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Vol. XXXI. 



APR. U J 903. 



No. 7. 



Br.C.CMiLLER. 



Staple-spaced frames don't go in this 

 country except for end-spacing. Perhaps 

 the right kind of spacers would go better 

 than staples. In Europe, nails with heads 

 of such thickness as to be driven automatic- 

 ally to the proper depth have been regular- 

 ly quoted in price lists for years, but you 

 can't get them in this country. 



A LITTLE KINK that I don't remember 

 seeing in print may be worth mentioning. 

 When bees will not be easily shaken or 

 pounded C'ff a comb, and 3'ou don't care to 

 get a brush, try this: Hold up the frame 

 with the left hand by one end of the top- 

 bar, and while thus suspended pound on 

 the top of the top-bar near the other end 

 with the tall of the right hand; then re- 

 verse ends and pound again. 



What vol' Sav, Mr. Editor, p. 242, raises 

 the question, " Under what circumstances 

 would you advise shipping comb honey by 

 express rather than freight? " [In my next 

 to the last paragraph I intimated what 

 those circumstances might be. The great 

 bulk of comb honey goes by freight 

 because express is too expensive. But hon- 

 ey maj' be shipped by express when the dis- 

 tance is short and the weight light. — Ed.] 



"Thf.ke I.S NO trouble about sending bees 

 b}' freight," and "it is not practicable to 

 send bees by express, except in nucleus or 

 one-colony lots, ' ' p. 246. But unless rulings 

 have changed, 3'ou can't send bees by freight 

 except in car- lots o'n some roads. [Many 

 roads will take less than a carload of bees 

 by freight if prepaid and at owner's risk. 

 Railroad companies do not like to take per- 

 ishable property like bees, and undertake 

 to get them to destination in good order un- 



less the freight is prepaid or a man goes 

 with them to see that they are properly 

 cared for. No charge is made for carrying 

 the man who takes care of the bees. — Ed.] 



Friends, please don't get to quarreling 

 whether swarms should be shaken before or 

 after queen-cells are started. What's right 

 for one may be wrong for another. In my 

 own case I wouldn't think of shaking in the 

 home apiary till cells were present. In an 

 out apiary with a small number, where I 

 wished to limit the number of visits, I'd 

 shake 'em all when it suited me, cells or no 

 cells. [We must be governed by conditions. 

 —Ed.] 



Prof. F. C. Harrison, of Canada, has 

 an article in the French bee journal. Revue 

 Internationale, in which he gives a table, 

 evidently prepared with no little care, com- 

 paring the characteristics of B. mesenteri- 

 cus vulgatns (Fluegge), B. mesentericus 

 [vulgarisf) (Dr. Lambotte), and B. alvei 

 (Chesh. and W. Cheyne). He thinks the 

 identity of B. alvei with the more common 

 form is far from being proven. It will be a 

 relief to believe that it is not possible for a 

 microbe existing everywhere to assume at 

 some inauspicious moment a form that we 

 so much dread. 



As I read what you say in last Glean- 

 ings, Bro. A. I. Root, I can't help heartily 

 wishing you were here. Every night for a 

 month you'd see all the pastors of Marengo 

 on the same platform in the tabernacle in 

 the most perfect harmony, while Evangelist 

 W. A. Sundaj' preaches to an audience 

 sometimes numbering more than a thousand. 

 After he has talked for an hour and a half 

 in a perfect torrent, it seems only the length 

 of an ordinary sermon. If he ever preaches 

 within a hundred miles of Medina it will 

 pay you to go and hear him. If you'll come 

 while he's here, Mrs. Miller will let you 

 have that north room to nap in all day long. 

 [That north room is most delightful. I al- 

 ways sleep soundly at the Miller home. — 

 Ed.] 



Illinois bee-keepers, don't fail to write 

 at once to your law-makers about that foul- 



