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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1 



THECAMPANILL\ ELANCA, OR WHITE BELLFLOWER. 



years ago ; but we have not had very much 

 f. om him of late years. 



There are several features about his frame 

 and its adjustment in the hive that are good. 

 It is practically a standing staple-spaced 

 frame, the frames resting on uprights of T 

 tins. This would certainly minimize to the 

 1 )west point the smashing of bees and 

 propolis attachments. The only trouble is, 

 frames of this kind would have a tendency 

 to topple over against their neighbors be- 

 cause there would be nothing to hold them 

 together when one is pulled out for exami- 

 nation. I went over this field somewhat 

 myself years ago, and decided against a 

 standing frame unless it were shallow or 

 unless it had some sort of device like the 

 Qiiinby hook to hold it in an upright posi- 

 tion when separated from its fellows. 



When I said I wondered if anybody else 

 was using nail spacers like Dr. Miller's I 

 meant the ordinary wire nail. The furni- 

 ture nail, I well knew, had been used for 

 some years. About ten years ago there was 

 a discussion between Dr. Miller and myself 

 regarding the merits of this particular 

 spacer, and I am not sure V>ut our corres- 

 pondent Mr. Hyde was at the time one of 

 the advocates of the device. 



Chemically, "glucose" comprises quite a 

 group of sugars having the chemical formu- 

 la of C'^H'^O''. When chemists speak of 

 glucose they generally mean it in the broad 

 sense; but in commerce, glucose and grape 

 sugar are known as two different articles, 

 although chemically the same. The former 

 is a thick syrupy liquid, and the latter is a 

 hard dry substance with a fine mealy con- 



DRYING COFFEE IN SANTJAGO DE CUBA. 



