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Published by R. I. Root, Medii^a, O. 



Vol. XIX. 



MAR. 15, 1891. 



No. 6. 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



Don't you long to see the bees at work? 



The tkade-makk isn't booming so much. 



The Review wants no trade-mark. Right, 

 Hutch.! 



Isn't that a neat engraving at tlie top of 

 the page? 



Hon. Eugene .Secor is re-elected President 

 of the Iowa State Horticultural Society. 



How TO GET a stand of melilot might be a 

 good subject for experiment at Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College. 



J. H. Larrabee, a live bee-keeper from 

 down east, has been chosen to help Prof. Cook 

 in his apicultural experiments. 



The California Bee-keeper is out — Vol. I., 

 No. 1. It ought to live — gotten up in fine shape, 

 and the salutatory has the I'ight ring to it. 



"Storifying" is what our English cousins 

 think we ought to say instead of "'tiering." 

 I'm afraid they're right. " Piling" might do. 



" Net weight only" marked on the end of 

 the case, says Henry Segelkin (Gleanings, p. 

 133). Please tell us why only net, and why on 

 the end. 



A NEW smoker, by A. G. Hill. Looks a trifle 

 like a Bingham upside down. Has the advan- 

 tage that it is always right side up, whether in 

 use or idle. «-«3ai_^ T*~#.i««^i^ c^' 



Prominence is to be given just now at 

 Michigan Agricultural College to experiments 

 in wintering, improvement in bees, and plant- 

 ing for honey. 



Old kerosene-cans, says the California 

 Bee-keeper, should not be cleaned out for honey. 

 Just leave them dirty, and then fill them up 

 with — kerosene. 



" If God has made this world so fair. 

 Where sin and death abound. 

 How beautiful beyond comi)are 

 Must Paradise be found!" 



An egg in a cell stands up straight the first 

 day; second day at an angle of 45°; third day, 

 it lies flat on the bottom of the cell. I learned 

 that from Cowan's new book, "The Honey- 

 Bee." 



Geo. F. Robbins writes that he has tried it, 

 and knows that enameled cloth is better than 

 painted muslin for hive-covers. He puts the 

 enamel side down and then paints it. It doesn't 

 take one-third as much paint as muslin. Still, 

 tin is good. 



Good for Wisconsin ! Here's a resolution at 

 their State convention: "That this Associa- 

 tion send one delegate to the next American 

 Bee-keepers' convention, and pay S^IO toward his 

 expenses." 



Putting best premiums on light honey, 

 and little or nothing on dark honey, is scratch- 

 ing out our own eyes. So^says Hasty in an ar- 

 ticle in American Bee-keeper. The whole arti- 

 cle is excellent. 



In hauling bees or honey in day time, A. 

 N. Draper tells in A. B. K. about loading up 

 close 10 the hives, and, by means of a 40-foot 

 rope, haaling the wagon some distance before 

 hitching on regularly. Good idea. 



LiNDEN-TKEES aic auiong the most desirable 

 for shade on the streets. Wouldn't it be a good 

 plan to give them away to be planted on the 

 villags streets? — cheaper than to plant them on 

 your own ground, just as good for you, and a 

 kindness to your neighbor. 



What secretive people those Michigan- 

 dersare! There's Prof. Cook. It was darkly 

 hinted that the government was doing some- 

 thing for the benefit of bee-keepers, and now 

 Hutchinson brings out the fact that an experi- 

 mental station is started, with Prof. Cook as 

 chief engineer — a grand choice. 



German bee-keepers are all stirred up over 

 the matter of heating in winter. Its leading 

 advocate. Pastor Weygandt, is considered by one 

 party as an investigator to be placed alongside 

 of Dzierzon, while the other party looks upon 

 him as an idle dreamer. Details as to carrying 

 out his plans are so indefinite that at present 

 we can only wait to see what others do. 



Prof. Cook says he wants suggestions as to 

 subjects for experiment, also as to the manner 

 of conducting experiments. Wouldn't it be a 

 good plan to snow him under with suggestions? 

 Out of the lot he ought to get some that would 

 be usable. WMth such men as Cook and Larra- 

 bee at the helm, it's a pi'etty sure thing that 

 the experimental station will be in close touch 

 with the rank and file of bee-keepers. 



No SWARMING will generally take place, says 

 Dr. Tinker, in A. B. K., " if at the beginning of 

 a honey-flow we take an empty story with 

 foundation starters in the frames, and put on 

 the excluder, then a super of sections for stor- 

 ing, and the brood-chamber of any colony ready 

 to work in the sections on top of all. The 

 queen, of course, is to be put below the excluder 

 in the new story." In 1889 I tried a number of 

 colonies on this plan, but failed. Possibly the 

 season was too poor. 



"The double -colony" plan, as he calls it, 

 is given by G. W. Demaree in A. B. K. In bi'ief 

 it is this: When a colony swarms, remove its 



