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removed all supertluous combs. Hives too 

 roomy, having room out of proportion to the 

 number of inmates, suffered worse than 

 those in normal condition. Hives too open 

 to require a sliglit nocturnal ventilation con- 

 tained the most fermented honey, and were 

 more disposed to disease than those close and 

 tight. 



From these facts I judged it best to remove 

 the extra, or unnecessary combs, which was 

 beneficial. Some of the most aggravated 

 cases, were hard to relieve. I extracted the 

 stores, coniined the bees till hungry, then 

 fed sugar syrup or gave them a box of the 

 previous season's honey and released them 

 late the next day. This proceeding effected 

 a cure. 



I have seen bee paralysis rapidly disap- 

 pear from an apiary after a change in the 

 field of forage ; also, after a favorable change 

 in the weather ; though in an apiary where 

 the bees were greatly enervated by an un- 

 natural course of inter-breeding, such might 

 not be the case. I think to re-queen an api- 

 ary from a queen of continuously in-bred 

 stock, or to use her drone progeny in mating, 

 will seriously affect the standard of health 

 of the apiary for many future generations. 



HOWABDSVILLE, Va. 



Feb. 12, 1895. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



w. z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and ProDiifitor. 



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FLINT. MICHIGAN APRIL 10. 1895. 



Given Foundation made on rollers is now 

 offered for sale by the A. I. Root Co., that is, 

 they have succeeded in making a roller ma- 

 chine that duplicates the work done on the 

 press. 



E. E. Hasty never said a truer thing than 

 the following : " There is no happy thought 

 that will bring a bee paper success without 

 earnest, judicious editorial work, aud lots 

 of it." This same idea is just as applicable 

 to other callings. 



M. H. Hunt wrote his advertisement that 

 appears in this issue, but the manner in 

 which it is displayed was devised in this of- 

 fice. If there is any other advertiser who 

 would like to have his ad. re-set allowing me 

 to set it up just as I would if it were my 

 own, I should be glad to hear from him. I 

 am willing to meet my advertisers more than 

 iialf way in getting up attractive ads. that 

 will bring business. I wish that every one 

 of my advertisers were readers of Printers'' 

 Ink. As mentioned last month, I will fur- 

 nish this journal at one half price to my 

 advertisers. I will send samples of the 

 journal free upon application. 



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" Dead Aih is all right providing you can 

 get it in a space or compartment that is air- 

 tight," so reads a sentence in an editorial in 

 a late issue of Gleanings. I beg to differ. 

 It makes no difference if the space is be- 

 tween two walls that are hermetically sealed, 

 if these walls are placed between two differ- 

 ent temperatures, the air next the wall on 

 the warm side will become warmed and will 

 rise, while the air next the cool wall will be- 

 come cooled and will settle, thus there will 

 be a circulation inside even an hermetically 

 sealed space that continually robs the warm 

 wall of its heat and passes it over to the cold 

 wall. The tilling of this space with sawdust 

 or chaff breaks up this circulation. 



the bights of a patentee. 

 When Mr. Heddon patentea his hive, his 

 "rights" received a most thorough discus- 

 sion in the bee journals, and to bring up the 

 discussion again is wholly unnecessary, un- 

 less there should he an attempt to rob him ; 

 and, as I have said heretofore, I think that 

 Mr. B. Taylor has no such object in view : 

 but I must admit that it is probably unwise 

 to claim to have made and used a patented 

 article previous to its patentee, unless the 

 one making the claim is prepared and wishes 

 to pj'ore his claim. I doubt if Mr. Taylor 

 cares enough about the matter to do this ; 

 but, of course, he is to be his own judge in 

 this matter. Mr. Heddon is allowed space 

 in this number because he fears that the 

 claim of Mr. Taylor may lead some to think 

 that they may now have the privilege of 

 using the divisible brood-chamber hive with- 

 out securing the riglit to do so ; a view that 

 I think even Mr. Taylor himself would not 

 wish to have promulgated. 



