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the swanii is put back Ihe bees sulk and 

 swarm again. By the use of the extrac- 

 tor, giving plenty of empty combs, these 

 troubles can be remedied. 



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THE LANGSTROTH MONUMENT. 



At last a monument has been placed 

 over the grave of the Rev. L. L. Langs- 

 troth. It is of granite, simple and plain, 

 and cost only $3<io; but the beauty of it 

 is that it was paid for by small contribu- 

 tions from grateful bee-keepers in this 

 and other lands. That he was the inven- 

 tor of the movable comb, as we now 

 have it, is universally admitted. 



Old Bees may be gotten rid of, if 

 there is any desire to reduce the number 

 of colonies by uniting, by moving the 

 hives away to a new location while the 

 bees are flying. The young bees will ad- 

 here to the new location, while the old 

 ones will not. This will reduce the col- 

 onies in populousness, but the weaker 

 ones may be united, and the young bees 

 will winter better than the old ones. 



Best Bkks are secured by breeding 

 from the best colonies. I am led to say 

 this as a subscriber asks if, in breeding 

 from our best comb honey colonies, 

 would I use a hybrid if she happened to 

 be the mother of a colony that stored four 

 full supers of beautiful honey when the 

 best Italian gave only one super of poor 

 honey. Certainly I would. Such a col- 

 ony might be the beginning of a most 

 valuable strain. 



Introducing Qukkns by the use of 

 tobacco smoke, is, I am led to believe, a 

 very safe plan. ^Ir. A. G. Anderson re- 

 ports in the Southland Queen that since 

 heljegan using this method he has lost 

 only one queen, while he lost many with 

 the candy cage plan. His method does 

 not differ materially from those that 



have been described in the Review. At 

 dusk the bees are smoked, the queen 

 daubed with honey, and then dropped in 

 the top of the hive. 



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Hot W.\x seems to be an important ad- 

 dition over the corks of bottles of honey, 

 when the honey has been heated and 

 bottled for retailing. Those who are the 

 most successful in marketing honey in 

 this form, such men as Selser and I'ouder, 

 follow this practice. A tin foil cap is put 

 on over the wax. Pouder heats the hon- 

 ey to 190°, but the editor of Gleanings 

 calls attention to the fact that the gen- 

 eral practice is to bring it to only about 



1 50°. 



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Smoke, if used in too large quantities 

 is likely to injure the flavor of honey. 

 At the Chicago convention Mr. O. O. 

 Poppleton reported that the first year he 

 was in Cuba he shipped some 40,000 

 pounds of honey to Mr. Muth, and Mr. 

 Muth said that all of the honey tasted 

 of smoke. The honey was extracted by 

 Mr. Osborn, and his method was to have 

 smoke pumped against the comb all of 

 the time, and not shake the bees, using 

 an enormous quantity of smoke. 



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City Bee-keepers can get free adver- 

 tising by sending out invitations inviting 

 people to be present at the opening of 

 the honey harvest, and see the honey 

 taken off. Editors are not neglected, and 

 they notice it as a matter of news and 

 send a reporter to write up the event. 

 Veils are furnished visitors. Considera- 

 ble honey is sold in this way, and a lot 

 of free advertising secured. Mr. Kreut- 

 ziiiger told us this at the Chicago 

 convention. 



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Hiving Swarms on starters is recom- 

 mended by Mr. Doolittlein the American 

 Bee Journal. The building of drone 



