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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



capital, combined with the elevating 

 power of Christianity, once gets a foot- 

 hold in the "gem of the Antilles" there 

 will be a great change. 



If Dr. Vieta with only two apiaries can 

 prodnce one hundred and eighty tons of 

 honey in one season, and that honey 

 brings 40 to 50 cents net, per gallon, in 

 Havana, Amsterdam and Holland, etc. 

 are not going to continue to get all the 

 Cuban honey. And it extracted honey 

 can be produced at a profit at three cents 

 per pound, as was clearh' shown at the 

 recent convention of the U. S. bee-keep- 

 er's Association at Omaha, a regular bo- 

 nanza awaits the energetic Yankee who 

 can produce 180 tons or more each season 

 and sell it so as to net 40 or 50 cents per 

 gallon. 



Of course, I don't doul)t Mr. vSonier- 

 ford's statement; but it just makes the 

 heads of us poor mortals swim to think 

 we can produce only a few tons in several 

 apiaries; and can get less than twice as 

 much for it as is paid in Havana; and 

 then all expenses of time, help, supplies, 

 freight, etc., have to be paid from that. 



ToivEDO, Ohio. Feb. 23, 1899. 



Department of 



riticism 



CONDUCTED BY R. h. T.WLOR. 



Blame where yon must, be candid where you can, 

 And l)e each critic the Good-natured Man. 



GOLDSMITH. 



THE I^ENGTH OF TIME THAT Ol'EENS I.AV. 



In the Review, page 44, Dr. Miller 

 comes to the defense of his statement that 

 good queens 'might lay from seven to nine 

 months in a year — a statement which I 

 had criticised .slightly not long ago. He 

 says that in answering the question it was 

 for all the readers of the American Bee 

 Journal and not merely for Lapeer or Mar- 

 engo. On the contrary, that is precisely 



what I (/id take into view. Very likely 

 his answer does well enough for Dadant's 

 latitude, and south, but if intended for 

 all the readers of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal the latitude of Lapeer and Marengo 

 ought to have some consideration. 



But the doctor's'main purpose seems to 

 be to proclaim his loss of faith in my re- 

 liability, and to give instances of] alleged 

 errors of mine as reasons for the hasty 

 shriveling of his faith. Greatly as his 

 loss of faith is to be deplored, it may be 

 not without its compensations, since it 

 may have a tendency to the acquiring of 

 knowledge directly where that is possible, 

 instead of "mostly second-hand," ["which 

 was the way he says he acquired his knowl- 

 edge of the length of time a queen lays. 



WHAT WAS ME.\NT WHEN THE WORD 

 "SIC" W.A.S rSED. 



The errors he cites are these, viz., my 

 inquiry about the spelling of mealy- 

 mouthed, which' does not"call for further 

 attention, and my 'writing "sic" after 

 his expression "bring to a boil." This 

 latter "error" stands on quite a different 

 footing from the former. 



I hoped not to be obliged to occupy 

 valuable space with this matter, but it 

 seems to be necessary. But let us go 

 back. After the above "error" was com- 

 mitted the doctor in the 'American Bee- 

 Journal, after quoting says, "/ zt'ts/i I 

 knew -what Mr. 'J\iylor means by that 

 'cvord 'sic' Coming as it does twice after 

 , the word 'boil' it looks as if he might be 

 objecting to the use of that word, or the 

 way in which it is used, I shall be obliged 

 to him if he will tell what he] means by j 

 saying 'sic' " I referred him to the die- 1 

 tionar}-. Citing this he now says, "In- 

 stead of saying to what you referred, 

 thus expo.sing your ignorance, you evaded 



the matter I don't like to , 



sav that was dishonest but if you desire 

 to label it so, I'll promise not to contra- 

 dict you." I do not remember that I 

 arrived at the idea^J^^that the doctor was I 

 asking for a definition of sic b}- any pro- ' 

 cess of reasoning ^upon the meaning of 



