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the agent at Toronto, you will be entitled to the K fare re- 

 turning home. Upon a single bee-keeper may depend whether 

 or not 100 Certificates are shown at the convention, so you 

 will readily see the importance of getting a Certificate when 

 purchasing your ticket for Toronto. 



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No Editor or Publislier of a bee-paper should 

 think of wanting to be the Secretary-Treasurer of the amal- 

 gamated society, if such should result from the North Ameri- 

 can and Bee-Keepers" Union. At least this editor wouldn't 

 entertain the thought for a moment, and would strongly op- 

 pose any other, should he attempt to win the ofBce. No, it 

 would not be fair. It would give the favored editor an advan- 

 tage over all others, which would not result in the best inter- 

 est of the society, I fear. Editor Root says this in last Glean- 

 ings, on this point : 



It has been whispered to me that some editor was after 

 the General Managership of the Union, or such organization 

 as might perhaps be perfected in the future by araalgamalion 

 or otherwise. So far as Gleanings is concerned, neither of its 

 editors would accept the office under any consideration. I 

 have already heard from the editors of three or four other 

 leading bee-papers, and find that their position is ours exactly. 



Whoever " whispered" that time would better hereafter 

 speak even lower than a " whisper." Surely, no self-respect- 

 ing editor would be " after the General Managership." 



■Wifeless— Ptot Homeless. — Bro. Leahy, in the 

 August Progressive, had this alarming notice : 



"Alas! poor Ycrick ! The sad news comes as we goto 

 press. Dr. Miller writes : ' Friend York has no home now.' " 



Lest some might think that my pleasant home is all 

 broken up, and that I am a candidate for all sorts of sympa- 

 thy, I had better say that it all came about by Mrs. York 

 going to stay with her mother-in-law in Ohio for a month or 

 so, in order to rest up and endeavor to regain her former e.x- 

 cellent health. That's all. lu a week or so now I'll not feel 

 so lonesome. But I hereby give notice that Dr. Miller had 

 better stop telling such whoppers about me ! And it will be 

 " Alas ! poor Leahy !'' if he sticks his editorial pencil through 

 me again iu that kind of a style ! 



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North American Bee-Keepers' Union.— 



How's that for a name for the society formed by uniting the 

 North American Bee-Keepers' Association and the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Union ? This is a day and age of " Unions," and 

 I believe that under the name suggested, thousands of mem- 

 bers could be secured if proper inducements are offered. 



In Gleanings for Aug. 1, Editor Root comes out in a 

 strong editorial favoring the amalgamation of the two existing 

 national societies. It ought to be done, and very soon. 



Phrenology. — The annual session of the American 

 Institute of Phrenology will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 1895. 

 Those who expect to attend, or who are in any way interested, 

 should write at once for particulars to the publishers of the 

 Phrenological Journal, 27 East 21st Street, New York. 

 Prom present indications this will be the most successful ses- 

 sion of the Institute ever held. 



Honey as Food and ^ledicine. — A new and revised 

 edition of this 3'2-page pamphlet is now issued. It has 5 blank 

 pages on which to write or paste recipes taken from other sources. 

 It is just what its name indicates, and should be liberally dis- 

 tributed among the people everywhere to create a demand for 

 honey. It contains a number of recipes on the use of honey as 

 food and as medicine, besides much other interesting and valuable 

 information. Prices, postpaid, are: Single copy, 5 cts. ; 10 copies 

 35 cts. ; 50 for $1.50 ; 100 for $3.50. Better give them a trial. Send 

 all orders to the Bee Journal office. \ j 



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TO DETECT ADULTERATION OF BEESWAX. 



From Hainant's Pragies Apicole is taken the following: 

 To test wax for adulteration, heat to boiling one gramme with 

 ten grammes of water and three grammes of carbonate of 

 soda; let it cool, and if pure, the wax will float and the water 

 remain uncolored; if adulterated, an emulsion more or less 

 liquid is formed. Five percent, adulteration can be detected 

 in this way. — F. L. Thompson, in Review. 



SPEAKING KIND WOKDS, 



Strange, isn't it, that some oeople don't like to hear others 

 well spoken of? Surely there can be no harm come from giv- 

 ing one another words of eucouragement. If we appreciate the 

 efforts of a brother bee-keeper, or admire his writings, what 

 harm can it do to let him know it? Few men in this world 

 have too many ki[id words spoken of them, but many men have 

 too much said that is discrediting to them. The way of the 

 world is to say nothing good of a man while he is living, but 

 after he is dead, no matter how wicked arid sinful he has been, 

 someone will manage to find something good of him. Let it 

 not be so with bee-keepers. — S. E. Miller, in Progressive. 



GETTING BEES OFF EXTRACTING -COMBS. 



S. T. Pettit gives his plan in Canadian Bee Journal, as fol- 

 lows: 



"This is the way I do it now: First give a couple of smart 

 whiffs of smoke in the entrance, then blow smoke smartly un- 

 der the quilt and the bees will rush downwards, then remove 

 the quilt or cloth and for a moment rush the bees down with 

 smoke. Now is your opportunity; lift the combs out quickly 

 and shake off what bees you can quickly, and lean the combs 

 against the back part of the hive or any other convenient 

 thing, or place them in a light box for the purpose. Now, 

 keep on a hustle and as soon as the last frame is out, drop in 

 and adjust your empty combs and close up the hive. Now, 

 see, all this must be done before the reaction or return of the 

 bees sets in, and your bees are still in good humor, and their 

 zeal for gathering honey is not decreased by the presence of 

 those empty combs, and everything is lovely. 



"The process of brushing the remaining bees from the 

 combs will be found pleasant and easy, for by this time they 

 feel lost and lonely, and they are in no mood for self-defense. 

 I had rather remove the filled combs and replace them with 

 empty ones than adjust and remove a bee-escape. And then, 

 I fancy that the bees being crowded in the brood-chamber and 

 the consequent excitement caused by the bee-escape would 

 work up swarming-fever. 



"I go right on with this work in the robbing season. I 

 place the robber-cloth over the comb box, and just when com- 

 mencing operations I fill said box with smoke; this keeps the 

 robbers at bay. At such seasons I have an assistant to keep 

 the air over and about the hive pretty full of smoke." 



SIZE OF HIVES. 



In Gleanings, J. F. Mclntyre reports that be and R. A. 

 Holley have been experimenting with hives containing frames 

 Langstroth length, some of them 7 inches deep and others 12 

 inches deep. They are much pleased with the deep frames, 

 and very positive that they want no horizontally divisible 

 brood-chambers. The editor adds in a foot note: 



"Personally, I have never experimented with deep brood- 

 chambers; but I have observed this: That we in our locality, 

 only a few miles from H. R. Boardman, while following pre- 

 cisely the same method of wintering in-doors, wp, do not have 

 the same success that he does with his deep hive. While we 

 lose in-doors from 10 to 25 per cent., Mr. Boardman loses 

 none. Perhaps the depth of brood-chamber may have some- 

 thing to do with it; but after all, take the reports as they gen- 

 erally run, there does not seem to be much difiference in results, 

 so far as wintering is concerned, between the Langstroth size 

 of frame and a square one. But Friend Mclntyre's argument 

 is, if I understand him correctly, that more brood can be se- 

 cured by using a deeper frame. Perhaps he is right. His ex- 

 perience, and also that of Mr. Holley, agrees almost exactly 

 with tests that we have made here at the 'Home of theHoney- 

 Bees;' namely, that bees do not breed as well in divided 

 brood-chambers as in one in which there is no division." 



F. A. Snell favors a cubical hive with the American frame, 

 and C. W. Dayton wants one that makes a cube by adding a 



