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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



from my real ones, let me say just 

 what I believe is the truth with regard to 

 so-called travel-stain. I think the feet 

 of the bees never discolor sections, the 

 cappings of sections being darkened by 

 bits of old comb and debris brought up 

 from below ( by the mouths and not by 

 the feet) and to a limited extent .by pro- 

 polis. The primary discoloration, in the 

 main, comes only in the cells where 

 young bees are reared, caused, as Ches- 

 hire sa}s, by "the residua of the bowels, 

 plastered outside the exuvium, within 

 the cell wall." 



IS 60° D.\NCEROUS IN CEU^AR ? 



Mr. Taylor thinks my advice might 

 prove dangerous when I say I think it 

 might do good in the case of dysentery to 

 run up the temperature for a few hours to 

 60 or 80 degrees. He has never tried it. 

 I have, several times, and with no bad 

 results. The bees make a loud roaring, 

 but settle down quietly afterward, appar- 

 ently the better for their "circus." 



IS THE REVIEW RESPcfNSIBLE EOR MR. 

 T.WLOR'S rTTERANCES. 



Friend Hutchinson, I wouldn't like to 

 be too positive about the matter, but I 

 supposed that the Review was respon- 

 sible for the views of any editor of the 

 Review, and I supposed you considered 

 Mr. Taylor not merely a "correspondent, ' ' 

 but editor of "Department of Criticism." 

 You say that the Review has allowed Mr. 

 Taylor and me to express opposite opin- 

 ions, and ask, "Now, which view is the 

 one upheld by the Review?" I should 

 say clearly the one given by one of its 

 editors. I think you will hardly say that 

 what is in the "Department of Criticism" 

 is exactly on the same level as all corres- 

 pondence. 



For years I have conducted a depart- 

 ment in National Stockman. vSome- 

 tinies a correspondent and I express op- 

 posite views. "Now, which view is the 

 one upheld by the Stockman ? Accord- 

 ing to your way of looking at it, the 

 Stockman has no vievi', for its editor-in- 



chief doesn't know anything about the 

 matter. That will hardl}- do. After all, 

 it's largely a matter of name, and I never 

 for a moment supposed that the editor-in- 

 chief of Review agreed in all things with 

 the editor of "Department of Criticism." 

 And possibly I don't look at the matter 

 just as I should. 



A WASTE OF Good space. 

 You say, Mr. Editor, that Mr. Taylor _ 



and I "are using a great many words in 

 discussing a subject that is of little mo- 

 ment to bee-keepers." Now see here, if a 

 man treats me unfairly, I don't propose 

 anv editor like you is going to browbeat 

 me out of my rights, and I expect to de- 

 fend myself if it occupies every column 

 of your old paper. But hold on, h o Id on. 

 Has no one ekse any rights in the matter ? 

 Wouldn't it be better to suffer a little 

 wrong myself than to have a whole lot 

 of people wronged by having a whole lot 

 of stuff in their paper that will not help 

 them a particle about bee-keeping? Just 

 between you and me, Bro. Hutchinson, a 

 good deal of good space has been wasted, 

 and if I were in your place I'd shut down 

 on it. 



You caution Bro. Taylor against hyper- 

 criticism, which is well enough, and 

 while you're at it I wnsh you'd caution 

 him to be correct and to be fair. 



As a matter of curiosity, would you be 

 willing to explain why Mr. Taylor pays 

 so little attention to the errors in Review 

 compared with that of other bee journals ? 

 Surely an error in Review will do more 

 harm to its readers than one in a paper 

 they never see. So it's more important 

 it be corrected. And he can find errors 

 in Review if he wants to see them. 



Marengo, 111., May 15, 1.S99. 



[As I think the matter over, it does not 

 seem lourasonahlr that some might have 

 looked upon Messrs. Taylor, Mason, and 

 Thompson as being associate editors of 

 the Review; and that the publication of 

 their views under their respective de- 

 partment headings might be looked upon 

 as a sort of endorsement from the Review. 



