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well, make poor sectioufi. do uot draw out 

 foundation well, and have a strong tendency 

 to unite when two colonies are kept In a hive, 

 whereas swarms of the other races mention- 

 ed can be divided into two or three by means 

 of partitions without any trouble. In sub- 

 duing the Cyprians he uses plenty of smoke, 

 taking them by surprise at the entrance and 

 under a corner of the cover, which is to be 

 carefully raised, and pausing a moment to 

 allow them to till themselves with honey. 

 He finds that the Carniolans are easily rob- 

 bed, and require much more precaution in 

 forming nuclei than the eastern races, but 

 their queens are fertilized sooner, generally 

 before the seventh day. 



Leipziger Bienenzeitung. In an ad- 

 .Vertisement of bee-supplies are listed bee- 

 veils and " horse-hair bee-caps. " What 

 the latter are is not clear, but besides a cool 

 head-dress, they suggest the possibilty of a 

 horse-hair veil, which with a flounce of mus- 

 lin to tuck under the suspenders, might be 

 as practical as any, not being incapable of 

 being turned back over the hat when not in 

 use. I have read somewhere of horsehair 

 veils being used by women in the Orient, 

 because they are easily seen through from 

 witliiu, even when closely woven and im- 

 penetrable to outward gaze. At any rate, a 

 durable veil is wanted, whatever the mate- 

 rial. My 40-cent veil is now full of holes, 

 after one season's use. Of course it might 

 be mended, but with bee-keepers that is 

 more easily said than done ; and to be kept 

 in a perfect state would require mending 

 every time a hole is made, which is quite out 

 of the question. 



A sugar factory advertises "fruit-sugar" 

 as the best and cheapest food for bee.^ both 

 for spring and winter, and recommended by 

 the foremost bee-keepers. From the name 

 it would appear to be glucose, bat mu^t Ije 

 somewhat different. 



L'Apiooltore. The proposal to use the 

 scent from a hog's back for an apifuge, 

 wrongly attributed to Kambler instead of 

 Mr. Cole, is labeled by De Domiuicis 

 Antonio as another ./7U de si>c/e utterance. 

 One of his little pigs was nearly stung to 

 death while incautiously lo iliag in front of 

 the apiary. 



A bee-editor of St. Petersburg, Ghennadi 

 Kandratieff, spent a few days wiih Dr. 

 Dubini lately. They both agreed that the 

 presence of drones ( in moderate amount ) 

 in each colony was not a detriment to honey 



production. The reason assigned is that in 

 the early hours of the day so much heat is 

 contributed to the brood-nest by the drones 

 that a greater number of workers are en- 

 abled to leave the hive for forage. ( It is 

 not made clear, though, why the same extra 

 number of workers, which would be raised 

 in their place if the hive contained no drone 

 comb, could not bring about the same result 

 and more too. ) He goes on to state that 

 " various bee-keepers have ascertained that 

 a colony with drones, in like circumstances, 

 produces more than another which is com- 

 pelled to raise more by giving it all worker 

 cells." Editor V^on Rausehenfels sustains 

 him in favoring the drones. It maybe well 

 to ask whether the common opinion that 

 drones in all but one colony to the apiary 

 are useless consumers has ever been backed 

 by observed facts. Still, the advantages of 

 giving one of the best colonies the predom- 

 inance in furnishing the " fathers of the 

 flock " are not to be despised, in any case. 



Dr. Dubini's sovereign remedy for stings 

 is tlie essence of turpentine. 



Akvada Colo. Aug. 29, 1895. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. OCT. 10. 1895. 



The Seuiou.'^ Illness of one of one of our 

 daughters ( Ivy ) has made this issue of the 

 Review late. 



The American Bee .Journal receives high 

 but well-deserved praise at the hand of our 

 friend Hasty this month. If there is a 

 hustler in our ranks it is Bro. York. 



Byron Walker, of Evart Mich., is estab- 

 lishing a honey house in Chicago. As I un- 

 d3r8tand it, he will not do a commission 

 business, but will buy and sell outright. 

 His own crop this year was :'>0,(K)0 ponnds, 

 mostly extracted. 



