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matter of this kind not advertising any par- 

 ticular honey he ought to be willing to print 

 free of charge, especially if you buy ten or 

 twelve inches of advertising somewhere else 

 in his paper. . . 



The women will find the column irresisti- 

 ble. Your honey advertisement will pull 

 harder than it ever pulled before. The 

 beekeepers who market honey locally can 

 not afford to neglect such opportunities as 

 this. 



Olive Oil and Honey as a Tonic 



Our attention has been called to the fol- 

 lowing clipping from the Home Depart- 

 ment of the National Magazine for August, 

 last year. This happens to be a prepara- 

 tion that we have tried ourselves, and found 

 pleasing to the taste. What a blessing it 

 would be to humanity in general, and, in- 

 cidentally, to beekeepers in particular, if all 

 who take olive oil would take it with honey ! 



OLIVE OIL WITH HONEY. 



Olive oil is one of the finest flesh-builders and 

 nerve foods in the world, and I often wonder why 

 parents do not give it to the children more than 

 they do. Combined with honey, which is also valu- 

 able as a food and a blood purifier, it makes an 

 ideal tonic, and the oil cannot be distinguished. Try 

 a teaspoonful of each before meals or after, or with 

 the meals; the amount may be increased if desired. 

 In the absence of honey, any sweet fruit juice may 

 be substituted, and makes a much more palatable 

 combination than the acid juices, such as lemon, 

 grape juice, etc., which are usually recommended as 

 a disguise for the oil. Children, especially, prefer 

 something sweet. 



A New Bee-book, " Productive Bee- 

 keeping," by 1 rank C. Pellelt 



Scarcely had Dr. Phillips' book, " Bee- 

 keeping," issued from the press of the Mac- 

 millan Co. than the announcement came 

 that there is still another new book just 

 from the press of the J. B. Lippincott Co., 

 Philadelphia, entitled "Productive Beekeep- 

 ing," by Frank C. Pellett, State Apiarist 

 and Foul-brood Inspector of Iowa. Mr. 

 Pellett is not only a student of apiculture 

 but also of natural-history subjects. The 

 ne-w volume contains 340 pages of original 

 matter and 134 illustrations, mainly half- 

 tone engraving's from photographs taken 

 by the author himself. 



While we have not been permitted to see 

 the completed volume, the publishers have 

 kindly placed in our hand proofs of the 

 pages up to 298. We have not read all 

 this work page by page, but we have gone 

 over it enough to know that it is safe and 

 orthodox in its teachings. While the au- 

 thor believes that a few minor methods are 

 original with him, the book is not presented 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



for the purpose of exhibiting original ma- 

 terial, but to describe the best methods 

 gleaned from every possible source. In no 

 eense can it be said to be a rehash of 

 material from other works. 



The book is well worth the price asked— 

 $1.50. The same can be had from this office. 

 or we will club it with Gleanings for $2.10 

 postpaid. Canadian postage 30 cents extra, 

 and foreign postage 60 cents extra. 



Self-spacing by Hive-rabbets Rather 

 than by Projections on the Frames 

 Themselves 



The article by A. Butsch in this issue 

 shows a method of spacing frames by means 

 of notches in the hive-rabbets. While we 

 don't like to thi'ow cold water on the prop- 

 osition, the public should know the facts. 

 Our correspondent said he thought of pat- 

 enting it, but we doubt if he could secure a 

 valid patent in view of the patents that 

 have been granted on the same principle. 

 There are many modifications of it, and 

 the principle has been tried out over and 

 over again, only to be abandoned sooner or 

 later. In our A B C and X Y Z of Bee 

 Culture, under the head of " Frames, self- 

 spacing," will be found a variety of self- 

 spacing rabbets — see page 256 of the last 

 edition. 



The objection (and it is a serious one) is 

 that, in moving bees out to outyards, the 

 frames will hop out of their place when 

 colonies are drawn over rough roads. An- 

 other serious objection is that the frames 

 cannot be handled in groups of thi-ees and 

 fours like those ha\dng spacers on the 

 frames. The very fact that the rabbet 

 scheme of spacing is born again and again, 

 and that it dies almost as soon as it is born, 

 shows that it cannot hold its own with the 

 scheme of having the spacing device on the 

 frame itself. 



Our correspondent speaks of the neces- 

 sity of having a grindstone handy to sharp- 

 en the honey-knife when extracting from 

 metal-spaced frames. We have extracted 

 here at Medina a great many tons of honey 

 from metal-spaced frames. We do not 

 sharpen the knife except as it becomes dull 

 after half a day's uncapping. We find no 

 necessity at all for bumping against the 

 metal projections. 



A New Edition of "Fifty Years Among 

 the Bees," Again 



In 1885 Dr. C. C. Miller, of Marengo, 

 111., got out a modest little volume entitled 

 " A Year among the Bees." This, like the 



