AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



457 



Rev. E. X. Al>1>o«t, and Mr. O. L. 



Hershiser, President and Vice-President of 

 the North American Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion the past year, we take the pleasure in 



President Abbott. 



showing by portraits on this page. Gleaiduijs 

 for Oct. 1st also contained a picture of Mr. 

 Abbott, but as we had decided, before see- 

 ing GlearuHc/.s, to insert these two portraits 

 this week, we have done so even at the risk 

 of being thought to follow too closely in 

 the footsteps of our worthy contemporary. 

 We presumed that our picture of Mr. 

 Abbott was exactly as it should be, until 

 we saw the one in Olecmbigs, which shows 

 him slightly bearded. Not having seen 

 him for a whole year, we are unable just 

 now (Oct. 4th) to tell you which portrait is 

 " up to date," but after the convention we 

 will be qualified to speak intelligently upon 

 this important (?) subject. At the risk of 

 disagreeing with Bro. A.'s good wife, how- 

 ever, we will say that we think he's more 

 handsome with simply a mustache — as 

 shown in the picture herewith. 



Rendering- Rees^vax. — B. Taylor, 

 in the Farm, Stock and ITotne, says that he 

 had some old brood-comb that had re- 

 mained in a tank of water for some weeks. 



and upon squeezing a handful of it lately, 

 found the wax separated from the black 

 comb easily. On testing some of it in the 

 solar wax extractor he found that it yielded 

 more than double the wax of comb not so 

 treated. The comb seemed to have rotted, 

 leaving the wax free. The easy and thor- 

 ough rendering of wax is an important 

 subject, and we hope others will investigate 

 the matter and report their experience. 



l^Mrse-Bees l^liiting: Kggs. — Mr. S. 



E. Miller, in the Progressive Bee-Keeper, says 

 that he " has noticed some things that seem 

 to indicate that nurse-bees eat eggs when 

 rearing queens." He isn't sure about it, 

 and would like to know whether any other 

 observing bee-keeper has noticed anything 

 of the kind. 



Pollen as a Ferment .—We read 



that pollen is used by the French as a fer- 

 ment for hydromel. Then some one asked, 

 " Why doesn't some enterprising Yankee 

 start the manufacture of yeast from pol- 



Vice-Pres. Hershiser. 



len !" W e'U guarantee that if it can be 

 clearly shown that " there's millions in it," 

 there will be plenty Yankees who would 

 soon go into the pollen-yeast business. 



