THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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Sluule for boos in the middle of the 

 (lay (luring the liout of the S(?ason is 

 probably d'^^sirable and protitablo. buc 

 Dr. Miller says he doesn"'t believe that 

 bees suiter as mueli from the hot sun 

 sliiiiin.ii- directly on the hives, as thoy 

 do Ironi having; the air shut off frou; 

 tlieni by surronndiny objects. 



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In extrac^ting from heavy, now 

 (•ond»s, don't attempt to thi'ow all the 

 honey out of the first side extracted, 

 at the first time the combs are whirl- 

 ed. Hun the machine slowly, and 

 throw out about one-half the honey, 

 then turn the combs and throw all of 

 the honey from that side of the coml>s, 

 then turn them again, and throw out 

 the rest of the honev. 



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Shaking the combs is the way most 

 of us get the bees off, or the most of 

 them, but Dr. Miller tells us, in his 

 new book, how to "pound" them oflF. 

 "The comb is held by the corner with 

 one hand, while the other hand pounds 

 sharply on the hand that holds the 

 comb. But this manner of pounding 

 nearly every bee may be removed by 

 a few strokes, unless the comb be too 

 heavy." 



Galvaiuzed iron may give a metal- 

 lic taste to honey if tlie latter is stor- 

 ed in vessels made of the former, at 

 least there have been reports of such 

 results, but :Mr. C. A. Huff, of Clay- 

 ton. Mich., removes this objection by 

 rubbing a lump of beeswax over the 

 inside of the vessels while they are 

 hot from being laid upon a stove. 

 The thin coating of wax adheres to 

 the metal and keeps it from coming 

 in contact with the honey. 



Ernest Root, while he and I were 

 making a tour of their factory, pointed 



out to me a man working in the wax 

 room, and told me that he was sent 

 here by the Russian government to 

 make a practical study of bee culture. 

 This man is an instructor at the agri- 

 cultural college at Moscow, and by 

 sending this man to the A. I. Root Co., 

 that government pays this company 

 the compliment of considering it at 

 the front of the apiarian business of 

 the world. 



Mr. T. F. Bingham should have 

 been given credit for the item in last 

 Review about keeping a honey knife 

 in water. He told me about it when 

 I was visiting him recently, and how 

 I came to omit giving him credit for 

 it I don't know, as it is always a 

 pleasure to me to give everyone pro- 

 per credit. Of course, others have 

 told about keeping the knife in hot 

 A\atei% Init :Mr. Bingham mentioned 

 simply water. By the way, although 

 Mr. Bingham was the inventor of the 

 knife that bears his name, a tool that 

 is perfect in its way, an imperfection 

 in the patent has prevented him from 

 reaping his deserved reward. 



"When a colony is beginning to be 

 crowded and there are no colonies 

 needing help, and sometimes even 

 when others do need help, a second 

 slory is given. The second story is 

 given below. Putting an empty story 

 below does not cool off the bees like 

 putting one above. The bees can move 

 down as fast as they need room. In- 

 deed, this .second story is often given 

 long before it is needed, and some- 

 times two empty stories are given, for 

 it is a wise thing to have the combs 

 in the care of the bees."— From "Forty 

 Years Among the Bees." 



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Have confidence in your business 

 or else get out of it. I occasionally 

 meet a man now who is getting more 



