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THB BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



nal containing this report for only ten 

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 interested in reading exactl}' all that was 

 said at that convention, should take ad- 

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Grading honey is a subject that once 

 received a lot of attention and discussion; 

 but little is said about it now in the jour- 

 nals. I remember one objection that was 

 once brought against it was that we could 

 get no more for our fancy grade than we 

 could before the honey was graded, and 

 had to sell the second grade at a lower 

 price. It doesn't always work that way. 

 Chas. Koeppen of this city was selling his 

 honey, without grading, at 15 cts. a 

 pound. He finally graded it, put the fan- 

 cy at 17 cts., and sold it to the same firm 

 to which he had been selling; and then 

 sold the second grade to this firm for j 5 

 cts. Grading helped the bee-keeper in 

 this instance. 



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Black Brood is making some of the 

 York Stale bee-keepers feel rather blue. 

 A Mr. P. W. Stahlnian in writing the 

 American Bee Journal says that he be- 

 lieves that it will not be gotton rid of un- 

 til bee keepers quit the business, and 

 allow it to do its work of destroying the 

 bees in the woods and those of slipshod 

 bee-keepers. Last season he had charge 

 of over 100 colonies and only a few came 

 through free from disease. Some colo- 

 nies were treated a second time, yet the 

 disease came again. There is one strange 

 thing a])out it, and that is that there is 

 occasionally a colony that remains free 

 from the disease, even though surround- 

 ed by it; and iust how it spreads, has not 

 yet been learned. 



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BlE-'VCHing comb honey is something 

 that has been written about a little. Per- 

 haps there aie some parts of the world 

 where the bees build dark combs, or in- 

 corporate some coloring matter in the 



combs, but in this locality all of the combs 

 that they build are white. It matters not 

 whether the honej' is light or dark, the 

 resulting comb is white. The comb made 

 from buckwheat honey, and filled with 

 buckwheat honey, is just as white as that 

 built from white clover honey and filled 

 with white clover honey. A section of 

 buckwheat honey looks dark when held 

 up to the light, because the honey is 

 dark, not because the comb is dark, for 

 the comb isn't dark. As I have already 

 said, this may be a question of locality, 

 but there is no occasion for bleaching 

 combs in this part of the world. 



DOUBLE-DECK SHIPPING CASES. 



For some little time single-tier shipping- 

 cases have met with the approval of both 

 shippers and dealers. The greatest rea- 

 son for this preference is that there is no 

 dripping down of the honey from an up- 

 per tier of sections, thus soiling the low- 

 er sections. Gleanings says that the 

 Colorado bee-keepers are going back to 

 the old, 24-lb., double-tier cases; but in- 

 stead of using one large glass, two are 

 used, with a strip of wood between. 

 The use of a paper tray between the 

 tiers of sections, as well as one in the 

 bottom of the case, does away with the 

 trouble from dripping. The 24-lb., doub- 

 le-decker makes a case that more nearly 

 approaches the cubical form, making it 

 more easily handled. The case is also 

 a trifle cheaper to make, as not quite so 

 much lumber is required. 



A BEE AND PEACH LAWSUIT. 



Two brothers by the name of I'tter, 

 living in York State, have been having a 

 lawsuit over their bees and peaches. The 

 brother who owned the peaches sued the 

 other brother for damages alleged to 

 have been done to his peaches by the 

 bees belonging to his brother. Some ri- 

 diculous testimony was given, such as 

 asserting that bees can bore holes through 

 wood, can work wax as hard as stone, 



