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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



with corpoi-al puuishment shall be the peu- 

 aity ; moreover, if the health of anyone is 

 injured by this substance the responsible 

 person will be prosecuted as a criminal." 



In answer to a question asked by a sub- 

 scriber, " What is the relative proportion of 

 the nutritive qualities of a kilogram of 

 honey and a kilogram of beef i"' UApi- 

 cutteur for July, replies that the question 

 cannot be answered categorically on account 

 of the different roles played by these two 

 foods in alimentation. The substances nec- 

 essary to sustain life are water, albumen- 

 oids, hydrocarbouites, fats and a very small 

 proportion of mineral substance. 



The following table shows the relative val- 

 ues of meat and honey : 



Water. Alb. Hyd. Fats. Salts. 



Meat 73U 175 40 11 



Honey .. 2-iO — 770.780 — — 



Meat and honey then supplement each 

 other, the one furnishing the albumenoids, 

 the other tlie hydrocarbouites and it must 

 be added in favor of honey that it is so 

 easily assimulated not requiring the first 

 process of digestion through which other 

 foods have to pass. 



In one of the Swiss journals we notice that 

 a chocolate manufactory in Berne has been 

 very successful in using honey instead of 

 sugar in the preparation of the chocolate. 



Lapeek, Mich. July 23, 185)4. 



A Novel Way of Holding a Queen While 

 Clipping Her Wings. 



F. J. MILLEK. 



yRIEND HUTCHINSON :— The article on 

 ly qnisen clipping in June Review caused 

 me to smile so much (of course I ought not 

 to as it originally came from Frank Benton) 

 I thought I must ask you to try the simple 

 plan I have adopted. I use the Heddon 

 frame and, it being long and narrow, I hold 

 it until the queen is gently led or directed 

 by using the front finger to do so if she will 

 not stay on the center of comb, then when 

 she is rather nearer one end I gently rest 

 one end of the comb on the ground near 

 enough to the hive so that the upper end of 

 the frame will rest against it at a convenient 

 angle to work, meanwhile keeping the eye 

 on the queen. If she attempts moving away 

 from the upper end of the comb I use the 

 front finger of right hand again by placing 

 it half an inch or so in advance of her thus 

 causing her to turn and move gently in an- 



other direction, by this time my left hand 

 is free from placing the frame in position 

 and assumes the work of keeping the queen 

 in the allotted space of about four inches 

 square, while the right hand grasps the scis- 

 sors, which are very small, and with the fin- 

 ger as before indicated I turn the queen's 

 course up or toward my left hand as I am 

 stooped and facing the comb. Now as she 

 is moving in the direction I want her I place 

 the left thumb and fore finger down on the 

 comb just in advance of the queen, thumb 

 and finger nearly closed at first joint but 

 spread as far as possible at the points, at 

 tlie same time I guide her with the points of 

 scissors from turning around, and by this 

 means cause her to run between the thumb 

 and finger. Or I place the thumb and finger 

 over her head and shoulders as the case may 

 be, gently pressing her to the comb, when I 

 consider her in the best possible position to 

 clip. 



I have written this out in detail that you 

 might more quickly understand and be led 

 to try the plan. To clip is only the work of 

 a moment, and the queen is not frightened 

 or injured and is left right where we found 

 her. I clipped over fifty queens in my yard 

 last spring without a mishap. 



London, Canada. Juiie 28, 1894. 



How to Burn Brimstone for Fumigating 

 Purposes. 



.J. VAN DEUSEN. 



T NOTICE in the American Bee-Keeper 

 X (July) an article in regard to fumigating 

 combs, evidently given by Doolittle to 

 Gleanings. Having burnt barrels of roll 

 brimstone in bleaching yarn, I will give my 

 method — which if you choose to insert it is 

 at your disposal. 



Take a clean iron kettle, free from ashes 

 and coals, get the butt end of an old sleigh 

 shoe as long as will lay fiat in the kettle or 

 what is better an iron ring three inches in- 

 side diameter made from one inch iron. 

 Heat it till you can see it is red in the dark. 

 This can be handled with a stove poker. Put 

 the roll of brimstone in the kettle and putthe 

 iron on it, and if not too hot it will burn 

 slowly, holding a fume a long time. If the 

 iron is too hot it burns quicker and does not 

 hold the fume as long or as safely. Set the 

 kettle up on bricks to make it safe from the 

 rtoor. 



Spkout Bkook, N. Y. July 23, 1894. 



