THE BEE KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



221 



think we deserve the pound of figs, Doctor, 

 send them on ; and pleas? try and yet them 

 here in time for tlie lillinjr of the little yirls' 

 stockings at Christmas. — Ed. Retiew. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



W. Z. HUTCHINSOfl, Ed. & PPOp. 



Terms : —$1.00 a year in advance. Two copies, 

 Sl.yO : three for $1.7 ; five for §4.00 ; ten, or more, 

 70 cents efich. KP~ The Review is stopped at 

 the expiration of the time paid for. 



FLINT, MICHIGAN, DECEMBER 10, 1S90 



THE AMEEIOAN BEE-KEEPEE. 



This is to be the name of a new bee jour- 

 nal that we are expected to welcome next 

 month. Perhaps it is no£ exactly correct to 

 call it a new bee paper, as it is the Bee Hire 

 bought and "made over," by the W. T. 

 Falconer M'f 'g Co. Everybody says : " Fal- 

 coner is a square man," hence the published 

 programme will probably be carried out and 

 the enterprise prove a success. Upon fur- 

 ther thought, the Review will not wait until 

 "next month" but extend a hearty wel- 

 come in advance. 



WHO MADE CUB COVER ENGRAVING. 



The beautiful engraving upon the fii-st 

 page of our cover was made by Van Leyen 

 & Co., of 149 .Jefferson Ave. Detroit, Mich. 

 We first made a sketch and sent it to them, 

 asking them to improve it if they could. 

 They suggested some changes, and sent us a 

 sketch embodying these changes. We criti- 

 cised this, and they made another. At last 

 the design as now shown was settled npon. 



Van Leyen & Co. employ sixteen 1 auds, 

 and do all kinds of engraving in a fir.-t class 

 manner, and it is a pleasure to us to recom- 

 mend them to any of our friends needing 

 work in their line. 



COEEESPONDENCE NOW ON HAND. 



Notwithstanding the enlargement of tlie 

 Review we still have on hand articles, that 

 we would gladly have used in this issue, 

 from R. L. Taylor, James Heddon, R. Mc- 

 Kni^t, J. A. Green, Arihm- C. Miller, Ernest 



Root, Joshua Bull, J. C. Wheeler, Mrs. L. C. 

 Axtell. F. P. Clare, L. L. Henrn, and others, 

 all of which are good, and we shall use them 

 just as fast as we can. What would we have 

 done had we not enlarged the Review ? 

 Next month there will be no index nor any 

 "Chat about our Change^" which will give 

 about five more pages for correspondence 

 and extracts. 



MICH. STATE CONVENTION. 



The Mich. State Bee Keepers' Association 

 will hold its annual meeting Jan. 1 and 2, 

 1891, at the Normandie Hotel in Detroit. 

 There will be reduced rates at the hotel, and 

 half-fare on all railroads. We have not 

 space in which to publish the programme, 

 but it is a good one, and, from our corres- 

 pondence, we know that most of the promi- 

 nent bee keepers of the state will be present, 

 and quite a number from the outside. " We " 

 expect to be there. 



ALL JOURNALS NOT TO BE CUT AFTER THE 

 SAME PATTERN. 



It seems that a few of those present at the 

 I^eokuk convention got the impression, from 

 hearing our essay read, that we would have 

 all journals fashioned exactly after the Re- 

 view. Nothing could be further from our 

 intention. What was urged in the essay ? 

 Simply this. Nothing to be published for- 

 eign to bee culture — matter of poor quality 

 to be excluded— that editors avoid the supply 

 trade — that advertisements not pertaining to 

 bets be as few as possible. Would the adop- 

 tion of tl e.=e views necessarily imply the 

 making of a journal exactly like the Review ? 

 Could not all of these ideas be carried out 

 without giving to each journal the same in- 

 dividuality ? 



The views given were our views, and we 

 expected that the other editors and bee keep- 

 ers present would give theh- views, and thus 

 bring about an interesting discussion in 

 which there might be thrust forth such 

 "pointers" as are always eagerly grasped by 

 enterprising edt'ors. 



HOW does THE REVIEW SECURE SO MUCH 

 ADVERTISING ? 



A friend who ha? had quite a little experi- 

 ence in the publishing business writes that 

 he does not understand how so young a jour- 

 nal as the Review can secure and hold so 

 large an advertising patronage — as large as 



