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Bee-Keepers' Review. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Ed. & Pt»op. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN, JAN. 10, 7892. 



Ramblek writes that he has an apiary of 

 2(X) colonies five miles from Riverside, Cali- 

 fornia. He says it is a glorious country — 

 orange trees over the sidewalks and oranges 

 on the ground. By the way, Rambler has 

 been elected Secretary of the Cal. B. K. A. 



A Bounty on Honey is what A. N. Draper 

 urges through Gleanings. Two cents a 

 pound on extracted honey is what he recom- 

 mends. He thinks the price of comb honey 

 is not affected by the low price of sugar. He 

 also argues that the placing of a government 

 stamp upon a package of honey would he a 

 sort of trade mark — a guarantee of purity. 



R. L. Taylok, at the Michigan State Con- 

 vention, said that he could see no advantage 

 in the use of self-hivers if the bees must be 

 manipulated after they had swarmed, in or- 

 der to get good working swarms. He 

 thought the queen-trap would answer every 

 purpose. If a colony must be manipulated 

 — why, manipulate it whenever you find its 

 <iueen in the trap. What do the advocates 

 of the hiver say to this ? 



THE CALIFOBNIA BEE KEEPER. 



Rambler writes me that the California 

 Bee Keeper is only temporarily suspended. 

 Pressure of other business and the absence 

 of the editor's eldest son, who has left for a 

 more lucrative position in San Francisco, 

 was the cause of the suspension. Mr. Styan, 

 the editor, is an Englishman, has been in 

 this country eight years, and has thirty col- 

 onies of bees. 



At THE Albany convention, Prof. J. A. 

 Lintner expressed doubts in regard to the 

 killing of bees by the spraying of trees with 

 arsenites. Case after case was cited in which 

 large numbers of colonies had perished when 

 orchards near by had been sprayed — in some 



instances large quantities of dead bees were 

 found under the trees. The one thing lack- 

 ing, in his opinion, to establish the proof, 

 was an analysis of some of the dead bees ; 

 hut he said he should advise orchardists not 

 to spray during bloom— something he had 

 always advised against and should continue 

 to do, so long as there was room for a doubt 

 in the matter. 



THE TRIP TO ALBANY. 



At the end of the second delightful day 

 spent at Medina, Ernest and I started for 

 our all-night's ride to Albany. We reached 

 Cleveland at seven o'clock, where we had an 

 hour to wait. To me a theatre is scarcely 

 more interesting than an hour spent at night 

 in one of those great union depots in one of 

 the large cities. The almost constant com- 

 ing and going of trains, the surging to and 

 fro of the great crowds, the glare of head- 

 lights, the clanging of bells, the hiss of es- 

 caping steam, the hoarse coughing of the 

 engines echoing and re-echoing against the 

 high vaulted roof, the clatter of hand trucks 

 loaded with baggage or express matter, the 

 conductors, brakemen and other officials 

 moving about in their gorgeous uniforms 

 and bright buttons, and over all the glare 

 and glitter of the electric lights, all combine 

 to make the most animating scene I ever 

 gazed upon. It seems almost like being in 

 another world. No wonder timid women 

 become bewildered in changing cars in the 

 night at one of these great depots. 



A little after eight found Ernest and my- 

 self seated in one of those palaces on wheels 

 —a Wagner car— rolling eastward. Now 

 that the excitement was all over and we were 

 safely started, such a feeling of hunger came 

 over me that I was obliged to say, " Ernest, 

 I am hungry." (I knew he had brought a 

 lunch box with him.) "Help yourself," he 

 said, as he reached for the lunch. When he 

 saw me eating, he, too, " was hungry." 

 The result was that we pretty nearly demol- 

 ished the lunch, and in the morning had to 

 pay $1.1)0 each for our breakfast. I have 

 learned by experience, however, that it does 

 not pay to neglect meals whrn traveling, 

 even if they are expensive. 



After we had finished our lunch we settled 

 ourselves for a good, long, visiting chat. 

 Several times the thought came to me, 

 " How pleasant it is for the editors of two 

 rival journals to thus go off on a trip together 

 and really enjoy each other's company." 



