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YH^ BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



did not attract attention until E. R. Root 

 went down East and saw its advantages 

 in the hands of large honey producers, 

 and began to boom it in Gleanings. Mr 

 Aspinwall in this issue sets forth very 

 fairly- the advantages of this style of 

 section. I also have an article from Mr. 

 J. E. Crane on this subject that will 

 appear in the Jan. No. 



Mr. Danzenbaker is also an ardent 

 advocate of the section that is taller than 

 it is wide. He says that the square 

 thick section of honey looks ' ' squattv " ' 

 as compared with the oblong, and I think 

 lie is right. As an illustration I give 

 a picture taken from Gleanings. I 

 think that almost any one will admit 

 that the taller .section is more symetri- 

 cal. Just notice, too, how much more 

 perfect is the comb in the tall section. 



Mr. Danzenbaker also believes that we 

 are using sections that are too wide, that 

 ii?, we are compelling the bees to build too 



A Condensed View of Current 

 Bee Writings. 



K. K. H.\.STV. 



■'I'll trace the garden o'er and o'er, 

 And meditate on each sweet flo.wer."— t//V/cwoiVAf. 



TT is so, solemn a matter, the decline and 

 ^ disappearance of the natural relish for 

 honey, that every suggestion looking 

 toward prevention or cure ought to be 

 gathered up and made the most of. A 

 straw in Gleanings 8oi suggests that it is 

 not eating honey, but eating fioo/' honey 

 that does the mischief. Wish I could be- 

 lieve that fully. I can believe that eat- 

 ing poor honey will do the mischief a 

 good deal faster. Everybody take up 

 stones and have 'em ready to cast at the 

 extracted honey man who extracts honey 

 when it is sealed " half way down, " and 

 at the comb honey man who takes off 

 sections the minute they are sealed, and 



thick combs; that they ought to be of the 

 same thickness as the combs in the brood 

 chamber. I have used .sections only one 

 one-half inches wide, and I know that 

 the combs are built straighter and sealed 

 over much quicker. Po.ssibly the sec- 

 tions of the future will be of the plain 

 variety, one and one-half inches wide 

 and oblong in shape. 



then carelessly lets them get watery be- 

 fore they reach the consumer. But after 

 we've thrown the whole pavement, and 

 killed off all the culprits, I fear there will 

 still be a residuum of the evil left with 

 us. O for a chemist to invent a counter- 

 acting chemical that will work as does the 

 opium in the cigarette I In regard to 

 bee-keepers themselves, possibly eating 



