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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Paint rubs off in many cases because 

 the oil is not linseed — the oil used mostly 

 is made from cotton seed. Linseed oil 

 costs twice as much as the imitation. 



Mr. R. C. Aikin was not the President 

 who tipped over backwards in his chair 

 while presiding at the Colorado conven- 

 tion held last November in Denver. It 

 was the newly elected President. Mr. J. U. 

 Harris. Mrs. Aikin writes that she 

 "doesn't wish people to think that her 

 husband does not know how- to sit still 

 when he is presiding over a convention — 

 or any other time for that matter." 



AxT.S, large ones that build mounds, 

 and travel long distances, are an annoy- 

 ance to bee-keepers in Colorado. One 

 efficacious remedy where irrigation is 

 practiced, is that of drowning out the hills. 

 Another plan is that of burying a large 

 bottle in the nest in such a way that the 

 mouth is level with the surface of the 

 ground. The ants crawl into the mouth 

 of the bottle, drop to the bottom, and 

 are unable to return. This plan will not 

 destroy every member of an ant hill, as 

 not every one will find and enter the 

 bottle, but enough will do so to keep the 

 population so reduced that there will not 

 be enough to do any great harm. 



R. F. Holtp:rm.\nn, formerly editor 

 of the Canadian Bee Journal, is to be wel- 

 comed back into the bee keeping ranks. 

 He is to be manager of an apiary on the 

 celebrated Bow Park Farm, located near 

 Brantford, Ontario, Canada. This farm 

 consists of i,ooo acres, and is managed by 

 the Bow Park Co. Dairying, stock rais- 

 ing, and the raising and pickling of cauli- 

 flower, cucumbers, onions, etc., are car- 

 ried on upon a large scale, and es])ecial 

 pride is taken in sending out nothing 

 that is not strictly first-class. Bee keep- 

 ing has now been added to their list of 

 industries, and hone\- in hermetically 

 sealed tins will be put up for an e'xpoit 

 trade. Queen rearing will also be a branch 

 of the apiarian work. 



The T/One Star apiarist is the latest 

 addition to our apiarian periodicals. If 

 I am correct, it is published by a stock 

 company, of which G. F. Davidson is 

 president. Frank M. Jones is publisher 

 and business manager, and Louis SchoU 

 is editor and treasurer. At the outset, 

 this company did a very wise thing, that 

 of buying the Southland Oueen; thus be- 

 ing able to start with a subscription list, 

 and no competition in its chosen field. It 

 is evident that the first issue was gotten 

 out under great difficulties, but it is also 

 equally evident that it is in the hands of 

 practical bee keepers: and once they get 

 fairly settled into the harness I believe 

 that they will give us a bee journal that 

 will compare favorably with others of its 

 class. The Lone Star Apiarist is a dollar 

 monthly, and is published at Floresville, 

 Texas. The Review extends the glad 

 hand, and stands ready to work in har- 

 mony with the only journal hailing from 

 the State having the proud distinction 

 of being the only one that is the largest. 



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The Title of a book or an article 

 ought to be a true index to its character 

 — to tell in the fewest words possible 

 what the article is about. It is easy 

 enough to write a title by making a free 

 use of words, but to give the gist of an 

 article in three or four words is often 

 quite difficult. Those who have much 

 practice in this direction sometimes be- 

 come ver\- proficient. Five minutes spent 

 in reading the headlines of a daily paper 

 will give a busy man a pretty fair idea 

 of the news of the day. Years ago I 

 learned to read the bee journals by glanc- 

 ing at the titles, the names of the au- 

 thors, and then an occasional paragraph. 



Some writers never wrote anything 

 that I cared to read; others never wrote 

 anything that I could afford to miss. If 

 the author, the title and a glance at a 

 paragraph here and there were all favora- 

 ble, then the article was read in its en- 

 tirety. A man is foolish to waste his time 

 reading that for which he has little or no 

 interest; and I am going to try and help 



