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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Producing both comb and extracted 

 honey in the same su^er, a la '^fown- 

 send, is pronounced old by the Ameri- 

 can Bee-Keeper, and Mr. J. A. Green, 

 of Colorado, tells the readers of Glean- 

 ing-s that he tried it and did not 

 like it very well. He says the g^reatest 

 difficulty was in keeping the sections 

 and separators tig-ht tog'ether in the 

 middle of the super. Like many other 

 plans, this seems to be one that must 

 be tried to know whether it is adapted 

 to the needs and circumstances of any 

 particular case. 



The Eastern races of bees do not unite 

 well, sa^'s, J. A. Green in Gleaning^s. 

 I have never had much experience in 

 uniting any varietj' of bees except 

 Italians, and I have never had any 

 trouble with them. I have made per- 

 haps 60 or 70 colonies this summer by 

 simply taking from two to four combs 

 of bees from one colony, then the same 

 from another, and so on, until I had 

 enough to fill a hive, putting theiri 

 right in together, indiscriminately, and 

 have not a particle of quarreling. The 

 empty places in the hives from which 

 the combs of bees are removed are filled 

 with sheets of wired foundation, and a 

 laying queen is given to the colony 

 that has been made up. In that way 

 I have increased 20 colonies to 97, so 

 far this season. 



Foul Brood is so often introduced into 

 an apiary b3' feeding the bees honey 

 from some unknown source, that I wish 

 to second most emphatically the advice 

 of Gleanings not to use hone}' for feed- 

 ing bees unless it has been thoroughly 

 boiled. There is also another point 

 that I seldom see mentioned in the 

 journals, and that is that it won't an- 

 swer to boil honey full thickness. It 



The air is full of honeyed sounds. The bee. 



Within the waxen lily's honeyed cells, 

 In monotone of mellow measures tells 



Its yet unsated joyance; drowsily 

 The swallows spill their liquid melody 



As down the sky they drop, and faintly swells 

 The tremulous tinkle of the far sheep bells. 



While wind-haps sigh in every crowned tree. 



Beneath the beechen shade the reapers lie. 

 Upon their lips a merry harvest tune; 



Knee-deep wiihin a neighboring stream thekine 

 Stand blinking idly in the clear sunshine, 



And like a dream of olden Arcady 

 Seems the sweet langor of the summer noon. 

 — Clinton Scollard. 



Shipping Cases for comb honey ought 

 to be a little deeper than the height of 

 the sections, when they are piled up a 

 dozen or more high, then the weight of 

 nearly the whole pile will not rest upon 

 the honey in the lowest case, which in 

 some cases, causes a leak. Mr. Irving 

 Kinyon writes me that he got this hint 

 from Mr. P. H. Elwood. 



The Texas State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will hold its next meeting at 

 College Station, with the Farmers' 

 Congress, July 25th and 27th. 



These annual meetings are ustxally 

 largely attended and are pleasant and 

 profitable occasions. 



Visiting bee-keepers from other 

 States are cordiallj' invited to be 

 with us. 



W. H. Laws, President, 



Louis SCHOLL, Sec. -Treasurer. 



Mr. J. F. Mclntyre, of California, writes 

 that the out-apiaries are saving the 

 battle for him this year. They will 

 furnish him about 40 tons of honey, 

 while the home-apiary, at Sespe, with 

 the same number of colonies, will fur- 

 nish only about half as much, owing 

 to the foggy weather near the coast. 

 Sixty tons of honey seems like quite a 

 crop to us Easterners. 



