THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Three Men — Townsend, Facey and 

 Atvvater, who are to be regular con- 

 tributors to the Review the coming 

 year, all keep bees to the entire exclu- 

 sion of other pursuits. 



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Quilts over frames are something I 

 have never used. The tops of my 

 frames are bee-space below the top of 

 the hive, and I use aflat cover. If any 

 one thinks I ought to use them, I wish 

 he would write me. 



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Write me a Letter when sending in 

 your renewal. Let it be a long, chat- 

 ty, visiting letter. Tell me how you 

 are situated; how you are succeeding; 

 where you have failed; and what are 

 your difficulties. Give me a glimpse 

 of yourself and your surroundings. I 

 may not be able to write anything in 

 reply, but the reading of such letters 

 helps me to make the Review better — 

 brings me closer to my readers and 

 their needs. 



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The Pennsylvania State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold its annual meet- 

 ing in Harrisburg, January I7th to 

 19th, 1907, in the Capitol building. On 

 the evening of the I7th, beginning at 

 7:30, there will be the Annual Address 

 of the President, illustrated by lantern 

 slides; report of the Secretary, amend- 

 ment to constitution, and election of 

 officers. On Friday and Saturday 

 there will be papers by practical and 

 scientific bee-keepers and full discus- 

 sions. Among the speakers will be 

 Dr. E. F. Phillips, of Washington, D. 

 C.;N. Y. Inspector of Apiaries, Chas. 

 P. Stewart; E. R. Root, of Medina, 

 ().; E. L. Pratt, of Swarthmore, Pa., 

 and other prominent speakers. 



For card orders and excursion rate 

 of one and one third fare, write to the 

 Secretary or President. 



H. A. Surface, President, 

 R. L. White, Secretary, 



Harrrisburg, Pa. 



Morley Pettit, of Canada, has lost his 

 suit on appeal. I am sorry to learn 

 this, as I believe he was not to blame. 

 Across the highway from his apiary, 

 a man drove his team into an oat field, 

 and then turned back to close the gate. 

 When he reached the team again a 

 crowd of bees had attacked them, and 

 attacked him and drove him away, and 

 finally stung the team to death. I have 

 always believed that he disturbed a 

 small swarm of bees that were cluster- 

 ed in the oats. The jury brought in a 

 verdict of $400 damages; and the Na- 

 tional Association helped to appeal 

 the case, but the finding of the lower 

 court was sustained. It is believed by 

 many that local prejudice against the 

 bees and their non-resident owner had 

 much to do with the verdict. 



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Extracting Honey in a Cellar. 



I would like to know if any of my 

 subscribers have had any experience 

 extracting honey in a cellar. 



At one of our Northern apiaries, the 

 honey house is quite a distance from 

 the bees, and we would be glad to 

 avoid wheeling the combs so far to ex- 

 tract, by using the new cellar that we 

 have just built. Is there any objection 

 to such use ? There is a ventilator 

 nearly two feet square in the top of 

 the cellar, and the door is nearlj'^ four 

 feet wide, by six in height. The 

 wooden door could be removed and a 

 screen substituted. The query in my 

 mind is, wouldn't the cellar be too cool 

 a place in which to work in the 

 summer ? If a man should work out 

 in the hot sun, and then come in and 

 extract, wouldn't the great change in 

 temperature be injurious ? But sup- 

 pose one man works in the cellar all 

 of the time, and the other in the hot 

 sun, how would that be ? Who can 

 advise us, from actual experience ? 



Is there any other difficult}' about 

 using a cellar for this purpose ? 



