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Vol. XXVII. 



NOV. i, 1899. 



No. 21. 



Sometimes it happens that, by some means, 

 some nice sections of honey have their faces 

 so daubed as to be almost spoiled. Put a su- 

 per of such sections over a hive and take away 

 as soon as the bees have had time to lick off 

 the daub. 



I never used a sheet of cloth, as mentioned 

 by Capt. Hetherington, p. 750, to cover honey- 

 cases in a car, but last week I used newspa- 

 pers, tacking them lightly on the cases. The 

 cloth has the advantage that it is all in one 

 piece Perhaps better than either would be 

 manilla paper pasted together. 



Mr. Editor, if you think it for the general 

 good to have your program arranged to short- 

 en up the spelling thruout the whole catalog 

 of words ending in ue and ugh, I'll try to bear 

 it manfully, even tho it does sometimes jolt 

 me in reading. But, say; won't it leave the 

 word rather short if you drop the final ugh 

 from the interjection "ugh " ? 



You can not give the absolute weight of 

 any section of a given size, for one year it 

 will be heavier than another. But I can give 

 the relative weights of three kinds of sections 

 for this year. 



5676 beeway 4^X1^ averaged 14.94 oz. 



442 plain 5X4#Xl# " 13.82 oz. 



345 " A%X±%X\y 2 " 13.83 oz. 



The shield of a Crane smoker became un- 

 riveted for me, as mentioned p. 754, but I had 

 hardly thought of it as a fault, for the shield 

 did just as good service after it was loose. 

 [The shield of the Crane smokers, and also of 

 the Corneil, are not only double riveted for 

 1900, but have washers that enable the rivet 

 to maintain a stronger hold upon the metal of 

 the shield. — Ed ] 



The annoyance of having inky drops fall 

 from the nozzle of the smoker upon nice 

 white sections is sometimes very great. I nev- 

 er really knew how to avoid it until lately 

 Critic Taylor of the Revieiu said to use very 

 dry fuel. Simple enough ! There can't be 



any drops of dirty water unless the water 

 comes out of the fuel. But I never was bright 

 enough to think of it. 



Rambler is making trouble, p. 759, by talk- 

 ing about the longing for the " favored clime " 

 of California ; and when he talks about the 

 roses I just feel like getting out of this place 

 where the thermometer goes down to 24° in 

 September. But when I turn to p. 751, and 

 think that in California I might " have to live 

 alone or in the mountains with my bees, as so 

 many California bee-keepers do," I feel con- 

 tent to stay here and freeze. I'd rather have 

 folks than a "clime." 



F. Greiner is right about the two distinct 

 faults of the Daisy foundation-fastener, the 

 mussy dripping and the lack of room for the 

 lamp, or, rather, for the chimney, for there's 

 no difficulty about getting a lamp to suit. I 

 have used a tin chimney of just the right 

 height, and don't know of any advantage the 

 glass has. Just a plain tin tube of the proper 

 length and the same diameter as a No. 1 chim- 

 ney at the bottom might be sent out with each 

 fastener, and in my judgment it would be a 

 good deal better than to change the fastener 

 to take a glass chimney. [The Daisy founda- 

 tion-fastener has been changed for 1900 ; and 

 the objections that have been named by Mr. 

 Greiner have been entirely eliminated. I 

 think I had better send you a new plate that 

 you can attach to the Daisy. It is a " daisy" 

 now, I assure you. — Ed.] 



Mr. Editor, you talk some pretty good talk 

 on page 753 about being liberal and not judg- 

 ing too harshly. Now, I'm not going to put 

 any mischief into friend Ochsner's head, but 

 I can hardly blame him such a great deal if he 

 should say to himself, " I wonder why in the 

 world the editor didn't talk that same way 

 when a man was talking about taking my fa- 

 vorite sections to some swamp and stamping 

 them out of sight in the mud!" [When 

 friend Ochsner, on page 753, spoke about Or- 

 ton's saying that the old \% sections ought to 

 be "stamped in the mud," I could hardly be- 

 lieve that he had made any such statement. 

 When I first read the article, preparatory to 

 putting on my footnote, I did not notice it 

 and that is the reason why I made no refer 



