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little pamphlet is furnished free upon ap- 

 plication. If you have a neighbor fruit 

 grower who is opposed to your keepin^r 

 bees, or one who persists in spraying his 

 trees while in full bloom, to his own det- 

 riment and yours, see to it that a copy of 

 this little pamphlet is placed in his hands. 



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RELEASING QUERNS AT NIGHT. 



Mr. S. A. Dyke, of Waldo. W. Va., 

 writes me of the excellent success that he 

 has had in releasing queens at night, 

 when trying to introduce them. He has 

 a cage so arranged that when the slide is 

 withdrawn the opening to the cage is 

 still covered with paper that is saturated 

 with hone}'. The slide is withdrawn at 

 .sundown. By the time that the slip of 

 paper is eaten out it is night, and all is 

 quiet. One advantage of releasing a 

 queen in this way, instead of watching 

 her as she leaves the cage, is that there is 

 no danger of her flying away. I once 

 liberated ten queens just at dusk, when 

 it was so dark that a lamp was needed. 

 They had been kept away from the bees 

 and allowed no food for half an hour. 

 This was according to some instructions 

 given by some foreigner — I think it was 

 Mr. Simmins. The whole ten queens 

 were accepted — perhaps they might have 

 been anywaj*. Whether releasing them 

 at night had anything to do with their 

 acceptance is hard to .say. Leaving them 

 without food for half an hour makes them 

 hungry, and they are in a mood to accept 

 any food that is offered them by the 

 workers, which is one factor in their favor. 



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THE HAKES -HEDDON ADULTERA- 

 TION CASE. 



Last winter Mr. M. G. Hakes of Jack- 

 son, Mich., was fined 52500 for selling 

 adulterated honey. The honey was bought 

 of Mr. James Heddon of Dowagiac, Mich. 

 Mr. Hakes asserts that he did not know 

 that it was adulterated. Mr. Hakes also 

 bought some honey of me that I had pur- 

 chased of the A. L Root Co. After he 



had placed it on the market, Mr. W. D. 

 Soper bought a bottle and had it analyzed, 

 and that, too, was pronounced adulter- 

 ated. I am satisfied that it was pure 

 honey when it left my hands. I might 

 add, however, that the Roots have been 

 investigating, and E. R. Root writes me 

 that there is lack of proof that this par- 

 ticular sample came from Hakes. The 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association sent 

 its Secretar}-, Dr. A. B. Mason, to attend 

 the trial, and he has made a report to the 

 General Manager. This report gives quite 

 a little testimony that goes to show that 

 Mr. Heddon has been mixing. This is 

 not the f'rst time that Mr. Heddon has 

 been accused of adulteration, and, in jus- 

 tice to ourselves, and to him, I think that 

 suit ought to be brought against him. If 

 he is innocent he ought to be given an 

 opportunity, in a court of law, to clear 

 himself of these accusations. If he has 

 done wrong, it should be proved against 

 him, and he should pay the penalt}-. 



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PHOTOGRAPHS WANTED. 



For the last three months I have been 

 offering prizes for the best articles. The 

 result is that I have a large number of 

 most excellent articles. Until I can 

 make room for the.se there is no use in 

 offering prizes for more. When I have 

 used the best of those that I have on 

 hand I shall again offer prizes. In the 

 meantime, I should like some good photo- 

 graphs to use as frontispieces in the 

 Review. The frontispiece for June is 

 already printed, but later months are not 

 provided for, and to the one who will 

 .send me a photograph that I think well 

 enough of to use as a frontispiece in the 

 July Review I will send 55oo cash. To 

 the .sender of any other photograph that 

 I think well enough of to use in some 

 other part of the Review I will send the 

 Review for one year and one of the 

 Superior Stock queens. If j-ou have a 

 neat, picturesque apiary, send me a photo- 

 graph of it. Send me a photograph of 

 anything pertaining to bee culture thaj^ 



