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gown and run in some tape and tie at the 

 waist. Yon draw the bee-dress down over 

 the head, and there is no chance for a bee to 

 get in. 



Now a pair of men's gloves well coated 

 with beeswax witli a pair of old sleeves 

 sewed to the top of tlie gloves, and a rubber 

 band in the top to draw the sleeves over the 

 bagging sleeves, and youare safe fromstings. 



While this dress is not ornamental it is 

 useful. Bowing to a friend who was passing 

 one day. his horse almost ran away, it was 

 so frightened, but the dress is all right. 1 

 copied it from a description of a bee-dress 

 in the Bee-Keepers' Review. Be sure to pin 

 the hat on your head, for if the hat slips 

 back and the wire-netting touches your nose, 

 a bee will sting it through the netting, as I 

 learneti to my sorrow. 



Ohio Bke-'Woman. 



This dress would afford ample pro- 

 tection, but wouldn't it be rather warm, 

 especially in very hot weather ? 



Honey-Nut Fudge 



Place in a granite saucepan 10 table- 

 spoonfuls of extracted honey and the 

 same quantity of cream, cooking for 

 about t) minutes after the mixture be- 

 gins to boil, or until a white line ap- 

 pears around the edge when the candy 

 is stirred, then remove immediately 

 from the fire and stir in a speck of salt 

 and a few drops of lemon-juice; mean- 

 while arrange in shallow pans layers of 

 chopped nut-meats, and pour the hot 

 fudge slowly over them, ornamenting 

 the top before it hardens with chopped 

 candied orange-peel. — Selected. 



Wide Frames vs. T-Supers 



Miss Mathilde Candler, that very 

 practical bee-keeping sister, says in the 

 Bee-Keepers' Review: 



I now use mostly wide frames and plain 

 sections. Until within the last few years 

 I used T supers exclusively, but I have grad- 

 ually discarded them. "The T-super is a 

 good super, but in a locality where there is 

 much propolis it requires too much scrap- 

 ing. The wide frames protect the tops and 

 bottoms of the sections so they are as clean 

 as when first put on the hive, except for a 

 little bit along the edge; for as my supers 

 are 5 inches high. I have to use ^i-inch slats 

 in my frames. This is hardly thick enough; 

 it allows them to saga litle and thus gives 

 the bees a chance to crowd in a little bee- 

 glue along the edge. Three-eighths mch 

 would have been better. 



It seems a bit amusing that precisely 

 the opposite should have been the case 

 here. Miss Candler gave up T-supers 

 for wide frames ; after using wide 

 frames for years we gave them up for 

 T-supers ! It seems that it is not 

 locality, so far as propolis is concerned, 

 for Editor Root counts this (Marengo) 

 one of the worst of places for propolis 

 that he knows. Certainly there is no 

 scarcity of that article in its season, 

 for probably it is the rule in all places 

 that as the season advances the bees 

 make more use of propolis, probably 

 in anticipation of winter. 



The amusing part is that Miss Cand- 

 ler prefers wide frames because of less 

 propolis on the sections, and one of 

 the chief reasons why we prefer T- 

 supers is that it takes less time to clean 

 the sections taken from T-supers. And 

 no doubt Miss Candler knows what 

 she is talking about from her stand- 

 point, for she is a very level-headed 

 sister. 



It is true, as she says, that in the 

 wide frames the tops and bottoms of 

 sections are kept as clean as when put 

 on the hive, except at the edges. On 



the contrary, the whole tops and bot- 

 toms are exposed in the T-super. But 

 it should not be forgotten that during 

 the first part of the light honey-flow, 

 and indeed until well along in the sea- 

 son, the bees put propolis only where 

 tliere are cracks that they think should 

 be filled up, a plain surface being un- 

 touched by the sticky stuff. So it 

 comes to pass that a large part of the 

 sections in the T-supers come off as 

 clean as when put on, edges and all, 

 while the sections taken from the wide 

 frames have the tops and bottoms 

 daubed as far as the bees can push pro- 

 polis into the cracks. And how far the 

 little creatures can push bee-glue into 

 a crack with their soft tongues — they 

 do it with their tongues and not with 

 their feet or stings, don't they ? So 

 you see the earlier tops and bottoms 

 come cleaner out of the T-super. 



The later sections, especially if very 

 late, will be soiled all over the tops and 

 bottoms in the T-super, while in the 

 wide frames it will still be only the 

 edges. But in our wholesale way of 

 cleaning tops and bottoms it takes no 

 more time to clean the whole surface 

 than to clean only the edges. One can 

 but wonder whether Miss Candler 

 makes use of this advantage, or 

 whether, when using T-supers, she 

 cleans each top and bottom separately. 

 In the wide frame, tops and bottoms 

 can not be cleaned in this wholesale 

 way. 



Miss Candler thinks she would have 

 less glue if her bottom-bars were yi 



thick instead of X- Wonder if she 

 would not be disappointed if she should 

 try the thicker bottom-bars. None of 

 ours were less than %, and some of 

 them were Yz. But the bees crowded 

 in glue a-plenty. No matter how thick 

 the bott(mi-bars, unless the sections 

 are crowded in so tightly that they can 

 not be gotten out, the bees would prob- 

 ably crowd glue into the crack. And it 

 is hard enough to get sections out of 

 wide frames at best. There's one rea- 

 son we prefer T-supers; it's so much 

 easier to take sections out of them. 



A Sister's Delight in Bees 



If I do not accumulate a bank ac- 

 count from the proceeds of my apiary, 

 I have a delightful time and an interest- 

 ing hobby. I can hardly wait all the 

 long winter to see how the bees are 

 doing, and I take all the care of them 

 while ''John" sits in the house and 

 peeps out the window at me, safe from 

 all stings and harm. 



But, oh, you ought to see "John " eat 

 the honey ! Ima. 



Honey Shoe-Blacking 



Add lamp black to inferior honey to 

 such an extent as will allow the niass 

 to be well stirred. Warm until soft- 

 ened and put in boxes. This preserves 

 its gloss for a long time, prevents 

 cracking, and preserves and softens 

 the shoe leather. — British Bee Journal. 



Canadian Beedom 



Conducted by J. L. Byer. Mount Joy. Ontario. Canada. 



Live-Bee Demonstrations at Fairs 



Many bee-keepers were extremely pleased 

 to see what we believe is a new feature at 

 the National Exhibition. The apicultural 

 section of the Ontario Agricultural College 

 was represented by Mr. Morley Pettit. and 

 in his charge there was on view in addition 

 to an 8-frame reversible extractor and gaso- 

 line engine, an observatory hive around 

 which crowds collected all day long. At in- 

 tervals Mr. Pettit gave practical demon- 

 strations with a colony of bees in a bee-tent. 

 Mr. Pettit's pleasant mode of conveying in- 

 formation to his audience was greatly ap- 

 preciated.— O/z/i/t/A//; Bcc Journal. 



It was the writer's pleasure to meet 

 Mr. Pettit just as he was going into the 

 bee-tent, and needless to say I was in- 

 vited to go with him, and of course the 

 invitation was promptly accepted. 



One of the first requests from the 

 surrounding crowd was that the queen 

 be shown them. Mr. Pettit being en- 

 gaged in showing combs of honey 

 from the supers, he asked me to find 

 the queen for them. In a few moments 

 her majesty was found, and also the 

 comb on which she was travelling 

 around, was shown to the crowd. 



It is really amusing to hear the odd 

 questions asked, and I can readily un- 

 derstand that there must be consider- 

 able fascination in work like Mr. House 

 undertakes each year at the New York 

 State Fair. Certain it is that I plead 

 guilty to having a desire for such work 

 myself, and it is pretty certain that if I 

 happened to blunder around the tent 



that Mr. House was demonstrating in, 

 if an invitation came to enter, I would 

 be quite sure to take the risk even if 

 some few stings were the price of my 

 temerity. 



Aside from all personal like or dis- 

 likes of work of this nature, anything 

 practical, like the work done by Mr. 

 Pettit at the Fair referred to. is sure to 

 be of great advantage to beekeeping 

 from an advertising standpoint ; and it 

 is to be hoped that this work will be 

 continued from year to year. 



Unsightly Honey in Stores 



That Ontario has a large number of 

 bee-keepers that can and do produce a 

 fine quality of comb honey is a fact be- 

 yond controversy; yet the fact remains 

 that there are a few in the business 

 that need to improve a little in their 

 methods if the good of the industry is 

 to be considered. This fact was brought 

 home very forciby to me a few days 

 ago, while looking through the honey 

 display (?) of one of the large depart- 

 ment stores in the city of Toronto. A 

 number of sections of honey were dis- 

 played on the counter that were really 

 a disgrace to be labeled comb honey, 

 as in addition to having been badly 

 broken in transit, they were smeared 

 with propolis, poorly filled, and some 

 of them had the centers and bottoms 



