THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Corrugated Board, such as is used in 

 packing- bottles and other fragile arti- 

 cles, for shipment, is sug-gested in 

 Glean ing-s, by J. A. Green, for use as 

 strips to place under sections in the 

 no-drip shipping cases, instead of the 

 usual strips of wood. This corrug-ated 

 board possesses considerable elascity, 

 and would help to lessen the damage 

 from bumps. 



Huber, the youngest member of Mr. 

 A. I. Root's family, is now a married 

 man. On the 6th of this month he and 

 Miss Mabel Knisley, of Butler, Indiana, 

 joined hands and fortunes, and will 

 make their home at Medina. Huber is 

 a bright, energretic, agreeable young 

 man, and, unconsciously, makes friends 

 for himself and the Root company 

 where ever he goes. The Review 

 wishes him and his young bride a long, 

 happy and useful life. 



Have you voted for candidates for the 

 officers to be elected in the National 

 Association next November ? If not, 

 do so at once. In the last issue of the 

 Review I made some suggestions as to 

 candidates. Jas. A. Green, in Glean- 

 ings, sug-gests the name of O. L. 

 Hershiser as candidate for President. 

 Dr. C. C. Miller writes me to say that 

 he has been a Director ever since there 

 were any Directors, and that he is no 

 longer a candidate— that he would 

 refuse the office if elected. 



"The Honey-Money Stories, " is the title 

 of a 64-page booklet recently g-otten out 

 by Geo. W. York & Co., of Chicag-o. It 

 is printed on enameled paper, and 

 beautifully illustrated with between 30 

 and 40 half-tone engravings. In the 

 back of the book are three bee-song-s, 

 set to music. It is edited by Earl M. 

 Pratt, and contains a variety of short 

 bright stories, interspersed with facts 

 md interesting items about honey and 

 ts use. In fact, the primary object of 

 he book seems to be that of awaken- 



ing: interest in honey, and increasing- 

 its consumption. The price is 2.5 cts 

 for a single copy, or five copies for 

 $1.00. 



The West Michigan Fair, to be held at 

 Grand Rapids, Sept. IS to 22, has in- 

 troduced something- of an innovation in 

 its bee department. From 10 a. m. to 

 12 m., on each of four days, some ex- 

 pert bee-keeper is to g-ive a talk, and 

 answer questions on bee-keeping-. Here 

 is the program: — 



Tuesday, Sept. 19— W. Z. Hutchin- 

 son, Editor of Review. 



Wednesday, Sept. 20— S. D. Chap- 

 man, whose honey crop for 1905 is 

 17,000 pounds. 



Thursday, Sept. 21— E. D. Town- 

 send— 1905 crop 25,000 pounds. 



Friday, Sept. 22— Geo. H. Kirk- 

 patrick— 1905 crop 14,000 pounds. 



These talks may be made to .serve a 

 useful purpose, and Superintendent 

 Woodman is to be congratulated upon 

 his enterprising methods and manag-e- 

 ment. 



Keeping Queens over the winter is 

 something that has never been prac- 

 ticed to any great extent, except as 

 they are kept over in full colonies. In 

 the fall queens are plentiful and cheap, 

 in the spring they are dear and scarce, 

 and if there could be discovered some 

 cheap, practical manner of keeping- 

 over a surplus, it would be a boon to 

 queen breeders and purchasers, alike. 

 In a limited way, I have tried winter- 

 inor over nuclei in the cellar, but it 

 was not a success. Dr. Miller tells, in 

 Gleaning-s, of his success in dividing- 

 colonies in the fall, gnving- an extra 

 queen to a queenless half, and winter- 

 ing both halves and both queens in the 

 same hive, by putting- a thin, board 

 partition between the two halves. By 

 looking in at the entrance, in the 

 winter, the Doctor says that he would 

 find the two halves formed into one 

 cluster; divided, of course, by the 

 division board. 



