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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



No bee-keeper ever regrets having his 

 spare combs free from moths, and by pay- 

 ing attention to them now, so as to give 

 them some good thorough freezes, and 

 then putting them safely away from the 

 reach of moths, he will not feel that the 

 time thus spent is wasted. All my ex- 

 tracting combs are packed away in their 

 supers in our barn, and before freezing 

 weather is over they will be placed in 

 our house-cellar, where we k^epour bees, 

 and left till needed next season. Some of 

 the combs will be left in the supers, and 

 the remainder will be hung on strips that 

 have been nailed to the under edges of 

 the floor joists overhead, and they will 

 be placed at least an inch apart, and no 

 moths will trouble them, even in the sum- 

 mer time, with the door and window 

 open. 



GOOD WORDS FOR CANDIED HONEY. 



Another good suggestion by Gleanings 

 editor is: — 



More of an effort should be made by 

 bee-keepers to educate consumers to the 

 palatability of candied honey. In many 

 a bee-keeper 's home the white solid hon- 

 ey is preferred. It spreads better on 

 bread, does not muss up whiskered 

 mouths, and the small children can eat 

 it without smearing the table-cloth. 



Many bee-keepers who put their 

 honey in glass for grocers and others to 

 sell, are in the habit of replacing such as 

 candies, with that which is not candied. 

 It is quite a task to do this, but unless we 

 can get consumers educated in the pur- 

 chase and use of candied honey we shall 

 have to be to this trouble; but many of 

 those who buy honey I have sold to gro- 

 cers are getting to prefer, and call for, 

 that which is candied. Several months 

 ago I was in a grocery in this city and 

 saw several dozen jell tumblers of candied 

 honey that had evidently been put aside 

 as unsalable. I saw the producers name 

 (a Michigander) on the label, and know- 

 ing the producer well I knew the honey 

 was all right. I asked one of the sales- 

 men if they had any good extracted hon- 

 ey for sale. He said, "No, we have some 

 adulterated stuff we bought for honey, 



but it's no good." He showed me some 

 of it, and I soon shozved him that it was 

 first-class honey, and how to put it in the 

 same liquid condition it was in when they 

 brought it; and I believe they now sell 

 more candied honey than they do of the 

 liquid. I have thoroughly posted them 

 on the honey question. Talk candied 

 honey to the dealer and consumer, and 

 give them samples to try on their bread 

 and biscuits. 



Sta. B. Toledo, O. Dec. 21, 1899. 



Department of 



riticism 



CONDUCTED BY R. L. TAYLOR. 



The best critics are they 

 Who, with what they gainsay. 

 Offer another and better way. 



A REVIEW OF THE MILLER-EXPERIMENT 

 RECORDING THE AGE OF LARV^ 

 CHOSEN FOR QUEENS. 

 In June and July last Dr. Miller made 

 a somewhat elaborate experiment to con- 

 found if possible those who claim in op- 

 position to him that if a colony of bees 

 is inade queenless and given brood in all 

 stages it will not rear so good queens as 

 if the brood is scientifically selected for 

 them, or as they do in preparing for 

 swarming, or in superseding. I say the 

 experiment was made for that purpose, 

 but that is only my supposition; for the 

 doctor gives us no light on that point ex- 

 cept in his remark upon the general re- 

 sult that "in some respects it is not 

 what I desired and intended the bees 

 should give, but they are to blame for 

 that and not I." [Gleanings, 834.] It 

 gives me great pleasure to welcome him 

 to the field of the somewhat exact science 

 of experimentation; and, although his 

 first attempt seems to abundantly prove 

 what I suppose he set out to disprove, I 

 trust he will not become discouraged and 



