THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



shifting, however, from quantity to quality. 

 Nowadays, one can buy for a dime enough 

 printed matter to keep him busy for a week. 

 Yet the public is beginning to realize that 

 reading matter is not like other kinds of 

 merchandise. One can read only a limited 

 amount of matter, and the coming man will 

 insist upon having it served in crisp, con- 

 densed form — without padding. The big 

 paper prints a vast amount of matter that it 

 could dispense with if its editor were not re- 

 quired to till a certain amount of space. 

 The advertiser, too, finds himself buried out 

 of sight. There is a place for the paper that 

 will print as little as possible instead of as 

 much as possible." 



Educating Advertisers, 

 The Review has had quite a little to say 

 about advertising, but its editor believes, 

 with Printers'' Ink, that : — 



" It is a duty which every newspaper owes 

 to itself to assist in educating advertisers up 

 to making the best use of their space. When 

 newspaper advertisements are better con- 

 structed than at present and made more in- 

 teresting, advertising space will be more in 

 demand and worth proportionately more 

 money." 



Wliy We "Wish to Know Who is Talking. 



" I can't for the life of me see why so 

 much fuss is made over so many trivial little 

 things in bee literature, and in the conduct 

 of the journals which depend on the pursuit 

 of bee keeping for their living, such as nom- 

 de-plumes, putting the names of the writer 

 at the beginning of each article, etc. It 

 would seem as if some of those who write 

 in such a strain, have decided that they must 

 know who writes an article before they will 

 take the trouble to read it, and some articles 

 they wouldn't read at any price, just because 

 the right name wasn't at the head of the 

 article. Away with such childishness. — Ob- 

 server in C. B. J. 



Well, Bro. Observer, I can tell you why / 

 wish to know who it is that is doing the 

 talking. I have learned from experience 

 that, although some editors may think the 

 writings of certain men are worth printing, / 

 don't think them worth reading. They may 

 be worth something to others — to me they 

 are valueless. Another man may discover 

 that the contributions of some other corres- 

 pondent are of no value to him. On the 

 other hand, there are some men whose names 

 at the head of articles are of sufficient guar- 

 antee to me that they are worth reading. 

 Some men never have written anything that 

 I would care to read, while others have never 

 written anything that I didn't value. Every 

 one who has kept bees and read the journals 

 for a number of years, has. I presume, had a 

 similar experience. 



Keeping Honey Over Winter. 



" Hon. R. L. Taylor is an exasperating 

 customer. In his President's Address he 

 spoke of the "fact" that honey "maybe 

 ke])t in perfect condition from one year to 

 another," but didn't tell how. I wrote, 

 challenging him to tell. Back comes a pos- 

 tal, saying, " I have kept honey over in per- 

 fect condition, and it sold without question 

 at the same price as new honey, and it was 

 really decidedly better," and a few words of 

 sauce, but not a word about the "how." If 

 comb honey is meant, I have known of only 

 two or three cases of keeping over in good 

 shape, and that on a very limited scale. 

 Whether he has a different or the same plan, 

 it is important to know about it, and Bro. 

 Taylor is not the sort of man to make a 

 statement without solid foundation. Let's 

 make him tell or put him out." — C. C. Miller 

 in Gleanings. 



I had intended to ask Mr, Taylor to de- 

 scribe his honey house, in this issue of the 

 Review, but so many articles already on 

 hand must be left out from lack of room, 

 that it seemed like folly to ask for more. 

 His honey house is at one side of the apiary, 

 and is built against the end of the barn, 

 Under the honey house is a cellar in which 

 part of his bees are wintered. The honey 

 room is tightly ceiled upon the inside. 

 Whether the walls are filled with any pack- 

 ing I don't know. I have been over there 

 in winter when there was a ton of comb 

 honey in this room^ I was there once in 

 February when there was, I believe, two tons 

 in the room. This room is kept warm by 

 means of a fire in a stove in the room, and, 

 if I am correct, that is all there is to it. If 

 a universally large crop of honey should 

 cause the price to go unusually low, it might 

 be advisable for those who could afford to 

 do so, to keep their crop over in this manner. 



Carniolans as Honey Gatherers. 

 Quite a number have written asking why 

 I did not report in regard to the honey gath- 

 ering qualities of the Carniolans. Simply 

 because no surplus was gathered either l>y 

 them or the Italians. As the Review re- 

 ported what Mr. S. A. Shuck said about 

 them, it is no more than fair to clip the 

 following from an article sent, in reply, by 

 Mr. J. B. Black, of Pattonsburg, Mo., to 

 the A. B. J. 



" I had four colonies of Carniolans in the 

 spring. No. 1 gave me .W pounds of surplus 

 honey, and one swarm. No. 2 yielded 40 

 pounds of surplus and one swarm. No. 8 

 gave .% pounds of surplus and two swarms. 

 No. 4 produced 13 pounds of surplus and 

 one swarm. 



