. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 307 Editor Hill says there is one universal rule for all cases of moving bees; and that is always carry a wad of cotton to stop unexpected leaks. He has a right to talk about moving bees, having moved a hundred indescribable hives in Cuba on carts and on mule backâmore than half of said hives being so rotten as to require winding with t-ope to commence with. A. B. K., 121. Ed. Jolley says our trouble is [as to prices and such matters] that honey has got to a lower plane in relation to other ])ioduce. The shoes we buy have come do
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 307 Editor Hill says there is one universal rule for all cases of moving bees; and that is always carry a wad of cotton to stop unexpected leaks. He has a right to talk about moving bees, having moved a hundred indescribable hives in Cuba on carts and on mule backâmore than half of said hives being so rotten as to require winding with t-ope to commence with. A. B. K., 121. Ed. Jolley says our trouble is [as to prices and such matters] that honey has got to a lower plane in relation to other ])ioduce. The shoes we buy have come down 50 per-cent; but the honey we pay for them with has come down 60 per- cent. The shoe man has more than made good his loss by improved machinery. He can make shoes now for less than half what it used to cost him. We poor chaps, having failed to invent the cheap-honey- into-beeswax chemical machine, have been unable to reduce our cost of pro- duction by nearly so much as one half (let alone the 60 per-cent that is called for) therefore we are short just the dis- crepancy. A. B. K., 99. In the same number Mr. Doolittle has an article on the other side of the low prices controversy. In the course of it he presents this little eye-opener, which any complete rationale of our fiscal situ- ation must be able to account for as well as for other declines. In 1874 he paid Iron an acre on his 30 acre place. Now it would be hard to sell it for I50 an acre, although the buildings are good. Per- haps we had better admit that there are more things in earth [Horatio] than our philosophy gets around to include. And when two writers wade into economics it is rather the rule than the exception for both, in bland unconsciousness, to lay ilown as axioms of truth old, rotten ex- uviae of the world's twilight, which the world's better to-morrow will call self- evident lies. Richards, Ohio; Oct. 6. iSg-S. ;:|\ EDITORIAL The Frontispiece this month shows the home-apiary of Mr. Byron Walke
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