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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



it. He thinks there is little if any need, 

 of wires in the lower half of the frame. 



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The Total Membership of tne Na- 

 tional Association has now reached 



2134. 



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S. A. NiVER, the g-enial, the jovial, 

 the jolly, the man with a vast and 

 varied experience as a seller of honey, 

 was married, December 26, to Mrs. 

 Alfarata Hull Jahnke. That the hap- 

 piest days of their past, may the sad- 

 dest days of their future, is the sincere 

 wish of the Review. 



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Advertising can help a bee conven- 

 tion or Association, just as it can an}'- 

 thing^ else. The manag'ers of the Chi- 

 cago and Northwestern convention sent 

 out 2000 circular letters shortly before 

 their meeting was to be held. As a 

 result, 25 men sent in their member- 

 ship fees by mail and the attendance 

 was away ahead of what it has been 

 in 3'ears. 



A Thermometer is useful in the 

 cellar for more than one reason. It 

 not only shows whether there is a reg- 

 ularity of temperature, but if we find 

 the bees quiet one day and noisy the 

 next, we can't tell, without a thermom- 

 eter, whether it is the result of a fall 

 in the temperature or the reverse. 



The Recognition of one bee-keeper 

 by another is sometimes accomplished 

 by a sort of intuition. At the Chicago 

 convention, a group of us in the hotel 

 office amused ourselves on the morning 

 of the first day by trying to pick out 

 the bee-keepers as they came in, even 

 though they were strangers. After 

 watching a man for a while, some one 



of us would say, 'I'll bet he's a bee- 

 keeper." Then some one would go 

 over and ask him, and not a mistake 

 was made. 



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California had only a very light 

 crop of honey last season, and the 

 prospects are not very bright for next 

 year. I receive many letters from there 

 telling how whole apiaries are being 

 wiped out by starvation. The honey 

 seasons in California remind me 

 greatly of the little girl in the nursery 

 rhyme: "When they are good they are 

 very, very good; and when they are 

 bad they are horrid." 



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Aug. Weiss, a well-known manufac- 

 turer of bee-supplies, especially comb 

 foundation, who lived at New London, 

 Wisconsin, died November 22nd, of 

 consumption. Mr. Weiss was an ex- 

 cellent mechanic, and made a very 

 superior grade of foundation, having a 

 special process of purifying and sheet- 

 ing the wax. I visited him last spring 

 when he was living at Greenville. He 

 was then confined to his room much of 

 the time, but still hopeful for the best. 

 If is certainly sad for the family to lose 

 the husband and father right in the 

 prime of life (he was only 42), and they 

 will assuredly' have the sympathy of 

 all their friends. 



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A National Committee is at work 

 upon a revision of definitions and 

 standards for farm products. Honey 

 is one of the subjects for consideration, 

 and this matter of a definition is really 

 of more importance than it would 

 seem at first thought. If it is defined 

 as "The nectar of flowers gathered by 

 the bees, transformed, and stored in 

 cells," it would throw out honey dew, 

 and a bee-keeper who put honey dew 

 on the market, even though it were 

 palatable and wholesome, or honey 



