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THE SEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Ohio is quite likely to secure a foul 

 brood law. The bill has passed the 

 House and there is everj' indication to 

 show that it will go through the Sen- 

 ate. The bill is not like the Michigan, 

 Wisconsin and Ontario laws. That 

 is, there is no State Inspector ap- 

 pointed. It is more like the Colorado 

 law which provides for Countj' In- 

 spectors. The County Inspectorship 

 was a failure in Michigan, but it 

 seems to work all right in California 

 and Colorado, and it may in Ohio. 

 If it does not, it will be easier to get 

 the law changed to something else, 

 than it would be to pass a new one in 

 the first place. 



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Formalin Gas maj- have been a 

 failure in destroying the germs of black 

 brood, because not used strong enough, 

 nor long enough. Mr. E. W. Alex- 

 ander, at one of the New York insti- 

 tutes, told of the thorough manner in 

 which he had used it. He used a large 

 tank much like one described by Mr. 

 C. A. Huff in the Review of last Maj'. 

 The combs were put into a tank, the 

 gas turned on and kept going for 

 several hours. The combs were left 

 in the tank several daj's and then 

 given another fumigation. When the 

 cover was removed the tank was still 

 full of gas, and remained so for several 

 days afterwards. Some very severe 

 tests were made with black broody 

 combs, but all proved successful. Mr. 

 Alexander was quite emphatic in his 

 belief that those who had failed with 

 formalin gas had "not more than half 

 tried it. " 



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USING A TILE FOR A HIVE-STAND. 



Mr. J. W. C. Gray, of Atwood, Illi- 

 nois, writes me of a novel hive-stand 

 that will not decay, nor be displaced 

 by moles; it is nothing more nor less 

 than a 12-inch drain tile set upon end, 

 in the ground, the upper end project- 



ing a few inches above the surface of 

 the earth. This gives a circular sur- 

 face, one foot in diameter, upon which 

 to set the hive. A piece of thin board 

 leaning against the alighting board, 

 its lower edge resting upon the ground, 

 completes the arrangement, and Mr. 

 Gray well-says it is the cheapest, most 

 tidy and durable stand that has ever 

 been used. 



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DISCOURAGING SWARMING. 



In this issue of the Review Mr. Gill 

 tells why and how it is often desirable 

 to discourage swarming instead of 

 shaking the bees. At the last conven- 

 tion of the Ontario bee-keepers, Mr. 

 Morley Pettit gave advice something 

 in the same line. He said " I retard 

 swarming by giving ample room and 

 ventilation early in the season, and 

 by helping the weak with brood from 

 the strong. A weekly examination of 

 the brood chambers shows when a col- 

 ony is determined to swarm, when it is 

 at once shook upon starters, and the 

 swarming impulse is thus satisfied." 



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STAND UP AND BE A MAN. 



When I was about seventeen years 

 old I began the study of short hand, 

 or stenography, as it is now called. 

 As a method of practice, I was quite 

 given to jotting down m}' thoughts in 

 short hand in a note-book that I 

 carried. In rummaging through a 

 drawer the other day, I came across 

 one of these old note-books, and, in 

 glancing through its pages, mj' eye 

 was caught by the title of one of the 

 items. It was the same as the head- 

 ing of this article. I had the curiosity 

 to read it, and I consider the advice 

 good enough to print, even if it were 

 written by a boy in his teens. Here 

 is what I then wrote: 



"How easy it is to stand up and be 

 a man when jou have no troubles, 

 when friends and fortune smile upon 



