THE BEE-KEEPERS, REVIEW. 



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Bee- Keepers' Review 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Publisher 



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Flint, Michigan, Aug. 10, 1903 



Aster honey for winter stores us- 

 ually results in dis-Aster. 



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Formaldehyde is spoken of encour- 

 agingly by Mr. N. D. West, in a report 

 to (Jleanings. Mr. West is one of tlie 

 State Inspectors of New York, and 

 says he believes that formaldehyde 

 is going to prove a boon. 



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The next Review will probably be 

 a little late, as the result of Its editor 

 going to the California convention. 

 He exi)ects to spend some little time 

 photographing and writing up Califor- 

 nia bee-keeping. 



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Mr. .John (Juincy Smith, of Lincoln, 

 Illinois, has ben apiwinted Insj)ector 

 of Apiaries for Illinois. Judging from 

 my ac(iuaintance with Mr. Smith, 

 made as a l)rother exhibitor at sev- 

 eral of the Illinois State fairs, Mr. 

 Smith will be an excellent officer. 



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In sending small amounts of money 

 to England, don't use United States 

 coins, but send, instead, postage 

 stamps. Mr. .Tohu Hewitt, whose ad- 



vert is<'nient appears in the Review, 

 sends me this ndvici*. He says that 

 American coins do not pass current in 

 England, while iiostage stamps can 

 be sold at slight prollt. 



N'inegar rubbtnl on the hands will 

 prevent the t>ees from stinging them 

 unless the b(H^s are terribly irritated. 

 Mr. Ira I). Rartlett, of Northern Mich- 

 igan, told me recently that a man had 

 told him that such was the case, and 

 he found, uiwn trial, that it gi-eatly 

 lessened the number of stings on the 

 hands. 



M. H. Mendelson, of California, 

 writes me that their new commercial 

 organization out there is proving a suc- 

 cess; that the best men are going into 

 .it, and acting unselfishly, and that the 

 output of the State is practically un- 

 der the control of the Association. 

 Perhaps it is well that California has 

 not a large crop this year, as a small 

 crop is more easy to control than a 

 large one. Next year there will Ix; 

 more exijerience. 



White Clothing in the apiary saves 

 the wearer some annoyanc*e and 

 stings. I was in an apiary recently, 

 wearing a black veil, while my two 

 companions wore white veils. The 

 wa.v tlie bees "pitched" for my veil to 

 the neglect of the others, was a cau- 

 tion. I found one bee-keeper this 

 summer wlio wore white clothing 

 throughout. A white shirt, white 

 (luck trousers, and a Avhite duck hat. 

 Tills color of clothing is cooler, and 

 seems to be much less offensive to bee« 

 tlian black. 



Father Langstroth desvrif>ed "shook 

 swarming" in his book, but it seemed 

 to be one of those discoveries that 

 must be re-discovered. The conditions 

 at that time were different. Probably 



