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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



that of any of the older journals and larger 

 than that of some of them. Probably one 

 reason is because dealers find it a profitable 

 advertising medium. 



A pointer may be seen in the following 

 sentence taken from a letter just received 

 from Oliver Hoover & Co., of Snydertown, 

 Pa. It reads as follows : " Our ad. in the 

 Review has brought us more custom than it 

 has in any other journal. We presume it is 

 because the Review editor is not a supply 

 dealer." They might have added, also, that 

 their advertisement was not buried up 

 among patent medicine ads. and others of 

 that ilk. 



It is true that the subscription list of the 

 Review does not yet approach that of some 

 of the older journals, but being a bright, 

 wide awake journal, with no side issues, it 

 naturally attracts and retains a class of 

 readers that prove the most desirable cus- 

 tomers. Besides this, thousands and thous- 

 ands of sample copies are sent out every 

 year, thus not only making known the Re- 

 view, but adding value to the advertising 

 space. Besides this, we try in every way to 

 make our advertising pages attractive. We 

 use new type, of late and neat designs, 

 which, by the way, is one-of the easiest and 

 cheapest means of beautifying advertising 

 pages. We encourage advertisers to make 

 frequent changes in their advertisements— 

 in short, we try to make the advertising 

 pages so bright, attractive and really newsy, 

 that they are read the same as the other 

 pages. But. perhaps, the greatest reason 

 •why advertisers stay by us, is because we 

 take a real, genuine, unselfish interest in 

 their success, and try in every way to help 

 them to do better advertising. We have 

 even gone so far in some instances as to fur- 

 nish an advertiser, free of charge, with that 

 most excellent journal for advertisers, P^in- 

 Jers' Ink. believing that there would be a 

 mutual benefit. If there are any of our ad- 

 vertisers who wish to do more effective ad- 

 vertising, let them read Printers^ Ink. The 

 publishers, whose advertisement will be 

 found in this issue, will send samples free. 



HUILUINGS FOR THE APIAKi' ; THEIE AlUiANGE- 

 ment and CONSTKUCTION. 

 The management of even a few colonies 

 of bees brings with it the necessity of a 

 room in some building. The beginner finds 

 out of ovice that, in the house, a barn, or 



someivliere he must have a place for making 

 hives, putting together sections, putting in 

 foundation, extracting honey, removing 

 comb honey from the supers, cleaning and 

 crating it, for storing the honey when off 

 the hives, for storing empty hives, supers, 

 combs, etc., etc. With only a few colonies, 

 a single room may be made to answer all 

 purposes, but, as the colonies increase in 

 number, and their owner decides to make of 

 bee keeping a specialty, he learns that he 

 must have more commodious quarters. 

 There must be a shop proper, a storage 

 room for hives and fixtures, and, perhaps a 

 special room for storing honey. That many 

 bee keepers are now finding themselves in 

 this condition we know from having received 

 several letters that read something as fol- 

 lows : " I wish to build a honey house in the 

 sprins, and should be thankful for informa- 

 tion in regard to size, location, details of 

 construction, etc. Why wouldn't this be a 

 good subject for a special topic in the Re- 

 view ?" It is a good subject for discussion, 

 and we will make it the special topic for 

 .1 anuary. 



Soon after we began bee keeping we were 

 fortunate in having an old dwelling house 

 left vacant near the house in which we lived. 

 This, with its kitchen, sitting room, pantry 

 and bed rooms, gave an abundance of room 

 and allowed us a separate room for each 

 dei)artmeut. So long as queen-rearing was 

 our specialty, and the liees were mostly 

 divided n\) into nuclei, it seemed safe to 

 have the bees near the house and also near 

 the road: but when we increased the number 

 of colonies and engaged in comb honey pro- 

 duction, we deemed it safer to move the 

 apiary about fifteen rods back from the 

 house and highway. The old dwelling still 

 answered as a shop and store house, but it 

 was necessary to have some sort of a build- 

 ing in or near the apiary. There must be a 

 place for extracting honey, for bringing in 

 supers of comb honey to allow the few strag- 

 gling bees to escape. Money was none too 

 plenty and we thought quite a small building 

 could be made to answer ; so built one 8x10 

 and six feet high at the eaves. It was built 

 of boards one foot wide, placed in an upright 

 position and nailed to the "sills" and 

 "plates." The boards were painted red; 

 the battens, doors, and door and window 

 casings painted white. There was a door in 

 each end and a window at each side. In 

 each d<,xir was a large pane of glass set iu a 



