my prefer- 

 ence for 7-16 top bars, and says he can't 

 see much difference between these and 

 the f-top bars which he knows will sag. 

 One-sixteenth of an inch is not much, 



