THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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proved last winter by the Mich. State, Bee- 

 Keepers' Society has beeu adopted. We 

 would jiublish it here, but, as the complete 

 premium list will be ready to mail July 1st, 

 it would be hardly worth while. All who are 

 interested can send for a premium list. 

 Address Geo. M. Savage, No. 7 Merrill 

 Block, Detroit Mich. 



We know there is not an exhibitor who 

 will not be rejoiced to know that our old 

 friend, H. D. Cutting, is to be the superin- 

 tendent of the bee department. The man- 

 agers are to be congratulated upon their 

 choice. 



The fair opens August 2(?th, and closes 

 September r)th ; and. during all of these ten 

 days, visiting bee-keepers will come and 

 will go, but there will seldom be more than 

 one or two present at the same time. At 

 least, that is the way it has been in the past, 

 but we are going to propose a change. At 

 such fairs, there have been " Children's 

 Day," "Farmers' Day," "Drummers' 

 Day," etc., but there has never been, so far 

 as we know, a " Bee-Keepers' Day." Why 

 not have one ? There will be no necessity 

 for any great "splurge" about it in the 

 general newspapers, but it can be made 

 known to bee-keepers, through the Viee-jour- 

 nals, that such a day will be "Bee-Keepers' 

 Day ; " that all bee-keepers are expected to 

 come that day. We would suggest now that 

 Tuesday, September 2nd, be "Bee-Keepers' 

 Day," at the coming Detroit, International 

 Fair ; that all bee-keepers gather at the api- 

 arian department at one o'clock — earlier if 

 they can, but that all report there at that 

 hour, and then proceed to "do the show" 

 in a body. 



Of course the editor of the Review in- 

 tends to be present with an exhibit : in fact, 

 lie and his friend Gutting are already plan- 

 ning to take their wives with them and keep 

 them there all through the exhibition. ( )h, 

 won't they have a good time I 



Anent this subject of fairs, we see that 

 Prof. Cook, in lileanings, is urging a return 

 to the practice of having printed, at the 

 head of the premium list, a clause stating 

 that the honey shown must be the product of 

 the exhil)itor, and produced during the year 

 of exhibition. Practical exhibitors, of large 

 experience, such as wert present at the 

 Mich, state meeting, last winter, in Lan- 

 sing, have labored long to have this clause 

 expugned, and have at last succeeded. The 

 Mich, state Society voted, at the Lansing 



meeting, that this clause be left out, now 

 Prof. Cook is working to have it reinstated. 

 If he had been a competitive exhiljitor as 

 long as some of us have, he would say most 

 emphatically that a judge should never be 

 asked to take an exhibitor's ivord for any- 

 thing. The article must show for itself, in 

 all the points in which it is to compete. 

 There once was a time when premiums were 

 offered upon the largest yields. This has 

 been dropped. There is too much difficulty 

 in 2^rovin{i these things. As a matter of 

 fact, however, at all the fairs where we have 

 been, all honey exhibits have been, to the 

 best of our knowledge and belief, the prod- 

 uct of the exhibitors. Such a clause in the 

 premium list is not needed. It is a super- 

 fluity. It is worse than a superfluity. If it 

 is wrong to exhibit honey that has been pur- 

 chased (which we don't admit), then the in- 

 sertion of this clause is exactly like telling 

 small children that they must not thrust 

 beans up their noses. 



"BEE-KEEPING POK PBOFIT. 



How the bee-books do multiply ! The lat- 

 est is from the pen of Dr. G. L. Tinker, of 

 New Philadelphia, Ohio. It contains 47 

 pages, and the price is 25 cents. 



It was printed only ten miles from here, 

 by Rulisoii's Printing House, over at Flush- 

 ing ; and, before going further, we must ex- 

 press our appreciation of the typography. 

 The work is exceedingly neat and clean, and 

 it is with pleasure that we congratulate our 

 Flushing neighbor. 



Our Author begins with " Spring Manage- 

 ment," and ends with " Pi-cDarations for 

 Winter ; " and between these two headings 

 he has covered the ground as well as he 

 could in so small a space. 



As we were almost the first one to advo- 

 cate the spring protection of cellar-wintered 

 bees (we think O. O. Poppleton was the 

 first), it is quite gratifying to see how popu- 

 lar it is becoming. Dr. Tinker not only 

 recommends spring protection, but tells us 

 to take off the covers, on pleasant days, and 

 allow the sun to shine in upon the packing ; 

 removing it from over the brood nest if nec- 

 essary, that any dampness may be dispelled. 

 This would be considerable work, especially 

 with a large apiary, and it a task for which we 

 have never seen the necessity. Sooner than 

 take this trouble, we would use some non- 

 absorbing material over the brood -nest. 



