THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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and houey, when unsealed, the quantity of 

 acid was imperceptible. 



(xraveuhorst stoutly niaiutains that if bees 

 were destitute of water in winter they would 

 have to be supplied witli it ; otherwise the 

 result would be injurious, if not fatal. But, 

 he says, when the conditions are right 

 (which is ordinarily the case) they get their 

 needs supplied by the precipitations within 

 the hive, which, furthermore, contain a salt 

 essential to the nourishment of the bee. 



He thinks the colors of hives have little or 

 no weight in queen rearing. He lost queens 

 when in wooden hives, but not in straw hives. 

 In the wooden hives, the bees ran too freely 

 from one entrance to another, and killed 

 each other's queens. (It is to be presumed 

 that the hives alluded to were sitting on 

 shelves in the German fashion.) 



l'apiculteuk. 



Abbe Martin has two methods of keeping 

 down what he considers unseasonable brood 

 rearing ; one is, by frequently extracting ; 

 the other, by so contracting the entrance 

 that there is an iusuiiiciency of fresh air in 

 the hive. 



At the Congress of Nancy, Rene Madeline, 

 in a report on the state of apiculture in 

 France, asserted that though the production 

 of honey was increasing, the consumption 

 seemed to be dimishing from year to year. 

 Sections at 2'J, 39, and 49 cents now rarely 

 find buyers, while the market for extracted 

 is slow. He proposed two remedies : first, 

 reduce honey to the price of sugar (it is now 

 worth 30 per cent, more) ; second, sell direct 

 to consumers. A syndicate for the manu- 

 facture of spirituous liquors from honey is 

 about to be established in Paris, which if 

 successful will also handle honey. 



J. B. Chardin, reviewing the question of 

 large and small hives in the light of the past 

 season's experience, which was a very poor 

 one, comes to the conclusion that while very 

 small hives are undesirable on account of ex- 

 cessive swarming and subsequent starvation, 

 very large ones are objectionable from the 

 large amount of brood reared, which con- 

 sumes what little is gathered ; and that hives 

 with a limited brood-nest, but with surplus 

 room capable of expansion, are best. With 

 such hives he and others, he says, obtained 

 a surplus last year. 



Akoda, Colo. 



Jan. 20, 1895. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. MAR. 10. 1895. 



Pbinteks' Ink is to the advertiser what 

 the bee journal is to the bee-keeper. It is a 

 weekly journal at $2.00 per year devoted ex- 

 clusively to the subject of advertising ; and 

 the man who spends but $10 per year for 

 advertising, should spend the first two dol- 

 lars for this journal. I am anxious that my 

 advertisers should get the best possible re- 

 turns for their money. Their success means 

 my success ; and for this reason I will fur- 

 nish them with Printers' Ink at half price — 

 .fl.OO a year, I paying the other dollar. 



Advertising all of the time is probably 

 the most profitable course, but if there is 

 any time of the year when it will pay dealers 

 in apicultural goods to advertise it is during 

 the next few months. To advertise is not all 

 that is needed to make a success of business, 

 but it is impossible to make a success with- 

 out advertising ; and, other things being 

 equal, the better the advertising, the greater 

 the success. As a rule, too little attention is 

 given to the construction of advertisements. 

 They should be the best that it is possible to 

 make : not necessarily extravagant, in fact, 

 this is objectionable, but the strong points 

 should be brought out in the most forcible 

 manner. To illustrate, Chas. Dadant & Son 

 and the G. B. Lewis Co., sent me their cata- 

 logues, and, after reading them over I com- 

 posed and " got up " their ads. that appear 

 in this issue. I have no desire to appear 

 egotistical, but I believe that those adver- 

 tisements show clearly and forcibly the ad- 

 vantages that may be derived from patron- 

 izing these firms. If there are other of my 

 advertisers who wish me to try my hand at 

 getting up advertisements for them, let them 

 send me a copy of their catalogue, and I 

 shall be glad to submit to them proofs of my 

 efforts in getting up advertisements of their 

 business. There will be no charge for this 

 service. 



