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depend eutirely ou the si)ecialist for 'copy.' 

 Let us hear from the ineu aud women who 

 keep bees for profit aud who have to care for 

 them at such times as cau be spared from 

 their rejjular busiuoss. They are the men 

 who have to use short cuts, aud they fre- 

 quently have valuable oues. Let us also 

 hear from the prcu-tiful, enthusiastic ama- 

 teur (not novice) who rides his hobby at its 

 best paces. — By all means don't discontinue 

 entirely the special discussions. The con- 

 clusions arrived at frnui the discussion of a 

 single subject are more satisfactory and cor- 

 rect for practical use than can be reached 

 in any other manner. I would suggest that 

 you allow your regular correspondents to 

 select their own topics until, in your judg- 

 ment, some subject is brought up that might 

 be improved on by a joint discussion; then 

 announce it for special discussion in the 

 next issue. This will be a compromise on 

 the two alternatives. — I would say, do just 

 what you think will make the Review the 

 interesting, instructive paper it has been in 

 the past. If the important topics become 

 exhausted, and it seems to me that they cer- 

 tainly will in time, then just introduce some 

 other style into it occasionally. There is 

 one thing I would like to see in the Review 

 for a time, and that is the photographs of 

 your principal correspondents. I would like 

 to see ' Uufiuished Sections' diicussed. 

 Would it not be best to extract the honey, 

 cut out the comb and melt it up and burn up 

 the sections ? It seems to me that nothing 

 in the way of comb honey can be obtained 

 that is so nice as when everything is new 

 and fresh. — About continuing special topics. 

 No other paper has followed up the plan so 

 continuously and persistently, and if the 

 Review changes from it, it will, to just that 

 extent, be no longer a review. In that line 

 it has been a success. Will it be equally a 

 success in any other line ? But if the topics 

 run out they can't be continued. Well, even 

 the more unimportant topics are worth dis- 

 cussing. Even so tritiiug a thing as the best 

 smoker fuel may be worth discussing, if in 

 the discussion I can learn how to save a 

 dollar a year in fuel, or a dollar's time in 

 preparing and lighting. But if the minor 

 topics run out Y Well, then go without spe- 

 cial topics, but as soon as a topic turns up, 

 specialize it. At any rate, the discussion of 

 special topics is the special feature of the 

 Review, and I would not give it up until I 

 had to, and then only as long as I had to. — 



Make each number of the Review as inter- 

 esting and good as it is possible for you to 

 make it, regardless of topics or special num- 

 l)ers. If by making a number a special 

 topic number you can make it more inter- 

 esting and more valuable, make it a special 

 number regardless of advice; but refuse to 

 be ' hide bound ' al)Ove all things else. Re- 

 tain your liberty to make each succeeding 

 number the best, in regard to a series of 

 articles, get them from the best a2)iarisfs in 

 the country. Don't select the old, hackneyed 

 writers, whose writings we have seen for the 

 last fifteen years in all the bee aud agricul- 

 tural papers, who make their living writing 

 advice to others instead of striking out into 

 new and untried fields and methods. If you 

 could get a series of articles from some 

 number one man in each of the irrigated re- 

 gions of Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, 

 one who counts his colonies up among the 

 hundreds and his honey by the tons, I think 

 it would be a taking series, especially if these 

 writers would go sufficiently into details.— 

 When I met you at the Brantford convention 

 I asked you what you would do when the 

 topics were exhausted. Your reply was: 'It 

 is time enough to cross the bridge when we 

 come to it.' Well, you seem to have reached 

 the bridge, and I think it will be well for 

 you to follow the course you have mapped 

 out. I have no fear, however, that, if the 

 matter is left to your own judgment you will 

 always furnish us a first class journal. — By 

 all means keep the character of the Review 

 as it is. Get opinions from all sources. 

 For the good of all, don't engage one man 

 only to write up a series of articles, if that 

 plan is adopted. A few old by-gones are 

 leading us around by the nose; get some new 

 writers. Again I say, give me a paper simi- 

 lar to what the Review has been.— While it 

 is perhaps best to give up the special feature 

 in every number, it is hardly best to do so 

 altogether. New suijjects will come up and 

 old ones can occasionally he worked over at 

 a profit. It is very convenient to have all of 

 the one subject together in one pamphlet. 

 If you get a series of articles get them from 

 men who have uothing to sell and no special 

 hobby to ventilate, as a suspicion of either 

 destroys their interest and usefulness in a 

 great measure. Let them contrast well with 

 one another. Make the Review broad. 

 While one gives his methods and results with 

 the divisible brood chamber, let another 

 state his way aud success with the Quinby, 



