1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



195 



The past season has been a good one 

 for the bee-keepers of Canada. 



Some of our large producers have 

 learned by experience that it is not 

 good business policy to separate the 

 grades of comb honey commonly desig- 

 nated as "fancy" and "No. 1." The 

 point claimed in favor of crating both 

 together is that the usual higher price 

 of the "fancy" article may as well be 

 secured for "No. 1," which is really in 

 no way inferior. The editor of the Bee- 

 Keepers' Review refers approvingly to 

 the matter. 



Describing the method of M. F. 

 Chatelain for stopping a case of rob- 

 bing, Dr. Miller, in Gleanings, wrote: 

 "Smoke the hive of the robbers; in two 

 or three minutes close the entrance; 

 wait till the returning bees crowd out- 

 side; open enough to insert smoker- 

 nozzle and smoke; open entrance wide 

 and let all go in; then smoke like sixty 

 till bees rush out of hive." A French 

 bee-paper in publishing the item in 

 that language, rendered the closing 

 sentence thus: "Then smoke till about 

 sixty bees rush out of the hive." 



Regarding the general consensus of 

 opinion and points brought out relative 

 to Cuban honey at the Omaha conven- 

 tion, as a result of Mr. Poppleton's es- 

 say, Gleanings for Oct. 15 has an ed- 

 itorial, from one paragraph of which 

 the following is noted, in substance: 

 "That honey coming from Cuba is in- 

 sipid; that honey coming from Cuba 

 has a rank flavor; that campanilla 

 honey, which conies from Cuba, has a 

 very fine flavor." The editor of this 

 paper has sought in vain to harmonize 

 this information , and has finally .de- 

 cided to pay for one year's subscription 

 to The Bee-Keeper for the first person 

 who may send in a comprehensible ex- 

 planation. In the meantime, we shall 

 think that some of those "opinions' 

 were not founded upon knowledge of 

 the subject. 



White Clover. 



My little maiden came to me. 

 Her small hands brimming over, 



Not with the garden's choicest fiowers, 

 But only sweet, white clover. 



1 took her gift, the while my thought 

 The long years traveled over — 



When I, like her, with busy hands 

 Made wreaths of sweet, white clover. 



I dream my childish dreams again, 



In fairy land a rover, 

 A magic garland, this, I ween. 



Though only sweet, white clover. 



Yet much of life's best sweetness we 



In homely things discover. 

 As honey-bees pass gaudy flowers. 



To seek the low, white clover. 



.l/c.v. /.. V>. FlrnniHj ill Aiiirricaii lirr .n>in-iiril. 



^^^LlT£RARY N0TE5.fe^?^ 



"■'Our Southern Home," of Mount 

 Holly, N. C, devoted to the inttrests 

 of that state, is a new exchange upon 

 our list. 



(URLS LIVIN(; IN COUNTRY TOWNS. 



In the October Ladies' Home Journal 

 Edward Bok devotes much of his ed- 

 itorial page to showing country girls 

 and women the way to make their lives 

 mean more — how they can partake 

 morp fully of the true enjoyments of 

 life. He has prescribed a method of 

 country living which can readily and 

 profitably be pursued, and which will 

 go far toward the emancipation of the 

 country woman from much of the 

 drudgery, and lighten the isolation of 

 farm life. 



MARY ANDEKSON'S LITTLE BOY. 



Mary Anderson, who is now Mrs. de 

 Narvarro. and lives in England, has 

 allowed herself, her new English home, 

 and her 2-year-old baby to be photo- 

 graphed for the first time for publica- 

 tion. Some twenty pictures have been 

 made, and the best of these will appear 

 in an early issue of The Ladies' Home 

 Journal. The baby's picture is, of 

 course, the central one of interest. 



