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Mendleson says when he moves his 

 apiary to the great bean fields the hives 

 get filled with honey in six days. Glean- 

 ings, 87. 



Dr. Miller made a failure of corn husks 

 as fuel. Gleanings, 123. Glad he saved 

 me the bother of trying them. What a 

 great variety of fuels we are getting that 

 won't work worth a cent except with the 

 inventor! Not sure that the Dr's small 

 chips, or friend Golden 's sunflower leaves 

 would smile on me. 



That is a very wise and timely saying 

 of Ernest Roots in Gleanings, 124, that a 

 little bulging at top or bottom, which is 

 endurable in the old style of sections, will 

 be altogether untolerable in the new style. 

 True as a die. One ma}' safely assume 

 that things won't be right until a year or 

 two of unpleasant experiences has com- 

 ])elled them to get right. 



Richards, O. April 26, 1898. 



^^ EDITORIAL 



fferings. 



Candied Honey can be thrown out of 

 the combs with an extractor, if the combs 

 are first uncapped and soaked several 

 hours in water; so writes a Wisconsin bee- 

 keeper — I have mislaid his letter and for- 

 gotten his name. He says that the water 

 in which the combs are soaked may' 

 be used in making vinegar. 



Th.\t Lime is the one thing needed 

 for the growth of sweet clover is indicated 

 by a fact pointed out in a letter just at 

 hand from Mr. J. E. Crane of Vermont. 

 He says that a friend living near the ex- 

 tensive marble quarries at Rutland, Ver- 

 mont, once told him that upon the heaps 

 of waste, where there was nothing but 

 viarhle to the depth of twenty or thirty 

 feet, sweet clover grew in great luxuri- 

 ance. As is known, marble is a very pure 

 varietv of lime stone. 



The Advertising pages of a journal 

 ought to be just as bright, newsy, inter- 

 esting and really valuable, as the reading 

 pages. Thev may also be made things of 

 beauty. Of late I have been giving some 

 of the Review advertisements a shaking 

 up; putting them through a sort of reju- 

 venating process — re-writing and re-cloth- 

 ing them. Just take a look at them; and 

 if you patronize any of the advertisers, 

 just tell that you saw their advertisement 

 in the Review. 



Mv P\\THER-iN-i,A\v, Clark Simpson 

 of Flushing, Michigan, passed awav Sun- 

 day, Ma}- 1st. He was 74 years of age; 

 and had been an enthusiastic bee-keeper 

 more than half of his life; being greatly 

 given to the adoption of new things. I 

 remember with pleasure the visits that I 

 nmde him when scarcely out of my 

 "teens," to "talk bees." It was during 

 these visits that I made the acquaintance 

 of the girl who has since been my good 

 wife. Her mother will now make her 

 home with us. 



Mv Bees wintered exceptionally well 

 last winter. Not one colony lo.st out of 

 35, and not a weak one among them. 

 The two or three brought in from the 

 country and put into the cellar without 

 a flight wintered equally as well as the 

 others. As the years go by I am more 

 and more convinced that food is the 

 pivotal point in wintering bees here in 

 the North. Although it was bright and 

 warm when the bees were carried out, 

 they seemed in no hurry to fly. Some 

 colonies were not in full flight until they 

 had been half an hour on their summer 

 -Stands. They were quiet and closely 

 clustered, and probably would have en- 

 dured six weeks more of confinement 

 with no discomfort. 



"Facing" Comb Honev when crating 

 it for market is a suV)ject upon which con- 

 siderable has been written. Quite a lit- 

 tle space is given up to it in this issue of 



