THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



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The 4- Bee-Keepers' + Reviey> . 



rUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



W. Z, HUTOHINSON, Editor & Proprietor. 



TERMS:— 50 cents a year in advance, two 

 copies for 'X-> 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 different post offices, 

 NOT liBSS than 45 cents each. 



FUNT, MICHIGAN. NOVEMBER 10, 1890 



What has Ijecome of the Western AjAa- 

 rian ? We have not seen it for several 

 months. 



The Rev. Wm. F. Clarke made us a call 

 while on his way home from Keokuk. He 

 gave a graphic and chatty account of the 

 convention. The gist of it would be given, 

 did space permit. By the way, a son of Mr. 

 Clarke resides in this city. 



CHANGE OF POST OEFICE. 



By changes recently made, the Catchall 

 post office, of S. C, now has a daily mail, 

 and W. J. Ellison, the veteran queen breed- 

 er, has arranged to take advantage of this 

 change. Hereafter his post office will be 

 Catchall instead of Stateburg, as formerly. 



CUE BEE JOUBNALS. 



They cannot be all alike. We didn't ex- 

 pect nor wish it. But they can be different 

 without bringing in something foreign to 

 bee culture. We cheerfully admit, however, 

 that there is a great difference between in- 

 troducing something not pertaing to bees, 

 l)ut upon which the editor has become so 

 enthusiastic that he »iusf talk about it, and 

 that of bringing in, in "cold blood," some 

 other topic, with the hope that it will " sus- 

 tain the ebbing breath." 



We fear some have confounded our idea 

 of " twaddle " with matter intended for be- 

 ginners. Nothing could be farther from the 

 truth. Articles for beginners may be as far 

 from " twaddle" as night is from day. Read- 

 ing matter for l)eginners may be as sensible 

 as any that is published. "Twaddle "is 

 nonsense. It conveys no idea to any one, 

 novice or expert. We object to occupying 

 space with articles for beginners, not be- 

 cause they are "twaddle," but because the 



information they may contain has already 

 been published, may be found in the text 

 books, and the space might better be used 

 in discussing unsettled problems. As we 

 take it, this is the province of the journal — 

 to present something new. 



The expression of Mr. Heddon "that the 

 object of advertising supplies lias given 

 birth to nearly every bee journal which has 

 been started in this country," may appear 

 too sweeping, but ihxs much we know. Be- 

 fore one of our journals was started, its ed- 

 itor wrote asking for our opinion in regard 

 to the advisability of his starting a journal. 

 The principal argument that he offered in 

 support of the enterprise was that " it would 

 save him Jjl.^O a year that he was then paying 

 out in postage on circulars." Within the 

 year, the editor of another journal has writ- 

 ten us that there is "no money" in the pub- 

 lication of his journal. The receipts just 

 about pay excuses. " If it were not for my 



supply trade, I should drop the like 



a hot potato," was his concluding remark. 

 When the editor's heart is in his supply 

 trade, we can't expect, and don't get, very 

 much of a joiirnal. But subscribers are not 

 fools. They can see this as well as any one, 

 and such journals eventually go to the wall. 

 If a journal is worthy of support, it will re- 

 ceive it, if not, it goes down, and that is all 

 there is to it. 



It is a pleasure to note the unanimity upon 

 the subject of stopping papers when the 

 subscriptions expire. We are now fully de- 

 cided to continue in the course we have fol- 

 lowed. When a subscription expires, the 

 subscriber will be notified and his paper 

 stopped. As we have said before, if he does 

 not think enough of it to renew, we shall be 

 sorry, but it shall not be forced upon him. 

 We believe this will suit the majority. Of 

 course, when the editor and supply dealer 

 are combined in one person, there is a great 

 temptation to continue sending on the pa- 

 per, even if prompt settlements are not 

 made, as the paper, in one sense, is the very 

 best kind of an advertisement for the supply 

 business. 



We are not surprised at the views express- 

 ed in regard to the class of advertisements 

 that may be admitted into bee journals. 

 We don't wish to assume that there is any- 

 thing im2yyop€r in the admission of any le- 

 gitimate, decent advertisement. We have 

 refused, and at the same time seen in other 

 journals, advertisements that, as Prof. Cook 



