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Fig. 2.— The separator in position on the stove. The trough shown is to 

 convey the honey to the tank. The pile of wax at the left shows that the 

 cakes as they come from the separator are solid, and ready for market. 



night, leaving a 3_^-inch chunk, probably 

 one-fourth of which is slumgum. It is easy 

 to force one side of this down, take out the 

 cake, and melt it over again the next day. 



If it becomes necessary to clean the bas- 

 ket during the day, all that is necessary is 

 to lift the handle, slide the basket over out 

 of the way of the capping-melter spout, lift 

 it out slowly, and drain it. Then dump the 

 slumgum out, set it back, and turn down 

 the handle on the partition which^helps to 

 hold it in place. 



San Diego, Cal. 



BEE NOTES FROM CONTINENTAL EUROPE. 



BY R. LINDE. 



In having a past in bee-keeping, Europe 

 has an advantage over America. Is it an 

 advantage, really? I do not know. Perhaps 

 it is not. But surely it can not be an ob- 

 stacle. 



While European apiculture has a past, 

 young pushing America has a big and real 



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present. Whenever 

 you meet an old bee- 

 keeper on this side of 

 the sea he will tell of 

 the past — wonderful 

 tales of the past — 

 honey was so plenti- 

 ful that even the 

 fence-posts yielded it 

 profusely. He will 

 tell you that many a 

 time he could not help 

 himself otherwise 

 than to dig holes in 

 the ground under his 

 skeps to afford his 

 bees the room neces- 

 sary for storing all 

 the honey coming in. 

 His whole memory is 

 soaked with reminis- 

 cences of this kind; 

 and he has only a pit- 

 iful smile for modern 

 methods of bee-keep- 

 ing. As a matter of 

 course, there is a 

 younger generation of 

 bee-keepers, different- 

 ly disposed and with 

 different interests; of 

 these I shall have to 

 say more in future 

 contributions. 



VARIETY OF METHODS 



In this part of the 

 world there are more 

 dilTerent methods of 

 and means for bee- 

 keeping in vogue than 

 differences of races, 

 states, languages, 

 climates, and bee pas- 

 tures can puDssibly ac- 

 count for. This vari- 

 ety is bewildering to any one on this conti- 

 nent; then how much more so must it be 

 to the bee-keeping fraternity beyond the 

 sea! I can quite understand the difficul- 

 ties your reviewers encounter in their en- 

 deavor to glean useful and interesting 

 items from European bee-journals. 



It will be my privilege, in the course of 

 time, to give descriptions of the more im- 

 portant systems and means in vogue over 

 here, and, incidentally, to show whether 

 and to what extent A merican ideas are pene- 

 trating apiculture in Europe; and does it 

 mean taking too big a bite if I give way to 

 the hope that now and then something not 

 entirely useless to practical apiculture on 

 your continent might possibly be found 

 in these articles, although coming from 

 Europe? 



THE MODERN STUDENTS OF ANATOMY. 



When I read that severely critical article 

 on the anatomy of the honey-bee by Mr. 

 Snodgrass, in Gleanings for March 15 (and 

 I did read it several times) , I became con- 

 vinced that, happily, modern investigators 



