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THE BEE KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, EiUtor and Prorrietor. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. JULY 10. 1897. 



The Purity of Italian bees is determined 

 almost entirely by the markings of the 

 workers. 



Smoke at the entrance of the hive only 

 drives the bees up into the supers, hence 

 only enough should be used to divert the 

 guards at the entrance when supers are to 

 be removed. So says A. B. Mellen in the 

 Pacific Bee Journal. Better use bee escapes. 



Salt sprinkled plentifully around and in 

 front of a hive will kill the grass and keep 

 it from growing again. I supposed every- 

 body knew this (perhaps they do), and yet I 

 frequently see advice about putting down 

 sand, gravel, ashes, boards, etc. Keep the 

 grass killed for a few inches around each 

 hive and run the lawn mower over the rest 

 of the surface, and we have an ideal foun- 

 dation for an apiary, 



J. D. Givens, of Lisbon, Texas, together 

 with|wife, babies, bees and home, is pic- 

 tured in the Southland Queen. The house 

 is just a common-looking house and the 

 fence in front of it is a rail fence, but I can 

 remember so distinctly when I lived in just 

 about such a looking house and the fence in 

 front was of the same type, and if you thiuk 

 I wasn't happy you don't know anything 

 about it. 



A Queen-Matinc; Cage is something that 

 the editor of the Pacific Bee Journal is 

 thinking of building, and he wishes the 

 opinions of his friends on the scheme. 

 Prof. N. W. McLain, when in the employ of 

 the U. S. Government in the role of bee ex- 

 perimenter, made a large cage, using tele- 

 graph poles at the corners, and covering it 

 with wire cloth. Not a queen was mated in 

 it. For some reason the wide, free, open 

 air is needed for the wedding trip. 



The Weed, Deep-Cell Foundation is not 

 drawn out and filled with honey any quicker 

 than is the case with ordinary foundation, 

 if we are to believe Mr. Brautigam, who 

 writes upon this subject in the Pacific Bee 

 •Journal. If any of my readers have tried 

 the deep-cell foundation I wish they would 

 write me. 



Sections weigh about sixty-five pounds to 

 the thousand. The wood in 1,000 pounds of 

 comb honey brings $(3.50 at only 10 cents 

 per pound. The editor of the Pacific Bee 

 Journal thinks this fact ought not to be for- 

 gotten when we are considering comb vs. 

 extracted honey. I have known bee-keepers 

 who took pains to have the wood in their 

 sections made extra thick, and one man had 

 two pieces in four-piece sections made of 

 oak because it was such heavy wood. There 

 are tricks in all trades but ours. 



A Good Season for honey is the present 

 one. I think I have never seen white clover 

 more abundant, although I have seen it 

 yield more generously: but, so near as I can 

 learn, the country over has had an abun- 

 dant honey crop — something as it was in the 

 years gone by. those years that some of us 

 feared would never return. It is a pleasure 

 to know that nature is yet capable of bring- 

 ing about those conditions that will result 

 in a crop of honey. It looks as though an 

 abundance of rainfall (or snow) for several 

 months previous to the honey season has 

 been the one thing lacking in the last few 

 years. 



Oil Stoves in the bee cellar are con- 

 demned by most of those who have used 

 them. As ordinarily used they ought to be 

 condemned. Have a tin hood made to go 

 over the top of the stove and a i)ipe from it 

 passing up through the floor and connecting 

 with the pipe of some stove in use above the 

 cellar, and there will be no more condem- 

 nation. That is the way I have used mine 

 for several years, and it is entirely satisfac- 

 tory. There is no odor whatever. The 

 trouble with tlie oil stoves in the cellar, as 

 ordinarily used, is that the gases of com- 

 bustion are left in the room. I once used 

 an oil heater for my office in the fall before 

 the coal stove was started, but discarded it 

 because it made the room seem so close and 

 bronght on a headache. 



