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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



"bamp" that shows we are are about to be 

 started on our long ride, there is another 

 long breath of relief and thankfulness. 



What is true of one fair is true of another. 

 It is one continual hustle and "git up and 

 git, " from the time one leaves home until 

 the exhibit is unloaded again at home; and 

 the man who has not a cool head and strong 

 body, and the faculty of "taking things by 

 the smooth handle," better try some other 

 way of earning his money. But to some 

 there is in this work a fascination that, once 

 felt, is never forgotten, and, no matter how 

 sure they are that they will "never go again," 

 the next year finds them on deck. 



A Condensed View of Current 

 Bee Writings. 



E. E. HASTY. 



"There is no flock, however watched and 

 tended, but one dead lamb is there." 



I 



LITTLE while ago editor York was re- 

 joicing in his new baby girl, and show- 

 ing kindness and pity toward editor Hutch- 

 inson in his bereavement; now his own lamb 

 is dead, and his home own home is under 

 the shadow shunned of man. One paper 

 joyfully told her birth, and the next sadly 

 told her death. Friend York, we would drop 

 a tear with you — words seldom reach their 

 mark. 



And last Gleanings gives Rambler's pic- 

 ture with the suggestion that we may not 

 have him with us many days. Before this 

 gets into print there may be more definite 

 news in regard to that. 



" Beedom Boiled Down " is the American 

 Bee .Journal's last new department — enough 

 like "this'ere" for exchange of civilities. 

 Shake, brother Boiler. ! 



It looks as though our new first page 

 man, L. A. Aspinwall had something in his 

 head besides — his tongue— from what we 

 read in the Review 2G6. Of course there will 

 be blunders, and lots of young queens ren- 

 dered incapable of mating flight at all: but 

 a new manipulation has been fairly launch- 

 ed neverless. It will do the enthusiastic be- 

 ginner good to try it; and those not begin- 

 ners will sometimes get to the spot where 

 they can use it to advantage. The extreme 

 care needed to shorten the wings just 

 enough, and not too much, may lead to care 



in other desireable directions — care to re- 

 frain from cutting off legs for example. 

 Quite a triumph to reduce the mismating to 

 eight per cent, in a yard where they were 

 previously 2.5 per cent. 



It seems that as great an authority as 

 Vogel gives it up that bees cannot be made 

 to swarm at the option of their keeper. A. 

 B. J. 679. That shouldn't be given up too 

 quickly. It would be quite a valuable power 

 to have in store in one's arsenal: and I hope 

 we'll attain to it yet. Have some queen 

 cells in wire protectors that can be carried 

 from hive to hive (Vogel omitted the pro- 

 tection.) and then have a tiny machine, 

 driven by clockwork, that will imitate in 

 sound and accent the interminable and un- 

 endurable piping of the queen — and may be 

 it will start 'em. Used to think that the 

 ticking of a small nickel clock would answer 

 as a substitute for queen piping; bat it 

 didn't work when I tried it. Had I put in 

 the protected cell also at the same time 

 perhaps it would hare succeeded. At least 

 my failure to do so shuts me off from say- 

 ing that the thing can't be done. 



THE Busy Bee. 



The Busy Bee has now been on the hum 

 long enough to have developed steady habits 

 of flight — and the Bee — holders have learned 

 what to expect of her. Mostly gathers hon- 

 ed instead of making it — but gives due, 

 honest credit therefor. The original mat- 

 ter is largely editorial — an excellent and 

 well-worn way to have things, under cer- 

 tain conditions. Brother Abbott seems in 

 one respect to resemble A. I. Root a little — 

 in that whatever he feels intensely interest- 

 ed he wants a slice of it in his paper. Thu 

 it comes about that we get a little of farm- 

 ing, and a little of agricultural education, 

 and a little of home affairs, and a little of 

 poultry, and a little of poetry, mostly in 

 departments devoted to those things. Ex- 

 actly the kind of paper the strict specialists 

 shy stones at — but the most of us just laugh, 

 and say we rather like a paper that way. 

 Emma Abbott conducts the Home Depart- 

 ment, which is a good one. 



Dadant says sweet clover is specially val- 

 uable for Canada, on account of the late 

 springs there. Gets knee high amazingly 

 early, and supplies lots of green forage. 

 Oct. B. B. 3, 



Boardman has been trying sweet clover 

 the past season — turned stock on a field of 



