THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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(liciu, yet il liMS l)(>on assortf^d that it 

 will do this vrry tliinji'. 1 nnist say 

 Iliat Mr. Iliift" was very rt'lnctaut to 

 have pvihlislu'd an acroiint of his cx- 

 pcrimeiits. He wisliod first to Ji'ivc 

 the inattor a more tliorou.iili lest the 

 fomiiig season, hut he Hnaily consent- 

 ed to tell exactly what he had <lor.e. 

 and then if others wish to eoninienee 

 where he has left off. they ean do so. 

 There will probalily be more exi)eri- 

 ments made the eoniini;' season than 

 there would have been if he had kept 

 still, and we will have more experi- 

 ence upon which to base our conclu- 

 sions. 



Suppose that formalin gas will do all 

 that we hope it will, it will save ren- 

 dering the combs into wax, the ex- 

 pense of having the Avax made into 

 foundation, and the work of putting 

 the foundation into the frames. There 

 is still another point: While the Avell- 

 informed bee-keeper may make a suc- 

 cess in using the drug, the common, 

 or "farmer-bee-keeper," will prob- 

 ably not bother with it. and might not 

 succeed if lie did. I see that some 

 have used it with an atomizer. AVhile 

 this may be all right in some instances, 

 I should scarcely expect it to be so 

 penetrating as the use of the gas in a 

 tight tanlv. 



As I have said so many times about 

 other things, let us not lose our heads 

 over it, and let us not toss it aside 

 with a sneer and say it won't accom- 

 plish anything because sonu^ may have 

 failed. Mr. Huff would have consid- 

 ered it a failure if he had not learned 

 that he had made the mistake of using 

 a very Aveak solution. 



THE PLEASURES AND PENALTIES OF 

 AUTOMOBILING. 



My First Automobile Ride was taken 

 a few days ago with Bro. Hoot, of 



Medina, Ohio, lie has .a new machine 

 and is learning Ilie ins and outs of 

 ai't :niobiling. W'c speni pcrliaps nn(>- 

 hali, or three-foiu'tns. of an hour try- 

 ing llie machine on the roads around 

 .Meuiiia. lOniest asked nir. after our 

 I'l'turn. how far I thonglit we had rid- 

 den. I thought aboiu li\t' miles. He 

 ilgi;r('d up the distance, and found that 

 it was nearer ten miles. The speed 

 (Ml gixul foads is i)robal)ly much great- 

 er than it api)ears. Of course, there 

 is a novelty in tin-; nietliod of locomo- 

 tion, but it requir-'s close attention on 

 the part of the driver, much more so 

 than in driving a horse, as a horse 

 soon h'arns to keep the track, while 

 the sjirings necessary to hold \ip so 

 heavy a conveyance must be much 

 heavier than those in a carriage, which 

 makes the riding over rough roads 

 mere "jolty" wiili an auto than Avith 

 a carriage. Another annoyance in 

 aulomol)iling is the fretpient meeting 

 and passing of teams. Usually the ma- 

 ( liine must be stopped. Not only this, 

 bur the engine must be shut down, 

 whit'h necessitates tlie getting out and 

 starting it after passing the team. 

 ;-'■!• metimes it is nec(>ssary to get out 

 and lead .lorses l)y it. All this is a 

 ca.mpaign of education. Years ago bi- 

 <-ycIists had to pass through the same 

 erperiences— now. any horse would be 

 ashamed to notice a bicycle. By the 

 way. a single horse or team out in the 

 country seenrs called upon to make a 

 fiiss about meeting a strange object, 

 while it may pass and repass in town 

 almost unheeded. Perhaps it is lie- 

 cause it expects to see strange sights 

 in town, and p(M-haps it is because of 

 the crniii:niionshii» of so many other 

 horses hitched alongside, and who 

 show no signs of fear. Two or three 

 men together are often quite brave 

 where one alone would be a coward. 

 Ernest Root expects to use his auto- 



