THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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sources and management are quite different, 

 than those at the North? — [Tell u how the 

 mauayemeut differs. Ed.] Your leaders are 

 all right. — I would like to have some infor- 

 mation from extracted honey men about 

 tanks for evaporating and storing honey be- 

 fore barreling it. — [See June Review for 

 1888. Ed.] Keep tobacco, whisky, religion 

 or anything not pretainiiig to bees, out of 

 the Review. — By all means continue your 

 method of reviewing in advance, as at pre- 

 sent. It is just the right key. A great many 

 of our most practical apiarists are not skill- 

 ed as writers, and your elaborate leader acts 

 as an outline by which may be drawn out the 

 most practical ideas. If you state all there 

 is to he said upon a given subject, it is very 

 easy for your correspondents to say: 'them's 

 my sentiments.' This gives the same in- 

 formation in a smaller space. — The subject 

 of fastening foundation (full sheets and 

 starters) in brood frames has been, and is 

 still, a perplexing and unsolved problem 

 with me. I have yet to find a method by 

 which it can be rapidly fastened in the 

 frames, and fastened so firmly that it will 

 not fall down, especially when hired help do 

 the work.— [If any of the readers of the Re- 

 view can help this brother, let them allow 

 their advice to appear in the Review. Ed.] 

 If I were a writer, like Mr. Heddon, I should 

 hate to have you go over the ground so thor- 

 oughly in advance; but, as I have but little 

 time for reading, it will suit me if you 

 'lead,' 'sum up' and 'boil down', as then 

 a busy man can get at the mentof the mat- 

 ter in less than no time. — Keep the Review 

 as it is as nearly as possible, unless you c n 

 enlarge the editorial departments For those 

 who are keeping bees as a business, you 

 come very near to publishing an ideal jour- 

 nal. — Keep up the "special number" idea, 

 and treat in advance, editorially, even if it 

 does make it hard work for some to add to 

 what you say. — Your list of contributors is a 

 good one. Add to it from time to time. — If 

 possible keep out of the supply business. 

 The absence of the supply trade certainly 

 gives greater weight and force to what you 

 say. — As most of the wide awake bee-keepers 

 take nearly all the journals, the 'Extract- 

 ed' department should be kept within limits. 

 You don't know how much I prize the Re- 

 view, nor what a real help it is to me. — You 

 can count me as in favor of the leaders. — 

 Double your subscription price, if necessary, 

 rather than deal in supplies — I would like a 



lot of extracted items boiled down, so as to 

 give the current monthly news. This with 

 the special topic would make the Review 

 about perfect. — I would suggest that you dis- 

 cuss the inferiority and superiority of close 

 end frames in a case a la Heddon, or the 

 Quinby style, compared with open end 

 frames — I am in love with the Review. The 

 topical plan is 'boss.' So very convenient 

 for reference; when you find the numbers 

 wanted, it is all there and summed up too. — 

 I read every editorial. Don't care for more 

 correspondence unless it be the ''creain" — 

 Am glad you put up the price of the Review, 

 for the Review has gone up with it. — The 

 Review doesn't come often enough, but no 

 doubt greater frequency would destroy some 

 of its best features. — I am interested in fixed 

 distances with less manipulation of frames 

 and more of hives. — The number devoted to 

 'the removal of the queen during the honey 

 flow' was extra good. It gave me the key 

 to a grand success. I used it last season 

 and 'astonished the natives.' In the spring 

 give protection every time. Get all the bees 

 possible in each hive in time for the honey 

 flow, then take away the queens and work 

 the bees to death. Let each colony re-queen 

 itself. — Leave out the 'Extracted,' (We get 

 all that in the other journals) and give us 

 more editorials. ^Don't give us any less edi- 

 torials, they are the main thing. — I do not 

 suppose there is a reader of the Review that 

 would be willing to have the editorials on 

 special topics omitted. But sometimes, as 

 one vainly tries to think of some point that 

 has not been gone over in those exhaustive 

 leaders, he wonders how it would do to re- 

 verse the present order and after allowing 

 the correspondents to have their say, to let 

 the editor review the whole. You see, that 

 in that way you would get rid of two classes 

 of grumblers — those who believe as Heddon 

 does, that you have already shaken all the 

 plums off of that particular tree and those 

 who complain that the Review is not true to 

 its name. — I try to get my neighbors here 

 (Tex.) to take the bee journals but they say 

 tliere is nothing in them but how to make 

 cellars, winter bees, 'spring,' them, etc. 

 etc., and they don't want to read them. The 

 moth make sad havoc with our empty combs, 

 and even with our Ijeeswax and foundation 

 and we should be glad to know how to pro- 

 tect them. We should also be glad to know 

 how we can induce the commission men in 

 New Y'ork, Chicago and other cities to stop 



