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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIE* 



avoiding giving credit to a rival journal. If 

 an article or idea isn't worth giving full 

 credit for, it isn't worth copying. 



The American Bee-Keepee thinks that 

 when a " bee-keeper pays 50 cts or f l.(X) for 

 a bee paper, he wants that paper to give him 

 all of the information possible concerning 

 bees. Anyone can buy all the medical, agri^ 

 cultural and religious literature they want at 

 much less elsewhere." I agree with this, 

 but it seems that there is a difference of 

 opinions, as some of the readers of some of 

 the bee journals seem greatly pleased at the 

 introduction of these foreign departments. 



The Bee-Keepeks' Quabtebly, just as I 

 expected would be the case, has improved 

 with its second issue. I doubt not that as 

 far as solid, practical, useful information is 

 concerned the Quarterly will be the equal 

 of the other journals. Its editor writes from 

 a long, broad, and successful experience, 

 and there is little danger of his leading his 

 readers astray. He is outdoing all of the 

 journals in the production of those bright 

 little editorials of from two to a dozen lines 

 that say so much in a few words and are so 

 readable. Bro. Heddon certainly has in him 

 the making of a valuable bee journal. 



Honey Boaeds, of the slat variety, may be 

 temporarily made into escape boards by 

 covering them with a sheet of thick paper. 

 It will be necessary to remove one of the 

 slats in order to put in the escape, or else a 

 hole will have to be cut, and afterwards cov 

 ered with a piece of tin. If there is much 

 use for escapes it is better to have regular 

 boards for that purpose, as the bees will 

 eventually gnaw holes through the paper. I 

 used this year about a dozen honey boards 

 covered with paper, but about the third day 

 the bees began to get through them — but my 

 honey was just about off by that time. 



CLEANING STICKY FINGEES. 



Mr. Allen Pringle, in the Practical Bee- 

 Keeper objects to the licking of the fingers 

 when there is honey on them. He says ; " I 

 want to eat my honey at meal time, and I 

 want neither to eat food nor lick food be- 

 tween meals." I think Mr. Pringle is right 

 in this respect. I consider this " eating be- 

 tween meals " the greatest objection to lick- 

 ing the honey ofiE the fingers. Mr. Pringle's 



plan is to carry a wet cloth in his tool bas- 

 ket. But I haven't a tool basket or box and 

 don't want one. I want nothing to lug 

 around with me except the smoker, and I 

 wouldn't carry that if it could possibly be 

 avoided. If I were going to carry around a 

 wet cloth I think I should tie it fast to one 

 of my suspenders. 



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Eenest Root drove his bicycle into our 

 yard one evening last week and we talked 

 bees and photography during most of the 

 waking hours until the next day at ten o'clock 

 when he left to visit Mr. R. L. Taylor. He 

 will go West, probably as far as Wisconsin, 

 visiting bee-keepers on his way. An account 

 of the trip will probably appear in Glean- 

 ings, I saw him a few moments in the after- 

 noon when he had returned from Lapeer 

 and was waiting for the train that was to 

 bear him northward. He said that " dead 

 brood," similar to that to be found in their 

 apiary, was found in Mr. Taylor's apiary. 

 He also saw a case of foul brood in the Tay- 

 lor apiary, and there was a decided differ- 

 ence between it and the " dead brood." I 

 have yet to see any "dead brood" in my 

 apiary. 



Queens in large numbers are now being 

 kept in the Review apiary by means of the 

 Atchley plan. An old style Heddon super is 

 divided into eight compartments, three un- 

 finished sections and a caged queen placed 

 in each compartment, and the super placed 

 over a queenless colony. The bees rush up 

 and cluster around the queen and between 

 the sections. Just at dusk the super is 

 placed upon a bottom board having a raised 

 rim around the outside, also strips across 

 the center to correspond with the divis- 

 ions in the case, and carried to a 

 new stand in some shady, secluded 

 spot. Each little compartment is fur- 

 nished with an entrance cut through the rim 

 around the outside of the bottom board. A 

 piece of queen excluding metal, with a sin- 

 gle opening, is placed in each entrance. 

 Each little hive is furnished with a separate 

 cover, and over all is laid a fiat board cover. 

 The next day at dusk the queens are released. 

 I have yet to have a queen killed in one of 

 these little clusters. Robbers give no trouble 

 whatever. It isn't that they do not find the 

 hives as I often see them "snooping" around 

 them, but they seem to hesitate about crawl- 

 ing through the perforated metal when there 



