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THE BEE-KEEPERS' UEVIEW. 



membership. The President, Mr. Emerson 

 T. Abbott, of St. Joseph, Mo., requests 

 that each one who expects to attend will 

 drop him a postal, as the knowledge will 

 help him in securing reduced rates. 



Mk. .J. P. Needels, of Stanberry, Mo., 

 wrote me a year ago that he thought his bees 

 were being killed by the spraying of fruit 

 trees. He now thinks that it was paralysis 

 that caused the trouble. He also thinks that 

 he can trace the malady to some queens that 

 he bought. 



Queens are injured by taking them from 

 a full colony in the height of the laying sea 

 son. The sudden checking of the laying is 

 what does the mischief. At least, so con- 

 cludes Mr. Doolittle, and he came to this 

 conclusion after experimenting in the mat- 

 ter. The American Bee Journal contains 

 quite a long article from him on this sub- 

 ject. He criticises the opposite views of 

 Mrs. Atchley. If Mrs. A. has held opposite 

 views she must have changed them, as will 

 be seen by the perusal of the article of hers 

 that appeared last month in the Extracted 

 Department. 



Bee Escapes and the motives that inspire 

 the bees to pass through them are handled in 

 a masterful manner by Mr. Dayton in this 

 month's Review. Seldom have I enjoyed 

 reading an article as I did his — so graphic, 

 philosohpical and reasonable. It is all clear 

 now why and how the bees get through the 

 Porter escape in such a short time when Mr. 

 R. C. Aikin had it all figured out that it 

 would be a physical impossibility. They do 

 not always go in single file, but " four 

 abreast and two deep " at the rate of " .^>00 

 per minute." The suggestion that the 

 escape should be located at that part of the 

 board where the bees will expect to find the 

 entrance needs thinking about; there may be 

 something in it. 



Bee Paralysis cannot be cured in Texas 

 by the use of salt ; so writes L. B. Smith to 

 the American Bee Joxtrnal. Changing queens 

 was also a failure with him. Taking away 

 the combs and brood and allowing the bees 

 to build new combs cured them, but the 

 trouble is that they do not " stay cured." 

 He says that unless some remedy is discov- 

 ered, bee-keeping will soon be a thing of the 



past in that part of the country (Lometa), 

 as two-thirds of the bees have died from 

 that cause in the last three years. 



Making a good journal and getting a 

 paying list of subscribers are two distinct 

 accomplishments, as much so as the raising 

 of a good crop of honey and the selling of it 

 at a good price. Burton L. Sage's paper was 

 bright and newsy, yet it failed from lack of 

 support; and the publishers of the Canadian 

 Bee Journal say that they are putting more 

 money into their venture than it brings back. 

 The "hard times" and the poor honey 

 seasons have much to do with this state of 

 afifairs. But few bee-keepers can afford to 

 have more than one or two bee journals, and, 

 naturally, there is little inclination to lay 

 aside the old-time friend and adviser for 

 the new. 



" Entrance Diagnosis " is something 

 that Mr. C. W. Dapton wrote about quite 

 charmingly some time ago in Gleanings. 

 There is more in this than some of us think. 

 A glance at the entrance of a hive will often 

 tell many things to an experiened eye. Be- 

 cause of this there is an advantage in having 

 all of the entrances face one way— they can 

 all be seen at a glance. I remember the 

 first year or two when my brother began 

 working with me in the apiary. If absent 

 a day or two, I would, from simply walking 

 through the yard and glancing at the en- 

 trances, ask perhaps half a dozen questions ; 

 such, for instance, as " Doesn't that 

 over at the end of the row need another case 

 of sections ? " and at first it was a puzzle to 

 brother as to how such conclusions could be 

 drawn without even opening a hive. 



THE " strike " WILL COMPEL THE EDITOR TO 

 give up his PROPOSED VISIT TO 



bee-keepers. 



"The best laid plans of men and mice aft gang 

 aglee."— fit/ff/vs. 



The type was all up for the first " form," 

 and the paper ordered for printing the July 

 Review when the strike came, but the paper 

 didn't come for three long weeks. I had my 

 plans all made to start on my travels among 

 bee-keepers as soon as the .luly Review was 

 out, but now the Review is so far behind, 

 and the money saved to pay the expenses of 

 the trip lias from necessity been used to 

 meet bills that came due, the wherewith to 



