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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



have spent the whole summer there. But it 

 is so immense that to attempt to see every- 

 thing in a short time is simply folly. I can 

 appreciate most fully the feelings of the man 

 who felt like taking the train for home at 

 the end of the first day. He was discouraged 

 in even attempting to see the fair. The only 

 thing that I saw thoroughly was the honey 

 exhibition. I spent half a day at the art 

 building and saw pictures that will always 

 remain in my memory : but just think of 

 trying to look at all of the pictures in eighty 

 large rooms in half a day, when there are 

 many pictures before any one of which you 

 would be glad to stand for half a day ! I 

 presume I went through half the rooms. 



I had my camera with me and was anxious 

 to make photographs of the bee and honey 

 exhibits. Inquiry developed the fact that no 

 camera was allowed on the grounds that 

 took pictures larger than 4x5 inches and 

 mine was twice as large. An official photo- 

 grapher would make one picture for $3.00. 

 Dr. Mason went with me to the superintend- 

 ent of the building and stated the case, but 

 he could not help us any. The Doctor said : 

 " I guess the only way will be to smuggle in 

 the camera and use it on the sly. Wont it ?" 

 The superintendent said : " That is the way 

 I should do it." And I imagined that I saw 

 the shadow of a wink gather abont the cor- 

 ner of one eye. That settled it. I slept on 

 the floor that night in a little room back of 

 the honey exhibits, with a big piece of can- 

 vas under and another over me, while for a 

 sheet I used the big piece of cotton cloth that 

 Bro. Root uses to cover up his exhibits so 

 folks cannot see it Sundays. As soon as it 

 was light enough for me to work in the 

 morning I was at it and before the sight- 

 seers were very numerous I had made ten 

 " exposures." Cuts made from some of 

 these appear in this issue. 



Monday morning I made Bro. York a short 

 call. I found him in a very cosy office in 

 the very top of one of Chicago's tall build- 

 ings. Why did he go there ? A printer 

 could easily guess ; because he could thereby 

 secure such excellent light. 



Eleven o'clock found me on board the 

 train with the best part of the trip before 

 me — the home-going. As I neared home I 

 had no difficulty in recalling the follow- 

 ing : — 



" Clime above all climeH beside 

 Ib where those we love abide, 

 And that little spot is best 

 Which the loved one's foot has pressed." 



EXTRACTED. 



Ventilation of Bee Cellars. 



We think the Cosmos quite boiled down — 

 ( 'anned in a thousand histories— 

 But what we know is sprinkled round 

 Among a tliousand mysteries. 



Although it has several times been decided, 

 apparently, that bees needed no ventilation 

 in winter, I have never been fully satisfied 

 with that decision. When Mr. P. H. Elwood 

 described in Gleanings, a few months ago, 

 his wintering cellars and said that his views 

 on the subject of ventilation had been very 

 fully expressed in the American Bee Journal 

 for July, of 1878, I at once sent for that issue 

 and read his communication. At this sea- 

 son of the year, and with discussion that is 

 now on hand, probably nothing could be 

 more appropriate than its reproduction. 



"Industry, skill, and economy, will secure 

 a competence in almost any legitimate pur- 

 suit. Without these three essentials, busi- 

 ness becomes a mere lottery, with many 

 more blanks than prizes ; and although the 

 prize of success may occasionally be ob- 

 tained, it adds nothing to the credit of the 

 obtainer. 



Formerly, bee-keeping was supposed to be 

 a highly favored pursuit, success depending 

 not upon the amount of labor and skill em- 

 ployed, but upon the possession of a mysteri- 

 ous something, called luck. Happily, wiser 

 counsels have prevailed until, at the present 

 time, our leading apiarists are united in the 

 assertion ' That the greatest enemy of the 

 bee is the ignorance of man.' Nowhere do 

 we see the truth of this statement more con* 

 spicuously shown than in that much dis- 

 cussed branch of our business, wintering : 

 and were we, to-day, to examine in detail the 

 many theories advanced, and the equally nu- 

 merous practices founded upon them, we 

 should be compelled to accept the conclusion 

 that luck more often than wit is still to have 

 the credit of success. 



As a discussion of the whole subject of 

 wintering would require too much time and 

 space, I will confine my thoughts princi- 

 pally to ventilation while in winter quarters ; 

 (a subject upon which no two authorities 

 agree), and in order to be consistent, I shall 

 have to disagree, to a very large extent, with 

 the many that have preceded me. At the 

 outset, we shall have to satisfy all that bees 

 require the accession of fresh air to main- 

 tain life and health, a proposition that cona- 

 mon sense would answer by an emphatic 

 yes, but to which many bee-keepers give an 

 equally emphatic no, and bring forward 

 many illustrations to i)rove the truthfulness 

 of their theory. 



Gen. Adair, in an elaborate paper on ven- 

 tilation, mentions having had a honey box, 

 the air-space of which was half filled with 



