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THE BBE-KEBPERS' REVIEW. 



comb is prevented by contracting the 

 bro )d-nest. If there is an occasional 

 frame containing some drone-comb i 

 can be taken out the next spring and 

 used for a store comb, or else melted in- 

 to wax. Mr. Doolittle believes that the 

 brood-frames are filled with comb more 

 cheaply under such circumstances than 

 when foundation is used, and that more 

 honev is secured in the sections. 



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Ontario Bee Keepers' Association 

 will meet in the council chamber or the 

 town hall at Niagara Falls, on the 4th, 

 5th and 6th of December. A first-class 

 programme is being arranged, and it is 

 likely that there will be a large attend- 

 ance both for pleasure and profit. A 

 most cordial invitation is extended to all 

 bee-keepers, both in Canada and the 

 United Stites. The Savory and Windsor 

 hotels offer a rate of #1.50 per day, and 

 Jhe Imperial Hotel offers a rate of |i.oo a 

 day. 



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AS OTHERS SEE US. 



The Canadian Bee Journal has the fol- 

 lowing to say regarding the outsides of 

 some of the Yankee bee journals: Glean- 

 ings has donned a neat jacket of somber 

 green, which looks very well indeed. 

 The Review, always seasonable, assumes 

 the bright yellow of the Autumn leaf. 

 Even the old reliable American Bee 

 Journal comes to us with a new face; the 

 cover being artistically designed and 

 printed on. a highly calendered paper. 



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IMPORTED QUEENS AND THEIR BICES ARE 

 DARK. 



I presume most of bee-keepers know 

 that, as a rule, imported Italian queens 

 are dark and produce dark bees, but it is 

 possible that all of them do not know it. 

 Mr. L. B. Smith of Texas, and the editor 

 of the Southland (^ueeu call attention to 



this fact. Many itnported queens are 

 almost black, as compared with the 

 American bred golden Italians. Mr. 

 Smith finds imported stock a little more 

 prolific, quiet to handle, hard to shake 

 from the combs, but very superior as work- 

 ers. My experience has been that of Mr. 

 Smith. 



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Coi^ORADO now has two bee journals. 

 The Western Bee-Keeper has been re-res- 

 erected, and a new journal, called the 

 Western Apiary, has been started. Judg- 

 ing from the past, it will require a long 

 pull and a strong one to make a success 

 of bee journalism in the far West. The 

 bee-keeping in that region may be some- 

 what different from that in the East, but 

 the bee-keepers are not sufficiently num- 

 erous. Some of them may have hundreds 

 of colonies, but they don't take any more 

 journals than the bee-keeper with fifty 

 colonies — sometimes not so manv. 



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The Secret of building up and hold- 

 ing a trade in extracted honey, says Wal- 

 ter S. Ponder, in Gleanings, is that of 

 putting up only one grade, and that of 

 the best. The masses think that all hon- 

 ep should taste alike. If they get a jar of 

 clover honey one time, one of basswood 

 the next time, they think that something 

 is wrong. Where one is constantly receiv - 

 ing lots of different kinds of honey, this 

 difficult}' may be overcome by having a 

 large tank and emptying, alternately, 

 60-lb. cans of the different kinds of hon- 

 ey, and then filling the bottles from the 

 larse tank. 



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FEEDING BEES MEDICATED SYRUP. 



Considering the prevalence of foul 

 brood, black brood, etc , E. R. Root ad- 

 vises the medication of syrup when it is 

 fed to the bees. The feeding of this med- 

 icated syrup will not cure a case of foul 

 brood after it is well started. It is valu- 

 able only as a preventive; that is, to pre- 



