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cheaj), but durable, paitit. It is made of 

 three parts superfine, calcined, land plas- 

 ter, and one part of yellow ocher, or any 

 other fine earth paint costinj>^ from two 

 to three cents a pound. I'or oil, he uses 

 three quarts of kerosene, three-fourths of 

 a pint of linseed oil, one-fourth of a pint 

 of spirits of turpentine, and one-fourth of 

 a pound of melted beeswax. Before add- 

 ing the turpentine and beeswax, the 

 other ingredients are mixed and brought 

 almost to the boiling point. The paint 

 shouUl be applied warm. The wax makes 

 up for the lack of fixed oil. This paint is 

 better than any mineral paint mixed with 

 clear linseed oil. It is not very brilliant 

 at first, but grows brii^hter by wear, while 

 the ordinary paint fades by age. 



Mr. Lac}' recommends the addition of 

 some coloring niatter to this kind of paint. 

 He would use chrome green, or yellow, 

 or Prussian blue, or something of the 

 kind, painting some of the hives one 

 color, and .some another. I prefer to 

 have all of the hives and supers the same 

 color. It greatly simplifies some of the 

 operations of the apiary. We often wish 

 to change one hive for another, and, if it 

 is of a different color from the first hive, 

 the bees are confused, and try to find 

 some other hive having a color like that 

 of their old home. 



TWO EVKXINCS OF PICTURES GIVEN BY 



TWO i':Drn)ks. 



At the Philadelphia convention a new 

 feature was introduced. The showing of 

 pictures by means of a stereopticon, or 

 magic lantern, is not new, but the show- 

 ing of apiarian pictures at a bee conven- 

 tion is a new departure — at least in this 

 country. That it is to be continued, at 

 least for this year, is shown by the follow- 

 ing private letter from I'resident Root, 

 which I have secured permission to print. 

 Mkdin.v, Ohio, July 17, 1900. 



//'. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich.: 



Dear Hutch — .\ special feature of the 

 next convention, on one evening at least, 

 will be stereopticon work, the whole even- 



ing being taken up with it. I am pur- 

 chasing a bran new stereopticon, with 

 the best lens for electric and calcium 

 light, .so that the results will be the very 

 best, so far as a single lantern goes. Now, 

 I am scouring the country for good 

 photos from which slides can be made. 

 Vou have some verv fine photos of some 

 apiaries, so, while I shall go down on the 

 program on the subject of " Bee-keepers 

 I have met, and apiaries I have visited," 

 I shall want yourself. Dr. Miller, Dr. 

 Mason and two or three others to throw 

 in .some side talks. For instance. I would 

 like to have you tell briefly, on the same 

 evening with me. of K. France and his 

 system, showing his hives, or rather N. F. 

 France, as I su])pose it now is. If you 

 will loan me the photos, I will try to 

 get some slides made and give you some 

 of my time in the meeting and I will 

 manipulate the screen while 3'ou do the 

 talking. By the way, the making of 

 stereopticon slides is very pleasant work 

 and is ver}' easily done, and when I get 

 to Chicago, I ma}' get you started with 

 the fever. This stereopticon is Ijought 

 for the express purpose of using at con- 

 ventions, and I think between us we can 

 get up a set of nice slides that would 

 show up the industr\ in a way that will 

 be attractive and possibly increase the at- 

 tendance. At .some time in the evening 

 we can .show up .supplies of the different 

 manufacturers without having to have a 

 whole lot- of traps scattered around the 

 room . 



I write you because I feel sure you 

 would like to enter into the scheme, and 

 if you do. I will have you announced as 

 one of the talkers for the stereopticon 

 feature. 



I don't know but I may make a fizzle 

 of it; but I want the next convention to 

 be difTerent from any we have had before. 

 There will be one or two hours during 

 each session which will be taken up with 

 question boxes, the boxes being presided 

 over bv some prominent bee-keeper pres- 

 ent. Then the .stereopticon work, while 

 not a novelty, will range on somewhat 

 difTerent lines, and those who are fortu- 

 nate enough to attend the next conven- 

 tion will be able to see the whole bee- 

 keeping world at a glance, or in a single 

 night. 



If you will loan me some of vour pic- 

 tures, I will return them, and, if success- 

 ful. I will indicate to you what ones we 

 will make over into slides, so that you 

 can prepare notes for each picture. A 

 minute talk on a picture on the average 

 will probably consume all the time that 

 can be allowed, although I suppose we 



