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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



reputation" and by the Daily Record. 

 Isn't it an anti-climax to quote a daily 

 paper to strengthen the position of 

 a reputable dictionary? And as to 

 writers of reputation, must they always be 

 blindly followed ? Such famous writers 

 as Henry Cabot Lodge and Richard Har- 

 ding Davis in the May No. of Harper's 

 Magazine each uses the expression "he 

 appears badly," or one grammatically 

 similar; may we therefore properly use 

 such expressions? The doctor says "I 

 don't believe a single dictionary con- 

 demns it. They may not contain it" etc. 

 The silence of a dictionary concerning a 

 word in contemporary use is the weigh- 

 tiest possible condemnation of it. How 

 old I wonder is the doctor's ' 'unabridged. ' ' 

 On page 13S the doctor runs up against 

 "sic" again. I would not have used the 

 word again but I supposed the doctor 

 would see the fault at once and not call 

 for further explanation. Since he has 

 not done so I shall have to sa}- that "in- 

 to" is used after verbs of motion to sig- 

 nify the entering a place, "in" after verbs 

 of motion or rest within a place. Exam- 

 ple: He went into a carriage and drove in 

 it five miles. 



The fatherly concern of the doctor 

 about the "internal" affairs of the Re- 

 view and about the course I pursue 

 in writing my criticisms are really 

 touching. (Review, 170. ) For a year or 

 thereabouts he has been greatly exercised 

 because I do not devote more time to the 

 criticism of the Review. I thought he 

 would become reconciled after awhile 

 and permit me to follow my own judg- 

 ment in peace, but as he does not, hoping 

 to lay his anxiety, I shall out of kindness 

 to him devote this entire article to the 

 Review; though I protest I do not exactl}' 

 see why the doctor should assume to dic- 

 tate what I shall criticise and how I shall 

 do it. He also at the same page repeats 

 his intimations concerning my correct- 

 ness and unfairness. This too he has 

 kept up for about a year. Assertions are 

 cheap. Proved facts and valid argu- 

 ments are much more costly. Besides, if 



I were to retaliate in kind I should feel 

 that I was wasting a good deal of valuable 

 space. 



THE PROOF RE.\DER. 

 Said reader must have had something 

 else on his mind when correcting the 

 matter for the Review for June. In the 

 fifth line of my article he makes me say 

 "he took" instead of "I take." In my 

 quotation from Stenog. in the third par- 

 agraph he makes it read "the latest and 

 best" instead of the "latest and by far the 

 the largest." On page 180, line four, 

 second column, should read "In inves- 

 tigating" instead of "In investing." 



A. c. miixer's method of preventing 



SW.-VRMING. 



Mr. Miller's plan is ingenious, but I 

 am in doubt whether it is entirely suc- 

 cessful, even with him; for he speaks of 

 some colonies that will not go according 

 to rule. I any case, I question the de- 

 sirability of it. He speaks of the extra 

 hives and escape-boards; but much more 

 important, it seems to me, is the fact that 

 there must be a large number of combs 

 taken from the colonies that have to be 

 cared for. Then there is the finding of 

 the queens, not only in the colonies that 

 are going to swarm, but what is more por- 

 tentous, in the colonies that are deemed 

 liable to swarm. My bees have got fair- 

 ly started swarming, and, in my apiarj', 

 are eighty colonies any one of which 

 may swarm tomorrow without creating 

 any surprise. In ten days there will be 

 nearly as man}- more in the same con- 

 dition; but it is altogether improbable 

 that more than one in three will swarm at 

 all if they are left entirely to themselves. 

 It does not seem to me desirable to dis- 

 turb three colonies, as Mr. Miller's plan 

 would require, in order to prevent one 

 from swarming. Then when I contemplate 

 the shutting up of hives full of brood, 

 large amounts of which is not yet ma- 

 ture enough to be capped, with the sup- 

 ply of water and nectar entirely cut off 

 during the hot weather of summer, I am 

 surprised that Mr. Miller had the cour- 



