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be necessary, for months in succession, 

 as it is at present, to add eig'ht extra 

 pages in order to accomodate the ad- 

 vertising. At present the Review con- 

 tains one and a half times as many 

 pages of advertising as went to make 

 UJ1 the whole Revie^v in tliose earl)' 

 days. One advertiser using a whole 

 page, or even half a page, was un- 

 heard of in those daj's. One-fourth 

 page was considered an unusual 

 amount of space for one man to use. 

 I think this increase in the amount of 

 advertising is fairly indicative of the 

 growth of the bee business. 



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Thk Rocky Mountain Bee Journal 

 has been sold to the owner of the Pa- 

 cific States Bee Journal, and from the 

 ashes of these two journals, figurative- 

 ly speaking, is to arise a new journ- 

 al with a new name. Bro. Morehouse 

 made the best bee journal that has 

 ever been published west of the Miss- 

 issippi, and it is with genuine regret 

 that I see him laj' aside the pen for 

 the honey knife. However, the man 

 who manages 700 colonies of bees has 

 but little time or energy to bestow 

 upon a bee journal, and this last step 

 taken by Bro. Morehouse is only an- 

 other example of the wisdom for 

 which I have always given him credit. 

 Bro. Adelsbach now has a pretty good 

 foundation to build upon, and if he 

 can keep the new journal up to the 

 standard of the one he has recently 

 purchased, there is a fair chance for 

 success. 



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Gus. Dittmer's home is where I 

 have recently had the pleasure of mak- 

 ing a visit. He very quickly recover- 

 ed from the set-back caused by the 

 tire; and I found him and several 

 hands as busy as bees. He has had 

 several machines running for several 

 weeks, and his factory now has a ca- 

 pacity of 1,000 pounds a day. If any- 

 body is hesitating about sending him 

 orders, fearing they can not be filled 



promptly, there need be no more hesi- 

 tancy, as he is now ahead of orders. 



While the burning of his factory was 

 a great loss to Mr. Dittmer, it showed 

 him his great wealth of friends. From 

 all parts of the covuitry came letters, 

 containing not only words of sympathy 

 and encouragement but offers of finan- 

 cial assistance, while his towns-people 

 vied with one another in offering him 

 the use of money if he needed it. Such 

 is the worth of honor and integrity. 



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That Queens mate only once before 

 beginning to lay, has been almost 

 universally believed, bvit, according 

 to reports in Gleanings from Mr. 

 Frank Benton, and from Mr. J. G. 

 Baier, of New Brunswick, N. J., such 

 is not always the case. The latter 

 named gentleman saw a queen take 

 three flights from an observation hive; 

 each time returning with evidence of 

 having mated, the evidence of each pre- 

 vious mating having been removed in 

 the meantime — twice by himself and 

 once by the bees. 



I suppose it is rank heresy, but I am 

 going to ask, isn't it possible that old 

 queens may sometimes mate again? 

 What makes me ask this is that when 

 I have mailed to a customer a queen 

 that I knew produced three-banded 

 bees, he has reported later that she 

 produced hybrids. This has happened 

 several times during my experience as 

 a queen breeder. You might say that 

 the man was mistaken about its being 

 the same queen. When it is introduc- 

 ed to a colony of blacks, it is easy to 

 be positive. 



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Inspector of Apiaries for Wis- 

 consin, Mr. N. E. France, has begun 

 ii new method of meeting and becoming 

 acquainted with the bee-keepers, 

 learning where there is foul brood, 

 advising the owners, etc. First he 

 lays out a route over which he can 

 travel, holding a meeting at a different 

 town each day. Printed postal c^irds 



