1898 



GIvKANINGS IN BEE CUIvTURE. 



861 



What Others Think 



Of the Bee-Keepers' Review. 





My Bee-keeping Friend: — If you really knew how good a journal the Bee-keepers' Re- 

 view has become, you would soon be one of its subscribers. It is my honest belief that, in call- 

 ing your attention to its merits, I am doing you (as well as myself ) a real benefit. One way in 

 which I can do this is by allowing you to see what others think of it. During the past year I 

 have received hundreds of letters praising the Review ; and from them I select the following : 



TT7HE Review was never 

 414 quite equal to what it 

 is now. I was ju.st 

 glancing over a bundle of 

 letters when my eye took 

 in the last number of the 

 Review that the clerk had 

 laid on the desk. The let- 

 ters were immediately put 

 down and the Review tak- 

 en up. After I had glanced 

 through it pretty thorough- 

 ly the question came to me, 

 " What makes the Review 

 so crisp, and why is it that 

 I take it up so quickly 

 when it comes ? Is it be- 

 cause the editor quotes very 

 largely from Gleanings in 

 his Extracted Department?" No, not exactly, al- 

 though that is a delicate compliment to Gleanings; it 

 is because the editor throws his whole being into his 

 paper. He loves it and his readers. — E. R. Root, editoi 

 of Gleanings. 



^^^: ^~^^^^flH^HHIi^H 7 T NDER the keen coni- 

 r^il petition which now 

 obtains among high- 

 class periodicals, any 

 marked degieeof success 

 comes only to the publish- 

 er of peculiar adaptabili- 

 ty. The uninterrupted 

 progress of the Review 

 may be attributed to a 

 rare combination of the 

 qualifications possessed 

 by its editor and publish- 

 er, .so es.sential to the up- 

 building of a popular bee- 

 keepers' niagazine. An 

 active mind, ever vigilant 

 in behalf of its patrons, 

 backed by mechanical ge- 

 nius and mature experi- 

 ence in the apiary, together with a clear, pleasing 

 style of expression; modest, yet unaffectedly dignified 

 and husines.s-like; with a most delicate conception of 

 the beauties of Nature and harmony in art, can not 

 but be productive of a work most gratifying to the 

 cultured tastes which spring from that sublime con- 

 ception of Nature which is an inherent part of every 

 true bee-master. — H. E. Hill, editor Arner. Bee-keeper. 



0EAR Hutchinson, I 

 have been intend- 

 ing for some time 

 to write you my apprecia- 

 tion of the Review, but 

 this has been an excep- 

 tionally bus3' season with 

 us, anS the writing has 

 been put off until now. 

 Permit me to congratu- 

 late you on the splendid 

 journal that you are mak- 

 ing. When you started 

 out with the eight extra 

 pages I had my appre- 

 liensions as to your being 

 able to keep them filled 

 with the interesting mat- 

 ter for which the Review 

 has been so generally noted, Ijut I am pleased to no- 

 ice that there has been no deterioration. Your cor- 

 respondents are tlie be.st apiarists of our land; and 

 nearly all of the new thoughts and ideas in apiculture 

 come to us through the Review. With the best of 

 wishes for your succe.ss, I am yours truly, R. B. I.eahy, 

 editor of the Progressive Bee-keeper. 



I' SUPPOSE publishers 

 are like ordinary mor- 

 tals in that they appre- 

 ciate words of commenda- 

 tion from the reading pub- 

 lic to which they cater ; 

 therefore, I beg to say, I 

 like the Review, and here 

 are .some of the rea.sons 

 why I like it. 



First, becau.se it is well 

 edited. 



Second, because it is well 

 printed on good paper. 



Third, because its con- 

 tributors are among the 

 best writers on bee culture 

 in America. 



Fourth, because it has no 

 fads. 

 Fifth, because it has high ideals of litetarj- style, 

 and at the same time tries to be helpful to practical 

 bee-keeper-i. 



Sixth, becau.'e I like its editor, and count him 

 among inv warm per.sonal friend. — Eugene .Secor, 

 Manager ('. .S. Bee-keepers' i'liion. 





As I have said before, once a r&aWy good bee-journal visits a bee-keeper a whole year, it 

 usually becomes a permanent member of his family ; and, for the sake of getting the Review 

 into the hands of new readers for this " first year," I am making the following offer : 



Send me SI. 00 and I will send you twelve back numbers, the Review for the rest of this 

 year and all of ue.vf year. The sooner you subscribe the more you get. 



^-?5:-5i5!3e-:&:S-es-* 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, 



Flint, Mich. 



