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Tbc Review for 1894. 



Special Topics. 



If there is any one tliiuK more than another tliat has made the Review what it is, 

 it is its discussion of " Special Topics ;" the gathering together in one number of the 

 best that is known, of the latest views of the best men upon some special topic. Like 

 a lens, the Review brings together the lines of thought, and so illustrates the subject 

 that it can be clearly seen and underetood. While many of the most important sub- 

 jects have been thus discussed, new ones are continually coming up, and some new 

 discovery often puts an old idea in a new light, hence the Review will always find a 

 fruitful field in the discussion of special topics. 



One JoorryZi]. 



In the main, tliecontents of our beejournalsaremadeupof original matter. From 

 the very nature of the case, the value of this matter greatly varies. Many bee-keepers 

 cannot aiford to take more than one journal, neither have they the time to read all of 

 the journals, and to be able to find all the most valuable matter of all the journals 

 brought together, condensed, reviewed and criticised, is a blessing to the busy man, 

 and to tlie one who " can afford only one journal." To thus furnish the cream of the 

 other journals is the province of the Review. 



Travels Arnon? B^e- Keepers. 



To make thebestpossiblebee journal an editor ouglit not to sit in his office from one 

 year's end to the other. He ought to have an apiary of his own, to attend conven- 

 tions, and visit bee-keepers at their homes. Not only will this enable him to keep in 

 touch with his readers, but by visiting apiaries he will run across ideas, implements 

 and methods of wliich the general mass of bee-keepers is ignorant, their possessors 

 being so accustomed to them that it never occurs to them that everybody does not 

 kiiow of them. In the summer of 1894, in company with his camera, the editor of the 

 Review exp-cts to visit a large number of bee-keepers, making extended trips through 

 Canada, the Eastern, Middle and Western States; and the Review will contain illas- 

 trations and descriptions of the bee keepers visited, their homes, families, apiaries, 

 implements, methods, e*^c 



Experirp^ptzil Apiculture. 



Last spri'"g a few bee keepers of Michigan worked hard and spent some money in 

 so forcibly bringing before the State Board of Agriculture the necessity for an experi- 

 mental apiary, that $iiOn were appropriated for that purpose, and the Hon. R. L. Tay- 

 lor appointed a-^ apiarist. He has proved most emphatically to be " the right man in 

 the riirlit place " All through the year experiments of a practical nature are under 

 way. and the results are given in the Review AT ONCE, months and months before 

 they appeir in the official report. Securing these reports and placing them before 

 the public while they are frpsh and can be a' once utilized is one of the best things 

 that the Review has ever df)ne for bee-keepers 



Hasty's Reviev/. 



E. E. Hasty needs no introduction. No other apicultural writer approaches him in 

 briglit, (luaint, or'ginal expressions Coupled with this is a thorough knowledge of 

 practical bee culture, and he is to use these two accomplishments the coming year in 

 helping to make the " Extracted Department " of the Review. He is to read ail of the 

 journals, and then criticise their contents in that inimitable way of his. Tlie Review 

 is also to come in for its share of criticism. Probably no feature of the Review for 

 1804 will be more interesting or profitable than '' Hasty's Review." 



^t tbe Propt. 



The Revif.w strives most earnestly tostand in the front rank : to publish advanced 

 ideas before they have become a matter of history; to be interesting, enterprising, 

 wide awake, up with the times, and brimful of ideas that are especially helpful to the 

 honey-producer. 



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