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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



The Progressive Bee-Keeper and its 

 editor, R. B. Leah_v, are no more. Mr. 

 Leahy was only 48 years old, but he 

 had been in poor health for more than 

 a year, and he passed away April 14. 

 The Progressive has been sold to H. 

 B Wright, of Topeka, Kansas, who 

 will combine it with a journal called 

 the Helpful Hen. 



E. M. Wessels, Wooler, Ontario, has 

 an apiary across the road from an 

 evaporator, and in the fall thousands 

 of his bees are destroyed in the oeel- 

 ings — one basket of peelings being 

 dumped upon the bees where they are 

 at work upon the last emptied basket- 

 ful. He also considers the juice that 

 the bees bring home as detrimental in 

 the wintering of the bees. He wishes 

 to know if he can compel the owner of 

 the evaporator to build a shed in which 

 to dump the peelings. I am not a 

 lawyer, but I doubt if he can. Would 

 be g'ad to hear from any one who can 

 speak with some authority. 



^M'm^tiira' «H* • 



The Advanced Bee Veil, sold by A. G. 

 Woodman & Co., of Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., is something that I have worn 

 with great comfort during the last two 

 weeks. It is really the same thing as 

 was described in the Review years 

 ago, the invention of Mr. Porter of bee 

 escape fame. The peculiar feature of 

 the veil is that its edge is held firmly 

 down upon the shoulders, cituay from 

 the neck. With a veil tucked inside the 

 collar, angry bees always seem to have 

 the unhappy faculty of stinging the 

 neck where it comes in contact with 

 the veil — with the Advanced Bee Veil 

 this is entirely avoided, as the veil . 

 does not come in contact with the neck. 

 We also avoid that hot, suflfocating 

 feeling that comes from having the veil 

 tucked close around the neck, inside 

 the collar — such a relief ! 



most important. Harry Lathrop and 

 the editor of Gleanings discuss this 

 point in a recent issue of that journal, 

 and both agree that the securing of 

 proper help is the hardest problem in 

 managing bees in large numbers. I 

 think all who have tried managing sev- 

 eral apiaries have found the "help" 

 problem the hardest to solve. At the 

 last meeting of the Northern Michigan 

 Association, at Kalkaska, some one 

 was criticising some of the methods 

 employed by Mr, E. D Townsend, and 

 his repl3' was very significant. He 

 admitted that other methods might be 

 better for the man who was doing his 

 own work, or could oversee it, but he 

 (Townsend) was developing a system 

 that could be turned over to ordinary 

 tiired help. 



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J curmg Help for the manngement of 

 large numbers of bees is certinrly 



M. A. Gill, of Colorado, writes an ex- 

 cellent article (the kind he always 

 writes) and sends it to Gleanings, in 

 which he advocates plain Langstrolh 

 (Dovetailed) hives and Hoffman frames. 

 Down at the St. Louis convention, last 

 fall, Mr. W. L. Coggshall, of New 

 York, was bantering me over some 

 idea of mine with which he did not 

 exactly agree, but he wound up his 

 harangue with "but you are all sound 

 on the frame question." Now here 

 are two men, good men, owning and 

 managing hundreds of colonies, yet 

 one condemns the Hoffman style of 

 frames, and the other approves it. One 

 lives in New York and produces ex- 

 tracted honey, the other in Colorado, 

 and is a comb honey man. Most of 

 the 400 colonies in Northern Michigan 

 are on Hoffman frames, and I'll prob- 

 ably have an opportunity to think more 

 (or less) of them before the season is 

 over. 



The Changeableness of Honey Resources. 



Very few of the hone^' resources re- 

 main the same, for a long term of 

 years, in the same locality. Probably 

 white clover comes as near doing this 



