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not consider the outside row on each side, as local 

 causes may affect them. C. C. Miller. 



Marengo, 111. 



Friend M., I have observed almost every 

 thing you mention. I know the bees start 

 on this one section, and sometimes till it be- 

 fore they commence on the foundation ; but 

 for all that, when I gave the bees a whole 

 set of sections, built out the previous year, 

 it did not get along as well as others that 

 had only a section or two to start them, the 

 rest being rilled with foundation. Some of 

 the honey might have been as nice as that 

 built on foundation, but it certainly was not 

 as nice on an average, and a great deal of it 

 was watery, and some of the honey was can- 

 died, while that built on my foundation was 

 not candied at all. This is a matter of con- 

 siderable importance, and 1 hope we may 

 have more testimonies like yours, from 

 actual experience. 



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THAT STOVEPIPE SMOKER AND 

 BRUSH BROOM. 



W. L. COGGSHALL EXPLAINS. 



T|p S you desire me to explain about the brush- 

 OAra broom and stovepipe smoker that appear in 

 JKSf my photograph, page 448, I will add that the 

 •*^- smoker is made of sheet-iron, 8 inches deep, 

 5 inches in diameter, with a slide cover hing- 

 ed on a rivet through the handle. The cover is de- 

 signed to smother down the Are when burning too 

 fast, or when not in use. There is a hole cut in the 

 side, and strips are riveted on each side of the hole, 

 and a slide shoves down over the hole after the fire 

 is started. I usually leave a little draft so it will 

 keep burning. A handle is riveted opposite the 

 draft-hole, and is made out of half-inch and half- 

 round iron. A half-inch hook is made on the end 

 of a l l /2-inch projecting rod at the top of the smoker, 

 to hook over the edge of the hive. Two braces are 

 fastened to the bottom of the smoker, to hold it 

 away from the hive and keep it from wabbling 

 around or burning the hive. 



For fuel, I use chips or cobs; hang it on the wind- 

 ward side of the hive after removing the cover, 

 and I will guarantee, if you have a good smoke 

 going, that the bees won't bother you. You can 

 beat the smoke down into the hive with the 

 brush a little. It is designed for those who extract 

 honey. I use it a great deal for taking off section 

 cases. The brush is made from select and fine 

 broom-corn, 9 inches wide at the brush end, so it 

 will clean a Langstroth comb at one or two sweeps, 

 after the bees are properly shaken off the comb. 

 An eye-screw is put in the end, to which is attached 

 a siring, and which should be long enough to go 

 over the head and shoulder, and hang right by your 

 hand, and then you always know right where it is, 

 and you do not have to look after it at all. 



W. L. Cogoshall. 



West Groton, N. Y., June 5, issii. 



Very good, friend C; but we want to 

 kuow what those brooms cost. What do 

 you sell them for at retail? how much post- 

 age do they take, and what will you take to 

 furnish 100 for? You need not be afraid of 

 advertising in the reading-columns. I al- 

 ways enjoy the fun of advertising some- 

 thing real good, when furnished by a good 

 man. 



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 good; lead me unto the land of uprightness. — Ps. 113: in 



A LITTLE ONE GONE. 



The following card at hand will explain itself: 

 We have lost our darling little baby girl. She was 17 months 

 old. She died last night. We bury her to-day. 



Yours in grief. C. P. Dadant. 



Hamilton, 111., June 17, 1889. 



We extend our sympathy to the Dadant family. 



A NEW FRENCH BEE-BOOK. 



"The Management of the Apiary" is the title of 

 a new work on apiculture, by Mr. Ed. Bertrand, of 

 Nyon, Switzerland. The book has 178 pages, printed 

 in the very best style, on calendered paper, and is 

 sold where published at half a franc, or 10 cts. The 

 work is a reprint of some articles which appeared 

 in the author's Bevue Internationale in 1882 and '83, 

 originally written for beginners. The work is di- 

 vided essentially into 12 parts, each part devoted to 

 a particular month, and all profusely illustrated 

 and copiously indexed. In the back part of the 

 book we find a minute description of every individ- 

 ual part of the Dadant, Layens, and Burki-Jeker 

 hives, which seem to be the three principal 

 types in use in France and Switzerland. These de- 

 scriptions are accompanied with such accurate il- 

 lustrations as make the hive itself useless if we 

 simply desire to understand its construction. The 

 work will be found invaluable to those who can 

 read and understand the French language. 



THE ARKADELI'HIA bee-lawsuit. 

 Our readers will remember that the bees of Mr. 

 Z. A. Clark, of Arkadelphia, Ark., some time ago 

 were declared a nuisance by the city council, and 

 that Mr. Clark was warned to remove his bees, or 

 pay a fine of not less than $5.00 nor more than 

 $85.00, or go to jail. Mr. Clark, feeling that very 

 great injustice was being done, rather than go to 

 the expense of moving his bees, took the penalty. 

 He Anally, however, removed his bees outside of 

 the city limits. The aid of the Bee-keepers' Union 

 was at once solicited, and the case was tried in the 

 circuit court, where it was decided that "the city 

 ordinance was illegal and void;" that "keeping 

 bees is not a nuisance." The case was carried to 

 the supreme court, and brother Newman just an- 

 nounces that the Union has, after an immense 

 amount of worry and expense, again win the suit, 

 and that a grand precedent has been established. In 

 no single instance has the Union been defeated; 

 and it begins to seem now that, in view of its past 

 victories, to enlist its aid means success every time. 

 It would be a terribly bad thing to have bees de- 

 clared a nuisance by a supreme court, and perhaps 

 there are but few bee-keepers who realize what 

 the decision in the case of Mr. 'A. A. Clark means, 



