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consist of the excrements of the tree- 

 lice. 



If bees carry in great qumitiUes of 

 honey-dew you may be sure that this 

 kind of dew is nothing but an exudation 

 or perspiration of the leaves, as the bees 

 do not care for the real aphidian honey, 

 which nearly every year is to be found 

 on the surface of the leaves. I have 

 only vei'y seldom seen a bee carry in this 

 dreadful stuff, and perhaps then it was 

 a mixture of both. The exudation is to 

 be found mostly on the underside, and 

 in the sheath of the leaves. 



Ceresin for Foundation. 



A. I. Root writes in Gleanings, page 

 227 : " Will some of our German friends 

 sift this matter ?" — whether ceresin is 

 used for foundation in Germany or not. 

 Well, Friend Root, I am sorry to say, 

 that ceresin is used for foundation in 

 Germany to a very large extent. Mr. 

 Root says he has tested the matter 

 thoroughly, and has found out that even 

 the least admixture of ceresin will 

 surely cause the combs to break down 

 during the extreme heat of the summer. 



I should be very happy if Mr. Root 

 was right, but we have noted just the 

 contrary. The well-known firm of 

 Schulz, at Buckow, which now sells 

 those combs with cells of full length, 

 uses, as far as I know, only a mixture 

 of ceresin and wax for all kinds of foun- 

 dation. This mixture is called "artifi- 

 cial wax " or " prepared wax." The bees 

 do not like it very much, but nevertheless 

 many thousand pounds of this kind of 

 foundation are sold yearly as it is 

 cheaper. It is my most ardent desire to 

 stop this kind of business, but nothing 

 can be done at present. 



Xlie "World's Fair "Women 



" Souvenir " is the daintiest and prettiest 

 book issued in connection with the 

 World's Fair. It is by Josephine D. Hill 

 — a noted society lady of the West — and 

 contains superb full-page portraits and 

 sketches of 31 of the World's Fair 

 women and wives of prominent officials 

 connected with the great Fair. It is 

 printed on enameled paper, with half- 

 tone engravings, bound in leatherette. 

 We will send it postpaid for 60 cents, or 

 give it for tivo now subscribers to the 

 Bee Journal at $1.00 each. 



Ua-ve You Read page 221 yet ? 



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Greenville. Texas. 



Unfinished. Sections of Honey — What 

 is to be Done with Them ? 



Mrs. Jennie Atchley : — Again I want 

 to give some of my experience, and also 

 ask your advice. 



This year my bees have done very well 

 in almost every way. I have had a great 

 many swarms, but by doubling up and 

 hiving back, all my colonies are now 

 very strong, and have been almost all 

 the season. 



In this section, what we call our souj- 

 wood honey-flow is just about over, and 

 bees have gathered a great deal of honey 

 from it. We think that sourwood honey 

 is as good as any in the world, and as it 

 came in so rapidly at the beginning of 

 the flow, I worked my supers too far 

 ahead of the bees. Thinking that I 

 would get a very large amount of this 

 fine honey, I piled up until on a good 

 many hives I have three supers, and 

 now the result of this is, I have on hand 

 about a thousand one-pound sections 

 that are not completed, and I want to 

 ask what is the best way I can get them 

 completed. 



In examining the colonies I find the 

 brood-chambers of almost all of them 

 very full of nice honey — of course it is 

 mixed with brood and pollen somewhat. 

 If I should let them gently alone, will 

 they carry the honey from the brood- 

 chamber to the supers ? 



Among the thousand unfinished sec- 

 tions, a great many of them are just 

 about full, and sealed on both sides, but 

 right around the edge just a few holes 

 are not filled, which, of course, makes 

 the package look incomplete, while 

 others are not so nearly finished. What 

 is the quickest and nicest way to get 

 these sections completed ? 



We will not have another honey-flow 

 to amount to anything before the asters 

 bloom, and I did not think it would do to 



