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Published by Tlie A. L »«ot Company, Medlma, Ohio 



E. R. Root, Editor A. L. Boyden, Advertising Msrr 



H. H. Root, Asst. Ed. J. T. Calvert, Business Mgx 



A. I. Root, Editor of Home DepartnieBt 



Vol. XXXV. 



JULY 15, 1907. 



No. 14. 



Illinois pure-food law went into effect 

 July 1 — an A 1 law, in harmony with the 

 national. 



Sheep in an apiary are all right with hives 

 raised as on page 904; but don't try it with 

 hives low down. I've tried it, and know. 



A QUEEN of Dr. Bruennich continued lay- 

 ing side by side with her daughter fully 11 

 months, then suddenly disappeared {Leipz. 

 Bztg., 85). 



I TRIED putting brood over sections, as 

 Fig. 3, p. 899, but had to give it up, because 

 it darkened' the cappings of the sections. 

 Does Mr. Hand have no such trouble? 



Endorsing R. F. Holtermann, p. 90G, I may 

 say that my practice has been to allow idle 

 combs standing outdoors to be uncovered; 

 not so good for the combs otherwise, but 

 greatly safer from the bee-moth. 



Leather-colored Italians are mentioned, 

 p. 895, as coming from Switzerland. Strange- 

 ly enough, a vote taken in the leading Swiss 

 bee-journal showed a general consensus of 

 opinion that all Italian blood should be sup- 

 pressed and only pure blacks cultivated. 



Speaking of the air-space cover, you say, 

 Mr. Editor, p. 888, "Why not go one better 

 and have the deep telescope cover?'" Be- 

 cause, aside from the extra cost, it takes more 

 strength and more time to handle two pieces 

 than one. I don't know, though, whether it 

 might not pay after all. 



L. Stachelhausen, I am pained to learn 



, from Eurojiaeiache Bzht., 93, has for months 



been suffering severely from cancer of the 



tongue, with the painful prospect of losing 



part of that organ. Let us hope that a man 



so useful to 'his bee-keeping friends in Ger- 

 many as well as in this country may long be 

 spared. 



In getting bees from old hives into new 

 ones, E. W. Alexander, p. 896, says put the 

 new hive with the queen on top of the old 

 one, an excluder between. I wonder why he 

 puts it on top, and not under the old one. 

 Don't bees work brood down better than up? 

 I once had a queen utterly refuse to I'^y for 

 days when fastened upstairs. • 



llAusciiENFELS {B.-Vatei\ 175) says a good 

 colony will consume from Sept. 1 to April 6 

 about 26.4 lbs. honey; from April 9 to May 

 10, at least 11 lbs., and probably more if it. is 

 present; and from then to the last of August, 

 with its great mass of brood", at least 52.8. 

 That makes 90 lbs. the minimum, without 

 counting any thing for the production of wax. 



No ONE under 18 years of age is allowed 

 by the Illinois law, since July 1, to smoke in 

 a public place, and the manufacture and sale 

 of cigarettes are utterly prohibited. How is 

 that for Illinois, Bro. A. I ? [That would be 

 tiptop, doctor, if it were true; but how about 

 the following, which we clip from the Wo- 

 vKin's National Daily of July 1? 



The law passed by the last Illinois legislature, pro- 

 hibiting the sale of cigarettes in that State, has been 

 declared invalid by Judge Chytraus. He held that the 

 body of the act did not conform to the title. He fur- 

 ther said that the law was declared to be an act to 

 " regulate," when, in fact, it was an act to " prohioit." 



If all of our righteous laws are to be 

 thrown out by some "nuUihcation act," 

 what is goiag to become of us?— A. I. R.] 



That fat comb, mentioned on page 888, 

 where the capped comb has gone clear over 

 the nail spacers, is all right for uncapping if 

 you merely take the usual thin slice of cap- 

 pings, for in that case you will not cut down 

 to the nail. If you want to cut down to the 

 frame, you can still make it, for the two 

 spacers on each side are on only one end, 

 and you are not much of an engineer if you 

 can't start your knife in where the nails are 

 and cut straight through where there are no 

 nails. But I don't insist on metal spacers for 

 extracting-frames. VV^hat I do insist upon is 



