THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



19 



In the Colwick advertisement in the Dec. 

 issue the price of three tested queens ought 

 to have been ^rt.OO, instead of $-i.m. 



NoBTHEASTEBN MioH. bee keepers will hold 

 their annual convention Wednesday, Feb. 4, 

 at the Commercial House in Port Huron. 



Mbs. L. C. Axtell writes that they have 

 never lost a colony when there were enough 

 bees to cover two or three combs, not one 

 comb, as the types make her say on page 1(J2. 



The Editobial department is crowded 

 pretty hard this month by correspondence ; 

 and there is a pigeon-hole full of good arti- 

 cles yet on hand. Now is the time of year 

 when bee keepers have time to write. Wait 

 until next summer, and there will probably 

 be plenty of room for the editorial pen. 



THE BEE WORLD. 



This is a new journal that, judging from 

 the contents and editorial>^. is to be made up 

 largely of extracts and comments upon the 

 extracts, something after the style of the 

 "Extracted" department of the Review. 

 It is edited and published by W. S. Vandruff , 

 at Wayuesburg, Pa., and, considering that 

 this number was gotten up hastily, I think 

 he has done exceedingly well. It is well 

 printed, has sixteen pages, and its subscrip- 

 tion price is fifty cents. 



THE CHA.NOES IN THE BEVIEW MEET WITH 

 FAVOB. 



Notwithstanding the doubling of the price, 

 twice as many subscriptions to the Review 

 have been received since the December issue 

 was mailed, as came during the correspond- 

 ing period of last year: and, best of all, 

 nearly every subscription is accompanied by 

 congratulations and cheering words in e- 

 gard to the changes made. Some are very 

 enthusiastic in their expressions of pleasure. 

 I wish I could write a personal letter of 

 thanks to each kind friend, or, better still, 

 take each by the hand and express my thanks 

 in person ; but this connot be ; the best I 

 can do is to say " thank you," in this whole- 

 sale manner, and then work the harder to 

 make the Review more deserving of the 

 praises showered upon it. 



CANDY FOB QUEEN CAGES. 



Mr. Manum adda glycerine to his candy 

 for use in shipping queens. With this addi- 

 tion the candy will not dry up for years ; at 

 least so says Mr. Manum ; and it appears 

 reasonable. He also adds flour. Mr. Alley 

 objects to the addition of the glycerine, say- 

 ing that it contains more or less arsenic. If 

 it contains enough to injure the bees, Mr. 

 Manum would probably have discovered it 

 long ago. As most of you know, I, for sev- 

 eral years, made a specialty of rearing and 

 shipping queens, and I never found anj thing 

 any better than pulverized sugar and honey 

 for provisioning the cages, and I don't ask 

 for anything better. A "batch" made in 

 the sprinijc always kept moist enough for use 

 the entire season. 



THE AMFBICAN BEE KEEPEB. 



When I got out the little book, " The Pro- 

 duction of Comb Honey,^'' I was living at 

 Rogersville. The printing was done at 

 Flint ; and, that I might keep watch of the 

 work, I was in town several days. While 

 here I boarded with an old lady who had 

 once lived neighbor to father when I was a 

 boy. When I went to supper one evening, I 

 carried with me the first copy that was com- 

 pleted. As the old lady looked it over she 

 said : " Why, Will, how clean it looks ! " 



A few days ago the first issue of the Amer- 

 ican Bee Keeper came to hand, and, as I sat 

 turning over its pages, this remark of the 

 old lady was brought to my mind most for- 

 cibly : " How clean it looks." 



Bee papers are expected to ay something 

 complimentary of a new journal, but I can 

 say a good word for the Bee Keeper without 

 feeling that it is simply courtesy. When I 

 say that it is a nice looking journal, very 

 neatly and cleanly printed, full of articles 

 from well known apiarists, and well worth 

 its subscription price, it is said with lileax- 

 ure. It is published, at fifty cents a year, by 

 the W. T. Falconer M'f'g Co., -Jamestown, 

 N. Y. 



AN OLD FBIEND IN A NEW FIRM. 



Ever since it became known that the Re- 

 view was " home made," some of the friends 

 have been writing to le«rn if I could print 

 their circulars and price lists. I have no 

 time for this kind of work, but I'll tell you, 

 friends, where to send it to get good work 



