THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



197 



Friend Brown drops the plastic candies 

 for 3,000 miles or over, and uses solid candy 

 and a two-chamber water tin. 



The vote on 8 frame versus 10, for comb 

 honey, as taken in A. B. J., 591, turned out 

 as follows : Total votes 26. For 8 frames, 

 12 ; For 10 frames or larger, 9 ; Took to the 

 woods, .'). Rather a better showing for 10 

 frames than I should have supposed could 

 have been made. The strength of the 8 

 frame theory lies in those poor locations 

 where with 10 frames one don't get any sur- 

 plus at all. 



How to remove spots of beeswax from 

 clothing almost promised to stand as an un- 

 solved conundrum ; but is answered by J. 

 C. Knoll. A. B. J., 619. Hot flat and tissue 

 paper, moving a fresh surface of paper on 

 with every pressure of the iron till nearly all 

 the wax in sight has left the fabric and taken 

 to the paper. Probably the blank margin of 

 a newspaper would answer by giving each 

 pressure a little more time. 



B. Taylor scored a partial failure in win- 

 tering last winter (that matchless house api- 

 ary "a little better " but nothing first pre- 

 mium) yet he is full of enthusiasm. Some 

 neglected box hives he bought in the fall 

 came through booming ; and he believes he 

 can imitate the condition of a neglected box 

 hive in October by " a little cheap, judicious 

 feeding." A. B. J., GnC<. Brudder Taylor 

 mebbe yo gets dar bimeby ; but dis darkey 

 don't 'low you to fetch it de fuss time trjin. 



Most ashamed to confess that I have not 

 yet on trial Miss Wilson's style of veil. I 

 bought the elastic cord and pin promptly 

 enough ; but I was awfully busy (toothache 

 thrown in ) and the kind lady will never ap- 

 preciate what a globe-encircling task it is 

 for a bungling man to cord clear around a 

 veil. The method looks promising, and may 

 sweep the field yet. Put in an elastic cord 

 around the bottom of a veil, and of course in 

 the wearing it will crawl up and prove un- 

 satisfactory ; but just hook a safety pin over 

 the center front and pin it down so it can't 

 crawl up. Gleanings, 465. 



Alley puts in that the best way to wear a 

 veil is to lay it down in some out-the-way 

 place, and forget where it is. Then one can 

 eat honey, wear glasses and pick his pro- 

 boscis all he chooses — and that ain't all ho 

 may have to pick. 



" It is a pretty well settled law that nectar, 

 showy blossoms, and fragrance of bloom, are all 

 indications of the necessity of cross-pollination, 

 and are so many invitations to the nectar-loving 



insects to come to th(i aid of the needy and wait- 

 ing blossoms. '■ Prof. (look. A. B. J., 662. 



Mrs. Atchley is engaged in writing for A. 

 B. J. a serial for beginners, which is likely 

 when finished to add one to our standard 

 works. The style is familiar, yet not too 

 much so ; and even being too familiar is not 

 so bad as being too impersonal and stilted. 

 Of course a critic must reserve judgment 

 somewhat until later on, but judgment is 

 likely to be favorable. 



She tells the novice to use sticks in trans- 

 ferring, because strings, clasps, thorns, etc., 

 are not so sure every time. Her dividing is, 

 queen on the old stand, and sealed brood on 

 the new — just as it should be. And her fall 

 dividing of extracting colonies, the queen- 

 less halves supplied with cells reared for that 

 purpose, is a distinctly southern style of 

 rapid increase. Would take lots of sugar- 

 feeding sometimes, I reckon, even down 

 south ; but enthusiasts in a hurry for more 

 bees can stand that. 



•' There are many patent hives and clap-traps 

 that work well with no bees in them." 556. 



Look out for a newly transferred colony 



lest it starve- — 



"As transferring usually stimulates them to the 

 highest pitch * * and they soon consume 

 all the honey they have." 651. 



Northern swarming time and harvest 

 usually come near together ; southern 

 swarming time usually comes long before 

 any large surplus. This gives great advan- 

 tages for dividing in the south. As to the 

 new colony in tutelage, she believes in cut- 

 ting out all but the two best looking cells, 

 and then watching out very sharp to destroy 

 the second when the first emerges. 



On page 374 in Gleanings W. G. Hewes, 

 himself a Californian, stirs up the animals 

 at a great rate by saying things about the 

 California big yields — you can have a story 

 just as big as you have a mind to go for out 

 there. Some have wild methods of compu- 

 ting in the honey that run over the tank, or 

 the honey that they lost by not extracting 

 soon enough ; while some labor with the 

 mental befuddlement that says fourteen 

 tons in place of four tons. In case friend 

 Hewes is right it is very sad to think how 

 much more our California brethren will 

 have to wrench their consciences now before 

 they can get us down to a peaceful grade of 

 faith again. Getting mad about it, as some 

 seem a little inclined to do, won't help us a 

 particle. Say I get the legislature to lay a 

 tax of five cents a ton on honey, and see if 



