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Eight Extra pages again this 

 month, and, as was the case with the 

 last issue, we have the advertisers to 

 thank for them. 



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Pennsylvania bee-keepers wlio are 

 interested in the forming of a State 

 Organization are requested to write to 

 E. L. Pratt, Swarthmore, Penn. 



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The Honey Producers' Associa- 

 tion, of Ontario, Canada, has drop- 

 ped the idea of trying to handle honey 

 or to control the markets, but will 

 still give their attention to the collec- 

 tion of crop reports. 



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Mr. Adrian Getaz admits that it 

 would be well if quality could be made 

 a part of the rules in grading comb 

 honey, but he does not see how it 

 could be done without gouging into one 

 or more of the sections, and thus spoil- 

 ing them. 



This Issue of the Review will go to 

 hundreds of bee-keepers who are not 

 subscribers. To such I would say 

 that it will probably be to our mutual 

 benefit if you will read pages 134, 135 

 and 136. Those who are already sub- 

 scribers may find something of interest 

 in those pages. 



Red Raspberries, so writes A. W. 

 Smith, of Parkville, N. Y., furnish a 

 honey as light colored as that from 

 white clover, and he is surprised that 

 I should say it is not quite so white. 

 Mr. E. A. Morgan, of Colbourn, Wis., 

 also writes that the wild red raspberry 

 blossoms in profusion for two months, 

 frost or no frost. If killed once, twice, 

 or thrice, it will bud and blossom 

 again. 



Ira D. Bartlett, of East Jordan, 

 Michigan, has kept bees for seven 

 years, wintering them out of doors by 

 the method described in the Review for 

 last August, and he has met with his 

 first loss. When he cleared away the 

 snow March 23rd, and blew in at the 

 entrances, six colonies out of 148 fail- 

 ed to respond. This is the most suc- 

 cessful out-of-doors wintering in Mich- 

 igan of which I have heard of this 

 year. 



Accustoming Bees to sights and 

 and odors is recommended by Mr. C. 

 K. Cai-ter, of Eagle Grove, Iowa. He 

 says "put one of your old coats on top 

 of the hive, and, in a few days the 

 bees will not be so cross when you 

 come around the hive." He further 

 says "take an old horse blanket that 

 has been used and filled with sweat 

 and odor, and put it on the hive, and 

 the bees will not be so likely to sting a 

 horse as they were before they had 

 become acquainted with the odor. " 



Unbound Sheets of zinc are used by 

 Mr. J. F. Mclntyre as queen exclud- 

 ers. The reasons that he gives for 

 this preference is that such sheets give 

 freer access to the supers than do the 

 wood-zinc excluders, and they can be 

 peeled off like a cloth instead of mak- 

 ing it necessary to break all of the 

 brace-combs at once. Mr. Mclntyre's 

 hive has a bee-space both above and 

 below the frames, and the sheet of 

 zinc is as large as the outside of the 

 hive. He says that the sheets do not 

 sag down in the middle, but the bees 

 sometimes push them up in the center 

 by crowding burr-combs under them. 



