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much ivjoicinj;, is nanicd Robert Wil- 

 kin, after liis illustrous grandfather. 

 By tlie way, tlio eldest daughter. Flora, 

 exti'ac'ted 1<> tons of honey this sea- 

 son. 



Formalin Gas has been experinient- 

 (>d with by N. E. France, so he report- 

 ed at the California Convention, and it 

 seemed to destroy the germs in tlie 

 unsealed cells, but not in those capped 

 over. He had even had live bees 

 hatch out of from combs soon after 

 they had been fumigated. If it will 

 not penetrate a capping sufticiently 

 to kill a bee nearly ready to hatch, it 

 does not seem reasonable to suppose 

 that it will kill the germs of foul 

 brood when sealed up. 



The Spanisli tongue I first heard 

 spoken in California; and, oh, the mu- 

 sic of it I The roll and rythm; the soft- 

 ness and the accent. It is decidedly 

 the language for the lover. When 

 they had such a delightful language, 

 why, oh, why, did they invent the ang- 

 ular English, the energetic German, 

 and the chattering Russian? How I 

 should love to learn and speak Span- 

 ish; and I would, too, if I lived where 

 it was spoken. 



Arthur C. Miller is to be commended 

 for his efforts at correcting what he 

 considers errors in the text books, but 

 he must expect criticism— hard and 

 strong and plenty of it. For instance, 

 he may be correct as to the manner 

 in which bees usually feed one another, 

 but I would feel better satisfied if he 

 would explain how a caged queen gets 

 her footl unless it is offered to her. It 

 is true, as he says, that queens so 



caged often die, but equally true that 

 they often live— many days. 



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A telegram that I sent home from 

 Arizona, when on my Western trip, 

 cost me $1.00. I presume that my 

 face expressed a little surprise at the 

 cost, as the operator remarked: "You 

 may think that pretty steep, Mister, 

 but the most of us Westerners are not 

 out here for our health, but for th« 

 money there is in it." "I noticed that 

 several days ago," was my reply, and 

 you ought to have heard the laugh 

 that went around the oftice. 



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California Bee-Keeping, as I saw it 

 in my recent trip to the coast, will 

 be described in the next Review. I 

 visited such men as Messrs. Brodbeck. 

 Mclntyre and Mendelson, and too'.; 

 pictures of apiaries, sage brush. l)ean 

 fields, orange trees, and the like, and 

 these pictures will appear in the next 

 Review. 



By the way, I visited Rambler's old 

 apiary, now owned by the Schalfntn- 

 Bros., and secured a most picturesque 

 view of it which I shall show with 

 much pleasure. 



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Black Brood may possibly have 

 made its appearance in Michigan. I 

 recently examined two apiaries in th? 

 South-western part of the State, and 

 found them terribly diseased; combs 

 full of dead brood, no swarming nO)- 

 surplus, and colonies dying at a rapid 

 rate. There was no ropiness of thef 

 brood, or, at least, very slight, ndt 

 much odor, and that more of a sour 

 smell than like foul brood. In some 

 colonies the dead brood had dried 

 down and greatly resembled the foul 

 brood scale; I cut out a piece of the 



