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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



w. z. HDTCHIHSON. Editor and ProDiietor. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. FEB. 10. 1893. 



' ' Something with its ears cut off, ' ' 

 is the wa}' Bro. Leahy describes the ap- 

 pearance of the plain section. 



Section-cleaners having a dis/c cov- 

 ered with sand paper, such as E. R. Root 

 says he now has " in his head," are de- 

 cidedly fault}^ writes Mr. Aspinwall; and 

 he promises to tell all about it in the 

 next Review. 



T. S. Ford, of Scranton, Mississippi, 

 died last November; as I have just learn- 

 ed by a letter from his son. Mr. Ford 

 was a very pleasant writer, and gave us 

 some of the 1)est articles that have been 

 written on bee paralysis. 



As A Writer of discriptive prose, es- 

 pecially in regard to travels, I used to 

 think that Mr. Root stood at the head of 

 the bee-keeping editors; and I am still in- 

 clined to that opinion; but he must look 

 to his laurels now that Bro. Leahy has 

 started in on that line. 



A Pure Food Congress is to l)e held 

 in Washington, on March 2nd. The Bee- 

 Keepers' Union is entitled to send three 

 delegates. It is quite likely that the 

 General Manager will go and probably 

 one or two other members, but at this 

 writing it is not definitely settled as to 

 who will go. The object of this congress 

 is to discuss the need of legislation on 

 the adulteration of foods, and how best 

 to secure it. 



Mr. J. K. Crane has a most excellent 

 and readable article in this issue regard- 

 ing the comparative merits of Italian and 

 black bees. I have only one comment to 

 make, and that is, if the Italians are not 

 superior, how does it happen that they 

 have been so universally adopted and 

 held in such high esteem for so many 

 years ? 



consoi,id.\ting the two bee-keepers' 



unions. 



There is an old saying that no question 

 is ever really settled until it is settled 

 light; and this saying is well illustrated 

 by this matter of the amalgamation of the 

 two Unions. This matter has been under 

 consideration now for some three or four 

 years, and I believe that it has been ear- 

 nestly desired by the well informed rank 

 and file of both organizations. This is 

 shown by the vote taken at the last meet- 

 ing of the California bee-keepers. Cali- 

 fornia is now really the home of the old 

 Union; 3et. at the vote just mentioned, 

 forty-three members voted to have the 

 old Union absorbed b}- the new, and not 

 one voted against it. At the Buffalo 

 meeting the vote in favor of amalgama- 

 tion was also unanimous. I feel sure 

 that if the matter could now be put to 

 vote, that amalgamation would be carried 

 unanimously. What is there to hinder 

 such a vote being taken now ? 



" R.A.THER ExcivUSivE," is the criticism 

 that one good brother makes on the Re- 

 view. Then he modifies it by saying that 

 it has " seemingly been rather exclusive. " 

 He does not think that this has been in- 

 tentional on my part, and finally closes 

 by saying, " I dotibt not but that it is a 

 diflicult matter for one to aim at a high 

 standard, and avoid this." 



How difficult it is to see ourselves as 

 others see us. This is the last criticism 

 that I should have thought of as being 

 deserved by the Review. My only thought 

 has been to secure the best possible mat- 



