THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



stant and increased danger of handling 

 such combs? The very thought of 

 such sections is a thought of danger. 

 Either the shipping - cases will have 

 to be more perfect, or the one-piece sec- 

 tion abandoned. Sections that are not 

 square will creep into or against one 

 another in shipment, aud no method now 

 in use will prevent it. The least side- 

 shake will be a menace, and separators 

 between the rows will be as indispensable 

 in the shipping-case as in the super. 



There is also a touch of art in the mat- 

 ter. Any one familiar with architecture 

 knows the beauty of projecting edges and 

 borders. Do the advocates of this form- 

 less "chunk-honey" realize how thin, 

 meager and lean it will look ? Take 

 away the projecting edge from a section 

 of honey, and we see sweetness without 

 ornament. 



The plain sections will cause the bee- 

 keeper extra expense, the shipper extra 

 danger, the merchant extra care, and will 

 be a violation of the accepted lines of art 

 and beauty. 



If they possess any advantages it will 

 be desirable to hear from tlio.sc who have 

 used them and can speak of their virtues, 

 l)efore we make any changes. 



F.\KWKr,i., Mich. Jan. S, iSgS. 



\vi:i.l-riim:m-:i) honey. 



Us Sii|)cri(irity to that Just Sealed (hei 

 A I'diiiter in Wax-Reiuleriiin;. 



.ARTHUR C. MII.I.KR. 



The following is a private letter, but 1 obtain- 

 ed pormision to print it. —Ed. 



MV dear Mr. Hutchinson, The Review 

 of the loth ult. is at hand and I take 

 your general request personally, as in the 

 past. I agree with you fully in regard 

 to the improved appearance of the paper 



in type and paper as w'ell as make - up. 

 For several jears past I have not been 

 so situated that I could take an active in- 

 terest in bee culture, although I have at 

 no time been entirely without them. The 

 matter which occurs to me at present 

 most forcibly, and which is most likel}- to 

 be of interest to you, was suggested by 

 the remarks of Mr. Hasty in regard to 

 the consumption of poor honey and par- 

 ticularly of comb honey, which is taken 

 off the moment the sections are sealed- 

 The whole matter of honey consumption, 

 as with man}' other issues of the present 

 time, calls for a campaign of education; 

 it is slow, I know, and its results are often 

 apparently very slight. I have, for some 

 years, been educating my acquaintances 

 in the purchase of box honey in the mar- 

 kets; telling them to pick out the yellow- 

 est combs, being careful to make a dis- 

 tiction between dark combs and dark 

 honey. It has been but little words drop- 

 ped now and then, here and there, but I 

 have found they have produced mark- 

 ed results. Friends who have, as you 

 say, become tired of honey, have taken it 

 up again on my suggestions, and have ex- 

 pressed themselves as again acquiring a 

 liking for it. 



I am very glad to see that you and Mr. 

 .A.spinwall are forcing the matter of smooth 

 .sections (without entrance spaces) on the 

 attention of your readers. While I have 

 not been a very exten.sive experimenter 

 in these lines, I have done enough to 

 ])rove most of your statements. Mr. As- 

 pinwall lias succeeded in perfecting a sec- 

 tion ca.se such as I have long desired; as 

 often happens, where people are working 

 along in the same lines, I have very 

 closely on several occasions approached 

 his invention, but just far enough off to 

 mi.ss its prefection. But I know from my 

 own experience that his is bound to be 

 satisfactory . 



In your general request for notes and 

 information I fear you did not fully con- 

 sider what you were calling down upon 

 yourself. Doubtless, you will get plenty 

 of replies; but I am sorry for you in en- 



