THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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tifully printed on enameled paper, and 

 bound in red leather with g'old letters 

 and desig-n. Typog-raphically, it is a 

 g'em; and I onlj' wish I possessed the. 

 knowledge that would enable me to 

 intelligently review its contents, but 

 nearly all of my experience has been 

 along- commercial, instead of scientific, 

 lines. All honor to the scientist who 

 thus lays the foundation for commer- 

 cial success. 



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Even-Finishing of all of the sections 

 throughout the case is very important. 

 The reason is that when all of the sec- 

 tions are finished at once, the whole 

 case may be taken oif at the same time. 

 There is no waiting, until the central 

 sections are travel-stained, for the cor- 

 ner sections to be finished. Mr. Pettit, 

 of Canada, has for years urged the 

 desirability of using a perforated sep- 

 arator on the outside of the outside 

 row of sections, thus securing a 

 "blanket" of bees, as Mr. Townsend 

 puts it, all around the sections. Mr. 

 Townsend also encourages the even 

 finishing of the sections by putting the 

 "bait-sections" in the corners instead 

 of in the center, as many used to place 

 them. I see, by reading the journals, 

 that there is quite a general tendency 

 to use separators outside the outside 

 rows of sections, and I think it is de- 

 cidedly a move in the right direction. 



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The Ladies' Home Journal, a 

 well-known magazine of enormous cir- 

 culation, is guilty of publishing that 

 old newspaper canard about artificial 

 comb honey. It appears in an article 

 written by a Dr. Emma E. Walker, 

 and published in the June issue, on 

 page 36 — third paragraph of second 

 column. I have written the editor a 

 long letter, giving the origin and ef- 

 fect of this story, and urgently asking 

 him to make the proper correction. I 

 also called his attention to the fact 

 that, if Dr. Walker can produce a 



pound of artificial comb honey, she can 

 thus prove the truth of her assertions 

 and, at the same time, secure one 

 thousand dollars offered by the A.I. 

 Root Co. I have also written to the 

 other editors and asked them to write, 

 and I most earnestly urge every read- 

 er of the Review to write to the editor 

 of the Ladies' Home Journal iind ask 

 him to make the proper correction. 

 Let us deluge him with protests, and 

 compel a correction. We can't allow 

 such an assertion to stand uncorrected 

 in such a periodical as the Ladies' 

 Home Journal. 



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Hatching eggs over a hive of bees 

 has been reported occtisionally, but 

 there always seems to be some sort of 

 vaguery about the reports. They have 

 not come direct, but have always been 

 in the nature of a report that some one 

 had heard of some one who had suc- 

 ceeded. It is doubtful if any eggs 

 were ever hatched in this manner. 

 The normal temperature of a colony of 

 bees never goes above 100 degrees, 

 while the temperature of a fowl is 105 

 degrees. The temperature of a colony 

 of bees is not high enough to hatch the 

 eggs of a fowl. Incubators for hatch- 

 ing eggs are kept at a temperature 

 above 100 degrees, while the brood of 

 bees will not endure such a tempera- 

 ture, as I learned to my sorrow when 

 using a lamp nursery in hatching out 

 queens. I several times tried to hatch 

 hens' eggs in the lamp nursery, which 

 was kept at a temperature of about 97 

 degrees, but never succeeded. The 

 germ would seem to begin to grow and 

 red veins would branch out from it, and 

 then development would cease and re- 

 main the same, even though the e^^ 

 remained in the lamp nursery for sev- 

 eral weeks. 



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uncapping honey — HOW TO TREAT 

 THE HONEY KNIFE. 



A large share of the work of produc- 

 ing extracted honey is that of uncap- 



