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on top, around the outer edge, on one 

 end and both sides ; the end left without 

 a cleat forms the entrance. As I under- 

 stand, your hivo-body contains the en- 

 trance. If you must work with this sys- 

 tem, saw the bottom edge of the hive- 

 body until just even with the top of your 

 entrance, then nail the strip that you 

 have sawed off *down on the bottom- 

 board (where it belongs). This requires 

 accurate work, but I think that with a 

 saw. Jack-plane, hammer and nails, you 

 can accomplish the desired result. In 

 regard to heat leaving the bottom (or 

 new brood-chamber), you need not fear, 

 for great numbers of bees will be there, 

 as they are prone to leave the upper or 

 old brood-chamber, rather than that 

 where the queen is in restraint. This 

 is what strengthens my faith that a self- 

 hiving arrangement will yet be perfected, 

 for the bees will cling to their queen, 

 rather than to queen-cells. 



Frank Coverdale. 

 Welton, Iowa. 



Spring Packing. 



In the Spring of 1890, I took 7 hives, 

 with caps 7 inches deep, and porticoes 

 and broad boards to keep off the sun and 

 rain, and lined them with asbestos 

 paper, such as plumbers wrap steam 

 pipes with, which I thought would be 

 good to keep the heat in, and later to 

 keep it out. I covered the asbestos with 

 wood separators, lifted the frames of 

 bees and honey out of the other hives 

 into them, covered the brood-frames with 

 a quilt, and packed the cap with dry 

 straw, expecting to see them build up 

 very rapidly ; but imagine my surprise to 

 see that the first colony to build up was 

 one in a single-walled hive, with nothing 

 over it but a quilt and a board shade, the 

 latter being raised an inch at the back 

 end, giving free circulation of air over 

 the quilt. I also packed the caps of 

 many more, and watched carefully, but 

 failed to see any benefit therefrom. 

 While Spring packing may be beneficial, 

 the above-mentioned experiment has led 

 me to think otherwise. 



0. B. Barrows. 



Marshalltown, Iowa, Feb. 16, 1891. 



Patent Rights. 



I see that it is dangerous to speak of 

 impressions. I did not intend to say, at 

 Detroit, " that I knew that the impres- 

 sions gathered by the readers of Glean- 

 ings, were that patents were not honor- 

 able property." I said " that I thought 

 the influence of Gleanings had caused 



people to disrespect property in patents, 

 and so disregard people's rightful claims 

 in such property." If it has exerted 

 such influence, it has, of course, been 

 thoughtless and unintended. Yet, just 

 as certainly, it has incited towards dis- 

 honesty. All property should be re- 

 spected. Patent property is real prop- 

 erty in the sight of the law and in the 

 sight of reason. Therefore, any word 

 that makes people think of or treat such 

 property lightly, is to be regretted. It 

 is wise to urge every one to be very care- 

 ful in buying patent rights, or any pat- 

 ented article — never to buy until they 

 know that it will do what they wish to 

 have done. It is always our right to let 

 a patented article alone, and as truly our 

 absolute duty, unless we feel that we 

 desire and need it, and pay for the right 

 to use it. A. J. Cook. 



Agricultural College, Mich. 



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Price of both. CIuIk 

 The American Bee Journal $1 00. . . . 



and Gleaning-s in Bee-Culture .... 200.... 1 75 



Bee-Keepers' Guide 150. .. 140 



Bee-Keepers' Review 2 00 — 175 



The Apiculturist 175.... 165 



Canadian Bee Journal 175 ... 165 



American Bee-Keeper 150 — 140 



The 7 above-named papers 6 00 — 5 00 



and Lang-stroth Revised (Dadant) 3 00 ... . 2 75 

 Cook's Manual (1887 edition) 2 25.... 2 00 

 Quinby's New Bee-Keeping. 2 50 — 2 25 

 Doolittle on Queen-Rearing. 2 00.... 175 

 Bees and Honey (Newman) . . 2 00 — 175 

 Binderfor Am. Bee Journal. 160 — 150 

 Dzierzon's Bee-Book (cloth). 3 00.... 2 00 

 Root's A B C of Bee-Culture 2 25 ... . 210 



Farmer's Account Book 4 00 ... . 2 20 



Western World Guide 150.... 1 30 



Heddon's book, "Success,".. 150 — 140 

 A Year Among the Bees — 1 50 — 135 



Convention Hand-Book 150. .. 130 



Weekly Inter-Ocean 2 00.... 175 



Toronto Globe (weekly) 2 00.... 170 



History of National Society. 1 50 ... . 125 

 American Poultry Journal.. 2 25 — 150 



The Lever (Temperance) 2 00 1 75 



Orange Judd Fai-mer 2 00 ... 1 65 



Farm, Field and Stockman. . 2 00. . . . 1 65 



Prairie Farmer 2 00 ... . 1 65 



Illustrated Home Journal . . 1 50 — 1 35 



American Garden 2 50 — 2 00 



Rural New Yorker 2 50.... 2 00 



Nebraska Bee-Keeper 150 — 1 3o 



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