THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



307 



Editor Hill says there is one universal 

 rule for all cases of moving bees; and 

 that is always carry a wad of cotton to 

 stop unexpected leaks. He has a right 

 to talk about moving bees, having moved 

 a hundred indescribable hives in Cuba on 

 carts and on mule back — more than half 

 of said hives being so rotten as to require 

 winding with t-ope to commence with. A. 

 B. K., 121. 



Ed. Jolley says our trouble is [as to 

 prices and such matters] that honey has 

 got to a lower plane in relation to other 

 ])ioduce. The shoes we buy have come 

 down 50 per-cent; but the honey we pay 

 for them with has come down 60 per- 

 cent. The shoe man has more than made 

 good his loss by improved machinery. 

 He can make shoes now for less than half 

 what it used to cost him. We poor chaps, 

 having failed to invent the cheap-honey- 

 into-beeswax chemical machine, have 

 been unable to reduce our cost of pro- 

 duction by nearly so much as one half 

 (let alone the 60 per-cent that is called 

 for) therefore we are short just the dis- 

 crepancy. A. B. K., 99. 



In the same number Mr. Doolittle has 

 an article on the other side of the low 

 prices controversy. In the course of it 

 he presents this little eye-opener, which 

 any complete rationale of our fiscal situ- 

 ation must be able to account for as well 

 as for other declines. In 1874 he paid 

 Iron an acre on his 30 acre place. Now it 

 would be hard to sell it for I50 an acre, 

 although the buildings are good. Per- 

 haps we had better admit that there are 

 more things in earth [Horatio] than our 

 philosophy gets around to include. And 

 when two writers wade into economics it 

 is rather the rule than the exception for 

 both, in bland unconsciousness, to lay 

 ilown as axioms of truth old, rotten ex- 

 uviae of the world's twilight, which the 

 world's better to-morrow will call self- 

 evident lies. 



Richards, Ohio; Oct. 6. iSg-S. 



;:|\ EDITORIAL 



fferings. 



The Frontispiece this month shows 

 the home-apiary of Mr. Byron Walker, 

 of Evart Michigan. Last month the 

 back-ground of the frontispiece was char- 

 acteristic or Northern Michigan — this 

 month it is the fore-ground. Trout-brook 

 is the very appropriate name of the lit- 

 tle stream that goes rippling around the 

 rear of friend Walker's little farm 

 — and yet, he says he has never cast 

 a hook into it. Friend Walker, I be- 

 lieve you ought to play and go fishing 

 more than you do. 



Bro. York gave me a warm welcome 

 during the hour or two that I could stop 

 while on my wa}- home from the fairs. 

 We went out and took dinner together at 

 a restaurant, and he told me about the 

 Omaha convention, and made me wish I 

 had been there. In one thing he was 

 disappointed, and that was in the num- 

 ber present. He thinks now that the 

 best thing we can do is to meet when the 

 G. A. R. folks have their annual encamp- 

 ment. We are then sure of low rates. 

 Philadelphia will probably be the next 

 place of meeting. The American Bee 

 Journal is giving a very full report of the 

 Omaha meeting. 



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Bro. Root of Gleanings has secured 

 the services of Mr. Dadant to help him 

 out in this discussion on large versus 

 small hives. This is all right; as facts 

 are facts regardless of who sets them 

 forth. It should not be forgotten, how- 

 ever, that Mr. Dadant will write from the 

 experience of an extracted honey produ- 

 cer; while the late discussion has been car- 

 ried on almost wholly as regards the pro- 

 duction of comb honey. In the production 

 of extracted honey the size of the hive 

 matters very little, provided it is large 

 enough. In producing comb honey the 



