1886 



(ILEANINGS IN BEE CULTURl^; 



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step on it you might spoil your lautern, but you 

 could not easily set any thing- afire. They are made 

 expressly to use in barns and stables. Fill the lamp 

 with a heavy kerosene of good (luality. They are not 

 only safe, but they are durable and eleanly. No 

 accumulations of smoke at the top can stop the 

 draft. 



BETTERS, FIGUKES, ETC., BUILT IN HONEY-CO.MB. 



At the Indianapolis Convention there were some 

 exhibits in this line, jjrobably superior to any 

 thing- that has ever been produced before in the 

 world. Large letters that all could read the whole 

 length of the great hall were beautifully worked 

 out in honey-comb of i)early whiteness; also the 

 figure of a mammoth quccn-bee; and, astonishing 

 though it may seem, words written in peiiinanship, 

 even to the hair-strokes, were composed of honey- 

 comb built by the bees. 1 believe the work was done 

 by Mr. A. Cox, of White Lick, Boone Co., Ind. The 

 exhibit of honey in globes, honey in the form of 

 crosses, and honey in almost every shape imagin- 

 able, was wonderful. One end of the hall was 

 literally filled with devices and implements. I do 

 not know whether it suggested to Bro. Newman 

 his museum or not; but it reminded me vi\idiy of 

 our museum. 



FOUL brood; is it contagious":' 



At the Indianapolis Convention, one of the bee- 

 friends related the following: He found three col- 

 onies in his apiary, affected with foul brood. Not 

 knowing just what to do, he decided to look the 

 matter up and treat them according to the most ap- 

 proved methods. Meanwhile the honey-flow stop- 

 ped, leaving him with a large number of partly 

 filled sections. In order to finish these sections 

 he decided to extract a lot of honey from his 

 heaviest hives, and feed it back; and before he 

 knew it he had unconsciously or heedlesslj^ ex- 

 tracted the honey from some combs in one of 

 these foul-broody hives. The lot of honey contain- 

 ing some from this diseased colony was fed to 28 

 colonies before he became aware of what he had 

 done. Now, then, what do you suppose happened? 

 Why, every one of the 2S hives thus fed became at 

 once diseased. I tell you, my friends, I would not 

 go to bed, knowing that I had in my apiary a colony 

 that had the real foul brood. Burn up the combs, 

 brood, and honey, and do it in such a way that not 

 one solitary drop or fraction of a drop of honey es- 

 capes where a bee may get a lick at it. 



SENDING POSTAGE-STAMPS IN LETTERS. 



We can always use postage-stamps where they 

 are more convenient, and we can use them of any 

 denomination, providing you do not stick them 

 fast to your letters. The clerk who opens the 

 mails insists that some of you are thoughtless 

 enough to paste them right over the i-eading-mat- 

 ter before you send them off. We suspect, how- 

 ever, that it is not so bad as that, but that you are 

 a little careless in putting them in the letter, as 

 they are often stickj^ in warm weather. Do you 

 wonder we sometimes get cross when we have to 

 soak the letters in water over night in order to get 

 the stamps loose? and then we have to put on 

 some more gum before we can use them. Well, 

 we don't mind this trouble very much; but wheu 

 the water blots your letters so they can not be 

 read without a good deal of fuss and trouble, we 

 sometimes feel as If we should get mad, if it were 

 not for the fact that we are Christian i)eople here. 



and don't dare to. Now, then: When you send 

 stamps again, please wrap them in a separate 

 piece of paper, without any writing on it; afid if 

 it is not asking too much of you, don't Mrap them 

 up when they are sticky. Lay them somewhere 

 in the sun, and let them dry first. 



A NEW bee-keepers' MEULEV. 



Mk. E. (). TuTTLE, of Bristol, Vt., has been, for 

 some time back, busy in getting up a new medley 

 of bee-keepers. The size is S'^Xll inches, and it 

 contains pictures of 120 bee-keepers. A large poi"- 

 tion of them are the same as appeared in our med- 

 ley, published some ten or tweU-e years ago. Some 

 of the pictures arc very good, and a few of them 

 arc rather poor. The medley, however, ought to 

 be well worth the sum of .*L00 to any one who is in 

 the habit of reading- our bee-journals. Among 

 thcm we notice S. Cornell, It. McKnight, J. B. Hall, 

 D. A. Jones, and W. F. Clarke, of Canada; in the 

 United States we have Henry Alley, John Asjiin- 

 wall, A. J. King, T. G. Newman, K. L. T;-.ylor, Dr. 

 C. C. Miller, Charles Dadant and son, H. D. Cutting, 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, J. B. Pond, N. W. McLain, O. O. 

 Poppleton, E. M. Hayhurst, L. C. Hoot, Mrs. Jennie 

 Gulp, Mrs. Chaddock, Mrs. Harrison, Oliver Foster, 

 I. K. Good.M. H. Hunt, Norman Clark, P. L. Viallon, 

 W. S. Hart, O. M. Blanton, and others. In the above 

 list I have not intended to name those that are 

 contained in our old medley. A descriptive pam- 

 phlet of 14 pages accompanies the photograph. 

 They may be ordered from this ottice, or from 

 friend Tuttle, as you choose. 



half-pound SECTIONS IN ENGLAND. 



We find the following in the British Bcc Jourunl 

 for Oct. U, under the title of "six-penny sections." 



SIX-PENNY SECTIONS. 



Oiii' <if thf 111 >st strikinji- tVaturc-; of the show of Canadian 

 honey at till- Colonial KxliiOitioii is the thinness of the sertions 

 exhibited, lieiiiK' only I'j iii;iie-, tlie eonibs bnilt therein hein;; 

 of worker thiekness. Mr. .lones assures n^ from liis own e.xperi- 

 en-e,— and il would be a bold ISrilisli bee keejier wlio would ven- 

 ture to e<iiniiare his own witli that of Mr. .lones,— tliat, eontrarv 

 to wliat iniHlit be exjieeteil ti.>m the f.iet tliat three vertical 

 furfa-.'es iiiiiilrib ,-ind t\vo sealiuK'si are renuired in each inch in- 

 stead of three in each 1' . inch, a larger liarvest is obtainable of 

 this thickness tliaii of the yrealer tliickness to which we are ac- 

 customed in the ordinary tuo-inch sections. 



In our issue (d' Marcli 1, 1SS.'>, in an article entitled '• Sections, 

 Past. I'riisent, and Future," we suggested the very same idea, 

 poiiitiuff out that, by adoptiuir the .size of 13.4 x 3K X IK, we 

 could obtain tections of nominal half pound, which could be 

 s(dil retail at sixpence each. The Canadian sections are as neai-- 

 ly as |)ossible this size. We went on to say, " We venture to 

 think, that, before many seasons are passed, a six-penny, or^- 

 Ib. section, will he a recoffiiizeil size." 



The British bi c-kci-jicrs did not take to the idea, probably be- 

 cause the dealers could uoi supjily the sections, and would not 

 luder them, tlur Canadian cousins, however, took the hint; 

 and wliile sonic <d' us are complaining of the slow sale i>f Mb. 

 sections at 1 shilling, and have altosfetlier neglected the nimble 

 six|jciicc, they have been producinR these pretty little sccti4>ns, 

 anil here thcs are before our eyes. When we now see the very 

 thing- whi -h wa ■ ii:.;i;cstcd to us in our own jouinal eighteen 

 months ago, ,111 ' Ihmi that aclually a larger harvest can be ob- 

 tained ill tli.it liiini.il CI lines upon most of us as a complete rev- 

 elation. ^Vc ii'iic.il, Willi great coiitidcuce, our prediction at 

 March, ISK.i, and look lorward to its lultillmenl before another 

 .year has passed. 



The show referred to by the editor took place 

 Oct. 6. From the reports of the association I judge 

 it must have been extremely interesting, especial- 

 ly as they had our good friends D. A. Jones, 

 S. Cornell, McKnight, and others, of Canada. Dur- 

 ing the association friend .lones gave them a de- 

 scription of the Heddon hi\e. We notice then? 

 were present at the meeting, Wm. Kaitt, of Scot- 

 land, and some from Switzerland. Of course, 

 friend Jones had to have some fun going on, even 

 if he was among long-titled people, and he im- 

 provised the following stanza: 



Canada is a great country for honi 



]t isthi'ic fii 

 Our bees cxtrac 

 That all nalions 



md bcc-kecpei 

 ctarfroin llow<-is so swi 

 isider our hone\' a treat 



kc lids of nione.v. 



