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W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor M Proprietor. 



VOL Xil FLINT. MICHIGAN, DECEMBER 10, 1899. NO, 12. 



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=nnast, present and future 

 Jy OF the review. 



^ BY W .Z. HUTCHINSON. 



As this issue of the Review- 

 is somewhat devoted to "w-rite-ups," it 

 may not be out of the way to say a few- 

 words in regard to 

 why and how the 

 Review was start- 

 ed, how it has 

 prospered, and to 

 consider its pros- 

 it 4*' pects for the fu- 

 if^kJjm tiire. I know- that 

 once before, about 

 ten years ago, I 

 v^ave a brief history 

 of the Review, its 

 editor, and its 

 Revew has gained 

 since then who may 

 be interested in its birth and growth. 



For nearly fifteen years I made a spe- 

 cialty of bee-keeping; and, during that 

 time, I was often struck by the large 

 amount of matter published that seemed 

 to me the next thing to useless. Soman}- 

 times, after reading an article, I would 

 find myself exclaiming, mentall}-, "Well, 

 what of it ?" It seemed to me that it con- 

 tained no idea whatever that would help 



home, but the 

 manv new readers 



a bee-keeper to make of his business a 

 more safe, pleasant and profitable pursuit. 

 There seemed so much chaff and so little 

 wheat. It often occurred tome that there 

 was room for a journal that would make 

 a specialty of gathering up and publish- 

 ing all of the really valuable articles that 

 appeared in the other journals; or, at 

 least, of giving the ideas that they con- 

 tained. 



Again, we would occasionally have a 

 valuable article upon some special topic; 

 months might elapse when we would be 

 treated with another upon the same sub- 

 ject, but from a different pen, and with dif- 

 fering views; and it seemed to me that 

 it would be an excellent plan to secure arti- 

 cles, all upon one subject, but from differ- 

 ent men, those of experience, and publish 

 them all in one issue of a jt)urnal, thus 

 enabling us to see a subject under all of 

 the different lights possible. 



Then, again, there seemed to be need 

 for a journal that should be free from the 

 influence of a supply-trade. In those 

 days some of the journals seemed very 

 much like what are now called "house- 

 organs;" those published in the interest 

 of some manufacturing concern. The 

 editors of some of those journals 

 could see little good in anything not 

 manufactured or controlled by them- 



