THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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Six-Penny casiyjg, not finishing, 

 nails are what Mr. Tyrell uses for 

 supporting- tlie frames in his hives. 

 Finishing- nails are smaller than cas- 

 ings nails. 



St. Louis has been chosen as the 

 place for holding- the next meeting- of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 and the time will be about the first of 

 October. I consider the time and place 

 well chosen. We will all wish to at- 

 tend the World's Fair, rates will be 

 low, and the meeting will come after 

 the busy work of the season is past. 

 It is quite likely that representatives 

 from other countries will be present, 

 and that the meeting- will be such as 

 to almost merit tlie name of Inter- 

 national. 



The Rocky Mountain Bee Journal 

 has raised the price to one dollar a 

 3'ear, and promises to make the paper 

 enoug-h better to correspond with the 

 raise in price. A pretty hard propo- 

 sition, Bro. Morehouse, to make your 

 paper twice as g-ood as it has been, 

 but maybe you can do it. Bro. More- 

 house has found, as I think all will 

 find who enter the field of apicultural 

 journalism, that, unless it is in con- 

 nection with the supply business, it is 

 impossible to furnish a g-ood journal, 

 even monthly, for less than one dollar 

 a year. Class journals must, of neces- 

 sity, be higher in price than those of 

 a general character, because there are 

 fewer people interested in them, and 

 the circulation must be limited. A bee 

 journal published in connection with a 

 supply business can, of course, be 

 published at a lower price, as, in one 

 sense, it is a big advertisement for the 

 firm that publishes it. The only hope 

 for a bee journal, pure and simple, is 

 to make itself so good and so valuable 

 that bee-keepers must have it, even if 

 the price is a little higher than that of 

 general newspapers and magazines. 



brightening up the advertising 



PAGES. 



For several months I have felt that 

 the advertising pages of the Review 

 had been a trifle neglected. Mr. 

 Hartshorn has also been reminding 

 me that the advertisements, or some of 

 them, ought to be re-set, and made 

 more modern. Finally, the tempta- 

 tion to do the work with my own 

 fingers became so strong that I sent 

 away for some new type and borders, 

 and for the last two weeks, or more, I 

 have spent a part of each day fairly 

 reveling among the type. Some of the 

 advertisements I have worked over 

 until they seem to me almost like my 

 own children. Please read these ad- 

 vertisements, patronize the advertisers, 

 tell them you saw their advertisement 

 in the Review, and you will do us all 

 a favor. 



THE DATE OI<^ THE REVIEW. 



As a rule, the last form of the Re- 

 view is printed about the 10th of the 

 month. After this, comes the folding, 

 stitching, trimming and wrapping up 

 for the mail. By the time it reaches 

 its readers it is about the middle of 

 the month — perhaps a little later than 

 that in some of the more distant States. 

 Being dated the 10th, and not reaching 

 its readers until from the I5th to the 

 20th, gives the impression that it is 

 late — that it is behind the times. The 

 fact that most of the monthly mag- 

 azines are printed, and even reach 

 their readers, ahead of theirdate, helps 

 to give this impression about the Re- 

 view. Occasionally I get a letter of 

 complaint, or criticism, saying that 

 about the only fault to find with the 

 Review is that it is always from a 

 week to ten days late. One man who, 

 by mistake, had been sent a circular 

 soliciting his subscription, after he 

 had already subscribed, was quite in- 

 dignant — said I "better use some of 

 my energy in getting the Review out 

 on time, instead of trying to get more 



