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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



June 



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Australia's trovible this year is to 

 produce honey witli which to supply 

 the demand; last year it was to 

 create a demand for that pi-odueed. 



The old "Wiley lie/' regarding 

 the manufacture of artificial comb 

 honey, appears to have lost none of 

 its original charms for the news- 



paper man by whom it is yet pub- 

 lished as a news item, with some 

 slight alteration, substantially as it 

 appeared in the Pojnilar Science 

 Monthly seventeen years ago. 



A Jamaican correspondent says 

 he rears about 250 queens a month. 

 The bar to which the cell-cups are 

 attached he has beveled from the 

 outer edges to the center, below. 

 This gives the cells a slight out- 

 w^ard tilt, as a row of cups is placed 

 on either side, so that while the 

 cells are really more compact in the 

 brood nest the bees have fi'ee com- 

 munication through and around 

 them. 



Mr. Thos. Chantry, President of 

 the South Dakota State Bee-keepers' 

 Association, writes that his apiary 

 of over 300 colonies came through 

 the past winter in excellent condi- 

 tion. Mr. Chantry has been select- 

 ing from the best of his stock, as 

 breeders, for the last 23 years, and 

 as a result has bred up a strain of 

 bees that are hard to excel as comb 

 honey producers. "Comb" is Mr. 

 Chantry's specialty. 



Secretary C. H. Clayton, of the 

 California Bee-keepers' Exchange, 

 has a very interesting article in 

 Gleanings^ which forcibly presents 

 the necessity for co-operative action 

 among bee-keepers. Mr. Clayton 

 regards such a movement as the 

 only solution of the market problem, 

 and through its adoption evidently 

 foresees the establishment of busi- 

 ness conditions satisfactorily profit- 

 able to the producer of honey. 



Mr. Harry S. Howe, the "light- 

 ning bee operator,'' formerly with 

 W. L. Coggshall of West Groton, 

 N. Y., now of Cuba,W. I., we regret 

 to learn by a recent letter has 

 found it necessary to undergo treat- 



