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Vol. XXVI. 



APR. I, 1898. 



No. 7. 



To CLEAN about 2200 T tins took 2)4 hours, 

 using 3 cans concentrated lye, with hot water, 

 metal tub, and a pair of tongs. 



In England, two different separators for 

 use with plain sections have been patented, 

 and a third is on the way. — BriL Bee Journal. 



Too THIN, Mr. Editor, is what yovi think a 

 5x4X section would be. With a fence, to 

 hold the same as an old-style 4 ,"4x1 7s, it would 

 be 1 V^ wide — pretty thin, but not quite so thin 

 as bees seal honey in brood-combs. [I was 

 referring not so much to the thickness of the 

 comb as to the relation of thickness to surface. 

 —Ed.] 



I LIKE Hutchinson, and don't want to 

 make him mad. If it weren't for that I'd cast 

 up to him that some one abiut his length 

 hinted that there wasn't much likelihood of 

 new things, or something of that kind, in the 

 future. Fences, section-cleaners, tall sections, 

 plain sections, and all that, make this one of 

 the " newest " times we've ever had. 



A. I. Root, when you reached home you 

 were able to eat buckwheat cakes and molas- 

 ses, p. 227. Were you out of honey? [No, I 

 do not think he is out of hone}'; but I am sor- 

 ry he likes maple molasses better than he does 

 the product from the hive, and yet he con- 

 fesses that honey is far more wholesome for 

 his condition of health than maple sugar. — 

 Ed.] 



All the section-cleaners seem to use 

 sandpaper. I'm watching for one that won't 

 have that trouble and expense — perhaps a 

 metal plate with a surface like a rasp or file. 

 [So am I watching for the same thing. I am 

 just a little afraid that the sandpaper will fill 

 up. It has not done so in the limited trials I 

 have made of it; but somehow it seems as if 

 it must do so. — Ed] 



DoOLiTTLE advises a good workman with 

 the necessary tools to make all his needed 

 wares after starting, except sections, p. 220. 

 Doolittle ! I'm a good workman, and I can 

 borrow what tools I lack; but if I can get a 



job of sprouting potatoes at 10 cts. an hour I 

 believe I can save money to bu}' my hives and 

 other " fixin's." [I hope you will fight it out 

 with Doolittle. We will furnish the arena. 

 And the red rag — well, you are holding it up 

 yourself. — Ed.] 



That Wisconsin foul-brood law is all 

 right so long as men like France and McEvoy 

 are appointed ; but if you have governors like 

 we've been having in Illinois, there's no secu- 

 rity you'll not have an inspector that doesn't 

 know a queen from a drone. [Ves, it is im- 

 portant to have a good man; but a good man 

 without a good law is powerless to do much if 

 any thing. York State, for instance, has 

 plenty of good men, but it lacks the law. — 

 Ed.] 



You editors are all right not to say any 

 thing about a man if you can't prove it, p. 223; 

 but wouldn't it be a good thing sometimes to 

 tell just what you can prove? — just to give us 

 a hint, you know. [Oh! but we do, doctor. 

 You may be sure that we invariably ' ' squeal ' ' 

 on the commission men when we can prove 

 our ground. When we do not come right out 

 and give their names it is because we can not 

 get the necessary evidence to prove our hon- 

 est conviction. — Ed.] 



You want to know, Mr. Editor, page 204, 

 what I think about the Doolittle-Golden dis- 

 agreement. Well, I'll tell you. I think you 

 are wrong. I don't know whether Doolittle 

 or Golden is right, but I just don't believe 

 both are. For if one of them in the hundreds 

 of cases he has observed has never seen an 

 exception to the rule that field-bees hand over 

 their plunder to the nurse-bees, I can hardly 

 believe that in other colonies the bees will all 

 dump it in the cells. There's a mistake some- 

 where. 



I. S. Tilt seems to think scraping 150 sec- 

 tions a pretty fair day's work. I wish he'd 

 figure a little when he'd get through if he had 

 18,000 or more to scrape. I may say to him 

 that my scraping was thoroughly done, and 

 1200 wasn't an extra effort, just the regular 

 number day after day that were scraped, grad- 

 ed, and cased by one person, besides grading 

 and casing some scraped by others. But, un- 

 derstand, she didn't do any thing else; the 

 sections were all placed before her, and the 

 cases taken away. 



