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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIE"W 



swarm were hived upon solid combs 

 of honey than I would if the combs 

 were empty. In the latter case, the 

 work is, of necessity, befjun in the sec- 

 tions, the same as when starters only 

 are used in the brood frames, and 

 where bees bezin storing- their surplus. 



O^iio ;iOw has not only a foul brood 

 l?v'butan inspector of apiaries, Mr. 

 Henry Shafer. Bees are now taxed 

 one cent per colon}' in Ohio to pay for 

 inspection. Editor Root says that this 

 wiil supply $1,000 a year. 



The Strainer of cheese cloth that I 

 have used this season was fastened on 

 over the tub by means of a small rope 

 twisted !p with a stick, as was men- 

 "^ioned in the last Review, but Mr. 

 WpH-^r liarmer writes me that a better 

 way 's to sew the cloth to a hoop that 

 is a trifle larger than the tub. This 

 can be laid over the the top of the tub. 

 There is no danger of its coming loose, 

 yet it can be removed instantly for 

 washing. 



Cross Bees are an unpleasant feature 

 of many bee yards. A year ago last 

 spring, some of my bees were hybrids, 

 and they would come to meet me rods 

 away from the yard, and a swarm of 

 them would dance around my head as 

 long as I remained in the yard. Pure 

 Italian queens were introduced, and as 

 soon as the Italians took the place of 

 the hybrids, I could work peaceably 

 even without a veil. J. A. Green sug- 

 gests in Gleanings that often it is only 

 one or two colonies th;it furnish all of 

 the cross bees in a yard, and by 

 changing the queens in these colonies, 

 peace may again reign. 



there they are inclined to continue. 



Year after year did I continue to 

 hive a few swarms on drawn combs, 

 using the scales as a test of results, 

 and the use of the combs resulted in a 

 loss as compared with starters or full 

 sheets of foundation. — Ed. Review. 1 



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Orange Blossom honey has been re- 

 garded by many as more or less a 

 myth, but Mr. Frank McNay, of Red- 

 lands, California, tells, in Gleanings, 

 how and why he sometimes gets it by 

 the car load. He says that it jields 

 very little in the cool regions near the 

 coast, but farther inland, where the 

 temperature is higher, and there is 

 little fog, orange blossoms yield a fair 

 crop four years out of five. With the 

 exception of 1904, Mr. McNay has been 

 able to ship one or more car loads of 

 pure orange-blossom honey each year. 

 He says he has seen the nectar so 

 abundant as to daub the clothing of 

 pruners and pickers, and even the 

 backs of liorses while cultivating. A 

 man who visited California this last 

 spring told me that they put blankets 

 upon tlie horses to keep the orange 

 bloom honey off their backs, and I — 

 well, I kept my thoughts to myself. 



Caucasians have been tried, to a 

 slight extent, by my neighbor. Mr. 

 August Koeppen, of this place. He 

 finds them good workers, and excellent 

 comb builders. He showed me, the 

 other day, some well-filled sections 

 that wore "put up" by a colon_v of 

 Caucasians Mr. A. D. U. Wood, of 

 Lansing, Michigan, writes me that he 

 got his first Caucasians this year, in 

 June; they coming direct from the 

 Caucasian mountains. As reported he 

 finds them extremely gentle —he having 

 yet to receive his first sting. They cap 



