THE BEE-KEEERS' REVIEW. 



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price. I hear no complaint against the 

 larLce department stores in the city; yet 

 their effect is the same as that of Trusts; 

 thi)ngh, perhaps, not to the same bene- 

 ficial degree. They drive weaker com- 

 panies to the wall sometimes, but they 

 lower prices. Now I have said nothing 

 in favor of monopolies. Some of the 

 Trusts in which we are most interested I 

 know are not tnonopolies. The oil Trust 

 has at least one vigorous competitor in 

 this State; and only the other day Arbuck- 

 ler Bros., sugar refiners, reduced the 

 price of sugar 3-16 of a cent, and sell di- 

 rect to retailers. 



Doolittle says "it now comes out that 

 the full cost of the best refined granula- 

 ted sugar is only aU cents a pound." If 

 he means in this country, it is incredible; 

 ■•"•' «he laws of trade are such that it is 

 impossible tiii.* H is a fact. But what a 

 sad blow it would be to us honey produ- 

 cers if it should prove to be true; and in 

 some way it should come to be sold for 

 what it is worth. For our financial good, 

 it is much too cheap already. 



"No man can get ;f 1,000,000 without a 

 similar monopoly," says Doolittle, refer- 

 ring to his illustration. Unlike Doolittle, 

 I have no curses for the millionaire; and 

 I do not believe there is any truth in his 

 statement. I saw it stated recently that 

 there were forty -four millionaires in this 

 State. I don't believe one of them got 

 any considera])le amount of his wealth 

 by any sort of monopoly. This illustrates 

 the traits of men who become millionaires: 

 (reneral .\lger, many years ago, came to 

 this town from Pontiac, nearly forty 

 miles away, and back again, a-foot, be- 

 cause he could make better time than the 

 stage coach and save 53-Oo fare. Close 

 management and energy did it. I do 

 not envy them on account of their wealth, 

 nor the little additional comfort they get 

 out of it. I don't believe it would be safe 

 fur me to be possesse<l of |i,0f)0,ooo; and 

 most of us have probably all that is good 

 for us. Let those who can bear wealth 

 have it. Neither our State nor country 

 coulil well spare them. 



SUGGESTED CH.\NGES IN SHIPPING CASES 

 M.WNOT BE RE.\I. IMPROVEMENTS. 

 Mr. Aspinwall in Review, 360, rec- 

 ommends a Shipping case, with some new 

 features, for its ''simplicity of construc- 

 tion and beauty of finish," as well as be- 

 cause the lack of the "np-drip" feature 

 further lessens the cost." I can see that 

 putting the covers and bottoins inside 

 the sides and ends might add something 

 to the beauty of finish, and that laying 

 aside the no-drip feature would lessen the 

 cost a little, but that there is any sum 

 total of advantages I fail to discover. It 

 seems to me certain that glass which 

 must rely upon the first section to hold it 

 in must sometimes find room to work in 

 and slide down. Then, judging from the 

 Vjottoms and covers I have seen, which 

 are furnished by the makers of supplies, 

 considerable more care nmst be exercised 

 to make them sufficiently exact to be 

 used in the proposed case; this would add 

 something to the expense. Again, the 

 putting together of such a case, especially 

 the nailing in of the bottom , could not 

 be done so rapidly and would require a 

 fairly good mechanic to do it well; all of 

 which deserves consideration. As to the 

 no-drip feature, I question the wisdom of 

 dispensing with it. Some sections could 

 be shipped with it that could not be safe- 

 ly shipped without, and a more careful 

 person would be required to pack honey 

 without it than with it. 



\VH.\T INDUCES BEES TO REAR BROOD 

 FREELY. 

 In Review, 366, Hasty quotes Aikin as 

 saying "that it seems to be an undisputed 

 fact that bees will not rear brood freely 

 unless they have on hand plenty of stores 

 to back them," and he then goes on to 

 sav: "I guess X\\aVs about so, although 

 hard on the doctrine and practice of stim- 

 ulative feeding." He further says it is 

 "not (luite (//ziWj'Atrue." It seems to me 

 that the kernel of the nut is that under 

 otherwise proper circumstances they will 

 rear brocxl freely either if they have 

 plenty of stores or a presently bright pros- 



