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crowd into the insets cut in the edge, and 

 frequently mar the face of the honey, 

 causing leakage, and frequently spoil the 

 entire case of honey. With the Ferguson 

 section this cannot take place. 



This section super was invented and 

 patented by a Mr. Ferguson, but finally all 

 rights were purchased by Mr. Lester L. 

 Price, an enterprising apiarist of the same 

 State, who is now introducing it to bee- 

 keepers everywhere. He has been much 

 gratified at the success with which he has 

 met in sales, and particularly with the gen- 

 erous endorsement given to his hive and 

 super by practical bee-men. 



It was endorsed, after careful investiga- 

 tion, by the Salt Lake County Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, at its meeting in Salt Lake 

 City, Utah, on May 20, 1893. One bee- 

 keeper in Iowa, who has used this hive two 

 years, says that in it he was able to pro- 

 duce more honey, which sold for 2}4 cents 

 more per pound, than the honey he secured 

 in other hives in previous years, and with- 

 out the necessity of scraping the sections. 



Another bee-keeper, who has 30 colonies 

 of bees, bought 30 of the Ferguson supers, 

 threw his old ones away, and is well pleased 

 with the new. He says they are the most 

 complete and labor-saving to the bees that 

 he had ever used. 



Mr. Price, who owns the hive, is a wide- 

 awake, progi'essive young man, and is de- 

 voting his entire time and efforts to placing 

 this hive before the apiarian world. He 

 has had it on exhibition at the World's 

 Fair, and thousands of bee-keepers who 

 have examined it there, have been pleased 

 with it, and are confident that it must 

 prove a valuable acquisition to modern 

 practical apiculture. 



While we do not think it wise to commend 

 every new thing that comes forward, we 

 do believe in encouraging those inventions 

 which are likely to prove of greatest value 

 to bee-keepers in general. At least the 

 most worthy should be given a fair trial 

 before pronouncing condemnation. With 

 these thoughts in mind, we have given the 

 foregoing description of the Ferguson hive 

 and section-case, and trust that it may 

 prove to be all its friends may fontlly an- 

 ticipate. 



Have You Read the wonderful buuk 

 Promiuni offers on page 421 ? 



IViiitering' ISecs Under Siio^fv. — 



Quite often we are asked whether it is safe, 

 or as well, to winter bees entirely under the 

 snow, or if it is not better to keep the snow 

 away from the hives in winter. Bro. Doo- 

 little, in GIea?imys, says that if the hives 

 are covered two-thirds the way up the 

 brood-chamber, it is a great advantage, 

 but if the hives are covered two-thirds the 

 way up the cap or cover, or completely 

 over, it is a positive damage to the bees, 

 and worse than no snow at all. 



The difficulty seems to be that, as soon as 

 the hives are covered with snow, the 

 warmth of the ground, combined with the 

 warmth of the bees, makes it so warm that 

 the bees become uneasy, go to breeding, 

 consume large quantities of honey, thus 

 distending their bodies and using up their 

 vitality, causing them to die of old age 

 during February, March and April, while 

 the young bees have not the usual strength 

 and vitality of bees hatched in September 

 and October to withstand the rigors of wm- 

 ter, so spi'ing dwindling and death are the 

 result. 



Have You Read page 421 yet ? 



Bees in a SiiiKliiy-ScliooI. — A few 



Sabbaths ago, Mr. R. M. Whitfield, the api- 

 cultural editor of the Soulhent Live Utock 

 JountdJ, of Meridian, Miss., took a colony of 

 bees in an observatory hive to Sunday- 

 school, and gave the pupils a short lecture 

 on the natural history of the bee. especially 

 upon the great respect and reverence the 

 worker-bees have for their queen-mother — 

 a deference far superior to that shown by 

 children of the human family. This and a 

 few other lessons drawn from the habits of 

 the bee seemed to interest the children 

 much, especially since it was out of the 

 usual line of Sunday-school lectures. So 

 religion and bee-keeping do mix 'all right. 



4i<oI<leii-Ko4l UM it i?Ic<liciue. — The 



medicinal qualities of the golden-rod, we 

 take it. are not generally known. We re- 

 cently read of its prolonging the life of a 

 lady six years, who suffered from asthma. 

 By inluiling the smoke produced from it 

 when dried, she received instant relief. 

 Tlie golden-rod will hereafter be prized 

 both for its beauty and its value as a 

 medicine. 



