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THE BEE-KEEPERS ' REVIEW, 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. 



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 please say so when subscribing, otlierwise it 

 will be continued. 



FLINT, MICHIGAN. MAY 10. 1894. 



Silence is the wit of fools. 



Olivek Fosteb dropped the supply busi- 

 ness because he could make more money 

 raising honey. That is encouraging. 



F. A. Gemmill of Stratford, Ont., has 

 been appointed Secretary of the Ont. B. K. 

 Association, in place of Mr. Cornell, re- 

 cently deceased. 



Mb. Daggitt writes that the words "and 

 harde.st" in the eighth line of the first para- 

 graph on page 94, should have been omitted, 

 and that the word " bars " in his last para- 

 graph, IGth line, should be "uprights." 



In dividing a colony of bees, where shall 

 the old queen be left ? This query is found 

 in a late issue of the Amer'ican Bee Journal. 

 Thirteen replies say remove her to the new 

 stand, six say keep her on the old stand, and 

 a few evade the question. Two say leave 

 the queen ivhere there are the most ivorkers, 

 which is, of course, upon the old stand. 

 Keeping the queen and the workers together 

 is file point, and I should be glad to have 

 those who say " put the queen upo7i the new 

 stand," arise and defend that practice. 



Mr. R. L. Taylor is something of a lin- 

 guist ; besides this, he has a niece living 

 with him, Miss Katherine M. Inglis, who has 

 been an instructor in languages at the Alma 

 college. Between them they read the for- 

 eign bee journals ; Mr. Taylor pointing 

 out what he considers the most valuable, 

 and Miss Inglis translating it, the results 

 being sent to the Review. The first in- 

 stallment of these notes from foreign jour- 

 nals will appear in the June Review. Mr. F. 

 Ij. Thompson of Arvada, Nebraska, has also 

 promised to help me in this direction. 



Eight - Frame Hives versus ten - frame 

 hives are being discussed in Gleanings in a 

 way that reminds one of old times. Dr. Mil- 

 ler, R. L. Taylor, C. P. Dadant, and others 

 are taking a hand. It seems to me the point 

 is just here : when the flow is early and short 

 as it usually is in this part of the country, 

 the colony in an eight-frame hive gets its 

 combs full of brood and is ready for the sec- 

 tions sooner than is the case with a ten- 

 frarae hive, and better results are secured. 

 It is impossible to give a resume of the dis- 

 cussions, and they are too lengthy to copy 

 all of them. It seems to be one of those 

 cases in which you ought to be a subscriber 

 to Gleanings. 



THE TOWNSEND SECTION PRESS. 



Mr. 0. H. Townsend of Alamo, Michigan, 

 has sent me a sample of a style of section 

 press that he has just invented. I have had 

 an engraving made that very clearly shows 

 the press and the manner in which it is 

 operated. The press may be fastened to the 

 front of a bench and operated by means of 

 a treadle with a strap attached at the end of 

 the lever marked "A," or it may be placed 

 in a horizontal position upon the top of a 

 bench and the lever worked by the hand, in 

 which case it might be well to have a pad 

 placed upon the end of the lever. To oper- 

 ate the machine, the section is folded up 

 and placed in the large notch and the ends 

 brought together inside the notch "B," when 

 the lever is brought down either with the 

 hand or foot, as the case my be, and the joint 

 thus forced together ; when the pressure is 

 removed, a spiral spring raises the lever to 

 its former position. I have tried the press 

 and it works satisfactorily. The price is 

 11.00. 



