1894. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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Editor Hutchinson proposes during 

 next summer to travel with his cam- 

 era through Canada, the Eastern, Mid- 

 dle and Western States, and visit as 

 many bee-keepers as possible. He 

 don't speak of doing his traveling on 

 a wheel but probably that is his inten- 

 tion . 



( an't some of our readers send in 

 some articles for publication? Take 

 for subject the Spring Management 

 of Bees; Introducing Queens, Queen 

 Rearing or some other subject which 

 is seasonable. 



It strikes us that the publisher of 

 Success in Bee-Culture shows a great 

 lack of originality both in the name of 

 the paper and the design of cover, the 

 latter being a very poorly executed 

 wood engraving of a design similar to 

 that of the Review. 



Hasty's " Condensed View of Cur- 

 rent Bee Writings" in the Review is 

 hardly rightly named. It would be, 

 we think, more appropriate to call it 

 " Condensed Review of Gleaning, in- 

 cidentally mentioning the main fea- 

 tures occasionally of two or three 

 other publications." At any rate he 

 usually gives about 6 columns more 

 or less from Gleanings and two of all 

 others. Now this is doubtless satis- 

 factory to the many readers of the 

 Review, as well as the *' other papers" 

 but hard on Gleanings. That is to 

 -ay by subscribing for Review you al- 

 so get Gleanings or a large part of 

 it.— C? 



perity and happiness or turmoils, re- 

 verses and sorrows none can say. 

 We have turned over a new leaf in 

 Times' record. Have we individu- 

 ally turned over any new leaves in 

 our habits or method of living? Let 

 us hope so and that the pages turned 

 will remain unsullied throughout the 

 year. 



Christinas and New Year days are 

 both gone and 1894 is in full swing, 

 whether it will bring us peace, pros- 



If you will have to purchase any 

 new hives this coming spring, let us 

 urge upon you the wisdom of using 

 some standard style, like the Dove- 

 tailed, Simplicity, Thin- walled or 

 Chaff Hive. They are much cheaper 

 to begin with and when any new fix- 

 tures are needed for them they are al- 

 ways obtainable without having to be 

 made to order at extra expense. Hard- 

 ly any of the several patent hives in 

 use two or three years ago are now 

 manufactured at all. 



Current Comments. 



BY A COMMENTER. 



The Michigan Experimental Apiary 

 is being pretty well advertised of late, 

 owing to the discussion that has 

 sprung up in regard to the publication 

 of the reports that are given by Hon. 

 R. L. Taylor. 



Mrs. Jennie Atchley seems to get a 

 great amount of free advertising this 

 season. One would rather suppose 

 that if he ordered a queen from her 

 that he would have no cause to com- 

 plain with her manner of dealing. 



Editor Alley thinks that '93 has 

 been the dullest season that queen 

 breeders ever saw. Perhaps it was 

 for him, but we judge by the trouble 

 experienced in getting queens last 



