The Dunham Comb Foundation. 



This style of comb foundation is so 

 decidedly taking the lead that al- 

 most all the prominent manufacturers 

 have been obliged to get that kind of a 

 machine to satisfy the demand. When, 

 thinking of our experience with it, we 

 cannot wonder at this very decided 

 preference. The following from the 

 Bee-Keepers' Magazine expresses our 

 views exactly, and we will give it to our 

 readers : 



" Without wishing to say a word that 

 will detract one iota from the true merit 

 of any of the different styles or makes 

 of foundation, I will observe that this 

 season I have put in over 100 Langstroth 

 frames, filled to within an inch or a half- 

 inch of the bottom bar with the Dun- 

 ham Foundation, and I have yet to see 

 the first signs of sagging. I fully be- 

 lieve, with the use of this foundation 

 all the fuss and bother of wiring can be 

 dispensed with. Another great advan- 

 tage it has over many other makes is its 

 high side walls. The amount of wax 

 forming the base of the cell walls is suf- 

 ficient to enable the bees to complete 

 the whole cell without any extra addi- 

 tion. In numerous instances, within 24 

 hours after the introduction of the card, 

 it has been worked out and filled with 

 eggs. When we consider the great 

 start it gives a colony of bees— the 

 certainty of having all nice, straight 

 worker combs — the ease of controlling 

 the number of drones, who will say bee- 

 keeping is not being reduced to a sci- 

 ence that is making most prodigious 

 strides V" 



ig'We notice by the Swiss bee-paper, 

 Bulletin D^Apiculteur, that the Dunham 

 comb foundation is being introduced 

 into that country, and is very favorably 

 received. 



<gl°The premium list of the Caledo- 

 nian Apiarian Society is received. The 

 seventh show of honey, hives and bees 

 will be held at Kelso, Scotland, July 

 27-30, 1880. The Society offers 34 prizes, 

 consisting of cash, medals, etc., and, 

 under the management of its energetic 

 Secretary, R. J. Bennett, Esq of Glas- 

 gow, it will be very successful. Being an 

 1,4 honorary member " of this society, we 

 hope it will have a prosperous show. 



Ants. — Mr. W. W. Burnet has an ar- 

 ticle on page 331 of this Journal en- 

 titled " Ants Troublesome in the Api- 

 ary." As this article refers to Prof. 

 Cook, we sent him a proof-sheet of it, 

 and have received the following com- 

 ments, which would have appeared with 

 that article but it was printed before we 

 heard from Prof. Cook, who remarks as 

 follows : 



Our friend Burnet is a veritable 

 " Mark Tapley," and can be very jolly 

 under difficulties. I have never known 

 ants to be injurious to bees, though each 

 season they put in an appearance. 



The Paris green used could not have 

 been genuine. Much of this article is 

 so diluted that it has little or no virtue. 

 A neighbor told me a few days since 

 that it would not kill the potato beetle. 



Mr. Burnet might set his nuclei all on 

 a bench whose legs should rest in basins 

 containing carbolic acid. This evapor- 

 ates slowly, and is so obnoxious that it 

 repels all insects. Will Mr. B. try it and 

 report. A. J. Cook. 



British Apiarists.— At the meeting of 

 the British Bee-Keepers' Association 

 on May 12, it was arranged that Mr. 

 Cheshire should represent the Associa- 

 tion at the Royal Agricultural Society's 

 Show at Carlisle in July next, Mr. J. 

 Lee, Jr., acting as expert. Mr. Cheshire 

 presented to the Association a frame 

 hive specially constructed for traveling, 

 to be used in explaining the manage- 

 ment of movable comb hives at manip- 

 ulations in the Association's tents. It 

 was stated that Mr. Carr had consented 

 to lecture for the Association in Ire- 

 land, Mr. Abbott acting as manipula- 

 tor. The Judges were selected for the 

 coming show at South Kensington, and 

 arrangements were made for lecturing 

 at the same time and place in the bee 



tent. 



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In Mr. II. II. Flick's pamphlet pub- 

 lished in 1873, a copy of which is in our 

 desk, we find that he was then recom- 

 mending "small sections" for comb 

 honey, chaff packing for winter prepar- 

 tion, and various other things which are 

 now considered new and progressive. Mr. 

 Flick seems to be entitled to the credit 

 of priority on many points. 



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