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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



ing is down to the level of that familiar 

 "yawp" iu which the auctioneer cries his 

 wares ; bat there are obvious reasons for let- 

 ting interested editorials alone. Don't talk 

 back to a book agent. This is not aimed at 

 Gleanings especially although dropped down 

 in Gleanings' territory. Wanted some ob- 

 jectionable fellows to stand next to the dan- 

 gerous boiler, you know. 



Skipped. 



How would the above word do for the in- 

 scription on the door of a repentance closet 

 in which all the sleepy "young uns " among 

 the journals should be cast in by name — to 

 be kept there till they should think up a 

 thought worth repeating ? Hardly answer. 

 The strong ones would kick on the door in- 

 side and say things. And the weak ones that 

 are liable to die any time must not be put in 

 dungeon. I do not aspire to be a Herod. 

 But obviously something has got to be skip- 

 ped else this department will die of chronic 

 abbreviation. I will try not to skip any new 

 idea of commanding importance — culling at 

 large part of the time, and reviewing more 

 minutely part of the time. The journals 

 must take turns in being reviewed in extenso 

 — and also when the turn of Gleanings or A. 

 B. .J. comes their review will be liable to 

 " bob off " most anywhere from sheer lack 

 of space. 



MORE OF Gleanings. 



I can scarcely do more than note by title 

 Doolittle's "Bees Under the Snow," and 

 Manum's anti-swarm tactics, and France's 

 trapping of our enemy the skunk, and Wat- 

 kins' California Flora, all well worthy of at- 

 tention. Must cry out a little at one item in 

 the latter, the quiet introduction of the 

 Cuban Bell Flower into California — no hon- 

 ey, but grows in Cuba nicely. I have the im- 

 pression that it is a great nuisance in Cuba ; 

 will it become such in its new home? 'Spects 

 the law might as well assign stern penalties 

 for this sort of impertinent monkeying. 



"Bees leave their supers more readily during 

 the day time." S. A. Shook. 



Soak, soak, soak your wax-material before 

 you heat it ; for if the dirt and fiber first 

 get soaked with melted wax you can't un- 

 soak it. And — 



" Never pour water into the acid (sulphuric) 

 but pour the acid slowly into the water." 



Arthub ('. Miller. 



0. R. Coe presents a wax method of which 



the principal new point is a perforated metal 



basket hung over a boiling tank. Well soak- 



ed mess hot in basket, hot water continually 

 poured on, and shake it. 



Charles F. Haas, of Canal Dover, Ohio, is 

 trying to teach us a better process, a cold 

 process, of making sugar-syrup that will not 

 granulate. Percolation through a sponge. 

 Something may come of it yet. 



But the taking new idea of this Gleaniiigs 

 is a bee escape remarkably easy to use, and 

 costing nothing. Interpose an empty super, 

 partly covered with slats. Place on this a 

 sheet of paper with a few holes carefully 

 punched in downward. Then put on the su- 

 per of bees and honey. Succeeded 75 times 

 with no failure. Until some one else scores 

 75 failures and no success this must be re- 

 garded as promising. For this we are in- 

 debted to John Handel, Savanna, Illinois. 



This paper is too long already for Review 

 to be reviewed this time, but I must con- 

 gratulate our editor on his Washington notes. 

 Most of mankind seem fated not to see or 

 hear the things worth noticing, and to tell 

 a lot of stuff of no use to any human being. 

 We are happy in having an editor who is one 

 of the rare exceptions. 



Having a lot of gall and vinegar about to 

 be left over I think I must pour it upon that 

 Washington system of graded honey. A mess 

 of mendacity without a truthful spot in it 

 from beginning to end. First by a little si- 

 lent fib the fancy grade of honey is abolish- 

 ed. This is to make room for the second 

 and plainly audible fib of calling ]So. 1 hon- 

 ey " Fancy." This in turn makes room for 

 the third and thundering fib of calling No. 

 2 honey No. 1. Lastly (as Satan would say 

 if he were a minister) honey somewhat travel- 

 stained, just as good as any except to the 

 eye, is ruled out entirely ; thus making sure 

 that the producer or some one after him, will 

 try to get it in as No. 1 honey — seeing there 

 is no lower grade. Definition.JIChristian. 

 A man who dogs not want his customer to 

 be deceived in regard to anything he buys. 

 If this is correct how can good men give 

 their assent to a system which foreordains 

 nearly every man who buys a section of hon- 

 ey in the regular channels of trade to be 

 cheated by supposing he has a higher grade 

 than he has ? Let every brother who respects 

 clean-cut truth meditate a little on this. 

 And more especially let us meditate, those of 

 us who love that radiant Christ — that re- 

 finer's-fire Christ — who came to bear witness 

 to the truth. 



RiOHABDS, Lucas Co., O., Jan. 27, 1893. 



