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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



TWENTY PAGES AGAIN MAKES THE REVIEW 

 LATE. 



It will be remembered that the December 

 Review was about ten days late; well, by 

 hard work, enough matter was in type for 

 the January number by the 10th inst.; and 

 we were just thinkintr of making up the 

 forms, when the postman brought us two 

 long, but most valuable, communications 

 upon our special topic, as well as quite a 

 ' 'grist' ' of new advertisements. Unless extra 

 pages were added, it would be necessary for 

 the discussion of our present topic to "run 

 over' ' into the next issue. We decided to add 

 the extra pages, and that is why the Review 

 is a little late again this month. 



A NEW SWARM HIVER. 



still the new things come. This time it is 

 a swarm hiver, and Bro. Alley is the inven- 

 tor, we suppose. At least, he illustrates and 

 describes it in the Ajjiciilfurisf, and gives no 

 one credit. A hive all ready for the recep- 

 tion of a swarm is placed by the side of a 

 colony that is expected to swarm. The up- 

 per chamber is removed from two drone 

 traps, one placed in front of each hive, and 

 the two traps connected with a tube of per- 

 forated zinc. The cone which was in one of 

 the upper chambers is placed in the connect- 

 ing tube. In her efforts to join the swarm 

 the queen passes through this cone, which 

 prevents her from returning to the parent 

 hive, and she passes on into the new hive. 

 When the bees miss their queen and return, 

 they have no trouble in finding and joining 

 her in the new home. Even should the ma- 

 jority of the bees return to the old hive before 

 discovering the whereabouts of the queen, 

 they would soon join her when she was 

 found; at least, so says Bro. Alley. 



COMPOSING AND ARRANGING ADVERTISEMENTS. 



There are several methods of attracting 

 attention to an advertisement ; such as em- 

 ploying a large amount of space, using cuts, 

 putting on startling or peculiar headlines, 

 using large type or having it displayed in a 

 peculiar manner. Each advertisement ought 

 to have an attractive indivithiality all its 

 own; something different from the others. 

 We try to bring about this result with the 

 advertisements sent the Review. We strive 

 to make each and every advertisement so 

 peculiarly and individually attractive that 

 all will be read. We are thankful for the 

 help some of our advertisers have given us 



in this direction, and should be glad of assis- 

 tance from all. Come advertisers, "let us 

 reason together," and see to how high a state 

 of perfection we can bring the advertising 

 pages of the Review. Last March, the Re- 

 view contained a long editorial upon this 

 subject, and, if there are any advertisers 

 who have not seen it, we will gladly send 

 them the copy in which it appeared. 



OUGHT BEE KEEPERS TO STOP USING BASSWOOD 

 TIMBER? 



At the last meeting of the Michigan State 

 Bee Keepers' Association, held in Lansing, a 

 paper was read in which friend H. R. Board- 

 man deplored the ravages made upon our 

 basswood forest by the use of that timber in 

 the manufacture of sections. The question 

 was afterwards very energetically discussed. 

 It is quite likely that the basswood honey 

 flow might be materially decreased in the 

 immediate vicinity of some manufactory 

 where basswood is used in making sections; 

 but, taking the country as a whole, the use 

 of basswood for sections is but a drop in the 

 bucket compared to its uses for other pur- 

 poses. The manufacture of broom handles, 

 buggy and wagon boxes, barrel heads, paper, 

 and many other articles calling for a light, 

 tough wood, will eventually clean out the 

 basswood, possibly increase the price of 

 honey, and the non-use of basswood for sec- 

 tions would not perceptibly delay the time. 

 But let's don't worry about it; the universal 

 cultivation of some crop that produces won- 

 derful amounts of honey may spring up ere 

 the basswoods fail. 



THE SPECIAL TOPIC FOR THE NEXT NUMBER IS 

 TO BE FOUL BROOD. 



There is no apiary in which there is not a 

 'possihiUty that foul brood will sometime 

 appear, hence every bee keeper ought to be 

 able to distinguish it, and to know what to 

 do when he is so unfortunate as to find it in 

 his apiary. From reading the published 

 descriptions, many bee keepers form exag- 

 gerated ideas of the appearance of foul 

 brood, or rather of its appearance in its^Jirst 

 stages. They are looking for combs black 

 with slime and rottenness, a stench strong 

 enough to knock a man down, and colonies 

 dwindled to handfulls. Unless the bee 

 keeper keeps a sharp lookout, foul brood 

 may be in his ai)iary some little time before 

 it is known. At first, but a few cells of dis- 

 eased brood will be found. The dead larviB 

 has a look resembling coffee with milk in it. 



