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THE BEE-KEEPERS' HEVIEW. 



for a month or two, until Ivy is better, I 

 promise them that my best efforts shall be 

 used in making the Review brighter and 

 better than ever before. It is my life-work 

 and I love it, and I shall be only too glad 

 when I can again feel that I am really back 

 in the harness. 



Pkompt Renewals will be greatly appreci- 

 ated this year. Heretofore! have not been 

 so very particular if the money only came 

 in sometime during the year but the long 

 continued illness that we have been having 

 has not only kept me from my work but has 

 greatly increased the expenses, as every one 

 knows who has " been there " and a dollar 

 now will do me twice the good it will in three 

 or four months from now. Of course if you 

 haven't the $1.00 to send at present, I shall 

 be glad to continue the Review just the 

 same, but, if you have it to spare, I shall 

 most thoroughly appreciate the kindness if 

 you will send it promptly. 



THE OHIOAGO CONVENTION. 



A meeting of the Illinois State Bee Keep- 

 ers' Association will be held in Chicago Jan. 

 9 and 10. This Association is really the old 

 Northwestern, or rather the Northwestern 

 and Illinois State merged into one. This 

 meeting will occur during the week of the 

 National Cycle Show when rates of one and 

 one-third fare may be obtained, by the 

 certificate plan, on the railroads. The 

 meeting will be held at the new Briggs 

 House, corner of Randolph and Fifth Ave. 

 This will undoubtedly be a good convention. 

 Chicago is the place for a bee convention, 

 and quite a number of prominent bee-keep- 

 ers have promised to be present. I hope to 

 be there, but it will all depend upon how 

 rapidly Ivy improves in health. At present 

 I could not leave. 



The Sugab Honey bill of Canada, or the 

 " Pure Honey Bill, " as its friends prefer to 

 call it, receives attention this month from 

 Bro. Hasty. I have never thought of it, but 

 I believe the wording of the bill would allow 

 the punishing of the bee-keeper who fed his 

 bees sugar for winter stores, although I do 

 not think this was thought of when the bill 

 was drafted. I believe that the friends of 

 this bill feared that the fair name of their 

 product was in danger, but the fear was 

 groundless and the bill will probably never 



become a law. Heretofore Canadian bee- 

 keepers have been given every law that they 

 asked for, but it seems that the legislature 

 could see no necessity for this law — and 

 there isn't. Probably little if any sugar 

 honey has been produced in Canada ; if there 

 has it is doubtful if it could have been dis- 

 tinguished from floral honey ; or, if it could, 

 there is already a law that covers the case — 

 unless is should he proved that sugar honey 

 is genuine honey when, of course, it could 

 not be called an adulteration and some sort 

 of a new law might be needed. 



PEOriT IN FEEDING BEES. 



I look upon Mr. Boardmau's article in 

 this issue as one of the most valuable and 

 practical that has appeared in the Review 

 in some time. There is no use of denying 

 it, or dodging it, or ignoring it, in many parts 

 of the country there must come a radical 

 change in bee-keeping. I have an article 

 from Eugene Secor touching this point that 

 will appear in the Jan. Review. Many bee- 

 keepers must change their location, go to 

 the flowers, or change their methods of 

 management. The bee-keeping public says 

 at present, and perhaps always will say, 

 that sugar honey must not be produced, but 

 there is no objection to bees living on four- 

 cent sugar instead of fifteen-cent honey. 

 It has been estimated, and I think fairly, 

 that a colony of bees consumes 60 or 70 

 pounds of honey during the year. If a good 

 portion of this can be cheap sugar instead of 

 high priced honey it may make all the differ- 

 ence between a fair profit and a serious loss. 



A change to a better location is prefer- 

 able, if a change can be made, as there is 

 more profit in plenty of honey from natural 

 sources than in exchanging sugar for honey 

 in a poor locality, but there are many in the 

 latter kind of locality who can't well change 

 their place of residence but can still keep 

 bees at a profit, if not so large a one, by 

 pursuing tactics similar to those followed by 

 our practical friend of East Townsend, Ohio. 



EXXRMOXED. 



Will the Good Tears Come Aerain 1 



There is no question in which I am more 

 deeply interested than in the future of bee- 

 keeping. Since this subject was discussed a 



