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date editor of the Review ! I did think 

 for a minute that I would stop the paper; 

 but I will hold on a little longer. This 

 joking business in bee-literature has got 

 to stop. I don't see what this world is 

 coming to, any way. 



Now, Mr. Martin, I see that you think 

 the editor of the Review sedate and digni- 

 fied, but I will inform you that he is not. 

 When at his desk answering corres- 

 pondence, or writing editorials, he is, 

 to a certain degree, sedate and digni- 

 fied, but he can stop almost any time to 

 make or take a joke; and if that little 

 " Whoop-e-e ! " of his astonished you, I 

 think I can relate an incident that will 

 astonish you even more. 



While cleaning house this spring the 

 putting down of the new parlor carpet 

 had just been completed when this "dig- 

 nified and sedate editor" came in to look 

 at it. He said "Now if we only had a 

 nice big cat to roll on this new carpet. " 

 He didn't stand and wish very long but 

 got .down himself and rolled over and 

 over like a cat. I made the remark at 

 the time that "the readers of the Review 

 ought to have his picture. " 



Now, Mr. Martin, do you think him 

 sedate and dignified ? 



THE TWIN THAT SETS THE TYPE. 



BEE-BREAD IN SECTIONS. 



This is Largely a Question of Locality and 

 Management; and, Possibly, of the Sea- 

 son. How it may be Avoided. 



My method of working for comb hon- 

 ey is identical with that of Mr. C. Daven- 

 port, of Minnesota. I have never had 

 any serious trouble with pollen being 

 stored in the sections. I never had any 

 jjut in the sections over a colony having 

 an old established brood nest. If I ever 

 did have any it was in sections having 

 drawn combs in them that were placed 

 over swarms that were hived in a con- 

 tracted brood nest furnished with nothing 

 except starters. It seems that Mr. Da- 

 venport has had considerable loss from 



pollen in sections, and in an article in 

 the American Bee Journal for June 9, he 

 sets forth his trouble in this direction, 

 and tells how he has overcome it. Here 

 is the article: — 



In my last I made mention of the fact 

 that the previous season I lost a large 

 amount — large at least for a bee-keeper — 

 by not understanding the business of pro- 

 ducing honey better than I do. This loss 

 was caused partly by bee-biead. .\ num- 

 ber of thousand sections, when finished, 

 contained so much of this that they were 

 unsalable, and the honey in thousands 

 more was so poorly fastened to the wood 

 that it was almost impossible to haul 

 them to the nearest towns without break- 

 age, let alone shipping them. In fact, a 

 great many were broken in handling be- 

 fore they left the apiary, as a large part 

 of them were but slightly attached to the 

 wood at the top. 



With but few exceptions, bee-bread or 

 pollen in sections has always caused me 

 sOme loss each season, and to a less ex- 

 tent sections containing honey imperfect- 

 ly fastened also, but never anything like 

 this. The year before, under the same 

 management, there was practicall}' no 

 loss from either cause. The season 

 might, therefore, in some sense, be ac- 

 counted to blame, but a bee-keeper in 

 order ta make a success of the business at 

 present must be able, and understand 

 how, to meet the conditions of different 

 seasons, and I have no doubt this loss I 

 have described might have been avoided 

 if one had known how; and while I will 

 admit that I might not be able to entire- 

 ly avoid it if the same conditions were to 

 occur again this season, yet I consider 

 what I did learn in regard to the matter 

 was of more benefit to me than what was 

 lost; that is, that it will, or may be, in 

 the years to come, for I am a young maij 

 yet, and expect to continue to follow bee- 

 keeping as a business in the future. 



As I have said, what I learned last year 

 cost me hundreds of dollars, and now it is 

 to be laid before the reader at a cost to 

 them of but a fraction of a cent. I won- 

 der if man}' of us appreciate what benefit 

 a first-class journal like this is to its read- 

 ers. By this I do not necessarily mean 

 that anything from me may be of value, 

 but there are hundreds of others who 

 each year, through its columns, tell us 

 their experiences, and what is constantly 

 being learned that is of value to our pur- 

 suit. There have l)een in the past, and 

 no doubt there will be in the future, sin- 

 gle copies that are worth much more to 



