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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



that can be bought at a good hardware 

 store. You should see the picture, which is 

 in Gleanings 752, and then you will know 

 just how it goes. The Review is interested 

 in the public health, and might well borrow 

 and republish that picture. A common 

 straight-sided kettle holds the water to be 

 boiled (a few inches deep only). An empty 

 can or suitable object, supports just above 

 the boiling water, a dish to catch the dis- 

 tilled water as it comes down in drops. A 

 smooth tin pail, a little more flaring than 

 the kettle, is pushed into the kettle's top so 

 tightly that very little steam gets out. This 

 tin pail is to be kept filled with cold water 

 —probably does not have to be very cold to 

 work all right. Oa the cool bottom of this 

 pail the steam condenses and falls in drops 

 into the dish a little further down. And 

 don't you ever let any grease touch either 

 of the interior parts— nor set the cold water 

 pail down in a greasy sink. 



With a case-knife bore out the cores of 

 your apples intended for baking, leaving 

 them in the shape of cups. Now place in 

 each one a teaepoonf ul of honey and a tea- 

 spoonful of butter, and bake them in a mod- 

 erate oven. They will be quite too good 

 for a king, and most good enough for an 

 American citizen. Edwin Smith in Glean- 

 ings 752. 



Doolittle's eyes fail to see the alleged 

 steel color of Carniolan bees— look to him 

 "allee samee" black bees. Worse than 

 blacks to swarm; and always short of honey 

 when winter draws near. Gleanings 7.53. 

 Getting queens from Italy by mail has 

 been mainly a failure until lately. Cages 

 all right, it seems, but too many bees put 

 in. Recently the Roots ordered that not 

 over 35 bees be put in, and presto every 

 queen arrived alive and in good order. 

 Gleanings 758. 



It seems the British Bee .Journal claims 

 that honey remains liquid better at 7.5° and 

 below than at any higher temperature. 

 Don't believe it. But then that is a kind of 

 don't believes that we should lay up in our 

 hearts ready for reconsideration. Ideas 

 that cut square across our own often turn 

 out to be true and valuable. 



Not only does honey comb and honey 

 suffer from the larvio of moths but maple 

 sugar, it seems, also has its spegial and par- 

 ticular villian that burrows all through 

 it in summer time. He's yellow with a 

 brown head, slender, and quarter of an inch 



long. Bisulphide of carbon is plenty good 

 enough for him. Gleanings 787. 

 RiOHABDS, Ohio. Jan. 27, 1897. 



The Use of Drawn Cembs in Sections. 



The Illinois convention held in Chicago 

 lately was a good one, and it was well-re- 

 ported. I don't know who did the work, 

 but whoever did, did it well. Among other 

 things that received a little attention was 

 that of the use of drawn combs in the sec- 

 tions. This report tells just a little more of 

 what Mr. Baldridge knows on the subject, 

 but the whole of this part of the report is 

 worth repeating, so here goes: — 



" QuES. 20 — What about the importance of 

 drawn, or partly drawn combs, in the sec- 

 tions ? 



Dr. Miller— Is there an advantage in hav- 

 ing combs partly drawn, or having deeper 

 foundation made? There was some talk at 

 the Liucola convention, that there might be 

 a foundation made with deeper side walls. 

 This question bears in that direction, as to 

 the advantage of having anything of the 

 kind. Is there any advantage in it over the 

 ordinary foundation ? 



Mr. Green— The difficulty of that high- 

 wall foundation would be that there will be 

 too much wax in it to suit the average cus- 

 tomer. 



Dr. Miller— That won't meet the full 

 question. The question here is, whether 

 there is any advantage in drawn or partly 

 drawn combs? 



Mr. Green— If you would say freshly- 

 drawn combs, I would say yes, there is a 

 great advantage ; but if you mean sections 

 left over from the last year, I think the few- 

 er we use the better. 



Mr York — This question was brought up 

 at the Lincoln convention, and it was said 

 there that certain manufacturers were 

 about able to make the drawn combs the 

 same weight, or even lighter, than the 

 natural comh:so I think Mr. Green's ob- 

 jection would hardly hold. I have read in 

 the Bee Journal that some bee-keepers had 

 been using drawn domb for years. There 

 is a representative of theFox riverbee-keep- 

 ers here— Mr. Baldridge— who perhaps can 

 enlighten us I 



Mr. Baldri'lge- 1 don't think you need 

 any description of the machine. It has 

 wings. The idea I intended to convey was 

 this, it has been a practice there to a cer- 

 tain extent. They used light-brood founda- 

 tion, that is, for surplus honev, and had the 

 foundation drawn outin full sheets. 



Dr. Miller— In the brood-chamber, or 

 above ? 



Mr. Baldridge— Sometimes above and 

 sometimes below— that depends upon where 



