1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Not at all, unless the number of sections is 

 too small for the number of bees. With suf- 

 ficient sections you may put them out in the 

 open without fear. I put them in cellar (it's 

 a light cellar) because they can stay there safe 

 from rain for several days. If I should put a 

 single super in the cellar, the sections would 

 be ruined. [Regarding that wrong impression, 

 I take it that you refer to something I wrote 

 in answer to Questions from Beginners. 

 While you are no doubt entirely correct so far 

 as it relates to the practice of bee-keepers of 

 experience, yet it would hardly be wise to ad- 

 vise beginners in the same wa)% would it? 

 There are certain cures for foul brood that 

 work all right in the hands of a professional, 

 but which would produce disastrous results 

 with a beginner, and the same is true in regard 

 to feeding back. The main thing to look out 

 for is to give the bees enough honey so that 

 they do not have to scramble and struggle 

 against each other ; but a beginner would 

 hardly know how much to give. — Ed.] 



Among exasperating things, one of the 

 worst is to have one's interest aroused in some- 

 thing and be told all about it except the very 

 thing that will make the information of prac- 

 tical value. Mr. Editor, you've stirred up a 

 lot of us about that new kodak, p. 935. Now 

 tell us what it is and what it costs. Of course, 

 we can't afford $50 or $100 for a kodak, but 

 we like to know, you know. [The kodak that 

 I referred to was the No. 4 folding kodak, list- 

 ed at $25, and it is capable of a great variety 

 of work. The manufacturers have a larger 

 instrument at $35, but for my purpose the 

 smaller one is more convenient, and quite 

 large enough for any thing that I require for 

 Gleanings. I believe that lately The East- 

 man Kodak Co., of Rochester, have made 

 quite a reduction in the price of these cameras. 

 Just how much that reduction is, I do not 

 know ; but 5'ou can ascertain by going to your 

 nearest dealer, or, better still, write to the 

 company itself, from whom you will receive a 

 handsome souvenir in the way of a beautiful 

 catalog. This is not a " paid puff," for the 

 editorial opinions of this journal can not be 

 bought in the interest of any concern ; but we 

 will gladly give, free of charge, a recommenda- 

 tion when we know that an article has real 

 merit from our own knowledge and experience. 

 —Ed.] 



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'^/10M0UNN£IGHB0PS FIELDS. 



Just gone is " eighteen hundred;" 



Down the ages be there thundered 



Praise for victories unnumbered 

 We have gained o'er space and time. 



In the century just closing, 



With its progress so imposing. 

 We have seen and heard and learned more 

 Thau Methuselah in days of yore. 



Just as the above lines were finished there 

 were laid on my desk two books of poems by 



Charles H. Crandall, one entitled Wayside 

 Music, and the other The Chords of Life. 

 They were sent us by that veteran bee-keeper 

 L. C. Root, of Stamford, Ct., and his approv- 

 al of such works is enough to commend them 

 to others. I have read quite a number of the 

 poems in both books, and as I became more 

 acquainted with the spirit of the writer the 

 better I liked to read his lines. The books 

 are beautifully printed, neatly bound in cloth. 

 The thoughts center around 'New England 

 largely, and are beautifully expressed. I can't 

 help saying, however, that a better punctua- 

 tion could have been adopted in some places. 

 For instance: 



There are four little letters that live in my heart — 

 An I,, and an O, and a V, and an E. 



How much better the last line would read 

 to have it. 



An Iv and an O and a V and an K, 

 as the words are all equally connected by the 

 conjunction ! 



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 BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Whew ! what a number this is — 50 pages ! 

 Mr. Hutchinson has outdone all previous ef- 

 forts here by way of pictures. It baffles de- 

 scription. We have a view of Barnes Co.'s 

 works at Rockf(<rd, 111. — the men who make 

 saw-tal)les, foot-power buzz-saws, etc. Here 

 is a view of the residence of the editor, Mr. H., 

 also those of the editors of this journal. But 

 the list is too long to mention in detail. Send 

 for a copy. Mr. Hutchinson's story of his 

 struggles in getting a start is interesting and 

 touching. 



BEE CHAT. 

 This spicy and concentrated little sheet, pub- 

 lished by Samuel Simmins, author of " A Mod- 

 ern Bee-farm," etc., Heathfield, England, is 

 worthy of more notice than it has been re- 

 ceiving. In the issue for November the ed- 

 itor warns all against buying old stocks from 

 discarded apiaries, as complications are al- 

 most sure to arise. "A large number of 

 partly diseased stocks crowded together on a 

 long journey generate the most fatal tempera- 

 ture for propagating the malady, and are sure 

 to develop further evidence of disease at an 

 alarming rate thereafter." Before buying 

 discarded apiaries it is best to make a person- 

 al examination. Disregard of this precaution 

 has just led to much acrimony between some 

 of Mr. Simmins' friends, and their letters 

 were so intensely personal that he could not 

 print them. He well says, " It is sad to think 

 what mischief is often done through want of 

 thought." 



As between foreign and native bees, a cor- 

 respondent says the latter are nowhere in the 

 race. He had nine foreign stocks in one group, 

 and another man thirty natives in another, on 

 the same ground. He called his neighbor to 

 look at one of the supers, when the neighbor 

 said, " I have nothing like it," while he him- 

 self had several as good. One black stock 

 with a younger queen completed only one sec- 

 tion. The natives would not touch foundation, 



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