m 



THi5 fiEfi-KBEPfiRS' kEVlEW. 



about one-half the expense will be for 

 truck wheels. Cannot our friends at 

 Medina ,^ive us a cheap wheel for this 

 purpose suitable for packages weighing 

 from loo to 300 lbs. ? 



More might be written but enough has 

 been said already I trust to make the sul)- 

 ject plain. 



MiDDi^KBURV. Vt. Nov. 20, 1897. 



[At first thought, the putting of castors 

 under our shipping crates seems almost 

 laughable, but the more I think about it 

 the more feasible it seems. Better yet, 

 our friend Crane has /n'rd if. and that is 

 worth more than what I might think about 

 it. Yes, you Medina folks, go to work and 

 get us some good, cheap, suitable castors 

 for our hone}' crates, and we'll buy and 

 try them. — Ed.] 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. DEC. 10. 1897. 



Michigan State Bee Keepers will 

 hold their annual convention Dec. 31st, 

 and Jan, i.st, at the Donevan House in 

 Mt. Pleasant. The first session will be 

 on the evening of the 31st. Reduced 

 rates at the hotel. Several prominent 

 bee keepers of the State have promised 

 to come, and Mt. Pleasant is the garden 

 of the State so far as honey production 

 is concerned, hence a good attendance 

 and convention may be exjDected. 



critici.sk and commend thk kkvikw. 



I wish that each subsciber when re- 

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Another thing, when a'ou write, if you 

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A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE IMPROVE- 

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I never pick up any of the high - class 

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 make the Review as handsome as they, 

 and I now feel as though I had at least 

 taken a step in that direction. 



The Review is now ten }ears old, and 

 this is the first " new dress " it has had 

 since it was born. I well remember the 

 first printing I saw that was done with 

 the Ronaldson style of type, and how I 

 at once fell in love with its beauty and 

 clearness, and declared then and there 

 tliat when the Review had a new dress, it 

 sliould be of the Ronaldson style — and it 

 is. It is one size larger than the old 

 tyjje, and, that this increase in size may 

 not lessen the amount of reading matter, 

 eight extra pages are added, which much 



