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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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rr/HE Review never had more sub- 

 -^ scribers, better correspondents, 

 greater mechanical facilities, or a 

 mone experienced editor; in short, it 

 was never more fully equipped, than 

 at present, for helping bee-keepers, 

 It will use all of these advantages the 

 present year in taking up and disuss- 

 ing two of 



mlbjects 



connected with bee-keeping, viz., the 

 production of large quantities of honey, 

 cheaply, and the selling of it at a high 

 price. The first few issues of this 

 year, are and will be, especially devoted 

 to the discussion of the first-mentioned 

 topic, then in July or August, market- 

 ing will be taken up and continued 

 through the year. I do not mean that 

 other important matters will not be 

 touched upon, but that special attention 

 will be given to these two. 



For instance, last year, Mr. F. E. 

 Atwater, of Boise, Idaho, with onlj' 

 one helper. 



scattered from seven to eighteen miles 

 from home, and in the January Re- 

 view he had a long article describing 

 the hives, implements, and methods, 

 that enabled him to accomplish thisfeat. 

 Mr. E. D. Townsend of Remus, 

 Michigan, is 



in this State; managing out-apiaries 

 with the least possible amount of labor, 

 much of it unskilled at that, and mak- 

 ing mone}' out of the business, and he 

 is telling the readers of the Review 

 "how he does it." I think I am safe 

 in saying that no more valuable con- 

 tributions have ever appeared in the 

 Review than those that are being fur- 

 nished by Mr. Townsend — particularl}' 

 for the specialist. They contain little 

 that is startling, or revolutionary, their 

 chief value being the short-cuts and 

 sj'stems that enable him to manage 

 many colonies with little labor. The 

 series of articles began in January, 

 and will probably run through thej'ear. 

 They are all practical, like the one in 

 this issue. Later in the season he will 

 write on marketing and wintering. 



by using the bees of only one colony 

 would seem to be an impossibility, j'et 

 W. H. Laws, of Beeville, Texas, has 

 been, for the last year, practicing a 

 method that not only enables him to 

 do this, but allows of the introduction 

 of virgin queens that are from five to 

 seven days old, avoids all trouble 

 from fertile workers, prevents loss 

 from absconding, and queens may be 

 mated in a locality free from objection- 

 able drones. This method is illustrat- 

 ed and described in the March issue of 

 the Review. 



