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cal sketch and portrait of Miss Emma Wil- 

 son, which we published on page 361. Here 

 is what Bro. Root says about it: 



A very interesting biographical sketch of 

 a comparatively new writer on bee-lore, 

 Miss Emma Wilson, appears in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. It will be remembered 

 that Miss Wilson has written considerably 

 for the Ladies' Conversazione of Gleanings ; 

 and her pithy, brief articles, have, as a gen- 

 eral thing, contained a good deal of value, 

 not only to the bee-keepers of her own sex, 

 but to those of the sterner sort. We have 

 been thinking for some little time back that 

 our readers would like to see a picture of 

 her, but Bro. York has got ahead of us. 

 Well, we are rather glad of it, because he 

 has done it so well. 



Xlie Apiary for April.— Mr. A. H. 



Duff, in the March American Agriculhirist 

 gives the following advice to bee-keepers 

 for the month of April : 



To secure the best results in honey crops, 

 careful management is required during this 

 month. All weak colonies should be united 

 with others. It will not pay to start with 

 mere handfuls of bees, as the most valuable 

 part of the season will be consumed in 

 building up such into fair colonies. After 

 uniting until all are fair colonies, they 

 should be stimulated by feeding. By this 

 means, only, can we get the best results. 

 The crop of honey depends upon the force 

 of bees on hand when the season opens. 

 This kind of feeding is merely giving each 

 colony, daily, a small quantity of syrup or 

 honey. Queens that are not defective, 

 when fed thus, will produce brood to the 

 utmost capacity. 



If colonies are nearly or quite destitute 

 of honey, this stimulative feeding sho uld 

 not be -depended upon for their entire main- 

 tenance. They should have besides 10 or 12 

 pounds of sealed honey. Feeding should be 

 continued regularly except during the in- 

 tervals when bees are gathering honey from 

 the fields. 



Until the main honey-flow sets in, great 

 care should be exercised not to feed so 

 heavily as to have any of our prepared food 

 enter the surplus honey -receptacles that it 

 may be placed upon the market for con- 

 sumption. Many inexperienced persons 

 seem to think that this feeding of bees is 

 for the purpose of having them store up 

 immense quantities of sugar syrup, which 

 is to be put upon the market as honey. This 

 is not the fact, by any means. Every api- 

 arist well knows that this would be a great 

 injury to his trade. Hence the all-impor- 

 tant line to be drawn between feeding for 

 the production of life and brood-rearing, 

 and feeding for " honey." 



Contracting the brood-chamber will be 

 much help in building up colonies during 

 April. Division-boards may be used to ad- 

 just the hive to accommodate the amount 

 of bees therein. This economizes heat, and 

 more space will be occupied by brood in 

 managing thus. 



]^eT»- IIee>IIive»« are still being pat- 

 ented, as is shown by the periodical issues 

 of the patent-office records at Washington. 

 One invented recently by Messrs. J. D. 

 Hawkins and F. M. Ray, of Texas, makes 

 the following ■' claims:" 



1. In a bee-hive, interchangeable sections 

 containing comb-frames, each having bee- 

 entrances, and a bottom provided with bee- 

 passages, in combination with removable 

 supplemental cover composed of two parts, 

 and an intermediate slide or valve having 

 apertures or passages adapted to register ' 

 or align with apertures or passages in said 

 parts of said cover, said supplemental cover 

 being arranged between the sections, sub- 

 stantially as set forth. 



2. In a bee-hive, interchangeable sections 

 containing comb-frames, each having bee- 

 entrances, and a raised bottom provided 

 with bee-passages, in combination with a 

 removable supplemental cover composed of 

 two parts, one resting in the lower section 

 upon the comb-frames, and the other part 

 in the upper section just below its raised 

 bottom, and the apertured slide or valve 

 sliding in a slot or seat between said parts 

 of said cover, substantially as set forth. 



3. The bee-hive, consisting of the separa- 

 ble sections containing comb-frames, each 

 having a raised bottom provided with bee- 

 passages, one side forming a door, 'and hav- 

 ing a bee-alighting platform and entrances, 

 and a removable supplemental cover com- 

 posed of two parts, one part resting in the 

 lower section upon the comb-frames, and 

 the other part in the upper section just be- 

 low its raised bottom, and the apertured 

 slide seated intermediately of the parts of 

 said cover, and adapted for operation, sub- 

 stantially as specified. 



Death, with relentless on-going, has 

 visited the homes of two of our sub- 

 scribers, and took with him two loving 

 wives and devoted mothers. Mrs. Atchley 

 writes as follows about one of them : 



Dr. George Mott, of Spurger, Tex. , wrote 

 on March 2, 1893, that on Feb. 10th he was 

 compelled to say good-bye to his dear wife, 

 who left an infant babe 3}^ months old, and 

 a little girl 2 years old. 



Weep not, Bro. Mott. there is a day not 

 far distant when all good Christian people 

 will meet their loved ones beyond the river, 

 where the word " good-bye " is never heard. 

 May God's richest blessings and loving care 

 ever rest upon the motherless babes and 

 the bereaved father, is the prayer of a 

 friend. Jennie Atchley. 



The other was Mrs. D. C. Wilson, of 

 Viola, Iowa. Mr. W. wrote as follows 

 about her death, on March 7th : 



I have to record the loss of my wife — my 

 bosom friend and counselor in all things. 

 We had walked down life's road together 

 for almost 4(') yeai's, passing through some 



