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house to be extracted, my son-in-law 

 who does the uncapping", is always in 

 bad humor, and as soon as I get these 

 frames in my fingers for extracting I 

 am in the same fix. At present about 

 50 such supers are standing- in my yard 

 in piles for sale cheap. 



Do you know what E. Whitcomb 

 says ? I will tell you: "I am a mem- 

 ber of the church, and have a great 

 desire to remain in g-ood standing not 

 only with the church but with God. 

 With fixed frames I am afraid that I 

 might be tempted to backslide. In 

 speaking- of g-race, our Saviour, we 

 fear, did not have in mind the perplex- 

 ities of self-spacing- frames." 



The A. I. Root Co. has caused a 

 g-reat many prog-resses in bee-culture, 

 has propag-ated many good implements; 

 what they recommend and manufacture 

 is adopted g-enerally. By their influ- 

 ence we in the United States have a 

 uniform hive and other standard goods, 

 and this is a g-reat advantag-e, if we 

 consider the different frames and sizes 

 of hives in other countries, but in 

 adopting- and recommending this frame 

 they made a very big- mistake that it 

 will take many years to correct. 



I know that g-ood, practical bee- 

 keepers (some of them) prefer the Hoft'- 

 man frame, and the argument used is 

 that hired help can't space them in a 

 regular manner. The man who has 

 not in his eye enough of mathematics, 

 or adaptability enough to be taught, to 

 space frames with sufficient exactness, 

 is too low in the scale of intelligence 

 to be given a place in the apiary. Ac- 

 curate spacing of frames is a small 

 problem compared with some that must 

 be learned bj' the really helpful 

 helper. 



I am sincere in believing that the ad- 

 dition of projections on our brood 

 frames, lock-joints (so-called dovetail- 

 ing) to the corners of our hives, revers- 

 ible bottom boards, or those with a 

 "drop," covers with more than simple 

 cleats to prevent warping, are simply 

 steps in getting away from a simplicitj' 

 that should be cherished as the apple 

 of the eye. 



I hope bee-keepers won't take 

 offense at what I am about to say, but 

 it does seem to me, sometimes, as 



though they were like a large family 

 of ver}'^ good children — do everything 

 exactly as father tells them. If the 

 leaders say a thing is good, the rank 

 and file are bound to believe it. There 

 seems to be a lack of stamina, of cour- 

 age to condemn anything the leaders 

 are booming If the opposition that 

 has lately been developed against the 

 Hoffman frame could have come out 

 with the first attempt to popularize it, 

 the frame would never have been 

 adopted. It maj' be late now to op- 

 pose it, but, perhaps, those who are 

 now starting in the business, may be 

 saved from the mistake of its adoption. 



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A man living near here, and having a small 

 job printing office, has consolidated his office.- 

 With mine, and is putting in a cylinder press 

 we both had a jiaper cutter, and, as we have no 

 use for both of them, one will be sold at a sacri- 

 fice. Mine is a 24-inch cutter, and has a new 

 knife for which I paid $:o.oo last spring, yet 

 J25.00 will take the machine. A photograph and 

 description of the machine will be sent on ap- 

 plication. This new man will have no connec- 

 tion whatever with the Review — simply with the 

 job work. The presswork for the Review will 

 be done on the new press. 



W Z HUTCHINSON, Flint, Mich. 



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These three, no more. The following prices 

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W. H. Laws, Beeville, Tex. 



