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J 5 If there ie any one thing more than another that has made the REViEWwhat it is, 



' i it is its discussion of " Special Topics ;" the gathering together in one number of the J J 



5 5 best that is known, of the latest views of the best men upon some special topic. Like f \ 



* » a lens, the Revikw brings together the lines of thought, and so illustrates the subject j j 



* S that it can be clearly seen and understood. While many of the most important sub J S 

 i 5 jects have been thus discussed, new ones are continually coming up, and some new % % 

 f J discovery often puts an old idea in a new light, hence the Review will always find a j j 

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* * In the main, the contents of our bee journals are made up of original matter. From » » 

 i I the very nature of the case, the value of this matter greatly varies. Many bee-keepers J 1 

 t i cannot afford to take more than one journal, neither have they the time to read all of | i 

 g jj the journals, and to be able to find all the most valuable matter of all the jour- » j 

 ' ' nals brought together, condensed, reviewed and criticised, is a blessing to the busy J J 

 M 1 man, and to the one who "can afford only one journal." To thus furnish the cream i t 



* » of the other journals is the province of the Review. J * 



5 5 Travels Rmong Bee - Keeper's- ' ^ 



5 5 To make the best possible bee journal an editor ought not to sit down in his 5 5 



{ I office from one year's end to the other. He ought to have an apiary of his own, to J J 



5 5 attend conventions, and visit bee-keepers at their homes. Not only will this enable 5 ij 



5 5 him to keep in touch with his readers, but by visiting apiaries he will run across » 5 



S ' ideas, implements and methods of which the general mass of bee-keepers is igno- J J 



* « rant, their possessors being so accustomed to them that it never occurs to them { 1^ 

 5 5 that everybody does ijot know of them. In the summer of 1894, in company with 5 • 

 K K his camera, the editor of the Review expects to visit a large number of bee-keep- J { 

 5 5 ers. making extended trips through Canada, the Eastern, Middle and Western States; * 5 

 5 5 and the Review will contain illustrations and descriptions of the bee-keepers i 5 

 J ■ visited, their homes, families, apiaries, implements, methods, etc. 5 J 

 5 5 Expepimental Hpieultufe. j j 



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5 5 Last year a few bee-keepers of Michigan worked hard and spent some money j 5 



' ! in so forcibly bringing before the State Board of Agriculture the necessity for an i i 



5 5 experimental apiary, that S'lOU were appropriated for that purpose, and the Hon. R. 55 



5 5 L. Taylor appointed apiarist. He has proved most emphatically to be " the right j j 



* ' man in the right place." All through the year experiments of a practical nature ! i 

 5 5 are under way, and the results are given in the Review AT ONCE, months and % { 

 5 5 months before they appear in the official report. Securing these reports and plac- J j 



* « ing them before the public while they are fresh and can be at once utilized is one i J 

 5 5 of the best things that the Review has ever done for bee-keepers. % t 

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 5 5 Hasty's I^evieuu. ? « 

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 S S E. E. Hasty needs no introduction. No other apicultural writer approaches him » r 

 5 5 in bright, quaint, original expressions. Coupled with this is a thoruough knowl- 5 5 



* ; edge of practical bee culture, and he is to use these two accomplishments the com- j j 

 » ' ing year in helping to make the •'Extracted Department" of the Revisw. He is to J i 

 5 5 read all of the journals, and then criticise their contents in that inimitable way of 5 5 

 ! * his. The Review is also to come in for its share of criticism. Probably no feature of ; J 

 J S. the Review for 1894 will be more interesting or profitable than " Hasty's Review." i ! 



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I g The Review strives most earnestly to stand in the front rank; to publii-h ad- J J 



« « vanced ideas before they have become a matter of history; to bo interesting, enter- « « 



5 5 prising, wide awake, up with the times, and brimful of ideas that are especially 5 5 



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