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Vol. XXVII. 



JAN. i, 1899. 



No. 



Happy New Year ! 



Lots of us have felt pained ourselves at 

 the thought of Doolittle with broken ribs suf- 

 fering pain at every breath. 



H. W. Brice says the fruit crop on a farm 

 near one of his out apiaries is worth $500 a 

 year more than it was without the bees. — B. 

 B.J. 



No, I couldn't contract to furnish 100 

 lbs. of propolis, nor of beeswax either. 

 Couldn't furnish more than % to y 2 as much 

 propolis as wax. 



P. H. Elwood is favored by Editor York as 

 one of the directors of U. S. B. K. Union. 

 Good man. I'll vote for him too. [So do I. 

 See editorial elsewhere. — Ed ] 



Given a good district and a score of hives, 

 he would be a very bad bee-keeper, possessing 

 business aptitude, and not afraid of work, who 

 could not exceed $125 a year, says British 

 B.J. I'm afraid not many districts in this 

 country are good enough for that. 



"WE believe that we are, here, on the 

 southern limit of safe cellar-wintering ; and if 

 -we lived farther north we would invariably 

 winter the bees in a cellar," says C. P. Dad ant 

 in Am. Bee Journal. That justifies my cel- 

 laring, but still I always have a hankering af- 

 ter out-door wintering. 



Opposers of plain sections will find an ar- 

 gument against them furnished by J. E. 

 Crane, p. 915. The l"s old-style section had 

 a thicker comb than that in the 1*4 plain, and 

 the difference looked to him three times what 

 it actually was. That is, a comb looks thicker 

 in the old-style section. 



C. P. DadanT's article, p. 907, is a comfort 

 tome. It settles the matter that eight-fiame 

 hives are better for me, although the large 

 hives are better for him. At the same time, I 

 envy him the advantages he has in the larger 

 hives. [How comfortable it is to believe what 

 we like to believe ! It gives us an uncomfort- 

 able feeling to think that we have adopted a 



sort of supplies that are not best suited to 

 yield the best results. — Ed ] 



With fences having cleats in thickness 

 running 13 to 2 inches, a 1^ inch plain sec- 

 tion will have a comb with a thickness about 

 midway between the thicknesses of the combs 

 in old-style 1% 7 and \% sections, leaning a 

 little to the smaller size. — [This will be true, 

 perhaps, with old-style sections ; but the rule 

 does not seem to hold true in the case of fence 

 honey, but for what reason I do not know. — 

 Ed.] 



That fences will make sections so even in 

 weight that they may be honestly sold by the 

 piece will need much observation to prove ; 

 but if such proves to be the case, it will be a 

 strong argument in their favor. — [While I do 

 not claim that this result can be secured be- 

 yond a peradventure, yet the experiences of 

 those who have produced and sold honey in 

 plain sections seem to point strongly that way. 

 —Ed.] 



Progressive's Somnambulist expresses 

 fears lest a result of Critic Taylor's work may 

 be to deter many of our most practical bee- 

 keepers from giving valuable information pos- 

 sessed by them. L°t us hope not. An evi- 

 dent softening of his manner gives promise 

 that better work is coming, and I can't help 

 thinking that he has done some good by mak- 

 ing some of us look a little more closely to 

 our p's and q's. 



D. W. Heise is in trouble that he lays to 

 the devil of the Canadian Bee Journal. The 

 type?, under the manipulation of said devil, 

 made Heise speak of a 39 frame super ! H. 

 disclaims supers so large, and the next num- 

 ber reduces the size, making him work 

 " three-nine-frame supers." Isn't 27 a rather 

 large number yet, friend Heise ? Let the devil 

 alone, and stand over that proof-reader with a 

 club till he makes it " three nine-frame su- 

 pers." 



The HolTERMANN hive-cover is mentioned 

 in C. B. J., by D. W. Heise, as a flat cover 

 costing about the same as the ordinary cover, 

 absolutely water tight, and a good non-con- 

 ductor of heat and cold. Something in that 

 line has been needed a long time. [If I 

 remember correctly, our figures show that 

 this hive-cover cost us more than the all- 



