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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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been at work in the field through the 

 day; it holds the heat so that bees will 

 stay at work all night in sections, 

 when, if left out of doors, they will all 

 go down to the brood and leave the sec- 

 tions until the middle of the next fore- 

 noon, thus making a loss for the bee- 

 keeper. This fall I intend to buy an 

 extractor so as to extract partly-filled 

 sections, and some from full frames. 

 Yours respectfully, 

 WILLIS SNOW. 



^^'^EE BREVlTlE5.fe^@ 



If you receive more than one copy of 

 The Bee-Keeper, kindly hand the extra 

 one to some one else who is interested 

 in bees. 



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Californians are rejoiced over a 

 couple of showers of rain which fell 

 upon them in May. But they came too 

 late to effect the sage honey crop. 

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We now have the National Queen- 

 Breeders' Union; organized for the 

 protection of queen buyers and reli- 

 able breeders. J. O. Grimsley, Byrds- 

 town, Tenn., is secretary of the new 

 association. 



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 Delos Wood, in Gleanings, thinks it 

 is the people who rely upon the cap- 

 ping of hojiey to determine its fitness 

 to extract, who put the unripe honey 

 upon the markets. He extracts before 

 it is capped, then evaporates to the de- 

 sired consistency, which, he says, is 

 not less than twelve pounds to the gal- 

 lon. 



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 In the Canadian Bee Journal D. W. 

 Heise says: "I just want to whisper 

 that if better filled sections are really 

 desired by honey producers and con- 

 sumers, and freer communication will 

 bring about that result, I think I know 

 how it can be secured to a far greater 

 extent than can possibly be done with 

 the plain section and fence, as now ad- 

 vocated." That's what is wanted, Mr. 

 Heise. Launch your idea. 



A short- bladed putty-knife is a most 

 convenient tool when taking off supers. 

 It is in fact very handy every day in 

 the apiary. 



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The mechanical genius of the bee- 

 keeping fraternity is now being brought 

 to bear upon devices for cleaning sec- 

 tions of honey by machinery. 

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Mr. E. M. Storer, who has two hun- 

 dred colonies in the vicinity of the 

 great Okefinokee swamp in Southern 

 Georgia, writes that while he has con- 

 siderable stock of extracted honey of 

 this year's crop on hand in 60-pound 

 cans and 500-pound barrels, destruct- 

 ive forest fires are responsible for a 

 much shorter crop than would otherwise 

 have been obtained. Our southern 

 friends seem to be "catching it" all 

 around from fires this year. Our own 

 apiary in South Florida has been no 

 exception. 



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J. H. Martin, author of the popular 

 "Rambler" series of articles in Glean- 

 ings, has forsaken the parched valleys 

 of Southern California and sought the 

 more propitious conditions existing in 

 Siskiou county, several hundred miles 

 farther north, where he is wrestling 

 with about 240 dilapidated Harbison 

 hives. Undei- date of May 28, Mr. Mar- 

 tin writes that notwithstanding the se- 

 vere drouth with Avhich the southern 

 counties of the state are afflicted this 

 year, and by which a loss of hundreds 

 of thousands of dollars will restilt to 

 their honey, fruit and sugar beet in- 

 dustries, that alfalfa fields of his pres- 

 ent location have been amply watered 

 by frequent rains, and the prospects 

 for a honey crop are favorable. When 

 the Rambler started north in quest of 

 pastures new, we thought he would 

 "turn up" about Honey Lake, but the 

 still more enticing name of Oro Fino 

 attracted him still farther, and he is 

 now located in that isolated mining 

 camp, near the Oregon line. 



