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TBE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



to Southern bee-keepers. It is asserted that 

 the bee-keeping of the South is different 

 from that of the North. I am aware the 

 wintering problem, which is of such absorb- 

 ing interest to us here at the North, cuts no 

 figure at the South, but, aside from this, I 

 have never been aljle to understand wherein 

 Southern bee-keeping differed from that at 

 the North. I wish that every Southern bee- 

 keeper, or any one else who understands the 

 matter, into whose hands falls this copy of 

 the Review, would write me a letter and ex- 

 plain wherein lies the difference between 

 Northern and Southern bee-keeping. 



THE AMEBICAN BEE JOURNAL, CHANGES HANDS. 



After having been for nineteen years un- 

 der the management of that veteran editor, 

 Thos. G. Newman, the American Bee Jour- 

 nal has passed into the hands Geo. W. York 

 & Co. Continued poor health compelled 

 Bro. Newman to make this change. The 

 8Ui)ply trade and the Home Journal still 

 remain in the hands of T. G. Newman it Son. 



GEO. W. YOKK, IHK, NKW EDITOH ANJ) i'lidl'KI- 

 ETOB or THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Although Mr. York is a young man — .30 

 years old— he is not without experience in the 

 publishing of a bee journal. Almost the tii st 

 time that I visited Chicago, some eight or 



nine years ago, I found him at work in the 

 Bee Journal office, where he hael been several 

 months. He has been there most of the 

 time since, doing everything from sweeping 

 floors to writing editorials. Industry and 

 perseverance now get their reward. 



Mr. York and I "took to each other" at 

 once, and in the friendly chat that followed 

 he told me that he and a fellow workman 

 were saving money by keeping " bachelor's 

 hall" in the basement of Mr. Newman's 

 house. Perhaps this is " telling tales out of 

 school," but this little thing raised Mr. York 

 wonderfully in mv estimation, and I wish 

 my readers to share in this feeling. 



The next time that I met Mr. York was 

 when the North American met at Indianap- 

 olis. He had just returned from his wed- 

 ding trip, and his heart was overllowiug 

 with his newly found happiness. We occu- 

 pied the same room at the hotel, and the 

 long confidential chats that we had over life 

 and its problems gave me a still deeper in- 

 sight into his nature. 



When next I visited Chicago I slipped 

 away from the convention one evening and 

 visited the pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. 

 York. Since then I never go to Chicago 

 without having a chat with " George," and I 

 feel that of all the bee-keeping editors I am 

 the best acquainted with him, and that I am 

 qualified to say that the readers of the .4. B. 

 J. will find their new editor to be fair and 

 fearless, genial and just. The Review and 

 A. B. J. will pull together tip top. 



SMOKE AND SMOKERS. 



I presume that bee-keepers seldom stop 

 to think, as they watch the puff, puff of the 

 white smoke, that these wreaths of curling 

 vapor might be fittingly compared to a halo 

 of glory surrounding .the crown of success- 

 ful bee-keeping. Smoke and smokers are 

 greater elements in the success and comfort 

 of bee-keeping than many of us realize. To 

 be sure, good natured strains of bees can be 

 handled, after a fashion, without smoke, 

 when there is a honey flow, but no argu- 

 ment is needed to jirove that modern bee 

 culture would he well-nigh impossible with- 

 out smoke ; in fact. Dr. Miller once said 

 that he didn't know but it would be worth 

 while to devote one number of the Review 

 to a discussion of smoker fuel. Since he 

 said that I have many times thought that he 

 might not have been so far out of the way 



