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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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EDITORIAL 



A Four-Dollars-a-Day man ought not to 

 spend his time doing the work of a two- 

 dollars-a-day man. 



Continued Illness of the editor makes 

 the Review late, also accounts for the 

 lack of editorial matter. 



The Man who will work out some 

 easy, cheap, yet desirable plan for re- 

 queening an apiary each year, will be a 

 benefactor to bee keeping. 



The Michigan State bee keepers' associ- 

 ation, now with over 200 members in 

 good standing, will hold its annual con- 

 vention in Grand Rapids, Nov. 9th and 

 10th. Full particulars later. 



Two Wheel Barrows used for wheeling 

 honey into the honey house for extract- 

 ing, allows one of them to remain in the 

 house while the other is being filled in 

 the yard, thus the saving of unloading 

 each time the "outside man" comes in 

 with a load. 



Honey Strainers are not needed if the 

 honey can stand in large tanks until the 

 pieces of wax, etc. rise to the top. If a 

 bee keeper had two, 50-gallon tanks, so 

 that he could run the honey into one 

 while that in the other was "settling," 

 he would need no strainer. 



The Jones method of preventing 

 swarming received considerable publicity 

 last year. I don't know to what extent 

 it was tried. Some objected to the dis- 

 agreeable work of uncapping the brood; 

 but a Florida subscriber says this may 

 be avoided by sprinkling dry sulphur over 

 the combs. This will kill all unsealed 

 brood, but not injure the sealed brood, 

 which would be more desirable than un- 

 capping sealed brood, and accomplish 

 the same result. 



The Inspector of apiaries for Michigan 

 is henceforth to receive 85.00 a day for 

 his services, instead of only $5.00. as 

 heretofore. Inspection is hard, disagree- 

 able work, and the man who leaves his 

 own work to perform this, is entitled to 

 generous compensation, and $5.00 is 

 none too much. 



Propolis poisons one of my subscribers 

 and causes him much suffering. He 

 writes me for a remedy. The only sug- 

 gestion that 1 can make is that he wear 

 gloves. Of course, they are a little 

 bungling, but would certainly remedy 

 the trouble. Has any one else a better 

 plan? 



The Bartlett method of treating foul 

 brood failed with Mr. W. E. Gonklin, of 

 Blairstown, N. J. He tried it on two 

 colonies. In one the queen found her 

 way up through the queen excluder, and, 

 in the other the bees neglected the queen 

 in the lower hive, and went on rearing 

 queens in the upper hive. 



Paper Honey Jars. 



One of the greatest drawbacks in the 

 putting up of extracted honey for the 

 retail trade, is the cost of small packages; 

 but, at last, we have something that is 

 decidedly low in price — jars made of 

 thick, heavy parafined paper. They are 

 slightly conical in shape, and paper discs 

 are used for stoppers the same as they 

 are used in milk bottles. Walter S. 

 Pouder, of Indianapolis, Indiana, is the 

 distributing agent for the manufacturer, 

 and has sent me some samples, and a 

 circular from which I quote the following: 



Every bee keeper who produces ex- 

 tracted honey, and keepers of retail 

 stores, will at once be interested in this 

 new honey package. It is neat, does 

 not leak, is especially desirable for gran- 

 ulated honey, as jars can be filled, and 

 after granulation takes place the con- 



