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method which is evidently much ahead of 

 the old way, whether it is good enough to 

 stand as a finality or not. At least it won't 

 make the bee man think he has burned some 

 sulphur when really he has properly burned 

 almost none. Just a big iron ring, at a dull 

 red heat, laid on a stick of roll brimstone — 

 no coals or ashes anywhere around for melt- 

 ed sulphur to hide in. 



AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Perhaps as good a treatment as any for 

 the^. B. K. this time will be to take a short 

 dip into each of the original articles of the 

 July and August numbers. 



Charles D. Hill, Dennison, ()., speaks very 

 highly of 8 half depth frames, worked direct- 

 ly over 7 full frames, for comb honey. He 

 uses no excluder until surplus time. At that 

 date the half frames will be mostly filled 

 with early honey ; but some colonies will 

 have considerable brood in them. The sec- 

 tions are then put between the half frames 

 and the full sized ones, the queen being care- 

 fully left below and kept there with an ex- 

 cluder. A. B.K.,10\. Barring an untimely 

 cold spell to chill the lifted brood, this looks 

 like level-headed tactics. 



On page 100 is a pretty illustration — Globe 

 Academy, Globe, North 'Carolina — a charm- 

 ing bit of natural scenery, touched by man 

 just enough to lighten it up, and not enough 

 to spoil it. The student who sends the pic- 

 ture and letter (J. C. Moore) says that near- 

 ly every farmer keeps a few bees, but frame 

 hives have hardly got there yet ; and the 

 nearest Italians are ten miles away. Think 

 of that, ye brethren, ye who are already la- 

 menting that pure German bees can hardly 

 be had any more, even for experimental 

 purposes. Say, keep the Italian bees away, 

 and so have one national preserve where the 

 old fashioned bee can be had — 

 " As long as the Globe on its axis turns round." 



A. B, K. has not been much given to illus- 

 trations heretofore, and so this picture seems 

 to hint of stepping ahead. 



Ed. Jolley, Franklin, Pa., handles Stim- 

 ulative Feeding, and gets in the following 

 sensible remark : 



"It is unwise to feed when there are any 

 symptoms of spring dwindling ; for by a little 

 coaxing their ambition will rise, and they will 

 start brood beyond what their decreasing num- 

 bers can care for ; and the dead brood thus occa- 

 sioned will be more to the detriment of the col- 

 ony than all the extra bees that a colony in this 

 condition can rear. A. B. K., 99. 



On the well worn question. Does Bee- 



Keeping Pay ? Charles H. Thies, Steelville, 



111., reminds us that farmers are not going 

 to leave off wheat raising, notwithstanding 

 they have to sell for 48 cents a bushel — and 

 so I suppose if we can't do any better than 

 five cents for extracted, we are to grin and 

 bear it. Page 98. 



Friend Barnum, of Denver, reviews a pre- 

 vious number on page 97, and remarks that 

 stimulative feeding will not die for some 

 time yet. The gist of this matter is, I think, 

 that we should look out for that stimulation 

 which does not stimulate. Folks naturally 

 assume that stimulation would stimulate of 

 course. It transpires that often it does just 

 the other thing. Then of course the pen- 

 dulum swings the other way, and may swing 

 too far, and need to come back a bit. 



Chester Belding, Middletown, N. Y., pro- 

 poses on page 119 to postpone extracting as 

 long as possible, convinced that his *' too 

 previous " efforts last year checked brood 

 rearing in July and August. The longer 

 honey can be kept in the hive (if you don't 

 get caught with your dish wrong side up in 

 a honey shower) the better the honey, the 

 better the bees, and the better all around. 

 Friend Belding also laments a batch of queen 

 cells that two-thirds of them turned up de- 

 funct, in spite of what seemed to be suf- 

 ficient efforts to have them O. K, Takes 

 queen breeders to manipulate queen cells ; 

 we u'ns must expect a " rocky road to Dub- 

 lin." 



The following from page 118 needs no 

 comment, but still we may have a quiet 

 smile over it — which friend Carr may join in 

 when he is a few years older. 



•' I notice that the instant that I raise the cov- 

 er they pitch at anything that is black. I dis- 

 covered this on June 22nd at about three p. m. ; 

 and before I went to bod that night I had paint- 

 ed everything a different color." 



On page 117 friend Jolley tells the tale of 

 the origin of an apiary. Grandpa killed a 

 bear ; and, lo, bees in his wool, and honey 

 on his paws — inferences and consequences 

 very obvious. And when we wonder why 

 the story is in such stilted English we dis- 

 cover an occult rhyme, running — hair, bear 

 — came, game — trees, bees — come, hum, etc. 



On the same page W. T. Collins, of Indian 

 Fields, N. Y., helps the editor beg for con- 

 tributions. I suspect that the time has gone 

 by when a leading journal in any department 

 of human thought or effort can exhibit much 

 of that sort of mendicancy without doing 

 itself great harm and wrong. 



