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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



of those of the editor. In dropping these 

 two departments there is no reflection 

 whatever upon the men who so ablj' con- 

 ducted them. I simply made the mis- 

 take of introducing too many depart- 

 ments; and, now that I see my mistake, I 

 am rectifying it in the only way possible. 



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THE TROUBI.E WITH THE BEES IN NEW 

 YORK IS NOT FOUL BROOD. 

 Mr. Taylor, in this issue of the Review, 

 criticises Mr. E. R. Root because he sug- 

 gests that there may be two kinds of foul 

 brood, that one kind may yield to drug- 

 treatment, and because he is undecided 

 whether the trouble with bees in York 

 State is foul brood or not. In Gleanings 

 for Jan. 15, Mr. Root says he is now sat- 

 isfied, from all of the evidence before 

 him, that the trouble in New York is not 

 foul brood. The microscope does not 

 show Bacillus alvei. The preliminary re- 

 port of Mr. Howard of Texas is to the 

 same effect. Whatever it is, it is very 

 contagious and destructive. The Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture at Washington is tak- 

 ing an interest in the matter. 



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RENDERING BEESWAX. 



A subscriber of mine in Illinois sends 

 me a description of how he renders wax. 

 The work is done in the open air. A 

 large kettle is placed in a sort of arch of 

 brick. The kettle is filled partly full of 

 water, and when the water boils the ref- 

 use combs, or cappings, are put into the 

 kettle of water — a few at a time. As the 

 wax melts it is dipped off along with 

 whatever rises to the top, and poured 

 upon a piece of wire cloth fastened over 

 a large tub of cold water. The tub is 

 made from a barrel sawed in two and 

 one-half taken for a tub. This takes the 

 muss out of the kitchen, allows the work 

 to be done quite rapidly, and my friend 

 thinks that he secures all of the wax that 

 it is worth while bothering to get. The 

 use of a press on the slum gum might 

 cause him to change his miud. 



TALIv SECTIONS. 

 Mr. Martin, in this issue of the Review, 

 asks what advantage there will be in tall 

 sections after we have all adopted them ? 

 If they sell better now, it is only by com- 

 parison. When they are all tall there 

 will be no comparison. Will the price 

 of honey be anv higher then ? This point 

 is well worth considering. If the tall 

 section has no advantage in itself, that 

 is, no advantage except as it comes in 

 comparison with the square section, then 

 when everybody has adopted it we would 

 be no better off than before. The editor 

 of Gleanings says that preference for tall 

 sections is not wholly that of price. The 

 form is realh- more beautiful; the 4 x 5 

 sections is a trifle larger than the 4 '4 x 

 4 '4^, and allows of the comb being a trifle 

 thinner for a pound of honey; these thin 

 combs being filled and sealed quicker, 

 with fewer uncapped cells; bees build 

 combs downward more rapidly than they 

 extend them side wise; and tall sections 

 stand shipment with less danger of break- 

 age than the square ones. 



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ONE WAY TO GET RID OF AN INTERLOPER; 

 ONE WHO UNFAIRLY COMES IN- 

 TO OUR FIELD. 

 In another place in the Review I men- 

 tion that Mr. Root says the good locations 

 in Colorado are already well-stocked. In 

 Gleanings for Feb. i, Dr. Miller asks if 

 there would be anything criminal in his 

 settling down with his bees next door 

 to Mr. Rauchfuss. Editor Root says 

 there would be nothing criminal, but 

 there would be trouble all the same. One 

 man tried that vers' thing, by settling 

 down near an out-apiary belonging to the 

 Rauchfuss Bros. They simply increased 

 the number of colonies in this yard, un- 

 til there was no profit for the man who 

 came in. I have heard of this plan being 

 worked before now; but suppose the man 

 who comes in has more bees than the 

 original occupant? This appears to be 

 one of those rules that might be made to 

 work both ways. No man of sense, how- 



