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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



The American Bee Journai. has moved to 

 118 Michigan St. This was done to secure 

 room enough for the Bee Journal and the 

 Root-supply business all in one place and on 

 one floor. 



F. L. Thompson's review of the foreign 

 bee journals was crowded out last mouth, 

 and this month it is put in with the reg- 

 ular review for this month, which makes 

 his article twice its usual length. 



Mr. Taylor's article on the preservation 

 of combs reminds me that I have had on 

 hand for several months, waiting for a sea- 

 sonable time for publication, an article 

 from E. France on the preservation of 

 combs. I will try and give it next mouth. 



The Heddon Leaflet that I intended to 

 give this month was crowded out. It is 

 pretty long, altogether too long for a leaflet, 

 but it has a good many good things in it, 

 and I shall try to give it next month. Mr. 

 Slocum of Newport, R. I. has sent me a 

 foreign leaflet, one used by a Mr. Tuch- 

 schmid of Lucerne Switzerland. I shall 

 give this as soon as I can. 



Large Crops of honey are secured in Cal- 

 ifornia when the season is favorable. The 

 Pacific Bee .Journal gives a list of some of 

 the large yields. Here are a few of them. 



Mr. U. A. Wheeler of Riverside got CtO 

 tons of honey from 900 colonies of bees. 



H. E. Wilder of Bloomington, V2 tons 

 from 120 colonies. 



M. Segars of San Bernardino 20 tons from 

 :500 colonies. 



Mr. John Fox has taken ir> tons from 800 

 colonies. 



Mr. Oderlin has taken 19 tons from 140 

 tons. 



Emerson Bros, have taken 24 tons from :W0 

 colonies. 



Mr. W. W. Walk. Newhall, has taken 8 

 tons from KiO colonies. 



Criss Hoppe, Santa Monica, has taken 20 

 tons from 400 colonies. 



Mr. Wm. Muth Rasmussen of Independ- 

 ence, Inyo County, is running 2">0 colonies 

 of bees, and has taken 21.700 filled sections. 



Mr. T. (). Andrews of Rincon, Cal., has an 

 apiary of 40O colonies and has this year taken 

 27 tons of extracted honey. 



It is not to be wondered at that market- 

 ing is the one great problem that confronts 

 the Califoruian apiarist. 



This Issue of the Review is gotten up 

 especially to use in sending out sample 

 copies when they are called for. Three 

 pages at the back are used in setting forth 

 the excellencies and characteristics of the 

 Review. That regular reading matter may 

 not be crowded out thereby, eight extra 

 pages are added. 



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The Pacific Bee Journal is the name of 

 a new, 18-page, 50-ct., quarterly, just start- 

 ed in California, at 3()5 E. Second St., Los 

 Angeles, and it is the best California bee 

 journal that I have ever seen. Its contrib- 

 utors are practical men and it is well gotten 

 up. The only criticism that I would make 

 is that lines running clear across the page 

 are not so easy to read, nor so attractive, 

 as those of the ordinary newspaper column. 



The California Bee-Keepers' Exchange, 

 about which these western brethren have 

 talked so much, is at last an assured fact. 

 It now has 100 members, each of which 

 agrees to sell his honey only through the 

 exchange. A bright business man has been 

 secured as Secretary and Manager, and he 

 will devote his whole time to the manage- 

 ment of the business. It is expected that 

 the membership fees, and one-sixth of the 

 honey crop, which every member of the 

 Association is to promise, will give all the 

 needed funds for running the business. 

 Heretofore the trouble has been that there 

 have been hundreds of producers, many 

 with enormous crops, especially in good 

 years, pitting themselves, one against 

 another, in trying to dispose of their prod- 

 uct. This was a condition of affairs of 

 which buyers were not slow to take advan- 

 tage. When the majority of the bee-keep- 

 ers are members of the Exchange, instead 

 of there being hundreds of sellers compet- 

 ing with one another, there will be only one 

 seller— the Exchange The Exchange ex- 

 pects to assist its members in buying ( at 

 wholesale ) as well as in selling. 



Grading Honey is spoken of in Gleanings 

 for March 15. Mr. Thos. Elliott of Har- 

 vard III., uses a grading suggested by Dr. 

 Miller. This was a compromise between 

 the Chicago grading and that proposed at 

 Albany in year 1891. In 1892 the North 

 American in its meeting at Washington still 

 farther " revised " this grading and adopted 



