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respondents, requiring about two pnges of 

 space, and it seems to iiie, after reading 

 the replies, that Mr. Johu Pirie summed it 

 all up in the one line in wliich he gave his 

 views: '• Don't take too much honey from 

 them." 



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Low Temperature and lack of ventilation 

 is condemned by R. C. Aikin in the Ca- 

 nadian Bee .lournal. He believes that in our 

 earlier days we did not keep the temperature 

 high enough. With the temperature at ;?0° 

 to 40 the tendency is to stagnate the ventila- 

 tion and precipitate moisture on the honey 

 and in the hive. A temperature of 40=' 

 to r)0 and hives well ventilated is better. 



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The Bee Master is the name of a new 

 journal published in Sheffield, England, by 

 John Hewitt, the sole end and object of 

 which seems to be to make out Mr. Cowan 

 to be the meanest person on earth. It is 

 possible that Mr. Hewitt may have some 

 cause for complaint, but starting a journal 

 simply to enable one to publicly berate 

 some one is too much like biting off one's 

 nose to spite one's face. 



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New Laws are not needed in order to 

 prosecute and convict those who sell adul- 

 terated honey, says C. P. Dadant in the 

 American Bee .Journal, and he relates how a 

 neighboring firm was cheated by a man who 

 sold it paraffine as beeswax, and this man 

 was arrested for obtaining money under 

 false pretenses, but was finally let go upon 

 paying all costs, damages and expenses and 

 a fine of S7.5.00. Mr. Dadant very pertinent- 

 ly asks. " Can't we keep Mr. Glucose from 

 passing himself for Mr. Honey in the same 

 way this was done?" 



This Year has been a good one for honey 

 in most localities, but not in all. It is true 

 that supply dealers have had the biggest 

 trade they ever had: but tliis alone, ought not 

 to lead to a decision that there has been 

 such an enormous crop, as the poor seasons 

 that preceded this one have discouraged the 

 buying of supplies, and the present harvest 

 caught most bee keepers short of supplies. 

 To allow dealers to get the idea that there 

 has been, universally, a very heavy crop, un- 

 less this is really true, might cause a need- 

 less tumble in prices. * 



The Pure Food Laws of Illinois are sent 

 to Gleanings by Herman F. Moore, of Chi- 

 cago, and published in that journal. I agree 

 with my friends Moore and Gleanings that 

 the laws are good enough; that all we need 

 is to have them enforced. Mr. Moore says 

 it all depends upon having an energetic food 

 commissioner, and adds that if Dr. Miller 

 was food commissioner of Illinois at a salary 

 of $8,000 a year, so that he could afford to 

 give his whole time to it, he thinks the adul- 

 terators would soon be in prison. 



Sheep have often been recommended for 

 keeping down the grass in an apiary, and 

 Gleanings tells how they are used at the 

 apiary of Mr. Burt, near Medina. I see only 

 one objection to their use, and that is that 

 the ground might not be so tidy as we wouH 

 like it. Perhaps I attach too much import- 

 ance to this point. I know that it is consid- 

 erable work to keep the grass down with a 

 lawn mower, but, after all, I think that the 

 comfort and advantages arising from the 

 use of a mower are worth all they cost. 



Bee Paralysis was brought into the apiary 

 of Dr. Gallup, of California, by a queen 

 that he bought from an Ohio breeder. Al- 

 though he saw many dead bees in front of 

 the hive he paid no particular attention to 

 the cause until he had reared several queens 

 from her and lost them all within a short 

 time. He got rid of the disease by intro- 

 ducing healthy (jueens from healthy col- 

 onies. The Doctor writes about this in the 

 American Bee Journal, and gives some of 

 his experience in poultry raising, showing 

 how diseased birds come from diseased 

 parents. 



Carniolian Bees are, I think, proving 

 more desirable than any variety of bees, 

 aside from the Italians, that has been intro- 

 duced into this country. I sometimes think 

 that their color is against them: that if they 

 were as beautiful as the Golden Italians 

 they would sweep the country. Mr. J. A. 

 CJolden, of Reinersville, Ohio, had a colony 

 of Carniolans, the only Carniolans that he 

 had, that made a remarkable record the 

 present season. He took away from this 

 colony two outside combs of sealed honey, 

 137 pounds of fancy white clover honey in 



