THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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Tiiic American Bicr-Khepek gives, as 

 a frontispiece to its November issue, a 

 most excellent, full-page, portrait of 

 one of Canada's best bee-keepers — Mr. 

 J. 15. Hall, of Woodstock. 



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The SAxnwicH I.si.ands as a bee-coun- 

 try is something that I know nothing 

 about, but a subscriber would like to have 

 some information on the subject — he 

 thinks that he would rather live there 

 than in Cuba. Can any one tell us any- 

 thing abont the Sandwich Islands from an 

 apicultural standpoint? 



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Rr.\CE-Combs attached to separators 

 are cut loose with a thin bladed saw, 

 when discovered by F. Greiner, before 

 taking the sections from the super. G. 

 M. Doolittle does this work with an old, 

 long-bladed bread-knife the edge of which 

 has been made rough by running it hur- 

 riedly over a coarse rasp. — .Inierican Bce- 

 Kecpcr. 



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Tin/.\MERiCAN Bei-: Jourxai, receives 

 a very kind, but well deserved notice 

 from Gleanings. Among other things, 

 Mr. Root fears that Bro. York does not 

 get money enough for his journal when 

 he sells 52 numbers for only $1.00, This 

 is what I have often tliotight; and only a 

 first-cl;i.ss business-man, like Bro. York, 

 would have ever kept the American Bee 

 Journal afloat at that price and made it 

 what it is. 



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The Goi.den Sv.ste.m of producing 

 comb honey is very highly praised in the 

 .\merican Bee Journal by Mr. J. S. Hart- 

 zell. Last season, his apiary consisted 

 of 53 colonies in the Golden hive, and 23 

 in 8 and lo-frame Dovetailed hives, man- 

 aged on the usual plan. The average 

 yield from the Golden hive and system 

 was a trifle over 23 pounds per colony, 

 while that from the Dovetailed hives was 

 only a little more than 12 pounds per col- 

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Till', Fi.iNT BeIvGian H.\re Associa- 

 tion has just received 20 hareis of the fin- 

 est strains from California. This com- 

 pany has also ordered a pair of Champion 

 hares direct from England, and expect 

 that they will be here the middle of Dec- 

 ember. If any of the subscribers of the 

 Review wish to invest in Belgian hares, 

 they can not do better than to correspond 

 with this company. 



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Gi-A.ss for use in shipping cases need 

 not be bought if the bee-keeper lives 

 near a town where there are several hard- 

 wares or other places where glass is sold; 

 waste, or broken pieces, of glass can be 

 secured at these places for the asking. 

 Clias. Keoppen of this place, who ships 

 thousands of pounds of comb honey each 

 year, has never bought any glass for his 

 shipping cases. If the front pieces of the 

 cases are grooved instead of being rabbet- 

 ed, short pieces can be used; but this is 

 seldom necessary except occasionally in 

 long cases like the 24-lb. case. 



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CuTS, and the privilege of copying 

 some article from the Review, are some- 

 times asked for by brother publishers; and 

 the way in which they write sometimes 

 makes me feel that they fear that I don't 

 like to lend mv cuts. Nothing of the 

 kind. .Anything that appears in the Re- 

 view, cuts and all, are as free as water — 

 yes, and I'll pay postage on the cuts. I 

 don't need to ask you to give the Review 

 credit for what is copied from its colums, 

 as all of theeditors of our bee journals are 

 the souls of honor in this respect. 



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The Chicago Convention Report of 

 tlie National Association meeting held 

 last .\ugust in that city, as nov\- being pub- 

 lished in the American Bee Journal, is 

 the best, and most accurate, and fullest 

 report ever published of any conven- 

 tion held by this body. It shows that it 

 pays to have an efficient stenographer. 

 I believe that Bro. York offers to send 

 the numbers of the American Be* Jour- 



