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[ I do not remenilier that I have ever crit- 

 icised Gleauiugs for usiug the " everiastiiiy 

 footnote. " Sometimes a footnote or an 

 editoral is very much needed, and then, 

 again, the matter may he overdone. Some- 

 times it is well to lot an article stand upon 

 its own merits with no editorial bracing up 

 or condemnation. It is a matter requiring 

 much good judgement. It would seem at 

 first, as though the proper place for an edi- 

 torial comment would be immediately fol- 

 lowing the article : then, on the other hand, 

 the arrangement seems more pleasing when 

 the editorials are all by themselves. It is 

 more a matter of taste, I think, than any- 

 thing else. In regard to footnotes being 

 more hurriedly written than are other edi- 

 tirials, I can see only one reason why they 

 should be. It is rather important that the 

 footnote should be in readiness at tlie time 

 that an article is pat in type, so that it may 

 follow it as the m atter is placed on the " gaU 

 ley." With the utmost care in " making up, " 

 there is a likelihood of blunders, and with 

 footnotes in one place and the articles in 

 another, there would be danger of some of 

 them being mis-mated in the " make-up. " 

 Of course, page proofs, after the journal is 

 made up, would reveal the mistake, but to 

 change things after the pages are made up 

 makes a whole lot of aimoying labor. In 

 this way an editor is sometimes called upon 

 to write a footnote, in order that it may 

 accompany the article, at a time when he is 

 busy with something else, and there is a 

 chance that the work may be done hurried- 

 ly. To illustrate : I was very busy, and very 

 much interested, in setting up an advertise- 

 ment, when the compositor asked if there 

 was any editorial to go after this article, 

 and I was obliged to lay aside my work and 

 turn my Jioughtsinto another channel at a 

 time when I was greatly interested in some- 

 thing else. 



The practice of making hives, or any im- 

 plements, more cumbersome and complica- 

 ted to meet contingencies that ina\i arise, 

 is a course of whicii I cannot approve. It 

 is too much like the combined mower and 

 reaper — not the best for either purpose. I 

 remember that some one once opposed the 

 He Jdon hive because he thought it was a poor 

 hive in which to cure foul brood. We don't 

 make hives with reference to the ease with 

 which foul brood can be cured in them. 

 W^e make them for the specific purpose for 

 which they are to be used, and they shoald 



be the best that it is possible to procure for 

 tijat specific purpose. I never should think 

 for a moment of adopting the more cumber- 

 some and more exi)ensive ten- frame hive, 

 and the complication of dummies, simply 

 because it is in the range of possibilities 

 that I may sometime want a ten-frame 

 hive. 



I know that some of the pictures that 

 accompany articles are not a credit to the 

 originals. The trouble is in the photographs. 

 It requires a large, clear, clean-cut, sharp 

 photograph to get good results with the 

 half-toue process, no matter how hard and 

 strong are the contrasts in a photograph, 

 the half-tone process will put in sufficient 

 softness. — Ed. J 



Notes From Foreign Bee Journals. 



F. L. THOMPSON. 



Rheinisoiie Bienenzeitung. — B. Huend- 

 gen calls attention to the fact that for a 

 number of associations to independently 

 engage in marketing honey only increases 

 competition. He would utilize the present 

 system of national and branch unions 

 ( Vereine ) in Germany for the purpose. 

 By his plan the national union (Hauptverein) 

 would fix each year a minimum price for 

 each of the different grades of honey, adapt- 

 ed to the crop, demand, etc. Members 

 whose honey is unsold to customers at those 

 prices would deliver it to the branch unions, 

 where it would be tested, booked, and vouch- 

 ers therefore issued to the owners. The 

 branch unions would then notify the 

 Hauptverein, sending samples. The latter 

 would sell the honey by sample, notify the 

 branch unions where it is to be shipped, 

 receive the proceeds, and remit to the branch 

 unions, which would settle with their indi- 

 vidual members. The expenses of manage- 

 ment and marketing would be met by the 

 treasury of the Hauptverein, which would 

 receive as compensation a specific percen- 

 tage of the proceeds, according to circum- 

 stances. He makes no suggestions for a 

 stock holding arrangement. In this way "the 

 Hauptverein would present a far different 

 image, surrounded by an aureole of paternal 

 care, to the eyes of bee-keepers, because 

 they would then perceive its worth directly 

 and in a material way. All bee-keepers 

 and associations, hitherto outside of the 



