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light at the other end, she thought she had 

 discovered plunder and instantly jumped 

 under gate. Result, dead robbers dragged 

 out at entrance of hive below. 



O yes, my adv't states that 1,000 bees per 

 minute may go through. These are three 

 inches long. A gate on each side of auger 

 hole. The capacity of escape I send is .'500 

 to 700. After adjusting escape, spread car- 

 bolized cloth (prepared a la Woodley) over 

 top of frames and put cover down upon it. 

 They will stampede. 



Flokence, Calif. 



Sept. 8, 1894. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. SEP. 10. 1894. 



The Foundation experiments of last year 

 and this, all pointing in" the same direction, 

 have a significance that ought not to pass 

 unheeded. 



Eenest Root has dropped the editorial 

 "we" for "I," and he hints in kind of a 

 round-a-bout way to Dr. Miller about " a 

 pound of figs." 



Florida has furnished a good yield of 

 honey this year. J. B. Case of Port Orange, 

 reports as follows : " Fifty colonies run for 

 honey gave me over i;»,000 pounds. I have 

 nine tons off the hives and will get from 

 1,000 to 2,000 more. I moved two-thirds of 

 my bees to a mangrove location, and they 

 averaged 400 pounds to tlie colony that I have 

 taken off and there are from 20 to 40 pounds 

 more per colony to come off." 



H. R. BoAKDMAN finds that it pays to feed 

 his bees plenty of sugar for winter stores 

 and then in the spring feed enough to keep 

 brood rearing going at a lively rate. He 

 feeds clear up to the beginning of the honey 

 flow. The brood nest is then full of sugar 

 and brood, and the honey that is gathered 



must from necessity go into the supers. In 

 this way he sometimes secures a crop of 

 honey when his neighbors get nothing. This 

 I learn from Gleanings. 



The Tokonto Globe of August 25, gave 

 nearly two pages to a description of " Bee- 

 Keeping in Ontario, and its Development." 

 It was well illustrated, showing pictures of 

 prominent apiarists, apiaries, implements, 

 etc. Such articles help our industry, by 

 calling attention to honey, its heathfulness, 

 and the methods necessary to keep it in its 

 best condition. 



The Tariff, or duty, on honey imported 

 into the United States is now only ten cents 

 per gallon instead of twenty, as heretofore, 

 but Mr. F. ( ). Somerford, a bee-keeper of 

 Cuba, writes to Gleanings that we need have 

 no fears of Cuban honey flooding our mar- 

 kets. Honey cannot be produced for noth- 

 ing even in sunny Cuba ; it costs something 

 to start an apiary as everything must be im- 

 ported ; the work is spread over the whole 

 year instead of only a few months as in this 

 country ; and the days of cheap and slave 

 labor are past. Most of the Cuban honey 

 goes to Europe. 



A PooK Chop, " one of the poorest on rec- 

 ord," is the way Gleanings refers to the hon- 

 ey crop of the present year, and this conclu- 

 sion is drawn from replies sent in response 

 to about 200 postals that were sent out. The 

 crop seems to have been good in central and 

 lower Florida and in Texas ; fairly good in 

 spots in one or two counties of California, 

 in Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Minnesota, Wis- 

 consin, Ohio, Michigan, New York and New 

 England ; very poor in other portions of 

 these States, and a total failure in most of 

 California, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Mis- 

 souri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, 

 North and South Carolina and Georgia. 



Queen Cages are discussed in Gleanings 

 by H. L. -Jones of Australia. He says that 

 the end of the cage containing candy being 

 the heavier will settle down in the tumble 

 that the mail bag gets, and being left in that 

 position for a three-weeks' voyage, the dead 

 bees drop down upon the candy and shut off 

 the supply of food. He also objects and 

 properly, to a cage having only a small pas- 

 sage to the food, as a bee is likely to become 



