THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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The Amekioan Bee Journal, comes out 

 with some new departmental headings. 



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Gleanings is now " leading " most of its 

 matter, greatly to the improved appearance 

 of an already handsome journal. 



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" Pulled " Queens have been talked about 

 considerably of late. They are simply queens 

 ready, or nearly ready, to emerge from the 

 cells, and if not " pulled " too soon they are 

 just the same as any queens, and that is all 

 there is to it. 



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" R. L. Taylor," so writes W. C. Frazier, 

 " is making an eminent success in his experi- 

 ments, and is setting a pace that will worry 

 the next man into whose mouth there may 

 happen to drop the same kind of a plum." 

 Mr. Frazier thinks it would be desirable for 

 Mr. Taylor to test the different strains of 

 Italian bees, viz., imported, golden, and 



dark. 



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The Canadian Bee .Journal, with a com- 

 mendable and timely stroke of enterprise, 

 brings out half tone illustrations of seven- 

 teen of the most prominent members of the 

 Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association, accom- 

 panying them with brief and well written 

 biographical sketches and items of interest 

 in regard to the annual meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation, held at Lindsay the 9th and 10th of 



January. 



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The Progressive is adopting, to a certain 

 extent, the " special topic " feature. The 

 January No. discussed "What Shall Bee- 

 Keepers do Winters ?" Darying, teaching 

 school, both day and singing schools, " can- 

 vassing," caring for poultry and writing 

 bee-keeping articles for the agricultural 

 journals are among the things recommended. 

 The February issue will be devoted to a dis- 

 cussion of " Full Sheets of Foundation Ver- 

 sus Starters." 



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The American Bee-Keeper, agreeable to 

 promise, shows improvements with the -Jan- 

 uary issue. Among other things, it contains 

 an excellent article from C. W. Dayton on 

 bee escapes which I shall probably copy be- 

 fore the arrival of the "'escape season." 

 Like most of the other journals, it has added 

 a department for short, newsy items, calling 

 them " Current Comments." The batch in 

 the present number is very readable. 



DooLiTTLE cell-cups are approved by J. 

 B. Case, a queen breeder of Port Orange, 

 Florida. He has the cells built in upper 

 stories of strong colonies, with queen-exclud- 

 ing metal between the upper and lower 

 stories. He writes Gleanings that the great 

 strength of the base of the cells enables him 

 to take them ofif the sticks, put them in the 

 hives, cage them, or handle them in varions 

 ways with no danger of injury. He saves 

 the cells from his best colonies when they 

 swarm, but fails to see that the queens are 

 superior in any way to those reared in the 

 cups. 



The Orange Blossom Honey arrived in 

 time for the convention. While it has an 

 orange flavor, I must say that I should pre- 

 fer clover honey for a steady diet. Quite a 

 number have asked that samples be sent 

 them. In reply I will say that I will put a 

 pound in a Muth jar, pack the bottle in a 

 box of sawdust and send it by express for 

 twenty-five cents, the receiver to pay ex- 

 press charges. This will allow all who wish 

 to sample the genuine, California, orange 

 blossom honey. Don't call this an adver- 

 tisement in the reading columng, as I am 

 making nothing out of the transaction. 



H. P. Langdon in a private letter says, 

 among other things, that when his non- 

 swarmers are put on at tho right ti)m. they 

 are a practical success, at least, with his 

 house apiary. He says he has no fault to 

 find with Mr. Taylor's giving a report just as 

 the trial with them was made, but he thinks 

 that allowance ought to have been made for 

 the " week or teti days that the bees had been 

 swarming." He closes his letter with the 

 very fair and philosophical view that "In 

 good time it will take the place that it de- 

 serves ; I know that it enables me to work 

 the house without loss, so, if it will not work 

 with the public, I am content as it is." He 

 mentions, incidentally, that the house apiary 

 is a poor place for mating queens, and he is 

 obliged to i-ear his queens at home. 

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Bee Journals are seldom discussed at bee 

 conventions ; there being a feeling that it is 

 not good taste — that the commendation of 

 one journal is a reflection upon the editors 

 of the others. Hives, smokers, honey-knives, 

 comb foundation of the different makes, 

 non-swarmers, self-hivers, in short every 

 thing pertaining to bee culture are freely 



