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tions is to be the lot of apiculture, the very 

 next thing to appear may be something so 

 valuable and yet so startling in its simplicity 

 that we will all wonder that we did not see 

 the want and supply the need. 



I think very favorably of the house apiary 

 idea and I believe another season will Hud 

 me with one in operation. 



I am not going to say anything about the 

 rest of the number, not even of that charm- 

 ing picture of the life of the editor, because 

 it would prolong this article beyond reason- 

 able limits, but I just want to express my 

 appreciation of the way it is made up and 

 the changes of management suggested. 



Ottawa, 111. Jan. 44, 1893. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. JAN. 10, 1893. 



"The West" is a great country and its 

 bee-keepiug partakes of this greatness, but 

 it is said that the bee-keeping of the West is 

 somewhat different from that of the East, 

 and to make the Review more helpful to 

 the Western brethren. Jno. H. Martin, bet- 

 ter known as the "Rambler," will write a 

 series of articles for the Review for 1893, in 

 which the needs and necessities of Western 

 bee-keepers will be given particular atten- 

 tion. His first article appears in this issue. 



This issue of the Review is late on ac- 

 count of my being away to conventions. 

 Bee conventions usually come at the wrong 

 time of the year for the publisher — just when 

 he has the most work to do — but to keep up 

 with the times and out of the ruts, a pub- 

 lisher must mingle as much as possible with 

 his fellows, I presume that nothing will 

 again take me from my post for several 

 months, and I am going to work hard to 

 " catch up " and have the Review out earlier 

 in the month. Correspondents can help me 

 much in this matter by sending in their ar- 

 ticles as soon as possible. 



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"The MOST honeit with the least labor " 

 is what I believe R. L. Taylor secures in as 

 successful a manner as any man I know. In 

 the face of this he has had foul brood to con- 

 tend with. During the coming year he will 

 tell the readers of the Review how he man- 

 ages. His first article will be in the next Re- 

 view. 



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G. T. SoMEBS is the name of a pleasant, 

 nice looking young man who has been editor 

 of the Canadian Bee Journal for the last 

 year. I met him last week at the Ontario 

 Bee-Keepers' Convention. Practically, Mr. 

 D. A. -Jones has nothing more to do with the 

 C. B. J. 



The American Bee Journal is bound not to 

 fall behind. Each issue is to contain a por- 

 trait ana biographical sketch of some api- 

 cultural celebrity. There is nothing like a 

 face to face meeting and the hearty hand 

 clasp, but even these are rendered still more 

 pleasant by having first seen the portrait 

 and read the sketch. 



The Progi'essive Bee-Keeper is again on 

 deck, its pages a little reduced in size but 

 with just as much reading matter, as it has 

 some new type that is not quite so large as 

 the old. I think it is Brevier, and, to my 

 way of thinking, that is about the neatest 

 size type for a magazine. 



E. E. Hasty is a well-educated man, a 

 practical bee-keeper, and, as a writer he is 

 the most bright, piquant, and original in ex- 

 pression of any in our ranks. These gifts 

 are to be employed the coming year in help- 

 ing make the " Extracted Department " of 

 the Review. He is to have all of the jour- 

 nals, read them carefully, and then criticise, 

 commend and condemn their contents in 

 that inimitable style of his. The Review is 

 to come in for its share of criticism. 

 " Hasty 's Review " will probably be one of 

 the most interesting and valuable features of 

 the Review for 1893. His first batch of 

 criticisms will appear in the next issue. 



