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THE BEE KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



that the killing and eating of animals has 

 about it something that is very repulsive to 

 me, so much so that I sometimes feel as 

 though I could not bear to eat meat. I also 

 think that there are some cases, after a per- 

 son is sick, in which medicines may be used 

 to advantage. On the whole, however, I 

 think Mr. Pringle's article most excellent, 

 and, for one, I am going to try and profit by 

 it. Since receiving it I have been corres- 

 pondence with Mr. Pringle upon some of 

 the points that he has mentioned, and in the 

 next Review I may, if he will allow me, 

 print some of his correspondence. That the 

 bee-keepers who take the Review for its bee- 

 keeping matter may not feel that they are 

 being crowded I have added eight extra 

 pages in this issue. 



That health is the greatest blessing is 

 not always realized until we have lost it. I 

 always tried to lead a temperate life in con- 

 formity with the laws of health, but it must 

 be that I did not always look deep enough. 



C. K. HOBBIE AND CO. 



Last summer I received an advertisement 

 from this firm. Before inserting it I wrote 

 the Chicago bank that was given as refer- 

 ence. The bank replied that they were two 

 young men who had had several years exper- 

 ience in a commission house, and were now 

 starting in business for themselves. They 

 had about |4,000 capital and the bank con- 

 sidered them worthy of confidence. The 

 advertisement was put in on the strength of 

 this recommend. Occasionally the firm 

 bought some of my list of names of bee- 

 keepers to whom they sent out circulars. 

 They finally bought all that I had. The 

 bills for these names and for advertising 

 were paid by return mail. In the circular 

 that they sent out, the editor of the Ameri- 

 can Bee .Tournal and of the Review were 

 given, without permission, as reference. So 

 many inquiries came in that the answering 

 of them became burdensome, and to save 

 so much writing I gave them the favorable 

 notice that appeared in the ( )ctober Review. 

 Before writing thai notice I wrote to Bro. 

 York and asked him about them. He repli- 

 ed that he had investigated them quite 

 thoroughly and so far as he could discover 

 they were doing a straight business. Along 

 in Dec. Bro. York wrote me to " go a little 

 slow " on Horrie and Co. , as he was getting 

 complaints against them, I received none 



until in January. The most of them com- 

 plained that they could get no answers to 

 inquiries regarding consignments sent two 

 or three months previous. I have corres- 

 ponded with Horrie & Co., and with those 

 who have complained, and tried to get at the 

 truth of the matter. At present I am not 

 prepared to say who was to blame in every 

 case. There are some things of which I am 

 well satisfied. ( )ne is that Horrie and Co. 

 made a mistake in quoting honey too high. 

 They also make a mistake in allowing weeks 

 and weeks to pass without making any 

 answer to repeated inquiries regarding ship- 

 ments. They may be an honest firm, but 

 if they expect to succeed they must learn to 

 do business in such a way as please their pa- 

 trons. Against the old, established firms, 

 who have built up a business by honorable 

 and satisfactory dealing, I very seldom re- 

 cieve a word of complaint. 



I think that Bro. York and myself exer- 

 cised at least ordinary caution in thus ad- 

 mitting the advertisement of a new firm, 

 but this experience will probably make us 

 still more careful in the future. 



exxRT^oxeD. 



Home-Made Koaka. 



The home-made " Koaka " mentioned in 

 Mr. Pringle's article is made as follows : 



" Take three quarts of good, clean, wheat 

 bran and bake in the oven till it becomes 

 quite brown. Then add one quart of liquid 

 buckwheat honey and stir thoroughly ; put 

 it back in the oven to bake still more, stirr- 

 ing it frequently until it gets dry, granula- 

 ted, and very brown — a little scorching will 

 not hurt it. Draw it the same as coffee and 

 use with milk and honey or milk and sugar 

 to suit the taste. " 



We have not yet tried it, but are going to 

 do so. By the way, this recipe is from one 

 of his leaflets that he sends out with honey. 



The Good Years Will Come Again. 

 E. T. Flanagan contributes a long and in- 

 teresting article to the Progressive on 

 " Honey Yields. " Besides giving his own ex- 

 perience, he quotes from the correspondence 

 of several prominent bee-keepers in which 

 they give the best yields of honey they ever 

 secured. 1 quote a portion of two of his 

 paragraphs: 



