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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



month, care must be taken to choose an 

 old, tough comb; and with this the bee- 

 keeper can choose his own time for re- 

 leasing the queen — that is, within an or- 

 dinary limit of time — Ed.] 



"booming" A POOR ARTICLE FOR SELF- 

 INTEREST WOULD BE SUICIDAL. SUC- 

 CESSFUL BUSINESS REQUIRES A 

 KEEN PROPHETIC 

 VISION. 

 The editor of Gleanings (p. p. 753, 755, 

 et al. ) seems to be ve-y sensitive to the 

 innuendoes and charges frequently made 

 that his company takes up and booms 

 new things, like plain sections, tall sec- 

 tions, fences, etc., with the sole purpose, 

 regardless of the interests of customers, 

 to make money out of them. Indeed, 

 one is led to wonder whether the editor, 

 judging from his anxiety and protesta- 

 tions, does not ignorantly feel in some de- 

 gree guilty. But those who are making 

 the insinuations referred to ought to know 

 better than to do it. Such a course would 

 be suicidal on the part of the company. 

 Successful trade depends upon a profit to 

 each party to it. The A. I. Root compa- 

 ny is not without commercial sagacity ; and 

 it is not going to run counter to that 

 principle, knowingly. On the o'^her 

 hand, the editor is evidently not quite 

 close to the mark when he makes the 

 broad statement that "I think I can shov»' 

 you that dollars and cents in the case of 

 the A. 1. Root Co. was not the motive for 

 putting out these sections." Perhaps 

 not, directly, nor exclusively. It was to 

 minister to honorable success; and that 

 means dollars and cents. It would not 

 be possible for the editor to lead his many 

 admirers to believe that that was all pure- 

 ly missionary work. Successful business 

 in these times requires the prophetic vis- 

 ion — the clearer and more constant that 

 is, the greater the profit to customers and 

 company. The A. I. Root Co., in order 

 to keep well up in the race, has been 

 testing that vision; and the clearness of 

 the view obtained, time alone can dis- 

 close. 



lyAPEER, Mich., Nov. 3, 1899. 



EDITORIAL 



ffcrings. 



Ontario bee-keepers will hold their 

 annual convention in Toronto on the 5th, 

 6th and 7th of December. 



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Cellar, or in-door, wintering of bees 

 receives so much attention in this issue 

 of the Review that it might almost be 

 called a special topic number. 



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Michigan bee-keepers will hold their 

 annual convention this year at Thompson- 

 ville. The exact date has not been fixed, 

 but I presume it will be about the ist of 

 January, in order to take advantage of 

 the holiday rates on the railroads. 



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S. P. CULLEY is Missouri's largest in- 

 dividual bee-keeper; so says the Progres- 

 sive Bee-Keeper, for which Mr. Culley is 

 writing a series of articles. His crop this 

 year was twent3' tons, mostly extracted, 

 for which he expects to realize 1^3,500. 



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The Australian Bee-Keeper is the 

 name of a new, neat monthly published 

 by the Pender Bros. , of West Maitland, 

 New South Wales. From glancing 

 through the copies that have come to 

 this office, I see that the question of ex- 

 portation, of securing a foreign market, 

 is a very important one with the bee- 

 keepers ol Australia. 



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Mice in the bee-cellar, from the pre- 

 sence of which our friend Dadant says 

 he could not sleep if he knew that they 

 were racing about among the bees, can be 

 cleaned out by the use of poison. Mix 

 ec^ual quantities of fiour, sugar and arse- 

 nic, and place in shallow dishes and set 



