Oct. 17, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



665 



make such a change ; but you must allow only '4 inch or a 

 shade less between the top-bars and the sections or frames 

 in the super. It will also be a help to have only '4 inch 

 space between each two top-bars, which space you can 

 secure by nailing strips on each side of your top-bars if 

 they are too narrow, and most bee-keepers also think it 

 desirable that the top-bars be from 's to % inch thick or 

 deep. 



5. By having the space between top-bars and supers a 

 scant quarter of an inch. You can also prevent it by doing 

 away with honey-boards altogether. 



6. Letting air directly into the super has the effect to 

 make slower work in building comb wherever the air enters. 

 So it is objectionable for comb honey, but is a good thing 

 for extracted honey. 



7. They are of such universal adaptation that almost cer- 

 tainly they will succeed with you. You may sow in fall or 

 spring. They will grow the first year without blossoming ; 

 the second year they will begin blooming before white 

 clover is over, and not stop entirely till hard freezing 

 weather ; and the following winter they will die root and 

 branch. 



\ % The Afterthought. ^ \ 



The "Old Reliable" seen through New and Unreliable QIasses. 

 By E. E. HASTY, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, O. 



THE HIRED MAN IN THE APIARY. 



Homer Hyde, when he wrote that excellent article on the 

 hired man in the apiary didn't think that he was encouraging 

 some of us to push right square against Almighty God. Why, 

 Homer, the man you describe is a man that will not be allowed 

 to be a mere hired man for any great length of time — that is, 

 as a general rule he will not. A power above, that oft conde- 

 scends to steer our little barks, will not allow it. If you have 

 such a one, consider that you have a treasure lent you for a 

 very little while — and don't kick (as .leshurun in the Bible 

 kicked) when the little while comes to an end. But while, as 

 a general rule, we have to get along with hired men who have 

 serious flaws, it is nevertheless true that the right kind of a 

 demand will in lime have a tendency to bring the right kind 

 of a supply. At least the supply can be discouraged and kept 

 off by idiotic conduct on the part of employers. See the 

 farmers and their men. The supply is scant of men that will 

 take a load to town and come home without danger of getting 

 drunk and letting the horses run away. I have felt just 

 amazed to see how easily farmers accept the danger, and how 

 little extra they will offer, either of cash or other induce- 

 ments, for strictly sober men. The employments that will 

 have sober men and no others get them somehow. Page 564. 



HONEY AND HONEY CONSUMERS. 



And so black mangrove honey from Florida, notwithstand' 

 ing its high quality and flavor, stirred up suspicion when 

 peddled in a distant State where no one ever tasted just such 

 a taste. Apparently Mr. Wallenmeyer has struck an impor- 

 tant general principle. The ordinary customer wants one of 

 the honeys he has tasted before — and fears a swindle else. 



But it isn't a general principle everywhere that consumers 

 object to buying as much as three pounds at one time. Liv- 

 ing within delivery distance of a city grocery does seem to 

 stimulate the disposition to buy by driblets, but the main 

 cause lies elsewhere. Most consumers consider buying honey 

 at all as a piece of extravat;ance. They dash in desperately 

 to the depth of half a pound : but would consider it wicked to 

 go much deeper. The remedies are obvious, if we are willing 

 to use them. In retailing extracted honey I use a five pound 

 package, and am seldom asked for less. If I remember 

 rightly we have heard from brethren who sell mostly in a 2()- 

 pound or 25-pound pac'iiago — to substantial farmers who live 

 far from town, and who usually have money in their pockets. 



"Useful when empty" is a very important phrase. 



Shot in every new bottle to break out the shelly, thin glass. 

 Sure I 



Could wish that all the pictures had turned out clear like 

 the first one. so that we might learn the exact manipulation. 



Good wife that will non-colloquially get dinner with 5(KJ 

 pounds of honey encumbering the range'. 



Xo sin to adulterate with paraffine your own usiir-'-^ of 

 wax, if it makes it better. 



Sealing inside, directly on the hot honey, looks rather 

 like a novelty. Pages 56i — 566. 



PROPOLIZING SECTION-TOPS. 



Dr. Miller's third answer to Indiana's questions will bear 

 talking about. lie is doubtless correct that bees often daub 

 the top of sections the worse when an enameled cloth is laid 

 on. Angles with a crevice in the bottom of the angle always 

 have to have some propolizing, unless the bees are awfully 

 busy at something more important. In doing this job they 

 ram the material home forcibly, with the result that the sec- 

 tion tops are soiled quite a distance from the edge. There is 

 another side to the question, however. Well, it's pretty apt 

 to come about in fine weather, when no honey is coming in, 

 that our dont-want-to-be-idle little servants will bring pro- 

 polis and surface all new wood— surface it in such a workman- 

 like way that it can not be scraped off as mere hurried chink- 

 ing can. Something to cover section-tops which can not be 

 lifted readily is the desideratum where sections are to stay on 

 the hive any great length of time. Page 568. 



THE "oneness" of CLAREMONT. 



Happy Claremont! One church, one literary club, one 

 horticultural society ! I don't know but such a town ought to 

 pray never to grow any bigger. I'm sure they have a right to 

 pray a little: " Lord, we thank thee that we are not in the 

 sin of split-up-edness as other towns are." Page 569. 



RKITI.SH COLUMBIA BEE-KEEPING. 



And so in British Columbia one man says bees can not 

 find supplies — has tried it — and another man gets 60 pounds 

 of sections. Page 571. 



I ^ The Home Circle. ^ | 



Conducted bu Prof. ft. J. Gook, Claremont, Calif. 



CORONADO. 



There are three places that every visitor of Southern 

 California should certainly see before he leaves this fairest 

 part of our country. I hardly need to say that one of these is 

 Redlands, with her incomparable " Smiley Heights," wealth 

 of verdure, beautiful homes, and show of thrift everywhere. 

 That one is Santa Barbara, with its lovely bay, its splendid 

 climate, matchless combination of mountains and sea, and its 

 incomparable suburb, beautiful Montecito. I have just spent 

 Sunday at the third, beautiful Coronado. This is across the 

 bay from San Diego. The climate here is wondrous even tor 

 California; never hot in summer, never cold in winter. San. 

 Diego and Coronado enjoy and rejoice in one perpetual sum- 

 mer. 



Off San Diego are two long peninsulas. The outer. Point 

 Loma, stretches southward, is some miles long, and high and 

 precipitous. The inner, Coronado, stretches northward more 

 miles, is often very narrow, and is low and level. All of 

 Point Loma holds the ocean from the beautiful Harbor of San 

 Diego. Only the south end of Coronado feels the pulse-beats 

 of the great Pacific. 



Coronado Hotel, and Coronado Tent City, mark the limit 

 where the ocean sweeps this peninsula. So it is opposite the 

 point of Loma. On one side the huge breakers thunder along 

 the shore ; on the other the long, quiet bay nestles, and is in 

 striking contrast to the restless, resistless ocean just a few 

 rods across the very narrow stretch of land. The great ocean 

 steamers, or the more powerful war vessels that are wont to- 

 enter San Diego Harbor, must round the magnificent Point 

 Loma, then pass northward in the narrow channel between 

 the two peninsulas, then round the extreme northerly point of 

 Coronado, when they may drop anchor in the ever peaceful 

 waters of San Diego Harbor. 



Coronado Hotel is one of the grandest in the world. Its 

 prices are equally renowned, yet the moderate purse may still 

 enjoy this wondrous bit of Nature's rarest tracery. The same 

 company that controls the great and far-famed hotel, are like- 

 wise proprietors of Tent City, where neat-floored and car- 

 peted tents can be rented very reasonably. A fine tent for 

 three can be secured for $25 a month. In this are good beds, 

 all the utensils for light housekeeping, gasoline stove, dishes, 

 table, etc. Table and bed linen are also furnished. A good 

 and very reasonable restaurant may be made to supplement 



