THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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and Dibbern. All replied, but there isn't 

 room, in this number, to publish their re- 

 plies. We may give them in the next issue. 

 It is evident that bee escapes do not work 

 satisfactorily under all conditions. They 

 must be used with reason — some ind ace- 

 men f must be offered the bees. 



THE WESTERN APIARIAN. 



This journal has improved typographically 

 — there was certainly room in this direc- 

 tion — and its editors are working hard to 

 make a good paper. The last issue was print- 

 ed with type having a very neat face — ^we 

 should think it the same with which the 

 Queen Breeders^ Journal was printed. If 

 the people of the far West really desire a 

 journal peculiarly their own, and it would 

 seem that they might, they ought to rally 

 now to the support of this journal. 



KEEP MISCELI.ANEOUS MATTER OUT OF THE 

 BEE-JOUENALS. 



We are glad to see that the bee-journals 

 have about abandoned the idea of sandwich- 

 ing humor, fiction and general mii-cellany 

 in with their regular matter. If a man de- 

 sires humorous reading, he can find it in pe- 

 riodicals devoted to that subject — far supe- 

 rior to that which the l)ee-journals can 

 afford to buy. The same is true of fiction, 

 etc. There is just one thing in which a bee- 

 journal can out-do the world, and that is in 

 furnishing information upon jipiculture ; 

 and the closer it sticks to its legitimate busi- 

 ness, the greater will be its success. 



BEGINNERS OUGHT TO READ TEXT BOOKS 



Some have subscribed for the Review ; 

 allowed several months to elapse before re- 

 newing, after their time was out, then ex- 

 cused the delay by saying that they were 

 beginners, and had found the Review " too 

 deep" for them ; many of its teachings were 

 beyond their comprehension ; but they had 

 finally concluded that there was so much in 

 it that was practical that they could under- 

 stand that — etc., etc. One friend suggested 

 that we add a department in which to an- 

 swer the (luestions of beginners. 



In our introductory, in the first issue of the 

 Review, we said: "Instead of devoting 

 space to ' hints to beginners,' we shall turn 

 our attention to the unsolved problems of 

 advanced bee culture." 



Were there no text books, there would be 

 some excuse for the publication, in journals, 

 of articles designed for beginners ; but there 

 is scarcely a question asked by beginners, to 

 which an exhaustive answer cannot be found 

 in the text books. The first step of a begin- 

 ner should be that of reading the text books; 

 then he will be ready for the journals, the 

 object of which ought to be the discussion of 

 unsettled questions. To use the pages of a 

 journal in publishing well-settled and well- 

 known facts, for the benefit of beginners, is 

 unfair and displeasing to the great majority 

 of readers, who have read these things over 

 and over again until they know them " by 

 heart." To discuss new ideas and unsettled 

 questions, is the province of journalism. 



AFTER HIAWATHA. 



We wrote to Eugene Secor asking him to 

 versify our advertisement. Or, said we, put 

 it into blank verse with the rythmic repeti- 

 tion found in Hiawatha. We presume that 

 most of our readers would eventually see the 

 Hiawathian version in the advertising col- 

 umns of our contemporaries, but we wish to 

 be sure that all shall see and enjoy this little 

 gem, hence its appearance just below. 



Ho ! ye gleaners after knowledge 



In the field of apiculture, 



Stop a moment, please, and read this, 



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(I will send three samples gratis) 



It contains the views of leading 



Bee-men on some siiecial topic ; 



Pt)ints out errors ; makes you ponder, 



And abandon wrong ideas. 



If you'd march with tliose who " get there," 



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THE CARNIOLANS GREAT BREEDERS. 



This is the first spring that we have had 

 several good colonies of Carniolans in a 

 normal condition — that had not been exhib- 

 ited at fairs the previous autumn. That 

 they rear more brood early in the season 

 than do the blacks or the Italians, there is 

 no question. It was a surprise to us to see 

 the enthusiastic manner in which they go at 

 it ; as though brood rearing had filled their 

 minds to the exclusion of all else. It makes 

 no difference if no honey is coming in, and 

 only a little remains in the hive, brood rear- 



