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in building my house apiaries. I am not 

 expecting to take my pay for this work in 

 the pleasure of testing new things, I am do- 

 ing it in the true bread and butter sense, 

 just because I believe I can get more, of 

 botli profit and pleasure by it. Again you 

 say "my friend, from your experience and 

 observation, please write the best article that 

 you can that might be appropriately headed, 

 "The Best Advice That I can Give Bee- 

 Keepers. " 



Well, the best advice that I can give to 

 bee-keepers is embodied in what I am trying 

 to do for myself. I have no interest in my 

 course except that I believe I can better my 

 condition as a honey producer. Go thou 

 then and do likewise. 



I see that you say in the last Review 

 that I am going to build a new house apiary 

 in the spring. If no bad luck happens I ex- 

 pect to have it completed before the next Re- 

 view is in the hands of its readers, as it is 

 well under way now. When it is all com- 

 pleted I will give a minute description of it. 



FoKESTViLLE, Minn., Nov. 29, 1892. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. DEC. 10, 1S92. 



Eight extra pages this month. 



BucKWAEAT (four acres) gave 10 colonies 

 nearly 200 pounds of surplus and about :iO 

 pounds each in the brood nest. So writes 

 Arthur C. Miller. Only one other colony in 

 reach of the field and no other buckwheat 

 in the county so far as he knew. 



The Canadian Bee .Jouenal has reduced 

 its measure (the length of its lines) to thir- 

 teen " ems," the same as those of the Re- 

 view. This gives more margin which, to- 

 gether with the dropping of the column 

 rules, gives to the pages a much neater, 

 cleaner appearance. 



NEW FOBMS OF THE POKTEB BEE ESCAPE. 



I HAVE recently received from Messrs. R. 

 & E. C. Porter several modified forms of the 

 Porter Bee Escape, engravings of two of 

 which appear below. These forms, however, 

 are not preferred to the one that has been 

 so extensively sold by them during the past 

 two seasons, but are shown merely to give 

 an idea of some of the many forms in which 

 the Porter Escape has been tested. 



The engravings make all so plain that 

 a description is unnecessary. As will be 

 seen, the bees pass out over the springs in 

 one style : in the other form they pass under 

 the springs. 



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Chaff hives with sawdust cushions over- 

 head are the kind of hives for wintering bees 

 that please Mr. Doolittle better than any 

 others. He has arrived at this conclusion 

 after years of experience. 

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Honey Vinegae, to the extent of 100 bar- 

 rels, was one year made and sold by W. K. 

 Marshall, in Texas, as -I see by reading the 

 report of the Texas convention given in the 

 A. B. -J. The vinegar was made from dark 

 honey that wonld have otherwise been al- 

 most unsalable. W^hen we again have such 

 crops of honey that it is almost a drug in the 

 market it will be well to remember that the 

 making of vinegar may prove a profitable 

 outlet for some of the honey. 



THE beview fob 1893. 

 What the Review has been in the past it 

 will be in the future. There may occasion- 

 ally be slight changes. For instance, more 

 attention will in the future be given to the 

 " Extracted Department." The market re- 

 ports will also be added with the beginning 

 of the year. When sending out circulars, as 

 mentioned in another column, to learn why 

 some had not renewed their subscrip- 

 tions, I learned that many bee-keepers can 

 afford to take only one journal. I am going 



