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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



September 



end and a rubber bulb attached to the 

 other. It is the implement we use in 

 taking up ink for filling fountain pens. 

 This tool should of course, never come 

 in contact with one's mouth while at 

 work judging, but the liquid taken up 

 should be deposited in a spoon or in 

 absence of such upon a card and thus 

 conveyed to the mouth. I could sug- 

 gest other ways: Little wooden splints 

 for instance to be thrown aside after 

 sampling each kind of honey, etc. 



A writer in Deutsche B. F., suggests 

 to breed drones for trout-food. He 

 says a good profit could thus be made. 

 He thinks from 20 to 40 pounds of 

 drones could be raised by one colony, 

 which in turn could be converted into 

 10 to 14 pounds of trout meat. 



ton of hay," etc., has long been explod- 

 ed. Just so. 



The Leipziger B. Z-, reports that the 

 Arsenic Factory at Marfritzdorf dis- 

 tributes death and destruction among 

 bees of that locality every year. The 

 escaping poisonous fumes leave a de- 

 posit of arsenic upon all vegetation. 

 With the pollen and nectar the stufi is 

 thus carried to the hives. In feeding 

 the young with it they die in large num- 

 bers. 



E. Stoerzer, in Schleswig Holstein B. 

 Z., says it should be a matter of honor 

 for every bee-keeper never to ofifer un- 

 ripe honey for sale. Honey is not ripe 

 till it is sealed. 



In the same paper it is said that 

 young swarms are most valuable when ' For the common bee-keeper the best 

 issuing at the beginning of a good hon- way of rearing good queens is to accept 

 ey flow; and that the truth of the old a good lot of after swarms. Wurth in 

 addage, "a swarm' in May is worth a Die Biene. F. Greiner. 



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Dear Bro. Hill: — 



Don't you worry about your lapsing 

 into that spirit of lethargy which fol- 

 lows inaction, otherwise called "loaf- 

 ing." A chap who edits a paper, runs 

 a pineapple plantation, a bee farm and 

 a small boy, don't often have such 

 things happen to him. However if you 



really fear such a state, run over and 

 see me and I will let you wrestle with 

 some "choice finely marked Italians'' 

 that I have. As they are really_four- 

 fifths Syrians you can guess near about 

 their heat. They'd be good up North 

 next winter to keep folks hot during 

 the coal famine. Strange how india- 

 rubbery some of the boys' consciences 

 are, to work Syrian blood into their 

 Italians to get color and then call them 

 pure- Heard a man swearing a blue 

 streak over such bees t'other day. 

 Couldn't help but admire him even the' 

 I felt constrained to quote the old 

 Quaker's remark to the angry teamster: 

 "That's right my friend, swear away 

 and get all that vile stuflf out of thee." 

 What shall we say of and to the men 

 who cause the profanity? 



Now Bro. York has done joined Bro. 

 Root in the explainin' line. Says he 

 leaves the address ofif of articles so the 

 dear contributors will not be bothered 



