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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Most disageeements among men arise 

 from ignorance on fundamental truths. 



Me. Coeneil dropped dead in his bee- 

 yard on the 7th inst. No particulars; and I 

 stop the press to squeeze in these few lines. 

 He will be sincerely mourned. 



An excellent piciurb of S. T. Pettit's 

 face looks kindly out from the front cover of 

 the April C, B. J. A picture of his pleasant 

 home accompanied by a short descriptive 

 sketch also appears in that issue. The C. B. 

 J. is giving evidence of plenty of hard work 

 and good management. 



The EDiTOBof the C. B. J., in referring to 

 the experiments with foundation, says that 

 to test the advantage of one machine over 

 another, it is necessary that the wax be alike, 

 that it be dipped and cooled under similar 

 conditions and that it receive its impressions 

 under the highest possible temperature. 



space here does away with the propolis. To 

 keep the frames from sliding endwise a brad 

 is driven into the side bars so that its point 

 projects about one-fourth of an inch. 



Foul Brood is discussed, in what seems to 

 me a very sensible manner, by Bro. Holter- 

 man of the C. B. J. Mr. McEvoy also re- 

 ports that foul brood is on the decrease in 

 Ontario. This is hopeful. We may not all 

 agree upon some of the finer points regard- 

 ing this disease, but it is certain that we are 

 rapidly becoming its master. 



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Beo. Holterman of the C. B. J. says that 

 since he condemned the Heddon hive he has 

 taken but little notice of what Mr. Heddon 

 has had to say. If condemning an invention 

 destroys the correctness of the inventor's 

 views, it is to be hoped that no more of our 

 leading bee-keepers will be so foolish as to 

 bring out an invention and allow Bro. Hol- 

 terman to condemn it. 



Hand-Holes, cut in the side of the hive by 

 means of a wabbling saw are only " finger 

 holes," so says C. W. Dayton in the Pro- 

 gressive. I must agree with Mr. Dayton that 

 there is no more satisfactory handle to a bee 

 hive than a rim of wood around it near the 

 top. Mr. Dayton also shows up the advan- 

 tages of a bee-space at the ends of the top 

 bars, that is, between them and the back of 

 the rabbet. He says truly when he says that 

 it is around the end of the top bar that the 

 most propolis is plastered. Leaving a bee 



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Subscriptions, in most cases, are sent at 

 the beginning of the year, but there is no 

 reason why you should not subscribe for the 

 Reeiew noiv. For particulars see the last 

 inside cover page. If you are not sufficient- 

 ly acquainted with the Review to wish to 

 subscribe without learning something more 

 of its character, I will send any number of 

 back numbers, up to fifty, at two cents each, 

 I to pick them out, but no two shall be alike. 



Advertising of apiarian goods will pay at 

 this time of the year if it ever will ; and if 

 there is any advertiser who would like to 

 have me try my hand at composing and " set- 

 ting up " for him a new advertisement, I 

 shall be pleased to do so, sending him a 

 proof ; and there will be no charge unless 

 the advertisement is placed in the Review, 

 and then there will be no charge for the work 

 of getting up the advertisement. 



Foundation made by a new process (pat- 

 ent applied for I believe) is being manu- 

 factured by the Burnett Co., Ludlow Ky. I 

 have received samples that are certainly very 

 fine. In writing of this foundation, (Jliver 

 Foster says : "As far as formation and tex- 

 ture of wax are concerned, it is the nearest 

 perfection of anything I have seen, and I 

 feel sanguine that the improvement is a long 

 step towards that attainment." 



Full particulars are promised in time for 

 the May Review. 



C.H. DiBBERN in the Progressive, refer- 

 ring to the devotion of so much space in the 

 journals to articles for beginners, asks : 

 " Why continue to beat the old straw, when 

 there is so much that has scarcely been 

 touched, still full of golden grain ?" Con- 

 tinuing he says that beginners should read 

 standard works for their instruction, " and 

 not insist that the weekly and monthly bee 

 journals be forever burdened with such 

 stufif." Good advice. 



The American Bee Journal man "talks 

 back " because a Progressive correspondent 

 thought the Journal published too much 



