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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



practice, that he saves some expense 

 by not painting the hives. Besides, 

 he his afraid that bees don't do quite 

 so well in painted hives. Mr. Doolittio 

 holds the same belief. 



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Homer H. Hyde and Lizzie K. 

 Adams, of Floresville, Texas, are to 

 be married June 18th. The editor of 

 the Review has been invited to be 

 present at the ceremony. He regrets 

 his inability to accept the InvUntlou. 

 but extends his heartiest congratula- 

 tions and best wishes. 



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Dr. J. L. Gandy, of Humboldt, Ne- 

 braska, has sold a carload of bees to 

 go to the famous Watson ranch of 

 Kearney. Nebraska. Roy Wilson will 

 have the management of the bees. The 

 Humboldt paper says that twelve men 

 worked all night preparing the bees 

 for shipment, and some of them "bore 

 marks of their labor" the next day. 



General Manager France writes me 

 that he has city bee-keeping as a nui- 

 sance to look after at the following 

 places: Sparta, MichigaTi; Central 

 Lake, Michigan; Little Britain, On- 

 tario; Riverside, California; Lake 

 View, California; Aurora, Illinois; 

 Woodstown, N. J.; and Mesa, Arizona. 

 There is also a claim of adulteration 

 to look after at Denver, Colorado. 



Mr. John Nebel, senior member of 

 the firm of John Nebel & Son. of Higti 

 Hill, Missouri, passed away May 5th. 

 in his 70th year. I remember meet- 

 ing Mr. Nebel. I think it was at the 

 World's Fair, when he seemed hale 

 and hearty and well preserved. One 

 by one the old bee-keepers are drop- 

 ping away, and it seems as though 



they had been dropping unusually fast 

 during the last few months. 



Division boards were once thought 

 unite necessary in packing up and pro- 

 tecting weak colonies in the spring, 

 lint Dr. Miller calls attention in hi>; 

 book to the experiments of Gaston 

 Bonnier, showing that combs serve as 

 good a purpose as division boards, thus 

 Ihere is no necessity of putting in a 

 division board and moving it from time 

 to time to accommodate the size of 

 the colony. 



Robber-bees, as all experienced bee- 

 keepers know, are loth to enter a long 

 or obscure passage way. Mr. R. J. 

 Stead, of Lanark, Ontario, secui"es 

 such a passage by laying two bricks 

 in front of the entrance, close against 

 the front of the hive, and shoving the 

 bricks so close together than only one 

 or two bees can pass at a time. On top 

 of these two bricks he now lays a 

 third that covers the passageway 

 overhead. Robbers are thus confront- 

 ed with a sort of tunnel which they 

 are slow about entering. 



Oiit-door feeding is objected to by 

 Dr. Miller on the ground that we mav 

 thereby feed our neighbor's bees as 

 Avell as our own; besides, the colonies 

 that are most in need of the feed may 

 get the least. Stimulative feeding in 

 the spring does not receive much en 

 conragement at the hands of the Doc- 

 tor, and I think he utters a most im- 

 portant truth when he says: "If a col- 

 ony comes out of the cellar strong, and 

 with combs full of stores. I have some 

 doubts if I can hurry its building up 

 by any tinkering I can do." 



Mr. Jacob Alpaugh. whose home is 

 in Ontario, writes me that in the pro- 



