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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



you and the Review renewed success with 

 a prosperous future. 



BranchvilLE, S. C. Jan. lo, 1S98. 

 [The forei^oing is a private letter, but I 

 have obtained permission to print it. It 

 contains one thought upon which I wish 

 to say a few words; and that is in regard 

 to the importance of and interest in edi- 

 torials. I know that, as a rule, I find 

 myself reading the editorials of the other 

 journals first, and I have sometimes won- 

 dered wherein lay their attractiveness or 

 charm. I used to think that, perhaps, it 

 was because an editor, having so much 

 experience in writing, had learned to put 

 things in a pleasing, interesting way; and 

 I am .still somewhat inclined to that view; 

 but my own experience leads me to place 

 above that the fact that there is continu- 

 ally passing through his hands a stream 

 of correspondence; and in this way he is 

 led to look at things from various points 

 of view. L,et a beekeeper attend a con- 

 vention and hear a thorough discussion 

 of some topic, and he can go home and tell 

 a neighboring bee-keeper some very inter- 

 esting things on this subject; and do it in 

 a very feiv ivords. Well, an editor is con- 

 tinually in a convention, so to speak, and 

 is thus continually absorbing knowledge; 

 and when he comes to express himself he 

 is full and running over. 



Readers, the fuller you fill your editor 

 with facts and ideas, the stronger and bet- 

 ter will be the " overflow." — Ed.] 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



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FLINT. MICHIGAN MAR. 10. 1893. 



CAijifORNTA bee-keepers do not con* 

 sider the prospects ver}' bright for a cro]) 

 of honey the coming season. 



The ITnited States Bee-Keepers' 

 Union now has over 300 members. 



A German Text Book for bee-keep- 

 ers has been written by Mr. J. F. Eggers, 

 of Grand Island, Nebraska; and it is the 

 intention to have it out before the opening 

 of the approaching season. 



Mr. Aspinw.\li,'s article came so late 

 this month, on account of a little sick 

 spell on his part, that, in order to use it, 

 other matter already in type would have 

 to be thrown out, and I thought be.st to 

 let it run over until the next issue. 



THE INFU'ENCE OF .\ DAZZLING WHITE 

 COLOR UPON A BEE'S VISION. 



Mr. W. H. Pridgen of North Carolina, 

 w'rites as follows: 



On page 25, Bro. Hasty suggests that 

 the bees from a portion of a house painted 

 white may have been influenced, by 

 working on white flowers at the time, to 

 return to an empty white portion ; intimat- 

 ing that they can not distinguish the side 

 of a house from a flower of the same col- 

 or; and then he justifies Mr. Beckwith in 

 his "whack at Mr. Doolittle for his asser- 

 tion that bees learn nothing." Say, Bro. 

 H., "Where are you at?" 



I rather guess that those bees were tak- 

 ing their first exercise on the wing, and had 

 never seen a flower; also that the sun was 

 shining on that portion of the house, and 

 they were attracted by the the dazzling 

 whiteness. 



On leaving a newly painted, white hive, 

 facing so that the sun shines brightly on 

 it above the entrance, bees often act as 

 though they were magnetized; and bob 

 along up like a fly on a window pane, 

 apparently making a great effort to es- 

 cape. 



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Sections in which the insets extend 

 not only the whole length of the top and 

 bottom bars, but also a short distance up- 

 on the uprights, are advocated by Mr. 

 A. F. Brown, of Florida and Mr. W. H. 

 Norton, of Maine. I have articles from 



