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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



159 



Now let me tell the brethren about my scraper: 

 Take an old, flat file to your blacksmith; cut off 

 the shank for handle; draw out the end as thin 

 and wide as you can — say two inches. Make per- 

 fectly straight on edge, then make a square turn 

 of about IVi inches, to stand in the shape o£ a hoe. 

 Sharpen the other end to use for prying up crates 

 and for other purposes. Temper and file sharp, 

 and you ha^^e the best bee-tool on earth. You can 

 pry up, scrape tops, sides, corners or anywhere 

 else, and also have a tool that can be used for 

 many other purposes. I have three so that lean 

 find one most any time or place. If you are on 

 good terms with your blacksmith, they will cost you 

 about ten cents. Yours, Geo. H. Mobley, 



Hurricane, Ark.; June 20, 1901. 

 Dear Editor American" Bee-keeper: I fail to 

 see the connection when you speak of any theory 

 of mine in the June number as regards the superior 

 finish of honey during a slow flow. It is nature's 

 handiwork and no theory of mine that causes a 

 slow flow here. Still I have seen honey from all 

 over the world and never remember seeing any 

 that could beat what I have been removing to-day. 

 I can hardly assume to say, however, that any 

 theory on my part made the honey whiter. Fact is 

 I have never thought much about it; but since you 

 have spoken of it, I have about made up my mind 

 that the diflerence is all in the locality. Indeed, 

 bees work much different here than anywhere else 

 I have ever kept them. Fraternally, 



L. E. Kerk. 



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print, 

 A book's a book, altho' there's nothing in't. 

 — Byron. 



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Dr. G. G. Miller, the world-re- 

 nowned authority on apiculture, of 

 Merango, III., was seventy years of 

 age on June 10, 1901. The Ameri- 

 can Bee Jour mil paid the venerable 

 gentleman a pretty tribute on the 

 occasion of his anniversary. 



The Golorado Honey Producers" 

 Association, a co-operative institu- 

 tion incorporated under the laws of 

 the State whose name it bears, and 

 having an authorized capital of 

 $10,000, is having a most satisfac- 

 tory effect upon the development of 

 honey-pro lucing interests. The 

 Association's work foi'ms the chief 

 topic in the June number of the 

 Rocky Mountain Bee Journal^ and it 

 is exhaustively discussed. 



"Special Bulletin No. 14," issued 

 in June, 1901, by the Michigan 

 Experiment Station, deals in a most 

 practical way with the subject of 

 foul -brood. The language is such 

 that any novice will readily under- 

 stand the whole subject, which 

 treats of the origin and cure of this 

 deadly malady. The authors have 

 drawn liberally upon such recog- 



