1894 



GLEANINCJS IN BEE CLLTIRE. 



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er the aperture with Root's metal. Nail it to 

 the inside of tlie trap, as by so doing there will 

 be a good large bee-space for the bees to pass up 

 between the front of the hive and the back of 

 the trap. The front of the trap should also be 

 covered with metal. Now, if you have any 

 traps on hand not nailed up, put in three of the 

 wire tubes instead of one. All our improved 

 traps have three tubes; and so sure as a drone 

 attempts to leave the hive, he finds himself in 

 the trap before he knows it. 



I shall send one of the improved (old-style) 

 traps to the editor, and may be he can illustrate 

 the improvements so that ail will better under- 

 stand them. 



Wenham, Mass. 



(til the time. This is a matter worth thinking about. 

 Heed the lesson tauglit by that intelligent coiiib- 

 fduiidatioM firm, Clias. Dadaiit & Son, and also 

 others, wliose advertisements are found in ecny 

 ttionlxr of tlie liec Jouinal, witiiout a single miss. 



•IHTERLSTS- 



Anil there shall be no night there; and thev need no candle, 

 neither lisrht of the Min; for the Lord Uod giveth them ligtit: 

 And they shall reijrn for ever and ever. — Rkv. Hi : 5. 



We got such an onslaught of articles on the 

 tariff question, that we found it absolutely 

 necessary to bring the discussion to a close. 

 The snbject is too redhot for our columns; 

 and, besides, it is quite apt to run into politics 

 only, with no reference to bees, and, we are 

 sorry to say, bitter feelings toward those who 

 hold opposite views are apt to be engendered. 



It may not be amiss to remind you who are 

 using the Hoflfman frames for the first season, 

 that propolis, during this time of year, acts the 

 worst it ever will; and that, after the frames 

 have been in use for two years, and the edges 

 ■covered with old propolis, iieiv propolis, of the 

 disagreeable, sticky kind, will not be deposited 

 so freely. In fact, the two-year-old Hoffman 

 frames work nicer than the first year, along in 

 the fall. 



CONTINUOUS ADVKHTISING. 



We find the following good advice in the 

 American Bee Journal; and if you have an 

 advertisement that does not pay, please read 

 carefully what Editor York has to say. Possi- 

 bly it may e.xplain the trouble: 



Continuous advertising, even if it be only a small 

 announcement, pays the advertiser the best in ilie 

 long run. Spasmodic advertising, like "spasms" 

 •of any kind, is unsatisfactory. To secure tlie very 

 best results, year in and year out, you must keep 

 .your name and busmess before the public. Only by 

 so doing can you hope to keep from bL'ing forgotten 

 when the time comes that your would-be customers 

 wish to purcliase what they want. 



Besides, in the fall of the year more agricultural 

 papers send out large numbers of sample copies, 

 ^nd the advertiser fails to get the advantage of 

 reaching the thousands who get the free sample 

 •copies, unless he keeps his advertisement running 



ANOTIIEK BICYCLE TOUR. 



It is not to be, but is already partly a thing 

 of the past. Why didn't we give notice? We 

 could not tell exactly when we could get away 

 best, or what route we would take. Briefly, 

 this is the one so far taken: Mounted on the 

 Victor Flyer, we halted, after a few miles' ride, 

 at the apiary of Vernon Burt. Again resuming 

 the saddle we hung to ii till we reached Board- 

 man's, at East Townsend, near Norwalk. We 

 stayed so long here that we had to take the 

 train for the last 30 miles, en route for Toledo. 

 Nevertheless we covered on the wheel, besides 

 the stops, 75 miles. We stayed at Dr. Mason's 

 over night, and the next morning wheeled to 

 Detroit, stopping on tne way to hunt up certain 

 obscure bee-keepers. This day's run was 70 or 

 SO miles. Next day found us at Bell Branch, 

 the home of M. H. Hunt. We lost the way, 

 and ran needlessly some seven or eight miles 

 out of the road. Again we are In the saddle, 

 with M. H. Hunt for a pilot, to see that we get 

 started right this time. We then left him and 

 reached Flint — the last part of the journey 

 having to be completed on the cars by reason of 

 the impassablenebs of the roads lor sand. This 

 latter article was so plentiful for the rest of the 

 way that we took the train for Lapeer. We 

 now start from Manistee to Chicago by boat; 

 and from this point we shall resume the use of 

 the wheel— for what points we shall learn later, 

 for we don't know yet. We shall never — no, 

 never — attempt on the wheel to ride over sandy 

 country again. 



We have picked up on the way many inter- 

 esting things, and later on will try to give them 

 to you under Notes of Bicycle Travel. 



We hnd so far on the route that the honey 

 season, while better than last, has been rarther 

 poor. Every thing, except the lakes, seemed to 

 be parched in drouth. As a consequence, smoke 

 and fire are getting in some of their work. 



THE ST. .JOSEPH SOUVENIR. 



Welu, what is that? Imagine that you have 

 in your hands a book 1.5 inches long, sidewise, 

 and 11 inches from top to bottom, containing 

 about 1.50 pag(!s, and you will have an idea of 

 the outward appearance of this work. How 

 about the inside? That consists partly of ele- 

 gantly printed half-tone views of the principal 

 buildings and other points of interest in that 

 stirring city known as St. Joseph. The title- 

 page is a view of the city itself, 35 inches in 

 length. As no camera would take so large a 

 view, the wonder is how it was done. Five 

 consecutive "shots" were taken, each time 

 pointing the camera a little further to one side, 

 taking in the whole range of view. These neg- 



