umns as often as our time will allow. 

 Wishing you all a prosperous season for 

 1881, we remain your obedient servant. 

 Borodino, N. Y., Nov., 1881. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Tool for Glassing Sections. 



C. WITRSTER. 



Editor Bee Journal : I have sent 

 you an implement for inspection and 

 opinion. I have felt the need so much 

 for it during the past two years, and 

 have tried several devices to help me in 

 putting the. tin points on sections in 

 glassing, of which, as you see, this is the 

 result, and I do not think it can be im- 

 proved much in principle, except that 

 the hole for the shank, which is smaller 

 in diameter down through the interior 

 of the jaw, may be extended about % of 

 an inch further back, so on the spring 



Eressing back the shank it may still 

 ave sufficient insertion in its own bore 

 to prevent the point of the shank from 

 slipping over on the shoulder left by the 



larger bore. One continuous small bore 

 may do, but the shank would not be 

 sufficiently strong and stiff, and the 

 large bore would be too big to go to the 

 tip of the jaw unless made heavier, also 

 the slat in the exterior cut in the furl 

 or casing might be put on the opposite 

 side to prevent coming in contact with 

 the right fore finger in the act of press- 

 ing down when driving the tin points. 

 It is a great convenience for those who 

 have many sections to glass. 



I have come across nothing so far to 

 do this work. I have spent much study 

 and labor on this, and whether it suits 

 or not, you are welcome to it, and to use 

 it for a pattern. It is not easy to make 

 one to work right, but a good mechanic, 

 with a reasonable amount of skill, ought 

 to be able to do so without difficulty. 

 We have had engravings in your valua- 

 ble Journal for nailing sections to ad- 

 vantage, but I consider this just as 

 indispensable. You can drive the point 

 into hard wood even. Although only 

 lately perfected, I still had the pleasure 

 of driving some 7,000 points, without 

 missing or ill-spending a single one. 



You will see, when using the tool, the 

 section must be laid down fiat, lay your 

 glass on, and the side of the section you 

 wish to drive the points in should be 

 nearest you, then with your left hand 

 hold the section and glass in place, and 



with the left hand thumb to steady the 

 tool, having, as you will notice, one jaw 

 shorter, which must be facing the glass 

 in front of it, keeping the tool close to 

 the edge of the glass, and while press- 

 ing down with the left fore finger press 

 the glass against the tool, or at least 

 from pushing it off in case a point is a 

 little faulty and sometimes apt to bend. 



A very little practice will enable a 

 person to put in the points, and with 

 the side of the jaw turning over the 

 heel of the point with such rapidity that 

 a looker-on can hardly tell how it is 

 done. I of course have taken out no 

 patent on it, and therefore make it pub- 

 lic property with this wish, that it may 

 be named with the inventor's name if it 

 should be found deserving. The shank 

 is put into the handle with a thread cut 

 on it and screwed in, as that part is to 

 be the strongest, and to project just so 

 so far, to almost a hair's breadth. 



Kleinburg, Ontario, Oct. 5, 1880. 



[The tool is very handy, and shows 

 skill in devising. Those who do much 

 glassing will find it quite useful. — Ed.] 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Cyprian and Holy Bees, Etc. 



D. A. JONES. 



In compliance with the request of the 

 National Convention that I write out 

 for publication, in the American Bee 

 Journal, the substance of my remarks 

 before that body at their last session, 

 in Cincinnati, relative to my recent trip 

 to the Island of Cyprus and Jerusalem, 

 it gives me pleasure to submit the fol- 

 lowing : 



Since we last parte i (about one year 

 ago) I have endeavored, in common with 

 the rest of my brother bee-keepers, to 

 elevate the science and better our con- 

 dition, and one of my efforts has been 

 to secure new and superior races of bees, 

 in which I have succeeded beyond my 

 most sanguine expectations, and I feel 

 satisfied that the years 1880-81 will be 

 marked in the bee history of America as 

 making greater onward strides in bee- 

 keeping than any previous years. 



One year ago we were very anxious to 

 secure queen bees from the Island of 

 Cyprus, which I have accomplished at 

 great expense and sacrifice of comfort ; 

 but even more has been done. A supe- 

 rior race of bees, now known as " holy 

 bees," have been collected from various 

 parts of the Holy Land. I found bees 

 there which I believe to be those first 

 given to man, and which possess quali- 

 ties not found in any others. 



