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THF BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



J. E. Armstroug has a queen wonted to his 

 hand and its scent in tender years (or days) 

 and she always comes up and crawls on his 

 hand when he opens her hive. A. B. J., 498. 



Mrs. Atchley thinks her five-banded bees 

 do not swarm, quite as much as other Ital- 

 ians, but admits them to be less gentle, and 

 worse robbers. A. B. J., .52(3. 



I believe I haven't said a word yet about 

 that C. F. Lane method of feeding back 

 honey to finish sections. Inside a tent ex- 

 temporize an immense colony by putting 

 together a number of your weakest ones 

 (just the right thing to be doing in the fall) 

 pile on the unfinished sections, and set up 

 around the hive all sorts of odds and ends of 

 honey, and combs the last time from the ex- 

 tractor. Of course properly arranged feeder 

 pans of extracted honey do not come amiss. 

 A. B. J., 5()2. This looks, in theory at least, 

 quite captivating ; and what man ha^; done 

 man can do. 



Sandwich Island bees are said to be of the 

 German race, rather small and degenerate, 

 bad tempered — and they have two swarming 

 seasons in a year. A. B. J.. (!27. One swarm- 

 ing season in the year will do for me. 



Yes, yes ! New Year's Ameriean Bee Jour- 

 nal is just in : and it has done and gone and 

 put itself up in a new shape, with a much 

 larger page. Looks very nice ; and the whole 

 thing is one of those extra-interesting num- 

 bers friend York lias a trick of waking up 

 and making once in awhile. Two brand 

 new departments — but the botherof itistliey 

 are under incognito conductors — critics can't 

 throw clubs and have the satisfaction of 

 knowing who it is he is " massacreeing." 

 One is " Bee Master" who describes himself 

 as a "blooming Hinglislimaii," and wlio 

 conducts a distinctly Canadian department. 

 The other is •'Gleaner" and he gleans 

 among the other bee papers. AUliough 

 reaching under the straw-stack to shake 

 hands in the dnrk is not quite so inspiring 

 as the old relial)li' shake, nevertheless here's 

 my hand, brother Gleaner. 



Tlie opening article of the year (finely il- 

 lustrated) is one of a series on extracted 

 honey by Charles Dad ant. It is very at- 

 tractively written, as well as l)eing packed 

 with information. The first honey extractor, 

 it seems, was Von Hruschka's little boy (how 

 many litt'o boys have there not been wlio 

 operated valiantly in the same line V yes, 

 but tliis particular youtii i>ut a piece of not 

 yet sealed comi) on a plate in his dinner bas- 



ket, and, schoolboy-like, whirled it around 

 his head. Pater-familias was looking on, 

 saw the result, and invented the extractor. 

 And the great bee editor of France wrote it 

 down "a useless toy," and stowed it away 

 among the cranky queer things of his mu- 

 seum. 



But the good things of this attractive num- 

 ber have mostly got to go over till next time. 

 Cause why ? Didn't come till this space 

 was too nearly written full. Very refreshing 

 to find an editor who has manifestly been 

 kicking around in these gloomy times — when 

 we almost expected them all to lie down in 

 the snow, like Napoleon's soldiers on the re- 

 treat from Moscow. 



Richards, Lucas Co., Ohio, .Jan. 4, '9.5. 



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