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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



better than sewed ones. It is best to have 

 some permanent sewed cushions; but for 

 the most part it is better to keep the chaff 

 in a bin when not in use. Fill the cushions 

 when you need them, and empty them when 

 they are taken off. A three bushel basket is 

 the proper go-between 'twixt the chaff bin 

 and the hive. I invented and made two 

 different utensils on purpose for this service, 

 but the plain basket seems to hold the field. 



"October 30. Experiment. Gave 12-7 a frame 

 of three pounds of honey, outside the entrance 

 at noon, and threw a muslin tent over the hive. 

 Tent worked well. Only a few bees scolded a 

 little because they could not get out. Evening. 

 Bees had emptied the imsealed cells, and those I 

 had uncapped, following accurately every stroke 

 of the knife but seemed to think it wrong to 

 tear off caps." 



It does seem as though bees were capable 

 of the feelings, Ought, and Ought not. And 

 it looks as though the moral gradations of 

 saints and sinners were faintly visible in 

 rudimentary form among them. A gang of 

 bee sinners, to wit, robbers, would have 

 gone through these caps quick enough. And 

 it is very common to find bees with an over 

 respect for the cappings on cells. 



RioHABDs, Ohio. Sept. 27th, 1892. 



Of all the bright yellow bees that I have had 

 I think there were only two colonies that 

 were really five-banded. The queens came 

 from L. L. Hearn. 



♦The American Bee Jodbnal, the "old re- 

 liable," the oldest bee journal in the coun- 

 try, shows no sign of decrepitude. It comes 

 out with a brand new full-page illustration 

 on its front page, and at the head of each 

 department of the paper is a characteristic 

 illustration. Such signs of prosperity and 

 enterprise are very pleasant to see in a de- 

 serving journal like the A. B. J. 



FiKE during the past month, burned up 

 the supply factory of J. W. Bittenbender, 

 of Knoxville, Iowa; the ware house of the 

 Clemons-Mason Commission Co., of Kansas 

 City, Mo. and the office of the Progressive 

 Bee Keeper. The Clemons-Mason Co., was 

 insured, the others were not. I do not know 

 how the fire will affect the publication of 

 the Progressive. Hope it will be able to 

 follow the example of the Phoenix. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



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Tebms : — $1.()0 a year in advance Two copies, 

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FLfNT, MICHIGAN. OCT. 10. 1892. 



Oil Stoves, having no pipes, leave the 

 gases of combustion in the room. Those 

 who wish to use them in warming rooms or 

 bee cellars ought to read Mr. Cornell's arti- 

 cle in this number. 



Five-Banded Bees are really not so nu- 

 merous as the advertising pages of the 

 journals would seem to indicate. Jas. AVood, 

 of North Prescott, Mass., has been sending 

 to the different Ijreeders of five-banded bees 

 for samples of their bees, and not one bee 

 has shown a particle of yellow below the 

 fourth segment. He writes to Gleanings 

 that he considers it a mistake to call them 

 five-banded bees. I think that he is correct. 



weighing colonies in autumn. 

 Mr. Doolittle in Gleanings, criticises the 

 plan of weighing colonies in the fall and 

 deducting the weight of hives combs and 

 bees to ascertain the amount of stores on 

 hand. His objections are that some combs 

 may contain much bee bread, the old combs 

 are heavier than new, some colonies contain 

 more bees than others, etc. His plan is to 

 open each hive, raise each comb and esti- 

 mate (guess) the amount of honey in each 

 comb, having first attained to considerable 

 proficiency at guessing by having shaken the 

 bees from a number of combs and weighing 

 the combs singly. The plan allows an in- 

 spection of each comb to determine in regard 

 to its character and contents, and probably 

 is more accurate than any other plan. To 

 me it seems to "fussy." I would prefer to 

 feed each colony five pounds more syrup 

 then it really needed to carry it through than 

 to pull every comb in the apairy out of the 

 hives and guess how much honey was in each 

 comb. The interest for a year on five pounds 

 of syrup would not be much more than one 

 cent, and the work of feeding it would be 

 much more pleasant to me than that of pull- 

 ing colonies to pieces in the fall. 



