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Vol. XXV. 



DEC. I, 1897. 



No. 23. 



Si.UMGUM. according XaSchlcs. Hoist. Bztg., 

 is worth $7 a ton to mix with commercial fer- 

 tiHzers. 



" It takes from 7 to 15 pounds of honey to 

 produce one pound of comb in the very best 

 circumstances," savs C. P. Dadant, A. B.J., 

 p. 691. 



Bee -KEEPERS "must co-operate fully," 

 says Prof. Cook, " and then they can get their 

 rights. When this is done, bee-keepers will 

 not be forced, or even asked, as they are now, 

 to take 3>^ cents per pound for the best hon- 

 ey ! ''—Am. Beefl, p. 091'. 



SoMN.^MBULTST, the delightful dreamer of 

 Progressive, has a cloud in his sky. A friend, 

 innocent of the identity of the sleep-walker, 

 told him to his teeth that he didn't like vSom- 

 nambulist's writings. Never mind, vSommy, 

 lots of us do — like 'em much. [Hear ! hear ! 

 —Ed] 



I'll tell vou just why the little cleats are 

 better than grooves on smokers. The sharp 

 edge of the cleat makes the smoker less likely 

 to slip out of the fingers. A much weaker 

 spring is required. But can't you make the 

 outer e'lge of the groove sharp? [Yes, and 

 we will do it. — Ed.] 



Thin found.\tiox without side- walls, made 

 on the machine for the construction of which 

 the members of the Mich. B. K. A. paid last 

 winter, was used to some extent the past sea- 

 son by Mr. Aspinwall. Combs were delicate 

 and fragile, but the foundation curls and 

 warps terribly. — Review. 



Live bees, according to a decision at the 

 world's postal congress at Washington last 

 June, may be sent, after Jan. 1, 1899, as mer- 

 chandise to all lands of the Postal Union. 

 Maxinmm weight, 12 35 oz. Max. length, 

 11.8: width, 7.87; thickness, 3.94 inches.— 

 Luxevibiirs;. Bztg. 



The Editor of Australian Bee Bulleliti is 

 afraid the article of W. A. Pryal, in April 

 Gleanings, about Tasmanian blue - gum, 

 may hurt the reputation of Australian honey, 



and protests that it is not a typical Australian 

 honey, or a main portion of their honey crop. 

 He pins his trust to the honey of the box- 

 trees. 



Chalon Fowls' plan of having supers 

 cleaned out may be a good one, but it has the 

 fatal defect that, at tlie time I want e^upers 

 emptied, I seldom have (and never want) col- 

 onies shoit of stores. But I see a ray of light 

 for which I thank him, for it's possible that 

 having oidy a small entrance to the super may 

 make a difference. 



Rural free deltvery of mail has been 

 tried experimentally in 29 vStates on 44 routes. 

 First Ass't Postmaster-General Heath, in his 

 report, says: "The general results obtained 

 have iieen so satisfactory as to suggest the 

 feasibility of making rural delivery a perma- 

 nent feature of postal administration in the 

 United States, not immediately or in a'.l dis- 

 tricts at once, but in some gradual and grad- 

 uated form." Hurrah for free delivery! 

 [Hip, hip, hur Ed.] 



E. E. Hastv, in Revieic, begs to go slow in 

 applying the Monnier cure of paralysis, and 

 imperil hwXfcxu healthy colonies at first " (put- 

 ting a healthy family into the same room with 

 a family that' has leprosy)". He thinks the 

 disease may he only temporarily dormant, and 

 the proposed cure may spread it. [No, it 

 would hardly do to try iVIonnier's cure on too 

 large a scale ; but I do think it would be a 

 good idea to test it in a small way. — Ed.] 

 ■ An inquisitive person. Ernest, reading p. 

 811, about the flies troubling your head at 

 your desk, paraphrases slightly a quc^tion of 

 yours on page 5S(), and sa\ s, " But why have 

 flies in your office at all? Why not have 

 screens and screen-doors? " [Vou niuMi't ask 

 qutstions that I can't answer; anyhow, you 

 can tell that " inquisitive person " that it is 

 pof^^sible to screen a single honey-room, while 

 it may not be possible to .'creen the windows 

 of a large factory. Onr office is in one of our 

 factory biuldings — Ed.] 



A honev-fair, lasting two days, has been 

 successfully tried by the'Hanover'bee-keepers' 

 society in Germany. For two weeks the dai- 

 lies prepared the public, by articles about hon- 

 ey and the coming show, where pure honey 

 could be obtained. Sixteen bee - keepers 

 brought their wares, most of them being sold 



