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the combs to be treated. The use of this 

 chemical does not have any bad effect 

 upon the combs as is sometimes the case 

 with burning sulphur. 



" SUCCESS " is the name of a dollar- 

 monthly published at Washington Square, 

 New York city. I know of no journal 

 that I would sooner recommend to my 

 readers than this one. There is some- 

 thing aI)out the reading of "Success" 

 which stirs the ambition. It is akin to 

 the hearing of martial strains in the way 

 of kindling patriotism. 



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Convention Reports should give 

 only those things that are of interest to 

 the readers of the paper in which the re- 

 port is to appear. Bro. York mentions a 

 case of where more than two pages were 

 devoted to the giving of what the differ- 

 ent members said when the convention 

 was trying to decide upon the place for 

 holding the next meeting. This talk was 

 all proper, but of little interest to the 

 readers; all that they would care for is to 

 know where the next meeting is to be 

 held. There is a great deal said at a con- 

 vention that doesn't amount to a hill of 

 beans. It can't be otherwise; and the re- 

 porter ought to edit his report the same 

 as the editor of a journal edits his journal. 



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Carniolan Bees are very highly 

 praised by Mr. C. W. Post of Canada. 

 At the last meeting of the Ontario Bee- 

 Keepers' Association he reported that he 

 had secured between three and four tons 

 of buckwheat honey, and it was all stored 

 by Carniolan bees. This was not a mat- 

 ter of locality, as the Carniolans were 

 placed promiscuously in the same yard 

 wilh Italian hybrids. Many of the latter 

 required feeding with combs of honey 

 taken from the Carni'jlans. He said they 

 beat any bees he ever knew in wintering 

 and building up in the spring. He found 

 large hives better adapted to their needs 



than was the case with small hives. He 

 used a hive the equal of 11 Langstroth 

 frames. All of this illustrates the great 

 difference there is in stock. 



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COME TO THE CONVENTION. 



Lay aside every care, take your wife, 

 and come to the Chicago convention. 

 You may not learn enough about bees 

 and bee-keeping to fill an encyclopedia, 

 but this friction of mind against mind, 

 this rubbing up against our fellows, sharp- 

 ens our wits, gives us broader views, and 

 makes us better bee-keepers and better 

 men. Then there is the pleasure of it. 

 This life is not simply a life of dollars and 

 cents. At least it ought not to be. The 

 man who has worked at home all summer 

 owes himself and wife an annual outing 

 with kindred spirits. 



Carbolic Acid i.s recommended in the 

 Australian Bee - Keeper, by Mr. H. L. 

 Jones, for use in bad cases of robbing. 

 The odor is very obnoxious to bees, and 

 he says that onl}' the legitimate occupants 

 of the hive, with their strong attachment 

 for home, will pass it, while the maraud- 

 ers are content to sniff it from afar. It 

 seems to me that nothing can be more 

 pfersistent, and pushing, regardless of con- 

 sequences, than a robber bee. When 

 robbing is once fully aroused it seems as 

 though nothing short of death would stop 

 a robber Ijee. Of course, Mr. Jones has 

 tried this plan, and knows what he is 

 talking about, while I have never tried it. 

 A weak mixture of acid and water is 

 sprinkled at the entrance of the hive that 

 is attacked. Remember that this acid is 

 a rank poison. 



CUPI'ING A tJUEEN'S WING. 



Dr. Miller, A. Norton, and the editor of 

 ( jleanings, discuss some of the different 

 methods of clipping a queen's wing. I 

 have tried the methods that they mention, 

 and several others besides, and I have 



