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" trash." The Progressive mau thought that 

 a journal should be like a fanning mill — blow 

 away the chaff and lay sound grain before 

 its readers. Bro. York doesn't want it that 

 way — thinks every man should do his own 

 "digesting." Brethren, it depends upon 

 circumstances ; if a bee journal editor has 

 no practical knowledge of bees it is wisdom 

 on his part not to try the " fanning mill act," 

 and to even get others to write his apicul- 

 tural editorials, but when he is capable of so 

 doing, I say, turn on the wind and bloiu 

 hard. 



HOW TO WEAK A VEIL WITHOUT TUCKING IT 

 INSIDE THE OOLLAK. 



When it is necessary to wear a veil in hot 

 weather who has not wished that there was 

 some way of holding it down, aside from 

 that of tucking it inside the collar ? When 

 the neck is hot and sweaty how it feels with 

 a sort of muffler pressed close against it by 

 the collar. Besides this, the veil is held suf- 

 focatingly close to the face. All this may 

 be avoided, and I'll tell you how. In a hem 

 in the bottom of the veil run a string, leav- 



ing about a foot of the hem, right in front, 

 unoccupied by the string. That is, let the 

 string enter the hem at about six inches to 

 the right of the center of the front, pass it 

 around the back of the neck, bringing it out 

 of the hem at a point six inches to the left 

 of the center. The projecting ends of the 

 string must be long enough to pass under 

 the arms, cross at the back, and then be 

 brought around and tied in front. The string 

 holds the edge of the veil securely out upon 

 the shoulders, while if the right length of 

 hem is left without a string in front, that 

 part will be drawn snugly across the breast. 

 To Mr. Porter of bee escape fame belongs 

 the honor of devising this unsurpassable way 

 of holding down a bee veil. 



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NoN-SwABMiNG, by turning the bees from 

 one hive to another, a la Langdon, Mr. 

 Manum manages by placing two hi\es side 

 by side on what might be called a double 

 bottom board, or one bottom board above 

 another, the bees entering at each end of the 

 tube-like bottom board and coming up into 

 the hives through holes cut in the upper floor 

 of the double bottom board. They are 

 turned from one hive to the other by means 

 of slides that open and close the inner en- 

 trances. This method did not prove a suc- 

 cess last year, the greatest trouble being that 

 while reducing the force of one colony the 

 other is likely to swarm. Not only this, but 

 work in the supers was unsatisfactory, and 

 fall found the brood nests light in stores. 



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A NoN-SwAKMiNG strain of bees could be 

 as easily produced as a non-sitting variety of 

 fowls, provided we could as easily control 

 the mating of the queens ; at least, so argues 

 Mr. J. E. Armstrong in the American Bee 

 Journal. Against this idea many have 

 urged that all livings have the instinct to 

 ''be fruitful and multiply." To this Mr. 

 Armstrong very appropriately replies that to 

 man has been given the power to " subdue 

 and have dominion over every living thing 

 that moveth upon the earth." Mr. Miller 

 gives some very happy illustrations of what 

 man has done in the way of breeding out 

 instincts and traits. Mr. Miller hopes that 

 the mating of queens in confinement may 

 yet be made a success. Those who have read 

 Cheshire know that this can be accomplished 

 only in full flight ; and those who have read 

 Mr. Heddon's article on " Practical Breed- 



