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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



THE 



Linerican Bee=Keeper 



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tHE W. T. FALCONER MANFG. 



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IBLISHING OFFICE, 

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 Falconer, N. Y. 



IRRY E. HILL, - 

 /THUR C. MILLER, 



- - - - Editor 

 Associate Edit07- 



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it is difficult to foretell the extent of 

 the season's crop of honey. Bees are 

 «aid to be in good condition. 



"Let the bee-keeper bear in mind 

 that no instructions, however complete, 

 can take the place of private judgment. 

 He must use his own intelligence and 

 adapt the details of his methods to the 

 exact conditions under which he 

 works."— r. J. Crowe, Irish Bee Jour- 

 nal. 



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Mr. John C. Frank, Earlvllle, III., 

 make* a hive stand which he prefer,? 

 to any other, by making a rim, of 

 inch stuff, five inches wide, of the de- 

 sired size to suit the hive in u«e, 

 and in each corner nail a heavy block 

 in which is bored a hole to take a half- 

 inch machine bolt. The bolts serve 

 as legs, which rest upon four bricks, 

 and the hive is accurately levelled by 

 use of a wrench. 



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Mr. John M. Lange, Jr., Monticel- 

 lo. la., writes: "When I read that 

 editorial on page 59 of the Bee-Keeper 

 for March, I was much pleased, for it 

 was just what I have wanted some 

 editor to say. 'Improvement is the or- 

 der of the day,' and bee-keepers should 

 carefully test the merits of an article 

 before reporting. It is unfair to con- 

 demn a thing simply because one may 

 not happen to know anything about 

 it." 



lEMtorfal. 



[r. David A. Gaylord, Hatfield, 

 i., reports a very cold, backward 

 ng and much rain up to time of 

 ting — June 9. 



Soney-dealers in Boston, are still 

 ling quite a good deal of last sea- 

 s honey crop. They claim they 

 not explain, and .see no good rea- 

 for honey not having gold better." 

 es Mr. F. Greiner. Naples, N. Y.. 

 5. 



ir Denver correspondent, under 

 of June 17, advises that hail 

 ns in northern Colorado have de- 

 red much of the first cutting of 

 fa, and that as the season is late, 



New Zealand has in prospect a bee 

 .iournal of its own, to be established 

 and edited by Mr. G. J. S. Small, of 

 Marton, who is now the authorized 

 correspondent and agent of the Ameri- 

 can Bee-Keeper in that far-off land, 

 in which the first "Bee Expert" has 

 recently been appointed by the govern- 

 ment, in the person of Mr. Isaac Hop- 

 kins. The move was first set on foot 

 by Mr. Small who is, naturally, grati- 

 fied by the -success of his efforts. 



In wiring frames, Mr. A. J. Gray, 

 Ballstou, N. Y., fastens his frame se- 

 curely in a form, places the spool of 

 wire on a wire spike in line with the 

 lower hole pierced through the end- 

 bar, threads the wire, secures the end 

 to a five-eighths brad which is driven 

 down, then takes up the slack, and by 

 pressure of thumb draws them quite 

 tight, though not enough to spring the 

 end-bar«. The wire is then wound 



