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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



249 



"Specialize," is Mr. Hutchinson's 

 battle cry. It is the call of the age, 

 and is the foundation of the striking 

 successes seen in business and the 

 trades. But it makes for narrowness 

 of vision and takes much of the 

 sweetness from life. But, strange 

 to say, the broader a man's vision 

 the better specialist he makes. (M.) 



We have recently received from 

 Mr. Stephen N. Green," of Medina, 

 Ohio, a copy of his book entitled 

 "Bee Breeding," an attractively got- 

 ten up little volume, the beaut}^ oi 

 which is, however, marred by many 

 typographical errors and poor press- 

 work. The subject matter is sug- 

 gestive of much which, if followed 

 up, should be of benefit to the craft. 

 No price is given. (M.) 



Clipping the wings of queens is re- 

 garded by Hon. R. L. Taylor, in the 

 Review, as an "invention of the evil 

 one." He further says: "I unhesita- 

 tingly pronounce the clipped queens at 

 swarming time to be an unmitigated 

 nuisance." The editor of the Review 

 says, "The best critics are they, who, 

 with what they gainsay, oflfer another 

 and better way." Mr. Taylor is a care- 

 ful, learned and proficient apiarist, and 

 an explanation of the "better way" is 

 awaited with interest. (H.) 



Some unknown friend has sent us a 

 copy of a newspaper published in Pre- 

 toria, South Africa, in which is repro- 

 duced the long article on bees injuring 

 grapes, by W. R. Gilbert, recently pub- 

 lished in these columns. Three whole 

 articles and other items from The Ber- 

 Keeper also appear in the Australasian 

 Bee-Keeper for August, while the Irish 

 Bee Journal for September contains an 

 extended notice of our work, being 

 very complimentary to The Bee-Keeper 

 and its editor. These evidences of the 

 increasing popularity of The Bee-Keep- 

 er abroad and the evidences of the 

 good will of our brother editors of 

 foreign lands are deeply appreciated, 

 whether merited or not. (H.) 



So you have just discovered that 

 some colonies are short of stores. 

 Well, fill four quart fruit jars with 



hot syrup, so hot that you can barely 

 hold your finger in it, tie cheese cloth 

 over the jar tops and stand the jars 

 top down and close together on top 

 of the frames right above the cluster. 

 Cover jars and frames with several 

 thicknesses of cloth so as to retain 

 the heat as long as possible. (An 

 extra body, of course, is set onto the 

 brood chamber to accommodate the 

 jars.) If all the food is not taken 

 within, say, six or eight hours, reheat 

 the syrup and return it. Use syrup 

 for such feeding made half sugar and 

 half water. And don't let it happen 

 again. (M.) 



During the past three months the 

 editor, with his family, has been travel- 

 ing and rusticating in several of the 

 Northern states and Canada, and The 

 Bee-Keeper has, therefore, been neces- 

 sarily neglected to some extent. By the 

 time this number is in the hands of 

 the reader he hopes to be once more 

 at his desk, rested and ready to resume 

 his work with renewed energy. Each 

 and every reader of The Bee-Keeper 

 is cordially invited to send in articles 

 and items on apiarian subjects; to dis- 

 cuss bee matters and to participate 

 generally in the exchange of ideas re- 

 lating to bee culture. We want to 

 make The Bee-Keeper the most spicy 

 and interesting bee journal in the 

 world during the coming winter 

 months. Write us. (H.) 



Some of the papers^ are making 

 much ado over a plurality of queens 

 in a hive. It makes good copy and 

 amuses the children. Somewhere 

 certain self-appointed leaders have 

 said that an eight-frame hive was as 

 large as one queen could fill. What 

 will two do in it? Use two stories? 

 Somewhere it has been said that the 

 advantage of a shallow hive was in 

 getting the honey into the supers. 

 How shallow is a two-story L. hive? 

 Somewhere there are sundry instruc- 

 tions for artificial increase, for re- 

 queening, etc., the burden of which 

 is, "first find the queen," which one 

 under the new plan? Multiply the 

 present queen-hunting fun by two or 

 more and then try and smile. It will 

 make business good for the queen 

 dealers. Perhaps, too, the bland and 

 guileless supply man will devise new 



