THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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EblTORlAL. 



Of the rocks upon which earlier 

 hopes were wrecked the foundation of 

 future success is built. 



We regret to learn that Editor 

 Hutchinson, of the Review, has re- 

 cently been suffering from an attack of 

 rheumatic fever. 



A private code as used by him in 

 keeping colony records, is given by J. 

 E. Crane in the Review. Mr. Crane's 

 experience with books in the apiary is 

 like our own — as noted in The Bee- 

 Keeper for April — very unsatisfactory. 

 By his abbreviated system a board 4x20 

 inches accommodates the season's rec- 

 ord of seventy colonies. 



Mr. M. F. Reeve, of Rutledge, Pa.,, 

 with his usual kind interest in The 

 Bee-Keeper, has copied and sent us a 

 Jengthy extract from the writings of 



Sir John Lubbock, in which that emi- 

 nent student of nature sets forth his 

 futile efforts by various means to as- 

 certain any effect of sound upon bees. 

 He tried a violin, shrill pipe, shouting, 

 tuning forks, dog whistle, etc., yet 

 failed to elicit even a twitch of the del- 

 icate antennae in acknowledgement. 

 It is nowhere recorded, however, that 

 Sir John ever tried letting a top-bar 

 down on the legs of a Cyprian worker. 



To the apicultural firmament an ex- 

 ceedingly bright star has recently as- 

 cended. This is the impression we 

 have received from a series of excellent 

 articles in the American Bee Journal, 

 on the subject of building up and main- 

 taining a market for honey, con- 

 tributed by Herman F. Moore, Esq., of 

 Chicago. His style is pointed and rings 

 with a vim and business enterprise, 

 backed by bee-keeping knowledge, that 

 will not be without lasting effect along 

 the line of his travels in the interest 

 of his honey trade. More Moores! is 

 the crying need of American bee-keep- 

 ing interests. 



Every practical bee-keeper knows 

 that the addition of empty room in ex- 

 cess of the requirements of a colony 

 has a discouraging or retarding influ- 

 ence on its inclination to swarm, and 

 likewise upon its work in the sections. 

 According to the Bee-Keepers' Review, 

 L. A. Aspinwall, of Jackson, Mich., has 

 devised a method of giving this extra 

 space without detracting the force 

 from the super, by inserting dummies 

 of peculiar construction between the 

 combs of the brood chamber. The 

 number of combs, we infer, is first re- 

 duced and those remaining more wide- 

 ly separated. A detailed account of the 

 operation will be awaited with interest. 



"Dr. S. H. Hurst says, in Gleanings, 

 'He who produces honey without a sep- 

 arator of some kind is just a little too 

 slow to keep abreast of the 'times.' Per 



