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THF BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Miss Wilson, a sister-in-law of Dr. Mil- 

 ler's, has an elastic around the lower edge of 

 her bee-veil, then draws down the front of it 

 and fastens it with a safety pin to her dress 

 waist. This arrangement holds the veil out 

 away from the face and neck, while it allows 

 one to get at the mouth and eyes when spec- 

 tacles need adjusting, or fingers need lick- 

 ing. With this arrangement there would be 

 no folds in front from the use of an elastic. 

 This item is picked from Gleanings. 



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C. G. LooFT, of Cochranton, Ohio, calls 

 my attention to the fact that he invented and 

 described in Gleanings for 1891, page 419, a 

 section press exactly like the one invented 

 by Mr. Townsend and described in last Re- 

 view. I had forgotten about the matter, or, 

 of course, I should have called Mr. Town- 

 send's attention to it when he sent me his 

 press. I presume this is a case in which two 

 persons have hit upon the same idea inde- 

 pendent of each other. 



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Honey on the fingers is removed by lick- 

 ing the fingers. At least E. R. Root does 

 that way ; I have followed the same fashion, 

 and I think we two are not alone in the prac- 

 tice, but I can never lick my fingers so clean 

 that a trace of stickiness does not remain, 

 and how pesky mean it does feel when the 

 fingers stick together and stick to the 

 smoker, and I have frequently stood it as 

 long as I could and finally gone to the honey 

 house and washed my hands and fingers and 

 wiped them on a towel, and then gone back 

 to my work feeling as much more comforta- 

 ble as though I had had a bath, a clean shave, 

 and my boots blacked. Honestly, I wish 

 that there were some way of cleaning one's 

 fingers of honey, so clean that they would 

 not be sticky, without the trouble of going 

 to the honey house and washing them. But 

 then, there are greater trials than this to 

 bear. 



Success in Bee Cultuee, so says Glean- 

 ings, has not been a success financially, and 

 will be discontinued, the money being re- 

 turned to those who have paid in advance. 

 I am sorry to learn this, as I liked Bro. Sage 

 and his sprightly little monthly. He was a 

 splendid printer, and, being greatly inter- 

 ested in bees, he believed that at odd times 

 he might " set up " the matter for a journal. 

 He soon found that making a good journal 

 was about all that one man could do, and he 



wisely decided that it would be very poor 

 policy to give up a paying business for the 

 uncertainties of journalism. I fear that 

 many who start bee journals do so with no 

 conception of the amount of thought, labor 

 and money that must be expended before 

 even a good journal can be placed on a pay- 

 ing basis. As I look back over the years that 

 have slipped by since I started the Review, 

 I am reminded of what Mr. M. H. Hunt 

 once said to me. I was referring to the fine 

 quality of the foundation that he makes, 

 when he said, " Yes, I have learned how to 

 make good foundation, and I don't begrudge 

 the time, and labor, and money that it has 

 cost me, but if I had known in the outset of 

 the obstacles that I would have to overcome, 

 I fear that I should never had the courage to 

 start in." 



FOUL BKOOD ; ITS NATURAL HISTORY AND 

 RATIONAL TREATMENT. 



The above is the title of a little book of 47 

 pages, written by Dr. Wm. R, Howard, of 

 Ft. Worth, Texas, and published by Geo. W. 

 York & Co., of Chicago. Price 25 cents. It 

 is one of these few books that we have that 

 are diflficult to review. The author has done 

 the " boiling down." He shows conclusively 

 that bacillus alvei and its poisonous com- 

 pounds are the cause of foul brood ; that the 

 decomposition of chilled or dead brood does 

 not produce foul brood ; that the spores of 

 foul brood when excluded from the air re- 

 tain their vitality indefinitely but that an ex- 

 posure of from 24 to 3G hours will kill them ; 

 that a temperature approaching the boiling 

 point must be continued nearly an hour to 

 destroy them ; and that an exposure to a 

 temperature below zero for three days will 

 not destroy them. 



He found by experiment that in a moist 

 chamber the germs of putrefaction would 

 pass from one part to another and attack the 

 non-infected brood. Bacillus alvei did not 

 pass from one plate to another, thus show- 

 ing that the spores are not thrown out upon 

 the air. He calls attention to the fact that 

 if foul brood germs floated in the air there 

 would be no hope of ever curing the disease. 

 The Dr. says that many putrefactive germs 

 produce poisons that may be left in the cells 

 and cause the death of the next brood that is 

 reared. It is quite likely that brood dying 

 from this cause has sometimes been mis- 

 taken for foul brood. 



