THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



attention that each advertiser can give his 

 oivn advertisement. However, advertisers 

 will always find us ready and (jlad to aid 

 them in getting up cuts, arranging new 

 advertisements or re-arranging old ones. 



SHALL CUB SPECIAL TOPICS BE ANNOUNCED 

 IN ADVANCE. 



Were we to publish all the commendatory 

 letters received, several pages of the Review 

 would be required each month. We don't 

 publish these letters because, as we have said 

 before, we think the space can be better 

 employed, and because we feel that the Re- 

 view can speak for itself. Whenever a criti- 

 cism is received we feel like publishing it. 

 If the Review can be made better, we would 

 be glad to know it. A little more than a 

 year ago one of the friends said that he 

 thought a freer discussion would be secured 

 if our comprehensive leaders were dropped, 

 and simply the subject announced in advance. 

 He said many men were modest and hesi- 

 tated to advance views opposed to those 

 already expressed. And now a good friend 

 over in Canada suggests that the announce- 

 ment of our topics a month in advance gives 

 other journals and their correspondents an 

 opportunity for discussing them before the 

 Review "gets around to it." Several times 

 we have noticed that, soon after we had 

 announced our special topic for the next 

 issue, articles upon the subject would appear 

 in other journals, and we have jokingly said 

 to ourselves : "There, that fellow is writing 

 upon our topic." But, seriously, we have no 

 objection to a man's writing to some other 

 journal upon a topic that we have announced 

 as our special topic for the next issue. To 

 make the story complete, we must go back a 

 little farther. About a year ago we seriously 

 thought of announcing the topics for a year 

 in advance. The only object was to give our 

 best apiarists, those who are so busy in 

 summer, time to write upon the special 

 topics during the leisure of winter. So 

 much did we think about the plan that we 

 wrote out all the objections that could be 

 urged against it, accompanied by the ad- 

 vantages, and sent the arguments to half a 

 dozen of our most experienced bee-keeping 

 friends, asking their advice. In the argu- 

 ments this very point that we are now dis- 

 cussing was touched upon. Mr. R. L. Taylor 

 said that possibly other journals might take 



up and discuss in advance some of the topics 

 that we had announced, but any journal fol- 

 lowing such a course would lose more than 

 it would gain. Prof. Cook said: "Suppose 

 the other journals do touch upon the subject 

 in advance, it will only whet the public ap- 

 petite for the more thorough discussion that 

 would eventually appear in the Review." 

 We decided not to announce the subjects 

 more than one month in advance, but the 

 decision did not turn upon the point now 

 under discussion. To illustrate the good 

 feeling, courtesy, kindness, and sincere de- 

 sire to arrive at the truth, that exists among 

 the bee keeping editors, we will give one 

 little incident touching upon the point under 

 discussion. For several mouths we had seen 

 the honey board question looming up, and 

 when it became so plainly visible at the 

 Chicago convention, we decided to make it 

 the subject for special discussion. Before 

 we made the announcement. Dr. Miller 

 wrote an article for Gleanings upon this 

 very subject, and its editor made a call for 

 articles upon the subject. In one sense it 

 had become his subject. While we were yet 

 undecided in the matter, we met Ernest Root 

 at Brantford. and told him that we had a 

 little hesitancy about taking up the subject 

 that had been already introduced by Glean- 

 ings. "Why," says he, "do you know that 

 I have several times been upon the point of 

 writing and asking you to take up this topic, 

 but supposed you had other plans made." 



Honestly, friends, we do not think it best 

 to dispense with the leaders, even if their pub- 

 lication should furnish the correspondents of 

 other journals with themes. It will not in- 

 jure the Review. All the journals are striv- 

 ing to arrive at the truth, and the harmony 

 with which they do their work is a matter for 

 thankfulness and congratulation. 



EXTRT^OTEO. 



How to Detect Foul Brood— Clean Hives and 

 No Combs the Remedy. 



J HE FOLLOWING essay was written 

 ko ])y our esteemed correspondent, Mr. 

 R. L. Taylor, who read it at the last 

 meeting of the Michigan state bee-kee])ers' 

 association. It is somewhat lengthy, but, as 

 its author has had much experience with 

 foul brood, and cured it, we make room for 



