THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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know that it can be done — they have 

 seen the artificial comb and the machine 

 that made it (?). What they have seen is 

 comb foundation and the machine by 

 which it is rolled out. The}' have seen it 

 at some bee-keepers, or at some fair, and 

 have not thoroughly understood — have 

 simply gotten a superficial idea of it, and 

 then when they read some of these man- 

 ufactured stories about manufactured 

 honey, they put two and two together, 

 and that ends the matter in their opinion. 

 Mr. Simpson thinks that we should ex- 

 plain, in our refutations, the nature and 

 use of comb foundation. We should tell 

 the whole truth about the matter, and 

 not simply deny. 



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Some Changes in the Review have 

 been made this month. I presume you 

 have already noticed the change in the 

 cover. This change is the result of hav- 

 ing a printing press in my own office, 

 which allows me to indulge in the past- 

 time of experimenting with colored inks 

 and colored papers. 



I'll tell you how I came to change the 

 paper in the body of the Review. In 

 the first place, let me say that I have 

 never admired the enameled, shiny pa- 

 pers. To my mind nothing looks cleaner 

 or neater than printing done on white, 

 unglazed paper; and when I came to 

 printing the new edition of Advanced 

 Bee Culture that I am now getting out, I 

 decided, as it contained no half-tones, to 

 use unglazed paper. It did look so nice, 

 clean and readable that I could not help 

 wishing that I might print the Review 

 on such paper. In fact, I have, for years, 

 wanted to use such paper on the Review, 

 but have hesitated to adopt it because its 

 use would compel me to drop the half- 

 tone engravings. However, I am going 

 to use it for awhile, at least. In the 

 meantime, I will continue the frontis- 

 pieces, printing them on enameled paper, 

 printing them ourselves, on our own lit- 

 tle press, and pasting them in. This 

 plan will allow us to print them in some 



other color than somber black. Perhaps 

 one really handsome picture each issue 

 will atone for the lack of pictures in the 

 rest of the Review. Of course we can 

 use zinc etchings, or wood engravings, 

 and, if really necessary to use a half-tone, 

 it can be printed on enameled paper as 

 an inset. I shall be glad to know how 

 these changes suit my readers. 



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.\ BEE CEIvLAR THAT RESEMBLES 

 A CISTER3S. 



Mr. T. F. Bingham has a bee cellar 

 that resembles a cistern in some respects. 

 It is wholly underground, and the sides 

 are covered with cement, as is often the 

 case with a cistern. Over the top of the 

 cistern, or cellar, is a floor covered with 

 sawdust, and then there is a roof over the 

 whole. There is a large ventilator in the 

 center. When on my way home from 

 the Michigan convention at Petoskey, I 

 stopped over between trains, at Farwell, 

 and visited friend Bingham and took a 

 photo, of his bee cellar. We also went 

 down in the cellar and saw how nicely 

 the bees were wintering. In a letter re- 

 cently received from Mr. Bingham, he 

 has the following: — 



These are the trying days for the bee- 

 depositories. 65° at noon is the test; 50° 

 in the cellar, with the bees quiet and the 

 the celler sweet and dry. My mistake 

 last fall was in not putting in another ven- 

 tilating flue as large as the one you saw. 

 If I had another flue, 17 x 32, with a door 

 at the ceiling, so as to be controllable, 

 the temperature could be kept below 50°, 

 with an outside temperature of 70°. 

 Just now, this warm, unusually early 

 spring, when we have fears that the usual 

 cold weather will come at the last hour, 

 no bee-keeper can fail to realize the value 

 of a dr}', staying bee cellar. Of course, 

 it may prove to be a mistake to keep 

 bees in the cellar so late, but opinion 

 seems to favor the plan. If agreeable to 

 the bees, mine will remain in the cellar 

 until soft maple is in bloom. I now 

 open, at night, the man-hole we went 

 down through, when you were here, and 

 the temperature goes down 4°. My 

 screens and dark room over the man-hole 

 keep out the moonlight and answer well 



