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(JLEANINCiS IN HKE CULTURE. 



best moiKiy-nuiUois in tlic apiary. lie(vl<eepers 

 who say Uiat the special mclliods or plans of 

 anoliicr earcfiil and inteliigenl boe-koeper will 

 not work should be careful themselves to ob- 

 serve the conditions; because, if Mr. A has 

 found something that will save him a good 

 many dollars in a season, Mr. H can not afford 

 to declare it a failure just from a txvrtUtl trial. 

 Tlie old saying, that " what man has done, man 

 can do." is a proverb that sometimes means 

 many dollars to the one who thoroughly be- 

 lieves it. 



THE GIVEN PKESS. 



In the December Bee-keepers' Revieu\ Bro. 

 Hutchinson has this to say of this excellent 

 machine: 



It is very pleasant to know tlia( brig-lit, i)ractical 

 men seem to have a way of g-etting at the truth of 

 tilings pretty closely witiiout recourse to such elab- 

 orate processes as appear in tills iiioiith's report 

 from the Michigan Experiment Apiaiy. Messis. 

 Heddon, Taylor, E. J. Oatman, Dr. Mason, and some 

 others, have declared in favor not only of Given 

 fouiuiatlon, hut of using quite heavy foundation 

 of this make in sections. Their argument was, that 

 the iiress put the wa.v in the walls of the foundation, 

 leaving it soft, because it was not subjected to 

 pressure, while the base was left very thin. In the.se 

 experiments it will be seen that the lightest foun- 

 dation, 13.75 to the foot, gives a sei)tura T3.3ten-thou- 

 santltlis of an inch, while Given foundation of 9 37 

 pounds to the foot shows a septum of only 63 ten- 

 thousandths of an inch, the thinnest septum of any 

 in the test. Not onlj^ this, but foundation from the 

 press gave the best results in the weight of honey 

 produced. Years ago, when foundation was discuss- 

 ed at conventions, the Given always came out ahead, 

 and it has always been a puzzle to me wliy the man- 

 ufaetuie of the press was dropped, and why maiui- 

 facturt'rs did not offer Given foundation for sale. 

 Tile only reason that ever came to my mind was, 

 that it seemed to me that it would be more work to 

 make foundation on the press. I think now that, if 

 the I'ight man should take up the making- of the 

 press, or the making of foundation on tlie press, 

 success would follow. There is one or two points 

 that 1 do not understand clearly; and that is, why 

 the press can make foundaiinii with a thinner base, 

 or, at least, make such a base that the bees leave it 

 thinner, than can be done with rollers, and why tlie 

 side walls are left softer than with a mill. The col- 

 umns of the Review UTe t)pen for discussion of this 

 foundation question, and c()ntril)ulions on either or 

 any side will lie more than welcome. 



For the past two or three months we have se- 

 riously contemplated the manufacture of these 

 presses; and even before Bro. Hutchinson's edi- 

 torial came out wo had fully decided to do so; 

 and since then we are "decideder" than ever. 

 Of course, we shall keep right on making the 

 roller foundation-mills. In two or three months 

 we hope to have Given presses ready for market. 



The special merit of the tJiven press, how- 

 ever, for the average bee-keeper, lies in the fact 

 that any one can make foundation with these 

 machines; while with the roller-mills, founda- 



tion-making is almost a trade in itself. For the 

 large manufacturer, the rolls will be much more 

 rapid, and give a ratlier liner grade of founda- 

 tion. We do not think the bees will wor/c rolled 

 foundation any better, but it looks nicer. 



OUK NEW " MAKE-UI'." 



\Vei,l. how do you \'\kv, our new make-up? 

 This is one of the changes that we had contem- 

 plated last fall, but thought we would say noth- 

 ing about it until the time came. VVe think 

 neai'ly every one of our subscribers will wel- 

 come the change. It is true, we lose about a 

 tifth of the room that we had before when the 

 type was not leaded. How are we going to 

 make up for the difference? VVe are going to 

 give you plainer print to read, more nearly after 

 the style of the Century, Scrlbiier's, Cosmo- 

 />o/it(in, and other standard magazines. In the 

 matter of journalism, the reading public care 

 not so much for ([Udntity as for quality. In 

 other words, a subscriber will go to that jour- 

 nal whose editor will do the most editorial sift- 

 ing, for him — that is, in a sense do much of the 

 reading for him. Ideas on paper should be as 

 "getatable" as possible. Fine type or close 

 printing, no matter how excellent the subject- 

 matter, nor how well worded, involves a certain 

 amount of effort in extracting the idea. This 

 effort produces a sort of friction, in a short 

 time, that amounts to weariness. It is the edi- 

 tor's and publisher's business to save the reader 

 as much work as possible. We believe that Bro. 

 Hasty, a year or so ago, credited us with print- 

 ing the greatest number of words of any of the 

 bee-journals. That being the case, our readers 

 can afford to have a slightly less amount of 

 reading-matter, provuled the difference is made 

 up in quality. Our purpose is, and will be, to 

 give both quality and quantity; that we have 

 met the issue is evidenced by our big subscrip- 

 tion list. 



Last year, with our closely printed pages we 

 rejected about half of the manuscripts that 

 came to us; and not only that, we solicited 

 many articles that we had to pay a considera- 

 ble sum of money for— articjes that we should 

 not have received except by sending personal 

 requests for them. This year the same plan is 

 to be carried out as before, but " more so,"' as 

 the boy said. 



N. B.— All of A. I. R.'s matter will be set 

 close— in type "unleaded," as before, because, 

 he says, his matter was sifted down before as 

 close as he could get it. 



IMPOKTANCE OF FULL. ADDKKS.SES. 



Some two or three weeks ago we received, al- 

 most in the same mail,some two or three letters, 

 in each of which the writer said he had written 

 from two to three times to have his journal stop- 

 ped, and still he could not prevent its coming. 

 Of course, they each expressed themselves as 

 very indignant, and we on our part were sur- 



