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" Feeding Back" has not proved success- 

 ful with G. M. Doolittle, l)ut nfter reading 

 his article on the subject, in Gleanings, I 

 can't discovern'7ij/ he failed- 



Wm. F. Clarke, of Guelph, of Oat. has 

 published a pamphlet "Containing a Cheap 

 and Easy Cure of Foul Brood, also a De- 

 fense of Sugar Honey." Those interested 

 can send the author ten cents for a copy. 



The Kansas Bee Keeper has had its name 

 changed to the Rural Kansan, and depart- 

 ments devoted to horticulture, poultry, live 

 stock, the home, etc. have been added. Mrs. 

 Miller, its editor, is a " clipper, " especially 

 in clipping short items from the other jour- 

 nals. 



The Bkood nest must be full of brood at 

 the begining of the harvest, if the best re- 

 sults are obtained ; so writes Doolittle to 

 the American Bee .Journal, and, if necessary 

 to bring about this result he would reduce 

 the brood nest to only four or five combs. 



•T. A. Geeen of Ottawa, Illinois, whose 

 contributions frequently enriched the pages 

 of the earlier volumes of the Review (before 

 he branched off into the bicycle business) 

 was married Nov. G, to Miss Alice May Olds 

 of Ottawa. Mr. Green is an unusually 

 bright, practical — yes, and good looking — 

 young man and the Review wishes him 

 and his bride a long and happy life. 



California is a long ways from the honey 

 markets of the East, and the freight on 

 small lots of honey takes off all the profits. 

 Buyers take advantage of this to force down 

 prices. Different plans of co-operation 

 have been proposed, but the most feasible 

 appears to be that of several bee-keepers 

 joining together in making up a carload of 

 honey and sending it East in charge of a 

 competent man. This carload could be 

 followed by others if the man in the Eastpo 

 advised. If a competent man could be 

 found already in the East, and I guess there 

 could, it would save quite a little money in 

 car fare. The orange growers have solved 

 the problem by means of an " Exchange. " 

 Bee Kef psrs may do the ?ame. 



Lysol has cured many colonies of foul 

 brood by simply being fed to them, if we 

 can believe the reports. It may cure for the 

 time being, but suppose there is old, infect- 

 ed honey sealed up in the hive, and, later, 

 this is unsealed and fed to the brood, foul 

 brood will be again developed unless my 

 reasoning is greatly at fault. How is this, 

 Lysol feeders ? 



The Canadian Bee Journal is giving a 

 most excellent report of the Toronto con- 

 vention ; the Oct. and Nov. issues being giv- 

 en up almost entirely to this purpose and 

 the end is not yet. The report of the dis- 

 cussions is particularly full, the most so, I 

 think, of any report of the meetings of the 

 North Americans. 



T. F. Bingham of smoker fame has moved 

 to Farwell, Mich., where he will continue 

 to keep bees and make smokers. A factory 

 for making the latter has already been 

 bailt. By the way, it will be remembered 

 that the Review was "to blame" for the 

 bringing out the Crane smoker, and I really 

 believed at one time that it had no superior, 

 but as the years go by I find myself using 

 the Bingham instead of the Crane. 



Heddon's Quarterly has been reduced in 

 price to ten cents a year, and its editor ex- 

 pects to give all that is truly new and useful, 

 know7i to be such, point out such fallacies 

 as might lead the beginner away from prof- 

 itable bee-keeping, and have a good share of 

 the paper left for choice reading matter. I 

 think Bro. Heddon can come pretty near 

 doing all he promises, as the really " new 

 and useful " things in bee-keeping now-a-' 

 days are few and far between, bee keep- 

 ing has reached a stage where not many 

 startling inventions need be looked for. 



FATHER LANGSTKOTH AND THE HEDDON HIVE. 



Father Langstroth was a great admirer of 

 Mr. Heddon, his hive and his Quarterly. In 

 speaking of the latter, at Toronto, he said to 

 me, " It contains more vigor, force and 

 triUJi than all of the other journals, and the 

 way that it has been ignored is no credit 

 to the ones who have kept silent. " He 

 most earnestly desired to speak, at the con- 

 vention, of the Heddon hive, and had plan- 



