THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



At last, I have come to the point that I 

 started out to make. A large share of those 

 who stopped taking the Review did so sim- 

 ply because / stopped sending it jvhen their 

 time ivas oid. It was a revelation to me. The 

 time for renewing came at ''tax time," and 

 at a time when little or no money was com- 

 ing in for honey. Gleanings and A. B. J., so 

 they said, "kept coming" and were paid for 

 when convenient during the year. In other 

 words, the Review stopped at a time when 

 money was scarce, and by the time that 

 there was money with which to renew, many 

 of its readers had become '-weaned from 

 it" so to speak, "out of sight out of mind." 



To me there is no sweeter pleasure than 

 "owning up" when I see that I am in the 

 wrong. It is very evident that the majority 

 preferred to have the Review "keep on com- 

 ing," paying when convenient, while I had 

 supposed the reverse to be true. At the same 

 time I could not forget that there is a class 

 that perfers to have papers stopped at the 

 expiration of the time paid for. How to 

 please all classes was a puzzle. 



During the last few months I have given 

 this matter considerable thought, and, after 

 throughly examining the plan now followed 

 by Gleanings, I have decided to adopt it. 

 In substance it is as follows: — 



When sending in your subscription, if you 

 wish your paper stopped at the expiration 

 of the time paid for, say so, and your name 

 will be marked with a big D on the subscrip- 

 tion book, and when your time is out the 

 paper will be discontinued as indicated by 

 the "D." Ineachexpired journal, not mark- 

 ed with a "D," will be placed a circular letter 

 together with an order blank and an envel- 

 ope addressed to the Review. The circular 

 letter will give notice of expiration of sub- 

 scription, and say if you want the Review 

 continued, fill out the blank and enclose it 

 with !{;1.00 in the addressed envelope. If 

 you desire to have the Review stopped, write 

 on the blank "Please discontinue." If no 

 notice is received, the Review will be contin- 

 ued, and in three months another notice will 

 be sent. If this is disregarded, the Review 

 will be sent three more months, and then 

 another notice sent. If no response comes, 

 the Review will then be stopped and a notice 

 sent to that effect, together with a request 

 to remit for the time not paid for. If the 

 dropped subscriber still pays no attention, 

 he is troubled no further. I certainly 

 shall never send the Review month after 



month and year after year, without receiv- 

 ing pay or some kind of an order or under- 

 standing from subscribers. When six 

 month's "grace," instead of only three days 

 as on a bank note, are given a subscriber, he 

 can certainly either send in his subscription 

 or else write and say when he will send it. 



I expect that this plan will entail consid- 

 erable more work upon somebody in the 

 Review office, but the number of subscribers 

 thereby retained that would otherwise be 

 lost will probable repay for the trouble, and 

 I shall feel that all classes are suited. To 

 recapitulate: if you want the Review stopped 

 at the expiration of the time paid for, say 

 so when sending in your subscription. If you 

 did not say so when subscribing, yet that is 

 your wish, please write and say so upon re- 

 ceiving notice of the expiration of your sub- 

 scription. If you wish the Review to keep 

 on coming, you will of course send in your 

 subscription. If you don't happen to have 

 the $1.00 to spare, I am willing to wait a rea- 

 sonable length of time, but you must write 

 and say that you would like this extension 

 of time, else how am I to know anything 

 about it? 



becollections of the editob of the 



EEVIEW. 



FOR the editor 

 of a journal to 

 ^^Blt^ give a picture of 



fflf \ himself, or say 



" ft very much about 



himself, in his 

 own journal, has 

 been regarded as 

 the result of ego- 

 tism. Perhaps it 

 is in some cases, 

 but when an 

 editor knows that 

 his readers are in- 

 terested in him, 

 and would like to know how he looks and 

 what kind of a man he has been, and is, I 

 believe it wisdom on his part to gratify this 

 natural curiosity, hence I shall add extra 

 pages that I may not encroach on the regu- 

 lar bee matter, and tell you something of 

 my early life. 



I, William Zenas Hutchinson, was born 

 Feb. 17, 1851, in Orleans county, N. Y. My 

 first recollection dates from when at the age 



AT 18. 



