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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



on the "Foul Brood Situation in Ohio." 

 All bee keepers should attend. Elaborate 

 arrang-ements are being- made to make 

 this the largest assembly of bee keepers 

 at any one place. 



The Men who have achieved success 

 are the men who have worked, read and 

 thought more than was absolutely neces- 

 sary; who have not been content with 

 knowladge sufficient for the present need, 

 but have sought additional knowledge, 

 and stowed it away for the emergency 

 reserve. — C. K. Davis. 



There are people who have a wishbone 

 where the backbone ought to be, who 

 luke-warmly wish for success but are 

 not willing to pay the price of the effort 

 to attain it. 



Cellar Walls of brick laid up loose and 

 dry (no mortar) below the frost line, 

 are suggested by Mrs. F. H. Cyrenius of 

 New York, as a means of securing the 

 influence of the earth as far as possible. 



Wintering bees in a cellar with cement 

 walls and cement bottom has some- 

 times proved disastrous, and the cellar 

 has been blamed for the loss — "bottled 

 bees" it has been called. If any of my 

 readers have been successful in winter- 

 ing bees in large numbers in such a 

 cellar, will they please tell us about it? 



A Bee Journal without a good list of 

 subscribers who have for it a feeling of 

 friendship has little chance for success. 

 Under the eyes of the editor passes a 

 constant stream of letters full of hints, 

 suggestions, criticisms and information, 

 which enables him to give to his journal a 

 freshness and sparkle otherwise unat- 

 tainable. 



Lime, in being air-slacked, does not 

 give off oxygen, as suggested by Mr. 

 Messenger in the December Review — at 

 least, so says one of the Professors in 

 Cornell University. These are the words 

 used: "When lime is slacked in damp 



air, part of it, by taking up water, be- 

 comes calcium hydrate, and part of it, 

 by taking up carbon dioxide, becomes 

 calcium carbonate. In neither case is 

 any oxygen given off." 



"How to do Things." 



I am receiving quite a number of letters 

 in response to my request for suggestions 

 in regard to how the Review might be 

 improved. After all is said and done, 

 the majority prefers articles that tell 

 "how to do things." If you can write an 

 article telling how to do something new, 

 or how to do something old in a better 

 way, send it along — a warm welcome 

 and a check in payment awaits its 

 coming. 



Too Many Departments in the Review 

 Would be Suicidal. 



Some are asking for an index, some 

 for a query department, others for a 

 department for beginners, and some others 

 would have a health department, also one 

 devoted to photography. My gracious, chil- 

 lu'n! Do you realize how big, or. rather, how 

 little, the Review ia? First and foremost, 

 the Review is a bee journal. It tries to 

 tell its readers how to raise more honey 

 at a less cost, and to sell it at a higher 

 price, and, if it is to fulfill its mission it 

 must not wander far from a well-defined 

 path. It may be permissible, occasional- 

 ly, to touch lightly upon these neighbor- 

 ing topics, but the main object, successful 

 bee keeping, must never be encroached 

 upon seriously. 



Articles from Men who have Made Big 

 Money in Bees. 



Beginning with this issue, the Review 

 will give a series of articles from men 

 who have made over $2,000 in a year 

 from bees — some of them as high as 

 $5,000. Each writer will give a history 

 of the year in which he made the most 

 money out of bees, giving all of the con- 

 ditions, factors and methods that enabled 

 him to secure such a wonderful crop; 

 also telling if there are reasons why 



