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to be a Hawk-eye picture of our main 

 factory. We would never have recog- 

 nized it, however, if it had not been 

 labeled. The other picture shows 

 Rambler listening to a song on bur 

 Phonograph. Friend Root explains 

 as follows, in a foot note. to the article, 

 and for his kind wishes we return 

 many thanks: 



"The Hawk-Eve photograph of 

 Falconer's place of business was not 

 very clear, hence we had to use zinc 

 etching. We should have preferred 

 to give our readers a real view by the 

 balf-tone process. ( hir business trans- 

 actions with the W. T. Falconer Co. 

 have been the pleasantest, and we are 

 glad to note that they have built up 

 their business by square dealing and 

 good goods. Gleanings wishes them 

 more and greater prosperity, and a 

 booming circulation to the AMERICAN 

 Bee-Keeper, of which they are the 

 publishers. 1 



T. K. Massie, of Concord Church, 

 AY. Va., a bee-keeper of long experi- 

 ence, who has contributed many val- 

 uable articles to bee literature, will 

 continue his series of articles which 

 were in progress in the Bee World at 

 the time be absorbed that magazine. 

 This will be good news to the former 

 subscribers of the World, and we have 

 no doubt the articles will be of unusual 

 interest to all of our readers. They 

 will begin n-xt month and will be 

 preceeded by a short synopsis of the 

 articles which have appeared in the 

 Bee World. 



Last month in answer to a cor- 

 respondent we remarked, that " it is 

 generally understood that Italian bees 

 do not work to any extent in buck- 

 wheat, while hybrids and common 

 bees get a good harvest from it." Our 

 friend Dr. Miller says, that he sup- 



posed that Italians would work as 

 well as Blacks on buckwheat if 

 nothing better was to be had. We 

 agree with him exactly, but in this 

 section when buckwheat is in bloom 

 there are also other honey plants for 

 the bees to work on, so that it holds 

 true, as we above stated, that Italian 

 bee- do not work to any extent in 

 buckwheat, as they prefer to work on 

 almost anything else than that. 



We are in receipt from the invent- 

 or, of samples of the latest Dibbern 

 Bee Escapes. A careful examination 

 of these fails tb convince US that, 

 either of them are superior to the 

 rmter, although one called the "Lit- 

 tle' Giant," is very similar in appear- 

 ance, but instead of a spring gate 

 through which the bees pass there are 

 several little wires composing a gate 

 which the bees push up as they go 

 out, and after passing the gate falls 

 down again effectually preventing 

 them from returning. The other es- 

 cape is made after the Labyrinth pat- 

 tern, and is certainly an improvement 

 on Mr. Dibbern's former efforts in 

 this direction and will doubtless work 

 satisfactorily, although it seems to us 

 that it is liable to become clogged. 

 We cannot refrain from advising our 

 readers to purchase a Porter escape, if 

 they wish to get one which is sure of 

 paving satisfaction. 



Punic bees are being discussed al- 

 most as freely in the English bee 

 papers as on this side of the water, 

 and no one seems to know anything 

 definite concerning them. It is claim- 

 ed that they came from Africa, but as 

 to the exact locality no one seems to 

 be able to tell. Thev certainly have 



