THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



73 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Ed. & Pfop. 



Tkhms : -$1.0(1 a year in ailvauco. Two c'oi)ieK, 

 $1,110 : tlirco for $2.7' ; five for $4.00 ; teu, or more, 

 70 cents eaelu i:*?" The Heview is stopped at 

 the expiration of the time paid for. 



FUfln, MICHIGAN. MARCH 10, 1891. 



Dr. Mason says he always " yoes for " the 

 editorials in the bee journals. That's me. 

 What is there so peculiarly attractive about 

 editorials, 1 wonder ? It can't be because 

 an editor knows so much more than anybody 

 else, can it ? I guess not. I think it is just 

 this : It is his business to write and to say 

 things in an interesting way, if he can. If 

 he can't, he gets to be something else besides 

 an editor. 



THE CALIFORNIA BEE-KEEPEB. 



Once again California has a bee journal of 

 her own. Its name is The California Bee- 

 Keeper, and its editor is Wm. Styan, of IHO 

 Post St., San Francisco, it is a l(j-page 

 monthly, at $1.00 a year. Evidently, Bro. 

 Styan does not intend that his natty little 

 bark, newly launched upon the tossing sea of 

 apicultural journalism, shall founder upon 

 the rock of low prices. Like the editor of the 

 Review, he probably looks upon the publish- 

 ing of a bee journal at cost as a rather somber 

 sort of amusement, unless there is an enor- 

 mous supply business to be fostered thereby. 

 Success to Bro. Styan. 



THE influence OF FBEE 8UGAK ON THE 

 CONSUMPTION OF HONEY. 



After April 1st next, the present duties on 

 foreign sugar, which average 2J4 cents per 

 pound, will no longer be imposed, and a 

 bounty of two cents a pound will be paid on 

 sugar made in this country. This will cer- 

 tainly lower the price of sugar, and probably 

 have some effect upon the price of honey, 

 more particularly upon the lower grades of 

 extracted honey now used by bakers and 

 other manufacturers. (3omb honey is a 

 thing of itself ; in one sense it has no com- 

 petitor, in another it has. Cheap sugar will 

 encourage the production of fruit preserves, 



and they will compete, to a certain extent, 

 even with comb honey. Thei-e is also an- 

 other light in which this matter may be 

 viewed. Sugar may become so cheap that it 

 will be more profitable than ever to force all 

 the white honey into the sections, and feed 

 sugar for winter stores. I know from ex- 

 perience that with the proper methods of 

 management, and the right kind of feeders, 

 that this can be done very easily and cheap- 

 ly. The obstacle in the way of using sugar 

 for winter stores has been its high price. 



PUT ONLY STBAIGHT COMBS ON THE MABKET. 



It does not seem as though very much of a 

 summing up is needed upon the Separator 

 question. I think all will admit that only 

 straight combs ought to be put upon the 

 market. If the condition of the honey flow 

 and colonies, or of the management, result 

 in straight combs without separators, then 

 they are a useless expense, otherwise they 

 ought to be used. Combs need not neces- 

 sarily be as straight as a board, but so 

 straight that they may be readily removed 

 from the case without injury. If a bee- 

 keeper can secure nearly all straight combs 

 without separators, and has a local market 

 — in which he can sell direct to consumers — 

 for the few bulged combs that he may have, 

 separators would still be a useless expense. 



If honey raised with separators brought a 

 higher price in the market, I think their use 

 would soon become almost universal ; but 

 Mr. Taylor gave what seems to me to be the 

 chit of the whole matter when he said : 

 " The drawback to these beautiful (straight) 

 sections is that I can discover no appreciable 

 addition to the selling price." Notwith- 

 standing this, no bee-keeper ought to put 

 honey upon the market so bulged as to cause 

 any trouble for those through whose hands 

 it may pass. Such a course must have a bad 

 effect upon the sale of honey. 



When separators are needed, it appears to 

 be settled that wood is preferable for loose 

 separators and tin for those to be nailed fast 

 to wide frames. 



HOW A BUSINESS MAY BE BUILT UP BY PEB- 



SISTENT AND INTELLIGENT ADVEBTISING 



IN A GOOD JOUBNAL. 



That old-time friend, "Pittstield Smith." 

 wants to sell out. When he sent in his pres- 

 ent advertisement it was accompanied by 



