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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIl^vy. 



such precautions to prevent their spread in 

 case they proved undesirable, as is fair to 

 presume the Goverment would have done. 

 As Apis Dorsata will almost certainly be 

 imported some time by some one, and 

 most probably without proper precautions, 

 if by private or local means, it would seem 

 to be the part of wisdom for those who are 

 afraid it would tar < out like the English 

 sparrow to see to it that such precautions 

 are observed, by conducting the importation 

 and test of these bees so that they may be 

 kept under control ; for there is no argument 

 like the failure of a fair test, and, if they 

 really will be mischievous in the United 

 States this procedure may be the cheapest 

 in the end. 

 Denveb, Col. Feb. 19, 1897. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



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FUNT, MICHIGAN. MAR. 10. 1897. 



The Weed, deep foundation is made in a 

 press something after the plan of the Given 

 foundation, hydraulic pressure being used. 

 I see that much yet is being said both for 

 and against this production, but I have 

 said about all that I care to say until I have 

 seen the article in use. 



A Good Honey Season may be expected 

 the year following a wet season, and a poor 

 honey season follows a season of drouth, 

 writes a bee-keeper to Gleanings. He signs 

 his name as " Woodchopper, " but says that 

 he has kept bees M7 years and closely observ- 

 ed upon this point. He does not believe 

 that the condition of the atmosphere at the 

 time of blooming has much to do with the 

 matter — has had an excellent yield when the 

 cold wind killed the clover and most of the 

 flying bees in one week. 



Apis Dobsata and the desirability of its 

 importatien into this country receives care- 



ful consideration at the hands of Dr. Miller 

 in the last issue of of Gleanings. He calls 

 attention to the fact that it has n^ver been 

 domesticated in its native land, and until 

 that has been done it is folly to bring it 

 hear. While it could probably gather hon- 

 ey from red clover, this would only be a 

 disadvantage if the bee cannot be domesti- 

 cated, as it would sometimes rob our native 

 bees of what they might otherwise gather. 

 Italian bees often gather honey from red 

 clover. As the length of tongue in bees 

 differs with the different strains, it would 

 be more reasonable to try by proper breed- 

 ing to develope a strain of bees having an 

 unusually long tongue. 



ExTBACTED HoNET that has been stored in 

 old combs is not usually of so fine a flavor 

 and color as that stored in new combs. 

 This is a subject that is being discussed 

 some at present. Old combs that have 

 contained brood, or pollen, and that have 

 hung up where they became filled with dust, 

 such things as this, would, of course, cause 

 the honey stored in them to be of poor qual- 

 ity, in the same sense that it would not im- 

 prove honey to put it into an unclean dish. 

 Let a man fill the frames of his extracting 

 supers with foundation, and keep the queen 

 out of the supers, and at the end of the sea- 

 son see that the combs are cleaned perfectly 

 by the bees, and then kept over winter free 

 from dampness and dirt, and the honey 

 stored in them the next year will be of as 

 fine quality as that stored in new comb. 



PATENT PROCESS FOUNDATION. 



Bro. Root of Gleanings says that he 

 thinks that the Canadian report from which 

 I quoted last month regarding the unfavor- 

 able showing for the patent foundation 

 was made in 1894 which was before Mr. 

 Weed conceived tiie idea of making sheeted 

 wax by his present plan. Of course, I have 

 no desire to injure the reputation of any 

 meritorious article, while, on the other hand, 

 I presume that Bro. Root would wish the 

 truth told, even if it condemned some of his 

 products. In the beginning of the report it 

 says: "This investigation, commenced in 

 1794, repeated annually " etc. ( Italics 

 mine). Farther along it says: "An addi- 

 tional experiment has, however, been made 



