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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Pliotograpliy is the new " hobby " of 

 Bro. Hutchinson. If a bee-keeper don't 

 want to be surprised by his picture appear- 

 ing in the Review hereafter, he'd better keep 

 away from Bro. H. Of course this is all in 

 fun, but, seriously, Bro. Hutchinson is now 

 studying the subject of photography, and 

 no doubt his paper will soon rival Harper's 

 or other illustrated periodicals, in the line 

 of pictures. If Bro. H. was publishing a 

 weekly paper, he'd hardly find time to 

 "monkey" with a camera, or anything 

 else. How we should like to have time for 

 recreation of some kind, but we will have 

 to be satisfied with the "liking " or " wish- 

 ing" we had it. It means work to get out a 

 weekly paper like the Beb Journal, and 

 always have it " get there" on time. But 

 we are willing to work so long as the sub- 

 scriptions keep coming in well, and our 

 readers are pleased. 



JBros. Wliitcoinb nnd l£retcli« 

 nier favored us with a call on Saturday, 

 Aug. 12fch. The former has charge of the 

 Nebraska State apiarian exhibit at the 

 "World's Fair, and the latter that of Iowa. 

 They are both grand, good men, and will 

 see to it that their respective States are 

 well up to the front in the way of a honey 

 exhibit. Bro. Whitcomb is the editor and 

 publisher of the Teleyraph, at Friend, Nebr., 

 and Bro. Kretchmer is well-known as an 

 excellent bee-supply manufacturer and 

 dealer at Red Oak, Iowa. 



j^li'. IS. Xaylor, ir^ the Farm, Stock 



a7i(i Home for August, says that at the end 

 of the white honey season, he removes all 

 surplus honey from the hives, crates the 

 finished sections, and extracts the partly- 

 filled and uncapped combs. The extracted 

 honey thus obtained is, if cured properly, 

 of the highest grade for table use, and sells 

 for nearly the price of comb honey if cus- 

 tomers are made acquainted with its high 

 excellence. 



The sections containing the empty combs 

 he returns to the supers, and some pleasant 

 afternoon sets them all out without covers, 

 so the bees can get at them without hin- 

 drance, and clean the combs of every drop 

 of adhering honey. In the evening, after 

 the bees have ceased to fly, the cases are 

 carried and stored into the bee-proof honey- 

 house. A "handy comb-leveler " is then 

 brought into use, and the combs leveled to 



even thickness, and set carefmlly away for 

 next year. By the use of prepared combs 

 he is quite sure he can double the white 

 honey crop. 



The hives, after the honey is removed, 

 will have an extra hive containing either 

 frames of drawn combs, or full sheets of 

 brood foundation, placed on top of each 

 colony to be filled with dark fall honey. 

 There should be a queen-excluding honey- 

 board placed between the brood-chamber 

 and these hives, so no brood can be started 

 in them. He keeps the honey thus obtained 

 for feeding and rearing an army of bees in 

 time for next year's clover and basswood 

 season. 



Xlie I>a.ug:1iter of Mr. J. E. Frith, 

 Secretary of the Oxford Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation, living at Princeton, Ont., died 

 suddenly shortly after having received a 

 bee-sting on the temple. Mr. Frith is well 

 known among Canadian apiarists, and will 

 have the heartfelt sympathy of bee-keepers 

 everywhere, in this sudden bereavement. 



]^Ir. S. H. Clarlc, of Elwood, Iowa, 

 we learn from the Jfaquoketa, (Iowa) Hecord, 

 conducts the post-ofiice in Elwood, having 

 held his position since President Arthur's 

 administration. Besides this, he is one of 

 the most successful bee-keepers in his 

 county. Why wouldn't keeping a post- 

 office go well with bee-keeping ? Dr. Mason 

 tried it awhile, and it seemed to work all 

 right — but the bees were more certain 

 stayers than the post-office. Perhaps be- 

 cause the bees were not subject to political 

 influence. 



Apiariiiii Uxpei-iiiieut S^tatious. 



— We have received the following from Dr. 

 Miller in reference to this important sub- 

 ject, now being discussed in the bee-papers. 

 Read it, and if you think you have any- 

 thing of value to present, send it in. Here 

 is what the Doctor says : 



Friend YoHK: — I'm glad to see you in- 

 terested in the matter of experiment sta- 

 tions for bee-keepers. The Review has given 

 us a fine leader on the subject, and I hope 

 it will keep stirred up. You can't make 

 out fi-om that sentence whether I want the 

 Review or the subject of experiment stations 

 kept stirred up, so I'll say I mean both. 



I am in accord with you in the view that 

 it is not best to have a station for eaoh 

 State. If two States are about alike as 



