THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



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The + Bee-Keepers' + Eeview, 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor & Proprietor. 



TERMS:— 50 cents a year in advance, two 

 copies for 95 cents; three for $1.35; five for $2.00; 

 ten or more, 35 cents each; all to be sent to one 

 POST OFFICE. In clubs to difiEerent post offices, 

 NOT liEBS than 45 cents each. 



FLINT, MICHIGAN. MARCH 10. 1890. 



Twenty pages again. If we hadn't done 

 it, the Review would have been half adver- 

 tising. Thank you, friends. 



MOKE PLEASED ADVERTISEKS. 



The publication last month of a letter 

 from friend Eaton, in which he mentioned 

 the excellence of the Review as an advertis- 

 ing medium, has reminded other advertisers 

 that, although well pleased, they haven't 

 said anything about it. Mr. John Andrews, 

 of Patten's Mills N. Y., now writes, " I don't 

 understand why it is, but I get more orders 

 from my advertisement in the Review than 

 from all other sources combined." R. B. 

 Williams, of Winchester, Tenn., says: "I 

 have received more than 100 responses to my 

 card in the December number." Were it 

 not that those advertising in the Review only 

 have expressed their satisfaction, we should 

 almost be led to believe that our friends 

 are giving the Review preference in men- 

 tioning where advertisements are seen. 



THE KEE8E-DIBBEKN-POBTEB BEE-ESOAPE. 



All unknown to each other, Mr. C. H. Dib- 

 bern and Mr. E. C. Porter have so changed 

 the Reese bee-escape that it can be used in 

 a honey board, or in the bee-space under it. 

 Both of these gentlemen appear to have 

 been original in conceiving the idea of fast- 

 ening the cones (so-called) to a piece of tin 

 slightly larger than the outer cone, so that 

 by cutting a hole in the escape-l)oard the 

 escape may be dropped into it and be sup- 

 ported by the projecting edge of tin. About 

 all the difference now existing between the 

 two styles is that the Dibbern is made of 

 wire cloth while the Porter is of perforated 

 tin. 



A few days ago we received from Mr. Por- 

 ter another bee-escape which is the most 

 unique and ingenious thing in this line that 



we have seen. In some future number we 

 may illustrate and describe it. The cone 

 principle is not used. Compared with the 

 others, it is very small in proportion to the 

 amount of exit room ; and when the bees 

 once passed out, there is no possibility of 

 their returning. 



THE KEVIEW IS Pl'.OSPEEING. 



Its subscription list is rajiidly growing. 

 The demand upon its advertising space was 

 never greater. As the result of orders for 

 back numbers and requests for samples, the 

 pile of back numl)ers in the chamber is rap- 

 idly growing less. We suppose all this is the 

 natural result of publishing a good journal 

 and letting the jiKbHc know it. From the 

 very outset, the Review has been thoroughly, 

 carefully and persistently advertised. Just 

 notice our advertisements in the other jour- 

 nals. In the preparation of one of these, we 

 have spent half a day. When the matter is 

 finally " set up " c.ractly to suit us, we have 

 it electrotyped and send the electrotypes to 

 the other journals. Although we have sent 

 out thousands and thousands of sample 

 copies, and have advertised the Review more 

 than two years, the demand for samples is 

 actually increasing. It is no more, however, 

 than should be expected from continued 

 advertising. 



SEPABATION OF THE CANADIAN BEE AND 

 POULTRY JOUENAL. 



Hereafter, the Canadian Bee Journal 

 and the Poultry Weekly will be published 

 separately ; each being changed to a 24-page 

 semi-monthly at 7.5 cts. a year, or |1.00 for 

 both papers. This is a move in the right 

 direction. For the general farmer, we have 

 agricultural journals devoted to the cultiva- 

 tion of grain, stock raising, gardening, fruit 

 culture, bees, poultry, etc., and they answer 

 their purpose well, but when a man makes a 

 specialty of some one of these branches of 

 rural industry, he then wishes a journal de- 

 voted to that business as a specialty, not 

 one mixed up with some other specialty for 

 for which he cares little or nothing. W^hen 

 sending in their renewals, many subscribers 

 cannot resist the inclination to say a few 

 kind and cheering words, and such letters 

 sometimes close with something like the 

 following : "I hope you will always keep the 

 Review exactly as it is ; not go to mixing in 



