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THE BEE-KEEPEttS' REVIilW. 



Geo. T. Wheadon is demoralizing the Chi- 

 cago honey market, so writes Bro. York, yet 

 the poor fellows who send in the honey, get 

 not one cent for it ! 



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Baknet Taylor, with grey hairs and the 

 enthusiasm of youth resting on his brow, 

 has passed away. Three of the Review's 

 best correspondents have now, within a 

 comparatively short time, joined the silent 

 majority— Mr. Cornell, Mr. Pringle and Mr. 

 Taylor. The latter had been sick several 

 months, but was, apparently, on the road to 

 recovery, when there came a change for the 

 worse, and he soon was gone. Before leaving 

 he had the satisfaction of knowing that he 

 had secured a fine crop of honey — the finest 

 that he had ever produced. His son, Jewell, 

 who is to continue the business, has sent me 

 a sample case, and it is very fine. 



Getting Sections Finished, that is, all of 

 them, at the end of the harvest, is a job that 

 requires skill. A correspondent, " Little 

 Bee," iu the Progressive says he secures this 

 by putting a shallow frame, that is, an ex- 

 tracting comb, at each side of the super, and 

 if anything is unfinished it will be these 

 shallow combs. I think that I should pre- 

 fer to use wide frames for holding the sec- 

 'tions, and then "jump" them. That is, 

 put the outside frames over in the center 

 after +lie center combs are completed. I 

 see by the Canadian Bee Journal that Mr. 

 McEvoy pursues a plan similar to that ad- 

 vocated by " Little Bee," only I take it that 

 Mr. McEvoy uses wide frames two tiers of 

 sections high. 



Me. F. Dandzenbakee was one of my 

 principal competitors at our Michigan 

 State Fair this year, in fact, he carried off 

 the first prize for the best comb comb hon- 

 ey in the most marketable shape. He cer- 

 tainly had the finest honey I have seen this 

 year and I have exhibited honey at five 

 State Pairs. His honey was raised in Aug- 

 ust in this State, mostly from that famous 

 willow herb that springs up in the northern 

 portions of the State after forest fires have 

 run over the ground. Mr. Danzenbaker 

 secured his honey in his new hive ; and by 

 the way, his hive received a special diploma 

 at this same Michigan State fair, where he 

 was kept busy much of the time in exjtlain- 

 ing its advantageous features to a crowd of 

 inquiring bee keepers. 



ivy's illness. 

 Most of the readers of the Review know 

 of the terribly hard time we had last winter 

 with our daughter Ivy who was not in her 

 right mind much of the time. During the 

 summer she was greatly improved and we 

 had hopes that the worst was over, but I had 

 not been absent to the fairs a week before 

 she had another attack. I was, of course, 

 at once notified, and about the hardest trial 

 of my life was 7io(to go home. Mrs. Hutch- 

 inson was not able to care for her, but 

 there were doctors, watchers and a trained 

 nurse, and my wife wrote that Ivy was prob- 

 ably having just as good care as though I 

 were at home, and it seemed as though I 

 must stay to earn the money wherewith to 

 meet these heavy expenses. So I stayed on 

 and on and went from fair to fair, getting 

 letters almost daily, always holding myself 

 in readiness to start for home should a tele- 

 gram say that I ^Hu.sicome. The physicians 

 finally decided that they could do no more, 

 and advised that she be sent away for 

 treatment, as the only hope for her recovery. 

 When I came home Ivy had been away a 

 week at a private retreat near Detroit 

 ( Dearborn). In a few days wife and I 

 went down to see her. She had improved 

 very much in the short time that she had 

 been away. She knew us. talked with us, 

 and begged to come home with us. She did 

 not sleep much the next night. It is doubt- 

 ful if it will be best for us to visit her very 

 often. The superintendent writes that she 

 does not worry about home now, that she 

 is quiet, that it would be a sign of improve- 

 ment if she did show signs of homesickness. 

 The physician sees no reason why she can- 

 not recover — her age is greatly in her favor. 

 She is the youngest patient that they have. 

 It seems hard to send a child away in this 

 way, but I can see that it is better for her 

 and for us, too, and I only wish that we 

 could have seen it in this light sooner. She 

 certainly has the best of care, is kept clean, 

 well cared for, well-fed, and treated kindly 

 and every effort made to restore her to 

 health. If any of my readers have friends 

 that are needing treatment in this way, I 

 beg of them not to let any pre-conceived 

 notions or prejudices stand in the way of 

 taking their unfortunate friends where they 

 will have the best chance that there is to re- 

 cover their mental health. At these insti- 

 tutions are men who have made mental dis- 

 eases a life-study, and if any one can help 



