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Heddon's QtTARTERT>\ has suspended in- 

 definitely. Mr. Heddou writes me that he 

 has started a daily paper in connection 

 with his weekly, and tliat it is taking all his 

 time and energies; besides, he tinds that his 

 special and proposed work in the line of bee 

 literature is pretty well exhausted. He adds 

 tliat he can and shall take up the re-publi- 

 cation of the Quarterly when the exigenicies 

 of the case seem to warrant. 



Fastening Foundation in sections by 

 means of pressure has not been so success- 

 ful with K. C. Aikin as has the heated plate 

 plan. He says the pressure cuts the founda- 

 tion too nearly in two. With the thin, flat- 

 bottom style of foundation I have never had 

 very good success by the heated plate plan 

 — there did not seem to be surface enough 

 in the edge of the foundation to make it 

 adhere to the section. By laying the foun- 

 dation down flat and pressing the edge 

 with a Parker fastener there was no trouble 

 in making it stay. With foundation having 

 the natural shaped base to the cells I have 

 had no trouble in making it stay when 

 fastening it in by the heated plate plan. 



DEATH IS THINNING OUB BANKS. 



Scarcely a month goes by without some 

 well-known member of our family ( of bee- 

 keepers ) passing to the great beyond. Two 

 Western women, Mrs. A. L. Hallenbeck 

 and Mrs. J. N. Heater have recently passed 

 awav. The former I knew only from her 

 correspondence, but the papers say that she 

 had been left a widow bm a short time when 

 her death occured, and that a family of 

 children is left for relatives to care for. At 

 the World's fair I had the pleasure of see- 

 ing the smiling and enthusiatic face of Mrs. 

 Heater, and noting the happy, and proud 

 look vhat came into her husband's eyes when 

 they rested upon her face. And now comes 

 news of the death of J. Van Deusen, the 

 veteran foundation maker. His face has 

 been often seen at the North American 

 conventions, but I never had quite bo good 

 an opportunity to become acquainted with 

 him as at a two-weeks fair held in Detroit, 

 nt which he was an exhibitor. In my mind's 

 eye I can still see him a- he came stepping 

 in every morning, so erect, so rosy looking, 

 and so vigorous for one whose locks had 

 been whitened by the snows of 80 winters. 



But, sooner or later, we all must go, and 

 none of us will reach this advanced age with- 

 out learning that 



" Into each life some rain must fall ; 

 Some days must bo dark and dreary. " 



and it is best that we bear our burdens 

 bravely, remembering that while our lot in 

 life may seem the bitterest possible, it may 

 not be so sad, after all, as that of our 

 neighbor, behind who-e smiling mask we 

 are unable to look. Let us be brave and 

 do the best we can under all circumstances. 



The " Bee-Space " in bee hives is very 

 severely condemned by a writer in the 

 American Bee Journal. To it he attributes 

 nearly all the ills that overtake bees in win- 

 ter and spring. He says the loss of heat is 

 the objection. The heat certainly does not 

 escape out of the hive via. of the open top 

 bars and bee space, and I very much doubt 

 if there is any appreciable loss to the clus- 

 ter as the result of the bee space. If there 

 is, better use a sheet of enameled cloth over 

 the frames in the winter and spring rather 

 than attempt to handle bees in the summer 

 with no spaces between the tops of the 

 frames and the bottoms of the sections, or 

 between the cases of sections. The mash- 

 ing of bees and the plastering around of 

 propolis that come about as the result of 

 setting sections and frames right spat down 

 on one another is something that no practi- 

 cal bee-keeper could tolerate. 



" Bboilebs fob Pbofit " is the title of anew 

 book by Michael K. Boyer, one of the 

 editors of "Farm Poultry," probably the 

 most successful poultry publication in 

 this country. I take pleasure in recom- 

 mending this book because it gives both 

 sides of the business — the bad as well as the 

 good. How often have we bee keepers dis- 

 cussed the question of " What shall bee 

 keepers do winters?" or "What pursuit 

 can be managed in connection with bee- 

 keeping?" By reading this new book I 

 find that the man who embarks in the 

 broiler buisness is compelled to ask, " AVhat 

 shall I do in the summer ? " The raising of 

 of broilers is not recommended as a sole 

 occupation, but it is a splended winter's job. 

 Bee keeping is a siilendid summer job, but 

 in winter it furnisher* no work. Don't yon 

 see that here are two occupations that would 



