THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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Beo. Newman, of the .1. B. ./,, is to award 

 the premiums in the apiarian department 

 of the coming, Detroit, International, Fair 

 and Exposition. Surely, bee-keepers are in 

 luck — a magniticent building in which to ex- 

 hibit ; a liberal premium list : and an effi- 

 cient superintendent and judge. 



THE EDITOR OF THE KETIEW WILL AWAED THE 

 PREMIUMS AT POET HURON, MICH. 



Last year we went over to Port Hursn, 

 and awarded the premiums in the apiarian 

 department of their fair. We were pleased 

 to find a display that, for neatness and at- 

 tractiveness, compared favorably with any 

 display we have seen. We have promised to 

 perform the same service this year, and 

 shall probably go Wednesday, September 17. 

 We shall be glad to meet as many as possible 

 of our bee-keeping friends. 



ADVERTISING DURING THE- DULL SEASON. 



If there were only one advertisement in a 

 paper, it is almost certain that the adver- 

 tisement would be read. If there were two 

 avertisements, they would probably V)e read. 

 The same if there were as many as three ; 

 but as their number increases, the likeli- 

 hood of their being read decreases. Now is 

 the time of the year when many advertise- 

 ments drop out of the bee journals, but it 

 makes it all the better for the ones that re- 

 main. Even if we expected to sell but little 

 until another season, we should begin ad- 

 vertising now and continue it. Not expen- 

 sively. The smaller the advertisement the 

 better, provided it is noficable and tells all 

 that is necessary. It will pay any advertiser 

 to spend some time and money in getting up 

 a small and peeiiliar advertisement, some- 

 thing that every one will notice, and then to 

 run it even during the dull season. When 

 people are ready to buy, their minds natur- 

 ally revert to some advertisement they 

 have seen for several months, and it is the 

 old advertiser that is patronized instead of 

 the new comer. We are not writing in this 

 manner simply to induce people to advertise 

 in the Review during the dull season, but 

 because we believe the advice is good, wheth- 

 er it is carried out in the Review, or in some 

 other paper. 



year ; published by L. D. Stilson, at York, 

 Nebraska. The paper, printing and general 

 "make up" are not so good as they might 

 be, Ijut our new Bro. says that he "did not 

 wish the first number so good that he could 

 not improve upon it." In his introductory 

 he says he starts the paper " in the hope 

 that, as our state is being rapidly developed 

 in its honey producing characteristics, and 

 apiaries being multiplied in every direction, 

 and the owners without an organ in the 

 state to represent their interest, such a pub- 

 lication would be appreciated," etc. 



While we have no feeling towards our new 

 Bro., except the sincere hope that he may 

 succeed, we feel impelled to say that we do 

 not believe there are bee-keepers enough in 

 Nebraska, or any other one state, who will 

 subscribe for a bee-paper, to enable said 

 paper to "make a live." In other words, in 

 order to secure a sufficiently large list of 

 suVjscribers, a bee-journal must be made de- 

 sirable, yes, almost indispensahJe, to bee- 

 keepers all over the country. It will not do 

 to depend mainly upon one state alone, nor 

 upon two or three of them. Not only this, 

 but a journal must treat of all the branches 

 of bee keeping. One branch alone, as queen 

 rearing, for instance, does not interest a 

 sufficient numVjer of readers. 



Let no man start a bee paper unless he 

 knoirs that he can make one superior to 

 those already published, or so desirably 

 different from the others that it will be pat- 

 ronized on account of this peculiarity. 



Later. Since the above was put in type, 

 the second number of the Nebraska Bee- 

 Keeper has come to hand, and we are glad to 

 note an improvement in several respects. 



STARTING NEW BEE PAPERS. 



The Neb7'aska Bee-Keeper, is the last 

 addition to the list of apicultural journals. 

 It is a twenty-page monthly, at fifty cents a 



WHY NOT BUY YOUR QUEENS NOW ? 



Every spring there is a demand for tested 

 queens for breeding purposes. They are sel- 

 dom sold in the early spring for less than 

 f 2.00, and usually for $3.00. Why not buy 

 untested queens now, and next spring they 

 will be tested, in the sense in which the 

 word is usually employed, that is, purely 

 mated. We have reared and sold, and have 

 bought, hundreds of untested queens, and 

 the proportion of mis-mated queens (when 

 the queens come from reputable breeders) 

 is so small that it practically amounts to 

 nothing. The untested queens offered for 

 sale at this time of the year are those that 

 have been reared in the height of the season, 

 while the prices at which they can be se 



