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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



with the casters can be pushed oflf the 

 wheelbarrow upon this platform and roll- 

 ed into the extracting room; all of which 

 is told in Gleanings. 



Bait Combs, when placed m the cor- 

 ners of the supers have a tendency to keep 

 the outsides going so as to be completed 

 as soon as the center, says R. C. Aikin in 

 the American Bee Journal. He considers 

 them of nnich importance with a weak 

 colony and in a woak flow. He would 

 use them even if the honey had lo be 

 extracted. 



BELf.l.VN n.\Ki-:.S are beginning to at- 

 tract Cv>i!si(leral)le atlenlion. 1 nienlion 

 tliis as it seems lo be one of those iiuhis- 

 tries tint may I)e coml)ined with bee- 

 keeping. Prof. Cook has an article on 

 t'lis subject in the last .\mericau Bee 

 Journal. I may co])y it in some future 

 i-.sue. TlK-se animals are valuable both 

 for Lheir fur and iheir meat. .-Vt present 

 t'le deuiind for them for breeding pur- 

 p jses is so great that it takes nearly all of 

 t.ie first-class stuck that i-^ reared. This 

 c )!idilion of things is likely to last until 

 the countr}- is well slocked, ami those 

 who go into the lousiness at once will be 

 likely to make tlie most mone\'. A rab- 

 bitry is being built within three blocks of 

 this office, and the very best of stock has 

 been purcha.sed; J5i50.oo being paid for 

 one animal alone. 



HONEY-OUOT.\TIONS. 



At the Philadelphia convention last 

 fall the matter of honey- quotations re- 

 ceived quite a little discussion, and it was 

 evident that the exact meaning of the 

 quotations was not correctly understood. 

 Some thought that the prices given were 

 those that would be remitted to the ship- 

 per. Others believed that from these 

 prices must come freight, cartage and 

 commission. Others thought that the 

 prices were those at which the grocers 

 retailed the honey, and that the com- 

 mission men sold it at a lower figure. I 



will not attempt to give all of the differ 

 ent views that were expressed. To settle 

 the matter, I wrote all of the dealers who 

 give quotations in the Review, and the 

 gist of the replies is given just above the 

 quotations in the market column, and will 

 remain there all of the titne, that no one 

 may forget. 



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RIGHT .\GE OF BEES TO .\CCOMP.\NV 

 QUEENS IX SHIPMENT. 



Mr. G. M. Doolittle, who has quite a 

 faculty of finding out useful and helpful 

 things, tells the readers of the American 

 Bee Journal that one cause of loss in ship- 

 ping queens is that bees of the right age 

 are not chosen for an e.scort to the queen. 

 Too old bees, or those so ^-oung that they 

 h.ive never flown anil emptied their in- 

 testines, are not suitable. They ought to 

 be voung bees that have taken at least 

 one flight. To decide which are the 

 bees of the right age we have only to 

 open the hive carefully, and then select 

 those that have their heads thrust into the 

 cells, drinking honey. Unless we are 

 very rough, and use too much smoke, the 

 old bees will not do this; neither will 

 the very young bees. Fortunately, this 

 is an easy way to determine which are 

 the bees of the best age; and, fortunately, 

 too, such bees are in the correct position 

 for being picked up very easily. 



BEES .\ND HORTICULTURE. 

 One of the good things for which we 

 have to thank Hugene Secor, the efficient 

 manager of the National Bee-Keepers" 

 -Association, is the getting out of a pam- 

 phlet entitled "Bees and Horticulture: 

 Their Relations Mutual." The sub-head 

 describes the pamphlet in a few words. 

 It reads as follows: "The purposes of 

 this pamphlet is to put into condensed 

 form, for the use of bee-keepers and 

 fruit growers, such information as is at 

 hand, derived from experience and recent 

 investigations, relating to the economy of 

 nature in plant and insect life, and to 

 show their mutual independence." This 



