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GI.EANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 1. 



Noins de plume are all right enough in their 

 way ; but when a writer, in order to screen 

 hitnself , uses an assumed name in order to cast 

 slurs at a brother-man, he is little better than 

 a coward who skulks behind a tree to throw 

 stones. If a correspondent wishes to correct 

 abuses, or "straighten up " some erring broth- 

 er, let him come out fair, over his own name. 

 Mud-slinging communications over a uoiii de 

 pliijue, and anonymous letters, belong to the 

 same category, and have been put under the 

 ban by our best people. 



The Dec. 15th issue of ih& Bee- keepers' Re- 

 view is a most pleasant surprise. It comes out 

 in a new tinted cover, heavier paper, new 

 type (like this), and is, moreover, very thor- 

 oughly and nicely illustrated. A unique fea- 

 ture of this number is the use of a frontispiece 

 printed on a fine heavy grade of plated paper, 

 showing a characteristic sample of foul brood. 

 The contributed articles are good, and the ed- 

 itorial work itself is up to Mr. Hutchinson's 

 own high standard. By changing a single 

 word I can honestly adopt the very sentence 

 that friend Hutchinson used in reference to 

 Gleanings; viz., " I am proud of the Re- 

 viezi\ even if it is not my own journal." 



THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPOSITION. 

 The grounds for the Trans-^NIississippi and 

 International Exposition to be held at Omaha, 

 Neb., June 1st to Nov. 1st, 1898, are fast as- 

 suming the proportions that assure its becom- 

 ing the grandest exposition since the Coluni- 

 bian, held at Chicago, and in many features it 

 will excel that great exposition. lu the bu- 

 reau of bee-industries this promises to be the 

 finest the. world has ever witnessed, and ar- 

 rangements are being made to erect a separate 

 building for this bureau, which will be after a 

 modern style of architecture, and whose in- 

 side arrangements will be the most complete, 

 with the t^^reatest amount of light possible, 

 both from the sides as well as from the roof. 

 The exhibition -cases will be erected with the 

 building, and, in addition to the usual style 

 of glass sides and ends, will be covered with 

 glass so as to emit the light from above, m or- 

 der to prevent shading the honey, placed on 

 exhibition, from any direction. 



Convenient operating-rooms will be arrang- 

 ed in this building for the convenience of ex- 

 hibitors in filling their exhibition-jars, and 

 for reliquefying honev whenever occasion de- 

 mands. It is proposed to allow exhibitors to 

 replace portions of their exhibits in honey of 

 1897 with the crop of 1898 whenever they so 

 desire Plans for this building are now being 

 formulated, and we hope to furnish our read- 

 ers with a cut of the same, together with a 

 description of its interior arrangements before 

 long. The opportunity for bee-keepers to 



show the wonderful progress of this industry 

 in the United States, as well as to increase the 

 sale of supplies in the great Northwest, where 

 this industry is making strides beyond the 

 comprehension of many, should not be lost 

 on this occasion. Commissioner Whitcomb, 

 who will be in charge of this bureau, will 

 spare no pains to make the stay of bee-keep- 

 ers in this bureau as pleasant as possible. 



A NEW SPANISH BEE-JOURNAI.. 



We have received from the publishers, 

 Messrs. P. Robledo & Co., of Santiago, Chile, 

 the first (June) and subsequent issues of El 

 Apiciiltor Chileno ( The Chilean Apiculturist). 

 The pages are the size of this, and Ifi of them. 

 The typography is excellent, and the contents 

 good, though necessarily largely of a selected 

 nature, as our Chilean f iends are as yet satis- 

 fied to learn from the rest of the world rather 

 than to undertake to teach. That the editor 

 realizes the task he has set before himself is 

 evident from his first paragraph. He says : 

 ' ' We have been obliged in our work to take 

 the bees themselves as an example of patience 

 in order to embolden us for the task we have 

 before us. To get up an apicultural review, 

 and especially a review which in its teachings 

 will be contrary to the system already in 

 vogue in this country, and against methods 

 now well understood, seems to be too bold a 

 piece of audacity." That's the spirit that's 

 bound to win, every time. We shall take 

 pleasure in recommending this journal to all 

 who unders'and Spanish. The first thing the 

 editor undertakes is a defense of movable 

 frames against the old system, which alone 

 in licates the backward condition of bee-keep- 

 ing in that land. It is edited bv Juan Dupont- 

 Lafitte. 



THREE COMMISSION HOUSES. 



I HAVE sometimes wondered if it would not 

 be a good idea to make special mention of 

 those commission houses that always do as 

 they would be done b}^ To single out one or 

 two would almost give the impression that the 

 others were not doing as well, when, indeed, 

 they may be giving just as good satisfaction, 

 but we have not the knowledge of the deals. 

 I'll risk speaking of one or two, at all events. 

 As we are doing quite a business in buying 

 and selling honey, we find ourselves obliged 

 to turn ovtr considerable of it to commission 

 houses. We have sold quite a lot in this way 

 to the Columbus Commission & Storage Co., 

 of Columbus, O. ; and although this is a com- 

 paratively new firm, it has always given us 

 prompt and satisfactory returns. 



Still another firm de.serves special mention, 

 and that is R. A. Burnett & Co., of Chicago. 

 A month or so ago a customer in California 

 asked us our opinion of this firm, stating that 

 he had an offer from them on a carload of hon- 

 ey, and that he would accept it if we considered 

 them as O. K. We wrote him that we had al- 

 ways heard good reports of them, and that he 

 would be perfectly safe to trust them. A few 

 days ago a letter came, thanking us for the in- 

 formation, and adding that the carload of hon- 



