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Vol. XXIV. 



SEPT. I, 1896. 



No. 17. 



August IS. Honey harvest never entirely 

 stopped yet, but I think it's about done now. 



Apples are abundant in this region. That 

 means a bad fall for bees. Cider-mills. 



The new woman will be after Bro. Hasty, 

 who talks in Review about " combs manned 

 with bees." 



My ACKE OF Ai.siKE has, August 19, a second 

 crop fully equal to the first, with, I think, more 

 bees on it. 



Glad to see A. I. Root is part of the Board 

 of Trustees of the Anti-saloon League. Needs 

 pood lumber in that board. 



I WA SAFRAiD queens might go into sections 

 more with thick top-bars than with honey- 

 boards, but my fears ha.ve not been realized 

 this summer. 



Cowan's British Bee-keeper's Guide-book 

 has had such a run that the thirtieth thousand 

 is now out. No other bee-book has ever been 

 translated into so many languages. jD ^l^^i 



I'M looking with much interest for the re- 

 plies to those questions sent to honey-dealers, 

 as also the ones sent to producers, p. 610. Good 

 scheme. [See replies in another column.— Ed.] 



Hutchinson says he has never experienced 

 the difficulty T. H. Kloer has through queens 

 leaving nuclei after being taken from full colo- 

 nies. I have, and I'll venture the guess that 

 Mr. Kloer's nuclei are too weak. 



I don't know of a buckwheat-field within 

 reach of my bees, but I've had several buck- 

 wheat swarms — something very unusual with 

 me. Or would you call it a buckwheat swarm 

 when it comes in the middle of August? 



And now it's Rambler, in The Pacific Bee 

 Journal, who repeats the — the — mistake that I 

 oppose shipping honey east from California. I 

 hope he will have his usual manliness, and 



make the proper correction when he finds him- 

 self in error. Some others seem to have forgot- 

 ten to do so. 



What assumption on the part of A. I. Root 

 to Interpolate the word "pleasant" in that 

 classic line. 



And we'll settle on the banks of the 0-hi-o. 



That's the way we boys and girls sang it in 

 Pennsylvania when "going west" meant going 

 to Ohio. ^ 



Electkopoise, as mentioned on page 617, is 

 reduced from $25 to $10; but it should have 

 been added that it's only for a time — .iust to 

 introduce it, you know. Now's the chance for 

 us all to make a fortune— buy at $10, wait for 

 the rise, then sell at $25. Wonder how many it 

 will be safe for me to invest in. 



V-shaped self -spacers are not among the 

 things I've monkeyed with lately, friend Corey 

 (p. 600). NoV-shape for me. I want a nail 

 with a head }4 inch thick and ^ across. The 

 editor wants my order for several thousand 

 pounds at $1 a pound, but I want only 10 pounds 

 at that price. Please send the 10 pounds by 

 express, Mr. Editor. 



" I FULLY believe that, by some means, we 

 shall yet find some profitable method of pre- 

 venting swarming," says the editor of Remew;. 

 That sounds a good deal better, W. Z., than 

 when you talk about no further advance to be 

 made in bee-keeping. [Just what I have been 

 saying too, and I did not know that my brother- 

 editor had been voicing the same sentiment. 

 "Great minds run," etc. — Ed.] 



Fkiend Coggsiiall wants me to save order- 

 ing that 1000 pounds of special nails, by using 

 small staples for frame-spacers; but the staples 

 when crowded would be buried in the wood. 

 G W. Petrie comes very close to the mark by 

 using, in place of the desired nail-heads, little 

 cylinders of wood J^ in. wide and 5i long, driv- 

 ing wire nails through them, and having a 

 furniture-nail to space the end of the top-bar. 

 [If I am not mistaken, doctor, 1000 such nails, 

 to say nothing of pounds, would be more than 



