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photographs from which cuts might be made 

 for illustrating just such an article. A year 

 ago, having had several months experience 

 in making photographs, 1 began watching 

 each phase of bee-keeping as it came along, 

 that I might photograph it at the most in- 

 teresting stage. To a certain extent the 

 work was new to me. l^nch subject pre- 

 sented new difficulties to be overcome. In 

 secnring two dozen photographs, I presume 

 that at least 100 exposures were made, pro- 

 bably more, as on some of the subjects more 

 than a dozen plates were used before the de- 

 sired results were obtained. But how I did 

 enjoy the work ! Last winter, with these 

 pictures as a basis, an article was written in 

 which the following are the main points 

 described : Subduing and Handling Bees ; 

 Movable Comb Hives ; The Queen Bee ; 

 Queen Rearing and Shipping ; Drones ; 

 Workers ; Bee Stings ; Comb Foundation ; 

 Swarming ; Extracting and Extractors ; 

 Comb Honey its Production and Healthful- 

 ness as a Diet; House Apiaries; Migratory 

 Bee-Keeping ; Bee Hunting and Wintering 

 of Bees. Each subject is illustrated, some 

 with two or three pictures. I tried to tell my 

 story in such a way as to both interest and 

 instruct and at the same time benefit bee- 

 keeping. The article was sent to the Cosmo- 

 politan magazine, and the first half of the 

 article appears in the May No. The balance 

 will be in the -June issue. This magazine 

 has an immense circulation, and I hope that 

 the article will do good. The price of the 

 Cosmopolitan is .^L.TO a year, or l.'i cts. for a 

 single copy. If any of the friends who do 

 not live near a news depot wish to see the 

 two issues containing this article I can send 

 them for 20 cts a copy — 40 cents for both the 

 May and June Nos. The live cents extra is 

 for the postage that I will have to pay. To 

 those who may wish to subscribe for the 

 Cosmopolitan, I can make the exceedingly 

 low rate of $2.2.5 for both the Review and 

 the Cosmopolitan for ont> year. The sub- 

 scription to the Cosmopolitan could begin 

 with the May No. Any who have already 

 sent $1.00 for the Review for 189,') may now 

 send me $1.2,'> for the Cosmopolitan, if they 

 wish, and it will be accepted. There are 

 higher priced magazines than the Cosmo- 

 politan, but none that are better. In one of 

 its advertisements the Cosmopolitan very 

 truthfully says : " We could charge you 2.5 

 cts, or 3.5 cts, or .50 cts, or even $1.00 a copy, 

 but we could make no better magazine." 



eXXRTXOXED. 



Is Bee-Keeping Becoming a Side-issue 1 



A Word in Favor of the Specialist. 



As I was the one who started the discus 

 sion regarding the future of bee-keeping, it 

 is my desire that both sides of the subject 

 shall have a fair hearing. Aside from this, 

 I also take pleasure in laying V)efore my 

 readers the following encouraging and cheer- 

 ful article from my friend E. T. Flanagan 

 of Illinois. It appeared originally in the 

 Progressive. 



" An able and interesting editorial will be 

 found in the .January Review for 189.5, on 

 the subject of ' The Future of Bee-Keeping,' 

 in which the editor takes the ground that 

 bee-keeping will become more and more a 

 side issue — that there will be fewer special- 

 ists, and that mainly from the fact that 

 localities that will support bees enough to 

 make it remunerative to the specialists are 

 becoming scarce, and their areas more lim- 

 ited from year to year, as thf^ country is be- 

 coming more settled and a larger area de- 

 voted to aericultural purposes. 



Now with all deference to friend H.'s 

 ability and superior facilities for extended 

 observation, I must take issue with him. 

 All of us are liable to judge of the whole 

 from a limited knowledge of a part, and I 

 fear this is so in this case. This is a large 

 country of ours, and no man is fully acquain- 

 ted with its resources for producing honey. 

 There are millions of acres yet of unre- 

 claimed land, and ahoundinsr. too, in honey 

 producinsr plants. Most of these are in sec- 

 tions of the country where bee-keeping on 

 an extended scale has not been attempted, 

 owing mostly to their t)eing remote from the 

 railroads or other means of easy access. 

 These all will in due time be occupied by the 

 specialist. 



Again, even in the most thoroughly culti- 

 vated portions of the country, localities are 

 found, and they are becoming greater in 

 number as the years go by, where small 

 fruits and extensive orchards, covering even 

 thousands of acres, are to be found, and the 

 wide awake specialist is taking advantage of 

 these localities. 



Dairyinsr. the production of condensed 

 milk, and other products that require exten- 

 sive pasturajje, either for grazing or the pro- 

 duction of foTR'je, are extending in many 

 parts of the country, and where this is the 

 case, honey producinc jilants abound. 



In the East, crimson clover has proved it- 

 self a splendid pl.mt for honey, and its ex- 

 tensive cultivation in the past few years is 

 something remarkable. Sweet clover is be- 

 ins sown on a scale never before known, 

 while in the far West, alfalfa, that grand 

 plant and sure reliance for a magnificent 

 yield of honey, when erown for seed, is stead- 

 ily on the increase. It is true that where the 



