THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



is larj^ely eiijiaj^eil in bee culture. We 

 wish theiu success and happiness.' " 



I saw "Charley" a day or twoaj.;o. He 

 has just returned from his wedditijj trip, 

 and, altliouL^'h I have known quite a long 

 time, I never saw him look younger. 



THK HKI.l' THAT MAY COMK KKOM I,KT- 

 TKK.S. 



I have several times referred to the 

 help that the Review has derived from 

 the letters seiii in by its reiders. Some 

 have written as thousj;h fearing their chatty 

 letters might bore me. Nothing could be 

 further froiu the truth. They may not 

 be read the very dav they are received, 

 but they are all eventually read; and usu- 

 ally within a day or two after they arrive. 

 Seated in a big rocking chair, with the 

 lamp light falling ov-er my shoulder, 

 and the coal fire glowing at my feet, the 

 reading of long letters from my subscrib- 

 ers is a real treat. It is more than that. 

 Here is the point: An editor keeps too 

 close to his business. He sees the inside 

 of it, but not enough of the outside. If 

 he could only step back and view it from 

 a distance, look at it from the subscriber's 

 standpoint, he might discover many an 

 error that can not be seen from the inside. 

 Then there is another point: If an editor 

 can get right up tiosr to his readers, be 

 able to see as they see and feel as they 

 feel, to enter into their hopes and fears, 

 their desires, aspirations, and ambitions, 

 their joys and sorrows, he becomes better 

 fitted for making a journal that is adap- 

 ted to their needs. So I repeat what I 

 have said before : Tell me about yourselves. 

 Tell of your family, of your bees, of your 

 plans, your hopes, yes, and even of your 

 sorrows. Tell me what other bee jour- 

 nals you read liesides the Review. In 

 short, let me come in and sit by your 

 fireside. One thing more: Don't neglect 

 to frz'/iViV the Review. If you like it, 

 say so; and tell why. Don't forget the 

 wAy. If it has faults, tell nie what they 

 are. The man who sees a fault in the 

 Review, and h^s the courage to point it 

 out, is ten-fold mv friend. 



WKLI. KILLED SKCTIONS — HAVE WE VET 

 LEARNED THE SECRET OF THEIR 

 PRODUCTION? 

 Some of us have thought that the bet- 

 ter filling of the sections secured by the 

 use of plain secliousand fence .separators, 

 was the result of the freer comnuinication 

 alTordcd by lheo])eningsin the separators. 

 Mr. Daggitt in this issue of the Review 

 asks a very pertinent questions. He says, 

 in effect, if the open .separators allow 

 freer communication, then no separators 

 at all allow still freer comnuinication; 

 and, if better filled sections are the result 

 of freer communication, then the laying 

 aside of .separtors entirely oiig/tf to result 

 in the best filled sections, but does \t} 

 No; it doesn't. I honestly believe that, 

 as a rule, the combs are more perfectly 

 attached tothe sections when separators 

 are u.sed than when none are in use. 

 This .seems to be one of those cases in 

 which the fallacy of a theory is most 

 easily .shown by following it out to a log- 

 ical conclusion. Over at the Canadian 

 bee convention several spoke of the ad- 

 vantages of separators in securing more 

 perfectly filled sections When no separ- 

 ators are used, the bees are more inclin- 

 ed to spread out, to begin work on more 

 sections. This is particularly noticeable 

 at the beginning and near the end of the 

 .season. Separators seem to fence off the 

 super into several compartments, so to 

 speak, and when the bees begin work in 

 a few of these they are inclined to finish 

 up what work thej^ begin, rather than to 

 .start more work in adjoining .sections, as 

 they are prone to do when no se])arators 

 are used. 



I am not condemming plain sections, 

 nor "fences," but it does really seem to 

 me as though there is yet some factor 

 that has eluded our grasp. 



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AN OPPORTINITV TO HONOR THE MEMORV 



OF FATHER LANGSTROTH. 



I have received the following most 



earnest appeal to the bee-keepers of 



America, and it is with the greatest of 



