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friendship and filial 

 affection, and even 

 sweet comi3anionship. 

 When our lives are 

 properly adjusted to 

 all above and around 

 us it is a glad and joy- 

 ous thing to live, and 

 there need be little 

 fear of death. 



But the inspector 

 has little time to dis- 

 cuss religion or poli- 

 tics if he would do his 

 duty. His life is a 

 busy one, and he takes 

 an interest in it that 

 few public officials sur- 

 pass, for the enemy he 

 fights is a personal one, 

 and unless it is over- 

 come and destroyed he 

 knows not how soon it 

 may reach him and 

 greatly injure his own business. 



THE UNPLEASANT PART OF THE WORK. 



While there are many pleasant thing's 

 about inspection work, it is by no means all 

 pleasant. There are some long days and 

 long delays waiting for trains. If prepared 

 for work, one must dress rather jDlainly, for 

 good clothes are almost sure to be ruined. 

 1 prefer to go dressed for work so as to 

 accomplish the most in the least time. Al- 



one of Mr. 



Holterma 

 means 



nn's students securing full sheets of foundation by 

 of melted wax in a " bulb " wax-tube. 



though last summer was quite dry I was 

 caught in two showers, and was wet to the 

 skin. One day I started to visit a yard that 

 I was told was two miles away, and found it 

 at least four miles, and over a tremendous 

 hill. Just as I reached the place a thunder 

 shower overtook me, and I had to turn 

 around and start back without opening a 

 hive, as I had to take a train that afternoon. 

 A deer, as though to make me ashamed of 

 myself for getting wet, came out of a pas- 

 ture, and, walking near me, watched me 

 with its curious soft eyes, then ran ahead, 

 crossed the road, and went into the forest 

 on the other side. 



After reaching the hotel and station I had 

 time, while waiting for the train, to glance 

 through a butter-factory where they some- 

 times make 5000 lbs. of butter in a day. 



BOTH DISEASES IN ONE HIVE. 



I notice there has been some question as 

 to whether American foul brood and Eu- 

 ropean foul brood are ever found in the 

 same hive. I have found but a compara- 

 tively small amount of American foul 

 brood; but where I have found both kinds 

 in proximity, I have been quite sure to find 

 some of both kinds in the same hives. 



Middlebury, Vermont. 



A BULB WAX-TUBE FOR FASTENING BROOD 

 FOUNDATION IN FRAMES 



BY R. F. HOLTERMANN 



Mr. R. F. Holtermann's four helpers for the season 

 of 1912. Top row: Closson Scott, Newton Falls, 

 Ohio, and C. J. Hawkes, London, England; lower 

 row: D. Glenelg Holtermann, Brantford, Canada, 

 and Felix B. Stump, Parkersburg, West Virginia. 



In my opinion it is wasteful to fasten 

 comb foundation in brood-frames by means 

 of a saw-cut in the top-bar. First, it weak- 



