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Id the iiuiltitvi«le of cou^st■lo^^^ I here is safety.— Pr. 11: U. 



At lust ai'couiits Mr. jiiul Mrs. A. I. Root wore 

 in Nfw Orleans, and cxprcti'd to visit Florida. 

 Tii(\v tliinU it will he inipD^siijlc for tlicin to go 

 to Cuba. At Xfw Orleans Mr. ivoot had one or 

 two slifilit attacks of chills: hiii we hope the 

 trouble will not be permanent. 



A i..\1{(;k amount of correspondenee which 

 we are unable to print furnishes i)lenty of evi- 

 dence to show that sealed covers, no upward 

 ventilation, and large entrances, are essentials 

 for successful outdoor wiiuvriug. Few if any 

 argue for absorbents and upward ventilation. 

 TIk' fact that the straws all blow the same way 

 is suggestive. _________ 



It has been rumored, though we are unable 

 to get hold of the exact information, that n cer- 

 tain Canadian association of bee-keepeisdeclar- 

 ed that the Porter bee-escape was objectionable 

 in that it tore the wings of liie bees. We can 

 hardly see how this is possible, but yet we 

 should like information, either from the ("anadi- 

 ans or any one else in a position to know. 



A FKW days ago a letter came to hand, bring- 

 ing the sad intelligence of the death of Mr. 

 Earle Clickinger. the well-know- commission 

 merchant of Columbus. As, no doubt, many 

 bee-keepers have sent him consignments of 

 honey, we are requested to announce that all 

 his affairs will l)e satisfactorily settled as soon 

 as possible. Mr. Clickinger died quite suddenly 

 when away from home on a business-trip. 



As evidence of the way tix(>d frames are be- 

 ing seli'cted. our sui)erintendent, Mr. Warner, 

 informs us that we are now turning out 500() 

 Hoffman frames every day. This rate has been 

 maintained ever since the first of .January. 

 I'rior to that we were making 3(XXJ a day. and 

 the demand seems to be increasing. At present, 

 fixed frames are outselling the loose ones ten 

 to one. This shows that bee-keepers who have 

 tested the fixed frames for a year or so back like 

 them. 



Jx'ST as we received notice of the discontinu- 

 ance of friend Andreu's enterprising sheet. V(j1. 

 I. No. 1 oi El C(jliiteneni Espanol ('Hie 8iiani>li 

 Apiary) comes to our table, published by En- 

 rique de Mercad(>r-Bellocli. at Barcelona. Spain. 

 It has It) pages the size of these, very nicely 

 printed. As indicative of the hold that modern 

 apiculture has already obtained on the minds of 

 the .Spanish people, we (inote the following: 



Bees sliould be kept only in modern or li-inu' 

 hives— the only ones wliidi, ;iccoi'dinfr to our mind, 

 sliouki be employed in tlie pnjduetion of lioiicy. 



The appearance of this journal is a sign in 

 the right direction, and we are glad to [dace it 

 on our list of valued exchanges. 



Wk had a very pleasant visit from Dr. C. C. 

 Miller. On the day of his arrival, Feb. )2, we 

 were just recovering from a severe attack of 

 earache and grip, and foi'tunately he came just 

 in time to heli) us out in our editorial work just 

 as the last forms of the Feburary numbcir wen; 

 nearly ready to go to press. He "was very much 

 plea.sed and interested in som«! of the new de- 

 velopemiits at the Home of the Hoiuiy-bees. 

 and especially admired the principle of the 



Cowan eMiaclor. While here he suggested a 

 new wrinkle, lie showed how we conld make 

 ibis machine iilnict Imllt shit's of llir fiunhs 

 ii'illniiil slopiiiiKj the c.rlniilin- \H>. not even so 

 much as reveising the crank. If he was awk- 

 ward with the Daisy foundalion-fasteiier (see 

 Sira\\s. this issue), he was vei'v expci't in ma- 

 nipulating the Cowan reversible extractor on 

 the new idea. He was the first to discover it . 

 so far as we know, and we will let him tell how 

 it is done, himself. 



A qfi';i<;N-i{i!K,i';i)i^:K asks our advice as to 

 whether it will pay him to advertise tested 

 (J ueens at .*!.:.'.■) and untested at ^l.fKi. It is im- 

 possible to answer this (juestion by yes or no. 

 as the success oi- failure of such advertising de- 

 pends upon several conditions. The queen- 

 breeder who advertises (pieeiis must advertise 

 continuously in order that the bee-keeping i)ub- 

 lic may become familiar with his name: and he 

 must do exactly as he agrees. Of all things 

 most ruinous to a queen-breeder's business, it 

 is to take the cash for an order, and tliiMi send 

 a qui'en a month or even longer after the queen 

 is ordered. Wlnui a bee-keejjer incloses casli 

 for a (|n(>en during the later spring ami early 

 summer months, he lias a good right to expect 

 her to be sent by return mail. When a man 

 suddenly discovers a hive is qu<M'nless. it may 

 be a great loss to him to have to wait a week 

 and sometimes a month for his (jueen. If any 

 of our advertisers delay their custoiners in this 

 way we should like to be informed of it. 



Wt; are able to publish only a few of the 

 many articles sent in on the subject of bounty 

 versus no bounty on honey. We should be glad 

 to give insertion to them all if we had the space, 

 but we fear so many might be wearisome to the 

 readei'S. Perhaps we can give the gist, of the 

 whole discussion in a nutshell. The decision 

 seems to be almost unanimous that a bounty on 

 honey is not desirable, even if feasible; that 

 bounties in general at best favor only a few at 

 the expense of the masses. One correspondent 

 says. " A bounty on honey is all nonsense, and 

 you just waste ink and labor in having it dis- 

 cussed in Gi-EAXiNGK. There are a hundred 

 industries needing and deserving a bounty just 

 as much as honey." The correspondent does 

 not add, but we suppose it is implied, that, if we 

 grant a bounty on every thing, our people would 

 be in a bad plight indeed. For the pre.sent. at 

 least, we shall have to cut oft' all further discus- 

 sion on the subject, as we are sure that the few- 

 articles we have already given suHiciently indi- 

 cate the general feeling. 



It has been darkly hinted by one or two cor- 

 respondents that we have rejected communica- 

 tions, either because they were at variance 

 with some of our " pet ideas," or because there 

 was a prospect of their cutting oft' our bread 

 and butter. Editors may be biased in tlieii- 

 opinions: we may be, but we certainly do not 

 desire or intend to l)e. We have often taken 

 pains to give special prominence to certain 

 sides of discussion that were contrai-y to otir 

 beliefs and experience: and we think that tin- 

 pages of our journal will carry us out in this 

 as.sertion. If we suppress communications l)e- 

 cause they happen to differ from our views, we 

 are unconscious of it. As we said in the Bce- 

 keepers' Revieir. we say now, " sail into " the 

 editor if you think he is giving currency to or is 

 encouraging wrong ideas: but do it kindly. 

 We desire above all things that GLi-:AxrxGS 

 shall be unbiased and fair on all subjects. We 

 arc sometimes obliged to leave out matter sim- 

 ply because of some peculiar condition or cir- 

 cumstance. One of these coudilious mav be 

 lack of room; and th(Mi there may be a dozen 



