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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVlJl. 



of mortar. This seems like a "finality" 

 as Mr. Hasty would say ; but the question 

 at once arises, why not brickbats ? For 

 a stand he says nothing is better or more 

 durable than bricks ( presumably laid in 

 mortar, ) and it is the cheapest stand in the 

 long run. For this purpose also brickbats 

 are just as good, and can be procured con- 

 siderably cheaper. One advantage of a 

 permanent stand or mortar-bed is that the 

 hives never need to be leveled. 

 Arvada, Colo. March, G, 18%. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



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FLINT. MICHIGAN. APRIL 10. 1896. 



Eight Extra Pages this month. 



No Question is really settled until it is 

 settled right. 



The Philadelphia Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will hold its convention the IGth of May, 

 and the editor of the Review expects to be 

 present and read a paper on " The Produc- 

 tion of Comb and Extracted Honey. " 



Spbing Feeding is treated to an editorial 

 of more than a page in Gleanings for 

 April 1st. It endorses the position taken by 

 Mr. Boardman in his articles in the Review 

 and Gleanings that we can practically ex- 

 change sugar for honey by feeding the bees 

 in the spring and keeping up the feeding 

 until the opening of the regular honey har- 

 vest. The brood combs will then be entire- 

 ly full of brood and stores, and the first and 

 all the honey that comes in initst go into the 

 supers. I have felt for several years that in 

 many parts of the United States the only 

 hope for the bee keeper was in the proper 

 feeding of sugar, and I am greatly encour- 

 aged when a journal like Gleanings takes 

 the same view. I would gladly copy this 



editorial, but there isn't room this month, 

 and next month will be pretty late for most 

 of the country. Better send for the April 

 1st issue of Gleanings. 



MICH, state BEE-KEEPEES, CONVENTION. 



The illness of the President, and of the Sec- 

 Secretary's daughter, has caused the holding 

 of the Michigan, State Bee-Keepers' Conven- 

 tion to be postponed. Now it has been de- 

 cided to hold it April 23 and 24, in Linsing, 

 at the Van Dyne House, 411-1.5 Washington 

 Avenue, South. Rates only $1.00 per day. 

 Street cars pass the door. The first session 

 will be held on the evening of April 23. 



The Hon. R. L. Taylor will talk about 

 "Lessons in Wintering. " Mr. Heddon, who 

 is just home from Flordia, has been asked to 

 tell about bee-keeping in that "land of 

 flowers. " L. A. Aspinwall, of .Jackson, 

 will have a paper on " The Requisites of 

 Saccess in Bee-Keeping. " The Hon. G. E. 

 Hilton has chosen for his subject " The 

 Crisis in Michigan Bee-Keeping. " Dr. L. 

 C. Whiting, of Saginaw will have a paper 

 showing that " Bae-Keepers Must Follow the 

 Wild Flowers. " Mr. T. F. Bingham will 

 also have a paper on " Horizontal Prices." 

 All are cordially invited to attend. 



W. Z. Hutchinson. Sec. 



THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE REVIEW. 



I work hard to make the advertising pages 

 of the Review as bright, sprightly, interest- 

 ing and newsy as any in the Review. I try 

 to set up each ad in such a way as to give 

 it a character peculiarly its own. In this I 

 want the help of every advertiser. I will 

 admit that I am not wholly unselfish in this. 

 When advertising pays an advertiser, it is 

 continued to »i(/ profit. There is consider- 

 able advertising now in the Review, and I 

 think all will admit that some of it might be 

 a great deal better than it is. There is one 

 point that I fear that some of the advertisers 

 are over-looking, and that is that it costs 

 just as much to put in a poor ad as it does 

 to put in a good one. The way to make a 

 good ad is to try real hard to make a good 

 one. 



Let me give you a few hints : First, an ad 

 must be attractive. By this I do not mean, 

 necessarily, that it should be handsome — 

 altiiough this is desirable. I'erhaps " notice- 

 able" is a better word. There must be 



