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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. lA, 



demands glazed sections ; retailers will not 

 handle the unglazed sections, with tbe risk 

 of mutilation by customers who insist on 

 " looking at the honey." 



The bees enter and fill the \% sections 

 more readily and rapidly, being nearer tbe 

 thickness of the brood-comb, and of course 

 placing the conditions more nearly to the 

 iiormal. The question advanced by some 

 of "honesty " in the matter, I think cuts 

 no figure; the sections are sold at so much 

 each, and when filled and glazed weigh a 

 pound, even the 4'4x4i4xl;?8, which I use 

 later in tbe season. 



I have found that after Sept. 1 the bees 

 do not fill the tall sections to the top with- 

 in, say, three rows of cells, so I put on the 

 434^. with quilts on top, and soon the top 

 cells are filled. 



It costs Ijo cents to glaze a section ; glass 

 by the box, 8x10, cuts for two sections. 

 Often I can get 4-iuch strips from whole- 

 sale glass bouses, and then it costs 1 cent. 

 1 fa.<ten tbe glass in by pasting solid white 

 writing paper on tbe top and bottom, cut- 

 ting the paper .'i\ by 2'o inches, and using 

 good, strong dextrine paste, such as is used 

 on postage stamps. This makes the hand- 

 somest package of honey one can see. 



Long live the American Bee Journal. 



Passaic Co., N. J. B. F. Ondekdonk. 



Painting Rough Lumber White. 



On page S33 (1S9G) the question is askt 

 about painting a bee-house white cheaply. 



It can be done by using the recipe given 

 below. It need not be made of planed lum- 

 ber; the coat of paint will stay longeron 

 rough, unplaned lumber. It will last three 

 years, in good condition: 



Take skimmed sweet milk— get all the 

 cream off; mix with 10 pounds of Spanish 

 white, one ounce of fresh, air-slackt lime; 

 sift it fine, and mis thoroughly by stirring. 

 Apply it as you would paint. Be sure to 

 cover thoroughly all of the wood. Two 

 coats are all it requires to make a finish. It 

 can be painted with lead afterward, and 

 make a good job of it. I have had a good 

 deal of experience with it. I have been in 

 the painting business (JO years. S. T. C. 



Advises Greater Neatness. 



I saw a statement in the Bee Journal, of 

 a correspondent who said that he used 

 horse manure in his bee-smoker, while us- 

 ing it on tbe bees during the honey season, 

 to quiet them. I also saw an account of a 

 ■way to test barrels Ijef ore putting extracted 

 honey into them. The test was to blow the 

 breath into them to find out whether they 

 were perfectly tight or not. Now, do not 

 such statements have a tendency to cheapen 

 our honey in the market I What more 

 dirty thing can one do than to blow his 

 breath into a dry barrel where the staves 

 are dry enough to take up the moisture '. 

 We have had enough of such stories, and 

 although the man stands high amongst bee- 

 keepers in his State. 1 hope there will be a 

 stop put to all such practices. 



lam— as I hope all other bee-men are — 

 trying to put my bee-product on tbe mar- 

 ket in the very best shape, and as clean as 

 clean can be; and I think all such stories as 

 those referred to have a tendency to make 

 customers believe that bee-men are not 

 very careful in putting up our honey crop 

 for the market. Let us all work together 

 for the good of the bee-business, for better 

 prices, and for nice, clean honey. 



W. H. E. 



Prevention of Colic. 



Mr. T. S. Hurley, on page 706 (ISOG), 

 wishes to know what he must do to avoid 

 colic. A lady stopt with me for a short 

 time with two little boys. She saw my 

 rlililren eating all the fruit they wanted 

 without any restrictions, and she said she 

 dared not allow her boys to eat fruit, be- 

 cause it made them bilious, and gave them 

 bilious colic, etc. My reply was: "You 

 certainly must be mistaken, for good, ripe 

 fruit never did, ond never can, make any 



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one bilious. In fact, it Is a preventive," 

 etc. She was positive it did, and I was just 

 as positive it did not. Now allow me to 

 explain: 



The bile is already in the system, and 

 eating the fruit causes it to flow into the 

 stomach, hence tbe distress. Biliousness is 

 caused by bad living and clogging up the 

 system, either by over-eating or eating 

 bile-producing food, more than can be 

 thrown off naturally. By the lady cooking 

 and living as I directed, she soon found 

 that her boys could eat all the fruit they 

 wanted, and. colic never troubled them. 

 Now, Mr. Hurley, think the matter over. 



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