AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



727 



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EDITOR. 



Vol. mil 



Jniie4,lll9L 



Ho, 23, 



Editorial Buzzijigs. 



There are as many lovely things, 



As many pleasant tones, 

 For those who sit by cottage hearths. 



And those who sit on thrones. 



Xlie Punic Bees very seldom 

 sting, but they are not stingless bees. 



Tea L,eaves, in a pan of water, 

 is advised by an English apiarist, to be 

 provided at drinking places for bees. 



Dark Colors should be avoided 

 when painting hives. The combs will 

 melt down more q^uickly In such hives, 

 during the warm Summer weather. 



Xlie Injury to fruit, which is some- 

 times charged to the bees, begins with 

 decay, birds, wasps, or other pilferers, 

 for bees never puncture the sound skin 

 of fruit. 



In Sanilac County, Mich., it is 

 reported that tliere are over 200 bee- 

 keepers. The honey crop of that county 

 is valued at $60,000. That shows that 

 the bee-keepers are progressive, and up 

 with the times. 



Justice asks, " Why should bees be 

 taxed, and poultry escape taxation en- 

 tirely ?" We give it up. Either both 

 should be taxed to defray the expenses 

 of the Government, or neither should be 

 compelled to do so ! 



Mark witli Ink any articles you 

 may want us to see in newspapers sent 

 to this ofSce. Otherwise, the item you 

 desire to call attention to may never be 

 discovered. We receive so many papers 

 that it would bo utterly impossible to 

 read them all through to find an item. 



Xlie Poet vainly asks: "How 

 doth the little busy bee improve each 

 shining hoiir ?" Well, judging from its 

 everlasting buzzing, and its constant use 

 of the comb, we should say that the bee 

 put in its shining hours running a barber 

 shop. Next ! 



Sections of the regular sizes can 

 be obtained at all times, but those who 

 will use sizes out of the ordinary run 



(that is 4.Kx4:}.i, or 5^x6)^), should 

 have had them made, and in their api- 

 aries long ago. Mills cannot stop now 

 to change their machiney to run odd 

 sizes. This shows the folly of using odd 

 sizes of sections or frames. 



"Excluder Zinc'» is what it is 

 called in England, when mentioning 

 what we call " perforated zinc " for ex- 

 cluding queens and drones. The editor 

 of the British Bee Journal (on page 176) 

 says: " The most perfect form of ex- 

 cluder we know of is that made by 



Dr. G. L. Tinker." It is now being 

 made and sold in England, as advised by 

 Mr. Cowan. 



