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nuclei cost him $30, and he said he 

 wished the price had been $S00, and 

 then he had allovv-ed Mr. Hoffman to 

 keep tlie bees. 



Mr. Hall says that the bees winter 

 exceedingly well, and that the 

 claims for their gentleness are not ex- 

 aggerated, but that they never stored 

 enough honey to winter on, let alone 

 any surplus. They always had to be 

 supplied with winter-stores from other 

 colonies. Another thing: What little 

 hone^' they did store was capped in a 

 peculiar, not to sa\% unsightly manner. 

 Instead of capping a cell flat, or 

 slightly convex, as is usually the case, 

 the capping was concave, or depressed, 

 leaving- the side-walls standing up in 

 such a conspicuous manner as to give 

 the surface of the comb an appearance 

 greatly resembling a sheet of comb 

 foundation. 



Even after all these years, Mr. Hall 

 occasionally finds a colony showing 

 this peculiar manner of capping, indi- 

 csting that there are still traces of 

 Caucasian blood mixed in his apiary. 

 Whenever he finds a colony showing 

 this trait, off goes the queen's head. 



Considering the foregoing, I would 

 say, if you trj'^ the Caucasian blood, 

 handle it with caution. 



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Starting New Bee Journals — a Successful 



Bee Journal Must Cover a Wide 



Field. 



The Apiarist is the name of a new, 

 24-page monthly bee journal, at one 

 dollar a year, just started at Waco, 

 Texas, by C. S. Phillips and B. F. 

 Huff. It is very neatly gotten up for 

 a first issue of a journal, and contains 

 readable, helpful matter. The t3'pe is 

 rather large for magazine-work, and 

 the lines extend clear across the page. 

 I know that this style is followed by a 

 few magazines, but the shorter lines of 

 single-column are more easily read. 



The Review wishes the new-comer 

 success, but I trust the editors will 



pardon me if I point out one weak 

 point; the obstacle upon which so many 

 ventures of this kind have been wrecked. 

 In the Introductory, I find this sen- 

 tence: "But there is no bee journal 

 published in the South; we saw a good 

 opening for one; no one else would 

 undertake the task; so we Iiave mus- 

 tered enough courage and money to 

 undertake the task." No bee journal 

 catering to one section of the country 

 has ever made a success. There are 

 not enough bee-keepers in any one 

 State, or in any one section of the 

 United States, to support a bee 

 journal. The most successful venture 

 of this kind was the Rocky Mountain 

 Bee Journal. It lived three years, and 

 brought in more money than it cost, 

 but its editor finally decided that the 

 same amount of time, energj^ and capi- 

 tal invested in honey production would 

 bring in returns ten fold greater than 

 in publishing a bee journal, and he 

 sold it to the Western Bee Journal. 

 The Western Bee Joornal has now- 

 been absorbed by a syndicate, and I 

 think it will be no breach of confidence 

 if I tell that the Rocky Mountain Bee 

 Journal had less than 500 subscribers 

 when sold to the Western Bee Journal. 

 To succeed, the publisher of a bee 

 journal must make a journal that will 

 appeal to the needs of the bee-keepers 

 all over the United States and Canada. 

 I am calling attention to this point, 

 not to discourage my Southern breth- 

 ern, but, rather, to help them, and 

 show them how to avoid mistakes. 



Keeping More Bees Consistency in 



Argument. 

 If I make a mistake, or if I am un- 

 reasonable, or illogical in m3' argu- 

 ments, nothing pleases more than to 

 have some friend point out my error. 

 For this reason I take pleasure in 

 placing before my readers a letter from 

 my old friend Harrj' Lathrop. Here 

 is the letter: — 



