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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



How I wish no one but specialists would 

 raise honey, then we should not have to com- 

 pete with the broken, stained mussy honey 

 in the market. A commission man offered 

 me 16 cents, but I thought that two cents 

 would pay my expenses and give me a chance 

 to see the city. The R. R. Co, said they had 

 no right to receive it without the cases being 

 crated as per Mr. Ripley, but as nothing else 

 was in the car they did not care. Of course I 

 removed the stove before the car started. I 

 think the car would have gone safely to New 

 York only for the transferring. The Mayor 

 told me I could not sell from house to house 

 without a license, but others said I could sell 

 anything I raised 



Hopkins, Mo. 



Jan. 10. 1893. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



W. Z. HOTCHir*SOfl, Ed. & Pjpop. 



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FL/NT, MICHIGAN. DEC. 10. 1893. 



Ontario, Canada, bee-keepers will hold 

 their annual convention January 9th and 

 10th, 1894, at Lindsay. The editor of the 

 Review expects to enjoy the pleasure of at- 

 tending the meeting. 



Canada is to have another bee journal, the 

 first issue being already out. Its name is 

 the Practical Bee-Keeper and it is a neatly 

 gotten up quarterly, at forty cents a year, 

 published at Tilbury Center by C. A. Oue- 

 Uette, with T. N. Leigh as editor. Leading 

 bee-keepers contribute to the first issue. 



Eight Extra Pages are added this month 

 to make room for the index and to allow 

 plenty of room in which to set forth the 

 prominent excellencies of the Review (see 

 last four pages) in order that the large num- 

 ber to whom this issue will be sent as a sam- 

 ple may more thoroughly understand " What 

 the Review has been, is, and will be." 



A OOEREOTION. 



Mr. Cornell sends the following : "In the 

 second paragraph, second column, page 815, 

 it reads ; ' As the vapor laden air escapes 

 from the cluster at G5 into saturated air at 

 .5.')°, it * * ' The figures .V) should be 45°. 

 In Elwood's article you have Rettenkofifer a 

 couple of times where it should be Petten- 

 kofter. I don't know who made the mistake 

 but I feel sure it was not Elwood." 

 O 



Orange Blossom Honey must be very deli- 

 cious, or else Rambler has indulged in pic- 

 turesque language to such an extent that he 

 can use no other. After reading his article 

 that appears in this issue I did not feel easy 

 until I had written and asked him if it would 

 be possible to send me a can of orange blos- 

 som honey. He had none of his own that 

 was pure, but by looking about he finally 

 found one sixty pound can of what appeared 

 to be pure orange blossom honey, " the most 

 delicious honey he ever tasted." and he 

 bought it for me and it is now on its way 

 across the continent. It will probably be 

 here before the Michigan State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association meets, and I will then " stand 

 treat." 



E. R. Root calls attention to Hasty's re- 

 mark that Mr. Taylor drew conclusions 

 favorable to foundation, and that the editor 

 of the Review argued in favor of starters, 

 both using that big table as a basis. Beg 

 pardon Bros., but Mr. Taylor called atten- 

 tion to the fact that those hived on starters 

 " held their rate of gain decidedly better 

 than those hived on comb or foundation." 

 I then called attention to this fact and ar- 

 gued that if the harvest had continued a lit- 

 tle longer, or had the test been commenced 

 a little earlier, those on starters might have 

 come out ahead. When Mr. Taylor sent in 

 that report he accompanied it by a private 

 note in which he said " There is a big argu- 

 ment in those figures for starters," and I 

 did wonder a little that he did not enlarge a 

 little more on this point in his summing up. 



Advertising, (jood advertising, in these 

 times is almost half the battle. I have in 

 mind a queen breeder who keeps his adv. 

 running the whole year. Whenever I write 

 to him for a few queens I always have to 

 wait a long time before he can fill my order 

 — so many orders ahead. But when I send 



