THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



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stuck fast, thus cuttiug off the food supply. 

 The passageway should be cut clean away, 

 not simply bored. For these long ocean 

 voyages, food in both ends of the cage is 

 recommended. 



President Abbott is to be employed the 

 coming winter in attending farmers' insti- 

 tutes in Missouri and speaking upon the sub- 

 ject of bee-keeping. I think he is a good 

 man for this work and that he can do good 

 in this way. Other States might follow this 

 example with advantage. 



" A Mutual Admieation Society " is what 

 some people say there is among bee-keepers, 

 and especially among editors and contrib- 

 utors. I think that bee-keeping brings out 

 the better nature of a man to a greater ex- 

 tent than is the case with some other occu- 

 pations, and the editors of this class have 

 fallen into that habit of speaking well of 

 those whom they think deserve it and saying 

 little or nothing of the opposite class, while 

 editors of other cl.iss journals, at least many 

 of them, pursue an opposite course — find 

 fault when they can and avoid giving praise 

 if it is possible. 



The Review has sometimes been accused 

 of not reviewing enougli, of giving too few 

 extracts. This complaint surely cannot be 

 brought against this issue. The trutli of the 

 matter is that sometimes one department 

 crowds another, but it is not always the same 

 department; that docs the crowding. Some- 

 times the advertisements crowd, then, again, 

 there are a lot of correspoudens that have 

 something of value to say and it is pretty 

 hard squeezing to give them all a place, at 

 other times the other journals have so much 

 good matter that a large amount of space is 

 required to give even the best of it. The bee 

 paralysis topic is what swelled the Extracted 

 Department this month — next month I hope 

 it will be corresi)ondence on that subject. 

 Then, of course, I shall tell something about 

 the convention. 



Mk. Heddon sent an advertisement of 

 honey for sale, but it was too late for this 

 issue. He writes that his yield from bass- 

 wood was not heavy, but the best in quality 

 that he ever had. He is now getting a crop 

 of fall honey that is of excellent quality. 

 He is offering the latter at ,f H.CX) for a sixty 

 pound can, and the former for $3.60 to %\.'1Q 

 per can, according to the nun^ber taken. 



Considering the talk that there has been 

 about his adulterating his honey, he offers to 

 pay $100 for any adulteration found in his 

 honey, and to allow the return of any honey 

 not found entirely satisfactory. 



Me. J. Van Deusen, of Sprout Brook, N. 

 Y., the senior member of the firm that 

 makes the celebrated flat-bottom founda- 

 tion, recently made the Review a short but 

 pleasant call. He was leisnrt-ly pursuing 

 his way westward, traveling only by day- 

 light. He expects to be present at the com- 

 ing St. Joseph convention. 



By the way, the Van Deusens propose put- 

 ting their foundation on the market another 

 year in smaller packages — as small as six 

 and one-fourth pounds. Retailers are often 

 called upon for small quantities, and the 

 work of preparing it for shipment takes up 

 a good share of the profits. The proposed 

 plan will do away with this objection. 



A Feedek of the Heddon or Miller style 

 can be temporarily transformed into a per- 

 colator by crowding rags into the passage 

 through which the feed flows from the reser- 

 voir into the apartment where it is taken up 

 by the bees. The reservoir is then filled with 

 equal parts of sugar and water and the re- 

 sulting syrup slowly soaks or " percolates " 

 through the rags into the part of the feeder 

 that is accessible to the bees. There is no 

 boiling, nor fussing to make syrup, simply 

 the sugar and water put into the feeder and 

 that is all there is to it. I believe that Dr. 

 Miller is to have the credit for this discovery 

 and Gleanings for giving it publicity. Any 

 vessel, like a crock or can may be used in a 

 similar manner. .Just fill it with sugar and 

 water, cover the mouth with several thick- 

 nesses of cloth, cover the cloth with a plate 

 and then invert the " whole business." 



Ths State Fair was held this year in De- 

 troit, and, as usual, I made an exhibition of 

 bees and honey. The show of bees and hon- 

 ey was the slimest that I have seen at our 

 State fair. The premiums are not very lib- 

 eral, the financial condition of the Society 

 being such that large premiums cannot be 

 offered. If Hunt and Cutting and the rest 

 of the "boys" went, and the premiums 

 must be divided up among us it did not seem 

 as though it would pay me to go. Finally, 

 I decided to take a few things and put them 

 in place and then come home. Only a short 



