Tx^E BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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Bee-Keepers' Review. 



PUBLISHED M()NTHLY. 



W. Z. HUTCHIflSOri, Ed. & Prop. 



Terms : — $1.00 a year iu advance Two copies, 

 Sl.ilO ; three for $2.70 ; five for$4.ii0 : ten, or more, 

 70 cents each. ^^ The 1{eview le stopped at 

 the expiration of the time i)aid for. 



FLINT, MICHIGAN. JUNE 10, U92. 



The white mountain apiakist is im- 

 proving, both typograijliically and iu sub- 

 ject matter. 



When shall the North Americau hold its 

 convention at Washington ? Is it too early 

 to decide the question ? 



Photographs for half - tone work, par- 

 ticularly for portraits, ought to be made 

 with a light back-ground, sajs E. R. Root 

 in Gleanings, and I have noticed that those 

 with light back-grounds resulted in better 

 pictures. 



A NEAT BORDER arouud an advertisement 

 is almost certain to cause it to be read, es- 

 pecially if but few advertisements iu the 

 same journal are so adorned. I have sev- 

 eral styles of border and ornaments, and 

 shall be pleased to use them in getting up 

 the advertisement of any one who will write 

 and tell me to do so. 



TOO SMALL yUEEN CAGES. 



Of four queens sent, about a month ago, 

 to E. G. Clark, of Wausau, Wis., two, sent 

 in Tg cages, arrived in good condition. The 

 other two were sent in small, ^^^ iu- cages, 

 and one was dead upon arrival and the other 

 in bad condition. Mr. Clark writes that he 

 has had similar experiences before in getting 

 queens. I have always had a prejudice 

 against those small, % inch cages ; I must 

 admit, however, that I have received queens 

 in good condition in these cages. My opin- 

 ion is that it will not answer to crowd the 

 bees. In cool weather, when a larger num- 

 ber of attendents are needed, then larger 

 cages are needed ; in hot weather, when S or 

 10 bees are sufficient for a body guard, the 

 small cages will answer ; but to save a cent 

 in postage by using a little, cramped up cage, 

 and lose a queeu wort a dollar, as the result, 

 s " penny wise and pound foolish." 



C. W. Dayton has a long article in the A. 

 B. J. in regard to the use of absorbents in 

 wintering bees. The gist of the matter is 

 that the packing and hive ought to be so ar- 

 ranged that the moisture can pass off and 

 leave the packing dry. Cushions or packing 

 of any kind ought not to be used to absorb 

 and retain the moisture. There must be 

 ventilation above the packing, so that the 

 moisture may pass off leaving the packing 

 dry. 



The closed or wide-end frames give trou- 

 ble in those extractors where the end bars 

 of the frames rest against the wire cloth 

 that supports the comb. The wide end bars 

 hold the comb out from the wire support 

 and the centrifugal force bends the combs 

 or breaks them. See that your extractor is 

 so arranged that the end bars of the frames 

 do not touch the comb support— that the 

 support is slightly shorter than the dis- 

 tance between the end bars of the frame, 

 and so arranged that the edges of the wide 

 end bars can project beyond the comb sup- 

 port. 



The National Bee Gazette is the name 

 of a new monthly just started at St. Louis, 

 Missouri. It is published by Geo. VV. Penn, 

 has i{8 pages and a cover, and the price is 

 %\ 00 a year. It is devoted to " The Produc- 

 tion of Honey, Bee Culture, Home and Farm 

 Interests;" So many bee journals have 

 been so poorly printed when they started, 

 that I am glad to be able to say that the 

 Gazette is quite neat typographically. 



The W. T. Falconer folks complain that 

 the new journal, the Gazette, copied one of 

 their old advertisements without their au- 

 thority. This advertisement offers five per 

 cent, discount until Dec. 1st, which is an 

 offer that they do not make at this time of 

 the year. Gleanings remarks that the in- 

 sertion of the advertisement was probably 

 intended as a favor, but very appropriately 

 adds that even a free advertisement ought 

 not to be inserted without the consent of the 

 advertiser. 



HOW DOES the bee - KEEPING OF THE SOUTH 

 DIFFER FROM THAT OF THE NORTH ? 



(Occasionally I get a letter complaining 

 that the Review, in common with other bee 

 journals, is of more value to Northern than 



