THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Hoffman Frames I use to start 

 the fire with, and, sometimes, when I 

 am using- these frames I am hot enoug-h 

 without any fire — I found tlie foreg^oing- 

 penciled on the back of a letter. I 

 don't give it as an argument; simply 

 that the pun may be enjoyed. 



A Confectioner in Colorado, so 

 writes J. A. Green in Gleanings, is 

 using comb honey as an ingredient in 

 the manufacture of a high grade 

 candy. The comb makes the candy 

 "stand up" better. It is possible that 

 here is a market that might be culti- 

 vated with profit. 



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The Small Nuclei, with only a 

 handful of bees, have been given quite 

 a thorough trial this year. The ver- 

 dict .seems to be that they work per- 

 fectly during a honey flow, but many 

 report failure after the honey flow, 

 during the cool weather of the fall. 

 Liberal out door feeding has, how- 

 ever, made a success of these little 

 nuclei even as late as the end of Sep- 

 tember. 



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Reckless Assertions have been 

 made at several conventions regarding 

 the change that takes place in sugar 

 or nectar when gathered or handled by 

 the bees and stored in the combs as 

 honey. There seems to be a sort of 

 resentment that any sort of change is 

 effected by the bees, an unwillingness 

 to accept decisions of chemists and 

 scientists on this subject, an inclina- 

 tion to make rash assertions in opposi- 

 tion to the positive knowledge of such 

 men as Prof. Cook, Mr. Thos. W. 

 Cowan, Prof. W. H. Wiley and Dr. J. 

 H. Kellogg. An assertion regarding 

 something of which we have no actual 

 knowledge, has no weight and carries 



no proof, and it ill becomes a layman 

 to place his bare assertions in opposi- 

 tion to the positive knowledge of the 

 scientist. 



Chas. Stewart, Sammonsville, N. 

 Y., writes as follows: "Your call for 

 articles on the management of out- 

 apiaries is all right, and ought to 

 bring out something valuable. If I 

 can get a single idea in connection 

 with the system of locating out-yards 

 along trolley lines, it will pay for the 

 Review many times over. 



Double Covers, a sort of cover 

 above a cover, the upper cover acting 

 as a shade board, have been made and 

 boomed quite a little of late, but J. A. 

 Green, in Gleanings, says such covers 

 become pitifully ramshackle affairs 

 after a few years use in Colorado. Mr. 

 Green prefers his shade-boards sep- 

 parate from the covers. 



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The Appointment, as "Apicultural 

 Clerk" in the Bureau of Entomology 

 at Washington, of Miss Jessie E. 

 Marks, of New York, daughter of the 

 Chairman of the Board of Directors of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 is noted with interest. 



Miss Marks has passed a creditable 

 Civil Service Examination, held last 

 summer, having received the highest 

 general average in the rating, both in 

 technical questions in apiculture, as 

 well as on the total summing up. She 

 has acted as her father's secretary for 

 several years, conducting the rather 

 extended correspondence which his 

 duties as Chairman of the Board have 

 required of him. 



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A New System of management will 

 be described in an early issue of the 



