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THE BEE-KEEPERS* REV1EV^\ 



Langsthoth frames are used by abont 

 one-half of those who answer questions for 

 the question box in the American Bee 

 Journal. 



A Tabiff is needed on honey, says Mr. 

 Muth in the American Bee .Journal, other- 

 wise bee-keepers in this country will have to 

 put up with such comforts as satisfy a 

 Chinaman. 



Paeaffine Paper over sections isn't 

 much relished by h . L. Thompson. If I 

 were going to have anything over the tops 

 of my sections it would be the top bars of 

 wide frames. 



Robbing may be stopped, says Mr. E. R. 

 Whitcomb, by the use of carbolic acid. 

 Paint with this acid the door-step of the 

 hive that is attacked, and every bee that 

 passes it will not be allowed to enter its own 

 home. 



De. MiLiiEB reports a crop of nearly 

 17,000 pounds of comb honey for this year. 

 and this in a locality where there have 

 been very poor crops for several years. 

 This is the best possible answer to the 

 query "Will the good years come again ? " 



R. C. AiKiN is to write a series of articles 

 for the Progressive giving his "Experience 

 and its Lessons. " Mr. Aikin has had the 

 experience and he knows how to tell it. 

 Congratulations Bro. Leahy on securing 

 the services of Mr. Aikin. 



Poisonous Honey is something that L. 

 Stachelhausen believes that bees never 

 gather, and he so expresses himself in the 

 Southland Queen. That persons sometimes 

 become ill after eating honey he thinks may 

 be traced to a variety of causes. The same 

 honey that causes sickness in one person 

 may be eaten with impunity by another. 



Bbo. Leahy has in his make-up a strong 

 vein of poetry or romance that crops out 

 occasionally in his writings. Work that 

 vein, Bro. Leahy, it is one of the best 

 "leads" that you hnve. There isn't many 

 of our bee-keeping correspondents that can 

 compare with you in graphical and beauti- 

 ful expression — cultivate it. 



Beginnees will ask questions, no matter 

 how much you tell them to read a text book, 

 and if there is any place in which they can 

 get these questions fairly and satisfactorily 

 answered it is by Dr. Miller in the " Ques- 

 tions and Answers " department of the 

 American Bee Journal. 



Mb. MoIntyee of Calilornia always holds 

 his honey when there is a year of good crops 

 and low prices. He has always secured as 

 high as six cents per pound for his honey 

 until this year, when five and one-half is 

 all he could get. The honey is allowed to 

 stand two weeks, when all particles arise 

 and the honey becomes clear and sparkling, 

 and is drawn off into cans. California 

 honey does not granulate until about 

 three years old. 



Shading Bees by means of fruit trees is 

 objected to by Mr. L. A. Aspinwall on the 

 grounds that the fruit drops on the hives 

 and irritates the bees; sometimes it drops on 

 the alighting boards and kills some of the 

 bees; the fruit under foot sometimes causes 

 the apiarist to stumble and perhaps fall 

 with a hive of bees in his arms: and the 

 hives are in the way when gathering the 

 fruit. He prefers trees that bear no fruit. 



Maeyland is to have, or, rather, has now, 

 an apiarian branch at her Agricultural 

 College, with no less a person at its head 

 than our old friend C. H. Lake. By the way, 

 he has sent me a nice set of views of some 

 exhibits that the College made in this line 

 at an agricultural fair held in August, and 

 I have been so busy since I came home 

 that I have not yet had time to write and 

 thank him. The Readers of the Review will 

 be glad to hear of the work done by friend 

 Lake. 



Chaff-Hites with walls three inches thick 

 art objected to by C. P. Dadaut in the 

 American Bee Journal because "the March 

 sunshine did not reach through, and the bees 

 remained clustered till they became sick 

 from too lengthy coufinraent. " A plain 

 hive made thick'>st on the back (which is 

 always the North with him ) well-sheltered 

 from the north and west winds, is now con- 

 sidered best for his climate. In Michigan 

 we need more substantial protection than 

 that. 



