THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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tion to my own, so very fair, indeed, that 

 I give it. 



Aylmer (West), Can., Jan. 9, 1911 

 Dear Mr. Hutchinson:- Answering your 

 questions how to improve the Review, I 

 am forced to say: Open a department 

 especially for beginners; and have the 

 best writer you can get to prepare an 

 article, a seasonable article, for each 

 month. Have the articles just a little 

 ahead of time, that beginners may 

 read and understand them just a little 

 before the information is needed. Then 

 it will be fresh in their minds, and can 

 be used when needed. 1 would not have 

 the same writer more than for one year. 

 A new man will tell the same thing in a 

 different way, and very likely bring into 

 view some useful points neglected by his 

 predecessor, thus adding information and 

 interest. Then the next year you could 

 give to new subscribers the previous 

 year's issue. Thus beginners could get 

 help from two able writers for the 

 price of one year. The third year you 

 could give with the Review, a booklet of 

 the two previous years' articles. 



Another thing: We all like punctu- 

 ality and especially so when loss comes 

 with lateness. 



Have your writers be specific in de- 

 tail, and write as though your beginners 

 knew but very little, or nothing at all, 

 about bees; for, as a matter of fact, 

 generally, their ignorance on bees and 

 bee keeping is dense indeed. So much 

 depends upon knowing why, when and 

 how to do things and then doing -them 

 according to knowledge. 



You may say: They should get a bee- 

 book. But I tell you that a good periodi- 



cal wanted tomorrow, or very soon, will 

 be read with more interest and better 

 understanding, than will a book. A bee 

 journal is designed, intended, to teach 

 those who need teaching, and you will 

 find that characteristic in practically all 

 beginners. Example: A year last July 

 I was visiting a relative who had about a 

 dozen hives of bees. He is one of the 

 most progressive and wealthy fruit 

 growers in the Niagara district. He had 

 the entrances covered with queen 

 excluder zinc. He said they were tacked 

 on so the queen could not go away with 

 the swarm. There was some surprise 

 when 1 told him of all the disastrous 

 results that would follow. 



In all of my canvassing for subscribers 

 the only ones I can reach are the be- 

 ginners, and the Review, in my opinion, 

 can be greatly improved for his benefit. 

 I would suggest that you illustrate the 

 articles with cuts and editorial comments. 

 Editorials are generally helpful and ap- 

 preciated. Just make that department 

 so bright, sparkling and useful that even 

 the decrepid and the stalwart fathers 

 will say: Well done! and your beginners 

 will bless the Review and stay by it. 

 Respectfully, 



S. T. Pettit. 



The Review is what my subscribers 

 make it; or rather I try to make it what 

 they want it to be, if I can find out. It 

 will be a very easy matter to add a be- 

 ginners' department on the plan sug- 

 gested by our Canadian friend; and if 

 the majority approves, I'll do it. Let me 

 hear from my readers. A majority vote 

 shall decide the question. 



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Selected Articles, 



AND EDITORIAL COMMENTS. 



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5Y5TLM AND MANIPULATION 



The Lack of These is why Some 

 Don't "Keep More Bees." 



Men 



Wesley Foster, of Colorado, in writing 

 to Gleanings says he thinks that one 



man ought to care for 500 to 700 

 colonies, with possibly some help in the 

 summer. In explaining why some men 

 keep so few bees, he says: 



Perhaps the main reason so many 

 bee men can not care for more bees is 

 because they lack a good system of 

 manipulation. I think the only solution 

 of the question is to keep more bees and 



