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pay them having been expected frona the 

 queen trade which was practically killed by 

 by the strike, that I think the interests of 

 the Review will be better served if I stay at 

 hoDQe instead of borrowing money to go off 

 on a trip when the paper is a mouth behind. 

 Of course I do not abandon the hope of 

 eventually making a trip among bee-keeperr, 

 but the present lesson has so clearly shown 

 me the folly of telling what great things I 

 expect to do in the future that I shall make 

 no more promises, and if any have been led 

 to subscribe for the Review on account of 

 promises that I have not kept, or cannot 

 keep, they can have their money back if 

 they wish it. 



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Pboteotion and Stimulative feeding did 

 not prove profitable at the experimental 

 apiary this spring. I am not greatly sur- 

 prised. I remember remarking mentally 

 several times that I feared Mr. Taylor's 

 packing of bees this spring would not show 

 much profit. / didn't have any bees packed. 

 It is the first spring in a long time that I 

 have not practiced it more or less. It came 

 off warm unusally early, so early that I was 

 suspicious and continued in that state for 

 three weeks, and, finally, I took part of the 

 bees out of the cellar. Then it turned cool, 

 just cool enough so that the bees could not 

 fly but not enough to injure any of the weak- 

 er colonies. I was very busy and kept neg- 

 lecting the packing. In a short time it 

 warmed up and the rest of the bees were 

 taken out of the cellar, but -none of them 

 were packed. In a warm sunny spring I 

 doubt the advisability of packing. When 

 the outside temperature is higher than that 

 inside packing would only be an obstacle to 

 rapid breeding. But the trouble is that we 

 do not always know how soon the bright 

 balmy weather may change to snow and 

 frost. Mr, Taylor says truly that more than 

 one season is required to definitely decide. 



WHAT DO YOU KEAD ? 



Several times when I have been enjoying 

 an article in some magazine or paper I have 

 wondered how many of my subscribers were 

 enjoying the same pleasure. Let me tell you 

 what I read. First, of course, I read the bee 

 journals ; I read them as eagerly as I ever 

 did — yes, more so. I read the daily papers 

 and the leading magazines such as the Cen- 

 tury, Scribner''s, Harpev''s, Cosmopolitan, 



Ladies' Home Journal, Munsey's, Outing, 

 McClure's, Lverland Monthly, and the 

 Youth's Companion. I have read the latter 

 for years, and probably enjoy it as much as 

 any paper I read. It is not simply a child's 

 paper, but contains something that is of in- 

 terest to everybody. I remember saying 

 when I was a boy that if I were going to be 

 an editor I should like to be editor of such a 

 paper as the Companion. I said I should be 

 proud to be editor of such a paper, and my 

 mother said, "Well you might be." Then 

 I glance through some of the leading agri- 

 cultural journals such as the Country Gen- 

 tleman, American Agricultxirist, Michigan 

 Farmer, etc. I also read a monthly journal 

 called Newspaperdom, and one called the 

 Writer, also Printers' Ink, and last but not 

 least, that prince of papers for a printer. 

 The Inland Printer. In all of this reading 

 I am all the time on the lookout for some 

 hint or kink that may be utilized in making 

 the Review more attractive typographically 

 and intellectually. 



eXXRMCTED. 



Smoke and how to use it. 



It is not every one who knows how to 

 properly use a smoker in the apiary. I 

 think I use much less smoke than I did years 

 ago. I frequently open hives now with no 

 smoke at all, but it may be only fair to add 

 that it is only such hives as I know the dis- 

 position of the occupants. Mr. Pringle in 

 an article in the Practical Bee-Keeper has 

 the following to say on the subject: — 



" But, given a good smoker and a good 

 smoke, I find that only a few know how to 

 use the smoke. They may know how to use 

 the smoker but not the smoke. The differ- 

 ent colonies of bees, like differing and differ- 

 ent pupils in school, require different treat- 

 ment. A gentle puff is amply sufficient for 

 some, a torrent of blasts for others. But 

 begin gently with all and only give such 

 doses as are required," 



Making Syrup Without Heat That Will Not 

 Sour or Crystallize. 

 The time for feeding bees will soon be 

 here. To be able to make a thick heavy 

 syrup that will positively never crystallize is 

 a most desirable accomplishment, Dr, J. 

 T. Beall has told in Gleaninys how this may 

 be done ; it is as follows : — 



