Nov. 27, 1902, 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



765 



fulU'is VHl liaiij; round da sulunc, imd he bottn 

 awfid 1)1110 on da on of his iioRC. an his noso 

 bean red yuhl lak ours healing; stove on C)ri»- 

 iims moinini;. Ay lank das bean da vorst 

 tiin; val ay never seen. He nol vife an ehil- 

 tlreii. too, an his voinan siie iiav Lo do vash- 

 injr for livin^;, on doni eliilreii doiii jjo l)ar- 

 fuUed veil it bean eold, an dom don't can j,'o 

 to sl<ul inueh, eoz das paw he don't vll Ijy any 

 books. If hunnyean kwredas kine of fellers, 

 den ay tank it bean some (fud lint?, eoz das 

 bean da vorse diseas Vttl ay never seen. Ay 

 tank if lie by more hiinny an less visky it 

 bean plenty iniK'h belter for das faiidy. Veil 

 das feller tak on plenty visky he don't (,'ot 

 more sens dan to tile hie own tr™'"""^!'!"''' 

 Ay tank briles diseas bean plenty bad linn. 



Ay hope diis N. I!.-K. A. have ne\ big caiiii> 

 IiieliM;,'R in (.'hK'a;;o, eoz den Yon Yonson lie 

 goan to be dar, it he have to go hors back an 

 ride ole Yim. Yon Yonson. 



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The Dandy Hat-Box Feeder. 



Any married man can make one. 



Directions: Take your wife's largest card- 

 board hat-box ; put the cover on the bottom 

 of the box, to strengthen it; cut the deep 

 part to say four inches in depth. Then take 

 your brad-ttwl and punch the bottom of this 

 combination full of holes. Now, put this 

 over the frames, add on an empty super, so 

 you can put on the hive-cover, and you are 

 fixed. Just till the feeder full of honey, or 

 sugar syrup if you have not the other, cover 

 up the hive, and the bees will do the rest. 



The next day when you go to see that hive, 

 the bees will have licked up and stored that 

 honey in a way that will astonish you. Be- 

 sides, the feeder will help keep the bees warm 

 in cold weather. It is in the hive and ready 

 for use next spring. 



How much for this patent do you say! Oh, 

 a year's subscription to the American Bee 

 Journal will do. If your wife starts any 

 trouble for taking her hat-box you'll have to 

 square the matter with her. I'm only giving 

 you good advice, not fighting your battles. 

 I'm posted on family rows, and never mix in 

 such unpleasantness. Benevolently, 



Your Uncle Frank. 



A "Shocked" Swarm! 



Now that the (should-have-been) honey 

 harvest is a thing of the past, we were ail 

 snuggling down to comfortably snoozle away 

 the few intervening months between now and 

 next spring, having donned our sleeping- 

 robes and night-caps with the hopeful ex- 

 pectation of nuietly dozing away the said 

 months, should they be allotted to us. Hardly 

 had we reclined in a comfortalile position 

 when we were shockingly awakened from our 

 sweet reverie of hives and honey by big, bold 

 head-lines of, "Nomenclature of Forced 

 Swarms,'" page 691. Our heads do not get 

 any rest. It is first one argument and then 

 another. Why must we worry about Nomen- 

 clature ? I can boldly answer (x ?(7 Miller), 

 " I don't know." We must wake up and 

 argue about the proper or improper name for 

 a swarm. I don't believe it makes any dif- 

 ference to the swarm what they are called, as 

 long as they have a long-tongued, long-lived, 

 and long-pedigreed queen, lots of stores, and 

 good, comfortable quarters to keep house in. 



For the sake of argument I call it a 

 "shocked" swarm, because the bees are 

 thrown off by the shock of the shake, there- 

 fore they are shocked when the shaking is 

 shocking enough to shake them off the comb 

 on which they were previously. I do not 

 pretend to shake against such a shaker as Mr. 

 E. R. Root, nor do I want to be shocking to 

 our dear Dr. Miller, but I must express my 

 unshaken belief, before the man with a 

 jouncer comes along and scoops us all up, by 



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