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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



and is real good to pry the frames 

 loose with. Try one. 



Have honse-apiaries been a success 

 with any of our readers? If so, let 

 some who have liad experience tell in 

 some bee paper just how they should 

 be built and managed. 



I would as soon be stung by a bee 

 as be " bored" ))y an individual who 

 wants to talk bees, and only knows 

 that they " make honey" and have a 

 terrible sting. — Mrs. L. Hamson, in 

 Prairie Farmer. 



Dr. C. C. Miller, in Gleanings^ 

 tells us how to make what he calls a 

 " robber-cloth." IL is simply a square 

 of cotton cloth with strips of wood 

 nailed on two sides. It is cheap, 

 simple and useful. 



Mr. James Heddon, in the Re- 

 view^ says : " It would be much more 

 appropriate to call the apiarist a 

 manufacturer than to call him a pro- 

 ducer." Beware of the word " manu- 

 facturer," James, it is " loaded." 



Mr. H. H. Knapp, in Gleanings., 

 advocates frames 1^ inches from cen- 

 tre to centre. Mr. Z. T. Hawk is on 

 that side too, and the reasons usually 

 given for any greater width seem to 

 me to be inconclusive. 



The American Bee Journal has 

 gone " gunning" after the Chicago 

 Herald., — a " wily sort of a paj^ei-, — 

 for a misstatement about comb honey. 



Mr. Newman is ever alert to find 

 and fight the foes of the beekeeper. 



No part of our pages will be given 

 to receipts for poisoning bees, nor to 

 agricultural pursuits. — Apicultukist. 



Very good, Mr. Alley, very good. 

 A bee-paper should be devoted to bee- 



keeping and not to agriculture, relig- 

 ion or politics. 



I have never yet had a season that 

 I could fill all my orders. — C. H. 

 DiBBERN, in American Bee Journal. 



There is some " business" in the 

 way Mr. Dibbern handles the honey 

 trade. You shiftless one, " go thou 

 and do likewise !" 



We all know that Albino bees, as 

 sold in the market, are simply a light 

 variety of the Italian race. — Prof. A. 

 J. Cook, in Gleanings. 



This, coming from such high au- 

 thority, is rough on the " boomers" 

 of the so-called Albinos. 



Mr. John Craj'craft, in American 

 Bee Journal advocates sending colo- 

 nies of bees in cages from the north 

 to the south to be wintered and re- 

 turned north in time for white clover 

 bloom. 



This may be done, but there are 

 some drawbacks. It is an idea that 

 should be remembered. 



Judge H. H. Andrews sajs in 

 American Bee Journal: "Ninety-five 

 per cent of all the bees in North 

 America, kept by professionals and 

 their neighbors, are just mongrels." 

 What think you of this, ye queen- 

 breeder ? — Beehive. 



Think? Why, that the Judge was 

 mistaken. " Only this and nothing 

 more." 



Mr. H. R. Boardman tells, in 

 Gleanings., how he " skinned" the 

 ground by removing the sod in his 

 apiary and then calls it "a model bee 

 yard." Why he wants bare ground 

 to keep bees on is a query. The 

 splattering of the hives with dirt by 

 the rain, the mud and the result to 

 floors and carpets should be enough 

 to condemn this plan. 



Milton, West Virginia. 



