THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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)ney season is part of it Another item is 

 Hving all honey on till it has to be taken 

 I— and that you think you couldn't abide, 

 oseof you that sell in the big cities. 

 In Progressive 22!1 a good old way of 

 isiug queens is bespoken— strong colony 

 queenlees and broodless awhile— chosen 

 (gs given them— finished cells transplant- 

 l to eight different frames— v;ait a bit— 

 ,en divide the establishment into eight 

 lolei, giving frames of hatching brood 

 cured elsewhere to each. 

 Dayton in the American Bee .Journal 558 

 •ts in a shot for the ten-frame hive which 

 worth repeating. 



'' Tlie 10-frame hive exceeds the S-lrame not 

 two sesiiients at the sphere's edge, like slabs 

 lich are sa s^ei from a loj;, bat it c;)rre3p:)Q<is 

 two perfect and complete planks from the 

 >art of the log. This would enhance the 

 reDRfhof the colony one-lmlf instead of oue- 

 urth, as may be supposed." 

 The latest percolator feeder for cold water 

 id sugar, as used at the head-quarters of 

 at sort of thing, the Gleanings' apiary, 

 IS an improvement. Instead of a plate to 

 ipport the inverted crock, with the bees 

 iming above to partake, a board is now 

 ?ed with a three- inch hole in it, and bees 

 *ming directly up to the tlannel from 

 alow. Gleanings 745. 

 W. P. Faylor reared 29 " golden " queens, 

 ad sold nearly all of them; and so far as 

 3 knows not one of them originated a col- 

 ay that could go through the winter with- 

 3t the addition of other stock. A. B J. rA&. 

 The environs of Philadelpliia, within a 

 idius of 12 miles, produced 22,500 pounds 

 f honey, .\bout l,.5O0 colonies are kept. A. 

 . J. 534. 



Pass it along 1 The motto sub-editor 

 bbott quotes from Mr. Pringle in A. B. J. 

 55. Never put any honey on (lie. market 

 hich is unripe, untidy or unclean. 

 Doolittle thinks % of the bees in the 

 Inited States died during the awful winter 

 :'K2-3. A. B..T. .-)<;(;. 



Gallup had an experience with an apiary 

 1 a windy locality in which the lee side of 

 he yard got so many of the young bees that 

 ightfully belonged elsewhere that the 

 Isible strength of the colonies, and the 

 idney surplus, showed it very plainly. A. 



$. J. me. 



Dr. Miller objects to comparing hives by 

 he absolute cubic inches of solid contents. 

 Shape of hive and thickness of frame stuff 

 onnts too much. Square inches, or double 

 iqaare inches of actual comb surface should 



be the basis. A. B. .T. 5(i7. May Ije he is 

 right. 



.Tohn Clark, of Liberty Indiana, reports 

 that okl dirty comb, such as most of us who 

 have" been there" would burn up rather 

 than waste time on, can be thoroughly and 

 (juickly rendered into wax by steam at an 

 escape pipe. Big basket, in a big can, over 

 two inches of water, and blow the steam di- 

 rectly on the material. A. B. J. .5i;8. Rather 

 looks as though he had made a valuable 

 discovery. But isn't it better yet to so en- 

 tirely avoid the existenca of such intractable 

 material that there will never be enough to 

 pay for a trip to a steam boiler? 



" Old bae-liunters who have taken trees with 

 larffB <iuaatitios of lioney in them, know very 

 well tliat none of it is any too ripe, Canadian 

 Bee Master, in A. B. .J. 5(50. 



According to A. B. .T. 57:!. France in lUlKi 

 produced (;,4;'.2,(i07 pounds of honey, and 

 4,427,157 pounds of beeswax. Don't be- 

 lieve it. Something the matter with 

 those figures. My bees will not make 4 

 pounds of wax to each (! pounds of honey; 

 and I decline to believe it of the French bees. 



yes ! honey matters are a little down at 

 the mouth ; but just rub a little on your 

 wife's c/ieefes, according to A. B. J, ,588 and 

 see how sweet and beautiful she looks next 

 day. Never mind that suggestion that crops 

 may get iHsi(,/f/cteu( to rub our faces with. 



If we try to prevent after-swarms it is 

 worth something to have a means of know- 

 ing when the bees themselves have given up 

 theideT.of it. When they hefjin to carry 

 out immature drone brood, is a suggestion 

 credited to C. W. Stephens in Nebraska 

 Queen. Guess that would help us some- 

 times. Possibly they might sometimes 

 give up the intent to swarm without med- 

 dling with the young drones ; but after 

 they had begun to pull them out ( or drive 

 out the newly emerged ones, for that 

 matter ) I think we could safely trust them. 



One place at least remains where we can 

 still see the bee-keeping world, not exactly 

 " before Meues reigned, " but before Lnng- 

 stroth reigned. It is Florence, Oregon. 

 There are 800 hives on a range 5 miles by 20 

 there, and fine crops, but no honey to speak 

 of shipped. Honey is harvested by fire and 

 brimstone, chopped and smashed up in a 

 barrel, the best that d'ains off eaten by the 

 family : balance fed to the hogs. See A. B. 

 J. 592, 



Richards, Ohio ; Nov. 4 th 1895. 



