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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Eight Extka Pages this month — caused 

 by advertising patronage. 



Db. J. P. H. Bbown will hereafter have 

 charge of the Southern Department in the 

 American Bee Journal. 



The Pbogbessive has a full page cut and 

 a full page description of the apiary of E. T. 

 Flanagan, Belleville, Ills. 



Bbo. Holtebmann, of the C. B. J., has 

 been appointed lecturer in apiculture at the 

 Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. He 

 has also been appointed to conduct a series 

 of experiments in apicluture. 



Beo. Alley of the Api. has favored the Re- 

 view with a sample of his combination 

 queen-trap and swarm-catcher. As the lat- 

 ter it is probable as good as any of similar 

 devices — as the former it is at the head. 



The Pbaotioal Bee-Keepeb, of Tilbury, 

 Ont., Canada, has been sold, together with 

 the supply business of its owner, to the 

 Goold, Shapley and Muir Co., of Brantford. 

 One bee journal is about all that Canada 

 will support, but one good one is better than 

 several poor ones. 



Db. J. P. H. Beown does not consider the 

 queens that are now imported from Italy as 

 superior to our home-bred queens. He says 

 that the imported queens average much 

 lighter in color than they did years ago. He 

 also says that during the furor for Cyprians 

 they were introduced into Italy and have 

 probably crossed with the Italians. 



Feeding Honey to bees to have it stored 

 in sections is a branch of bee-keeping that 

 must be learned, just as much so as queen 

 rearing. C. W. Dayton writes to the Fro- 

 (jresaive giving some of his experience in 

 feeding a ton of honey for this purpose. He 

 very truly says : " It is one thing to get 

 bees to take an amount of stores, but it is 

 another to have it stored cleanly and per- 

 fectly in salable shape, and with the least 

 waste, and retain in the bees a disposition 

 to continue the work." This last is a great 

 point. Every little while some one tries 

 feeding back honey, either to raise comb 

 honey right out and out, or to secure the 

 completion of uniiniBhed sections, and the 



report is usually one of failure. The trouble 

 is lack of " knowing how." Friend Dayton 

 says that when extracted honey is six cents a 

 pound and comb honey fourteen, there is 

 little or no profit in feeding. That depends, 

 friend D. 



The Nobth Amebic an, as we all know, 

 will hold its meeting this year in Toronto, 

 Canada, during the Industrial Fair in Sep- 

 tember. Bro. Holtermann has already se- 

 cured the auditorium of the Normal school 

 as a place for holding the meeting. It is 

 none too soon now to begin thinking about 

 a programme, and I would be thankful if 

 bee-keepers would write to me and suggest 

 topics that they would like to have on the 

 programme. I would consider it a favor if 

 the other journals would copy this notice. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Secretary. 



Weak Colonies should not be united until 

 ten days before the clover harvest, says C. J 

 A. Hatch in Gleanings. Even then he would M 

 select the best of the weaker ones and make 

 them strong by adding brood from those 

 that are still weaker. When there are 

 Bwarms, they are hived on the old stands and 

 the combs of brood in the old hives are 

 given to the weak colonies that have been 

 robbed of their brood. The first uniting A 

 puts some of the weak colonies in shape to ^ 

 store surplus from white clover, and the last 

 plan makes them all in shape to do excellent 

 work on basswood. Strengthening weak 

 colonies early in the spring by taking brood 

 from strong colonies has been about aban- 

 doned. It ruins the strong colonies for 

 work in the early harvest and does not make 

 the weak ones strong enough to be of value. 



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APIS DOESATA MIGHT BE OF VALUE IN THIS 

 OOUNTBY. 



Frank Benton contributes to the American 

 Bee-Keeper a long and interesting article on 

 Airis Dorsata, in which he takes the ground 

 that even though they are larger than our 

 ordinary bees, there are blossoms of suf- 

 ficient size to allow them to gather honey, 

 and he feels certain that in the sub-tropical 

 portions of our country they would establish 

 themselves and thrive. They gather quan- 

 tities of fine honey and produce excellent 

 wax, but what they would do in other parts 

 of the country, and under cultivation, he 

 does not pretend to know. He knows that 

 he can handle them with perfect ease, and 



