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Vol. XXVI. 



FEB. I, 1898. 



'ublishedbyTHEA f^ooi Co. 



$i£5PERYtAK ^® "Medina-Ohio- 



No. 3. 



I TAKE IT BACK, Mr Editor. After recon- 

 sideration, I believe it's a good plan to have 

 the veneers in shipping-cases. 



Those caramels I bragged about were 

 made by the regular recipe in the honey-leaf- 

 let. If you want good caramels, take honey 

 of good flavor, and then don't spoil the flavor 

 by too much cooking. 



Plain sections, according to L. A. Aspin- 

 wall, in Revie7v, cost 20 per cent less than old 

 style, save 20 per cent in shipping-cases, and 

 he thinks 11 per cent less wood, besides great- 

 er beauty, makes quite an inducement to the 

 purchaser. 



DoolitTle puis sections in crale as fast as 

 scraped. Hasty objects. "Not favorable to 

 assorting " Hope they'll fight it out. The 

 " assorter " of this "locality" says there's no 

 time when you know so well the grade of a 

 section as when you've just handled all sides 

 in scraping. 



DooLiTTLE says in Progressive that good 

 colonies outdoors have brood in January, and 

 none in cellar when set out in April. Why 

 that difference ? Does that paradox on p. 876 

 explain it — the colder the weather the warmer 

 the center of the cluster ? [I guess that is so, 

 doctor. — Ed.] 



"Possibly e.\Ting so often of scrapings, 

 in which honey is mixed with propolis, has- 

 tens the death of the honey relish " with bee- 

 keepers, says Reviewer Hasty. I never knew 

 bee-keepers did that. Isn't that a peculiaiity 

 of your "locality," Hasty? Explain, if you 

 don't want to be cast out. 



A machine to clean sections has been a de- 

 sideratum. The one invented by L. A. Aspin- 

 wall, and given in Reviezv, may be just the 

 thing. [There is no doubt that plain sections 

 offer greater facilities for machine scraoing 

 than tlie old style; and I rather predict that, 

 in time, every bee-keeper who produces from 

 2000 to 5000 pounds of comb honey or more 

 can not afford to get along without a machine 

 scraper. In another column we show the As- 



pinwall machine. I hope that, before the sea- 

 son is out. we shall be prepared to furnish 

 small machines that can be S')ld at a nominal 

 cost. We are already studying on the matter 

 now. Just what style to adopt will depend 

 upon circumstances. — Ed.] 



J. M. Mitchell says, p. 53, that when a 

 swarm is placed on tl;e t Id stand, returning 

 field bees unite with tlie swarm — just the 

 thing we want in this region. Then the swarm 

 will give more surplus than both together if 

 field bees returned to old colony; and in the 

 latter case the old colony might swarm again 

 till very weak. 



Amos I. Root, you've struck a good thing, 

 p. 62, in that dish regularly supplied with nick- 

 els and cents. Now lefs have another place 

 where the wife can always have a few dollars 

 to do with just as sl;e pleases, without asking 

 any one. Now, can you furnish some pills or 

 powders that will make a v oman feel she has 

 a right to such money without saving it by do- 

 ing her own washing? 



Keep it up ! I mean the good work of ed- 

 ucating the public as to the real value of hon- 

 ey. Don't you be the least bit uneasy, Mr. 

 Editor, for fear you harp too much on that 

 string. [Thank you, doctor, for jour encour- 

 agement ; and I should like to know if our 

 other readers are tired of having me harp on 

 that string so much. It is m}- purpose to harp 

 just long enough to secure the end desired, 

 even if it does make some of my good friends 

 a little tired.— Ed.] 



Foul brood. R. L. Taylor says in AVz'zVz^/, 

 "The plan insisted on by some, that the colo- 

 ny be shaken out into still another hive after 

 being allowed to build comb four days, I have 

 proved in a hundred cases, without a single 

 failure, to be entirely unneces.sary." That 

 stands good till contradicted ; but it will take 

 only one case of failure to knock over these 

 hundred siicctsses. If that one case doesn't 

 come to the front, it will be a good thing to 

 avoid unnecessary trouble. 



Last season I had a wa?p-nest built in a 

 section like that picture on p. 49, only the sec- 

 tion was beautifully completed, the honey 

 built all around the nest. The nest was built 

 on the foimdation while it was e ff the hive 

 (I've seen a number such), and 1 couldn't for 



