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physiology. The wire is attached to 

 the drum and travels to another drum 

 to which it is attached and the horn at 

 the receivinfj end prevents the sound 

 from scattering- in all directions excej)t 

 to proceed out at the open end. The 

 horn I used on this receiving end was 

 a tomato can with one end open. If I 

 couldn't get anything- better I should 

 use an ordinary funnel. Even that 

 would increase tlie sound several times. 

 Rut then, if .a person has not an ear for 

 music and has had some practice, a 

 cart load of horns may be of no ac- 

 count where there is 200 or 300 colon- 



ies. Learn to tune a violiu. "How 

 far from the apiary?" Well, now, 

 how far away do you place your 

 camera when you take a picture and 

 want the hives to show as plainly as 

 possible? That is about it. A horn 

 can take in about as much horizon as a 

 camera — hear about everj'thing the 

 camera can see. I expect you are ex- 

 pecting- to write editorials, set type 

 and watch the bees all at once, and 

 that will bebeedom boiled down pretty 

 thick. 



Chatsworth, Calif., Dec. 16. 1905. 



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Waiting for cuts to go with the article 

 on moving bees makes this issue late. 



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Tearing a colon}' all to pieces, so to 

 speak, by extracting- the hone}-, really 

 has a tendenc}' to produce swarming, 

 so says R. F. Holtermann, of Ontario. 



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Queens, to the number of 3,009 were 

 sold last 3'ear by J P. Moore, of Mor- 

 gan, Ky., and he was not able to sup- 

 ply the demand. He is now making a 

 large addition to his queen rearing- 

 apiary. 



Harry Lathrop writes: "The article of 

 S. D. Chapman, in the March Review, 

 and 3'our reply to the same, constitute, 

 I think, the best bee literature I ever 

 read — but, from mj' point of view, Mr. 

 Chapman has the best of it." 



The Rural Bee- Keeper for May comes 

 out with its cover printed in two colors. 

 By the way, Bro. Putnam caller it the 

 Review office recently, but tlit ditor 

 was in Northern Michigan and iin sed 

 the pleasure of a fraternal visit. 



Mr. J. C. Acklin, of St. Paul, Manager 

 for the A. I. Root Co., while delivering 

 some bees in Highwood, a suburb of 

 St. Paul, was stricken with apoplexy 

 from which he died the following 

 morning. May 26lh. Mrs. H. G. Ack- 

 lin, who in former years was in active 

 management of the agenc)', resumes 

 charge again, and the business will be 

 continued as usual. An able assistant 

 who has for years done a large share 

 of the work, is still in service, and 

 orders will be promptly cared for. 



Swarming and its prevention was dis- 

 cussed last fall at the Ontario conven- 

 tion, and Mr. R F. Holtermann said 

 that he prevented it largely by using 

 large hives, g^iving abundant super 

 room, a generous entrance, and shad- 

 ing the hives. In addition, he venti- 

 lated the supers, which he considered 

 very important. Mr. Saunders prac- 

 ticed taking three combs of brood from 

 a colony found starting queen cells, re- 

 placing them with two sheets of foun- 

 dation and one drawn comb the re- 

 moved combs of brood being \\.<ec^ in 

 building up increase. 



