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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



FoDL Bkoody hives, that is, hives iu which 

 there has been foul brood, may be used 

 again without any scalding or disinfecting, 

 yet the disease will not be communicated to 

 any healthy brood that may be placed in the 

 hive; at least, so writes Mr. Mc Evoy, foul 

 brood inspector for Canada, in an article 

 contributed to the A. B. J. Many who have 

 had large experience with foul brood have 

 found it othenuise, and a matter that may 

 be so easily accomplished as the disinfect- 

 ing of hives ought not to be neglected even 

 if there may be grounds for doubts regard- 

 ing its necessity. 



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Mk. Bingham writes that he liad demon- 

 strated what Mr. Cornell calls "induced air 

 currents" before bee-keepers had ever heard 

 of a Bingham bee-smoker. He says that 

 the direct draft, upon which all smokers 

 now depend, is liis invention, and the more di- 

 rect and straight the draft, the better the smo- 

 ker. He has received many letters suggesting 

 blast features, and reads about cuuiinuous 

 blasts, etc., and while it could be easily 

 shown why they are not adapted to bee smok- 

 ers, he does not think it worth while to use 

 space for the purpose. In the fourteen years 

 that he has made and sold his smoker he 

 has received only one complaining letter, and 

 that came indirectly through interested par- 

 ties. He wishes to express his gratitude to 

 the Review, Mr. Cornell, and to the bee-keep- 

 ers, and promises that in the future, as in 

 the past, their interests shall be his interests. 



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THE BEE-KEEPEES' ENTEBPBISE AND ITS 

 EDITOR. 



"Thrice welcome now born stranger 

 O'er this wiih^ world a ran^'er ; 

 May he wht> tilled the manger 

 ' Make plain tlie path for thee." 



According to promise, the Bee-Keepers^ 

 Enterprise came to hand promptly on the 

 15th of May. As might be ex|)ected, when 

 we know that its editor is a practical printer, 

 it is very neat iu its mechanical make up. 

 Reaching from the top to the bottom of the 

 front page is a twig from an apple tree. 

 Bees are flitting al)0ut and working upon the 

 blossoms. Across the center of the page 

 upon a sort of a spider web back ground ap- 

 pears the title of the paper. In one lower 

 corner is a section of honey with a circle 

 drawn upon its center and in tlie circle is a 

 sectional hive. Taken all in all, it is rather 



a unique and striking design. The editorial 

 department and "Gleanings from our Neigh- 

 bors' Wheat Fields," are the most interest- 

 ing. In the latter may be found very short, 

 but very seasonable, extracts from the cor- 

 respondence of other journals. For the first 

 issue I think the Knlerprise is good — the 

 editorial instinct for getting hold of good 

 things and setting them forth in a bright 

 way, crops out quite strong. 



And while we are waiting to see what Bro. 

 Sage will do next, it may be interesting to 

 know what kind of a looking man he is and 

 something of his 

 past life, so I will 

 tell you that Bur- 

 ton L. Sage was 

 I )orn 'i\ri years ago 

 in the town of 

 Sandisfield, Mas- 

 sachusetts. Three 

 years later his 

 parents moved 

 to Pittsford, N. 

 Y. When he was 

 10 years old they 

 BUBTON L. SAGE. moved back to 



Sandisfield and settled on an old farm that 

 was good for nothing except to raise rabbits 

 on. The next five years were passed in 

 hunting rabbits and partridges, fishing for 

 speckled trout and extracting honey from 

 the nests of bumble bees. When he reached 

 his l.'ith year, the family moved to Colebrook, 

 Conn. Here he worked out summers and 

 attended school winters. At the age of 24 

 he purchased a milk route in New Haven. 

 A year later he bought a lot. and with his 

 own hands built a two-story cottage, and 

 when it was finished and furnished, jwstnine 

 years ago this month, lie brought to this 

 home a wife — one of England's fair daugh- 

 ters, then only K! yeais old. Soon after a 

 small printing office was set up iu one of the 

 rooms of the home, and wliile on his milk 

 route he took orders for printing and the 

 young wife did the work. Six years later 

 the milk route was sold and the printing of- 

 fice moved to 780 Chapel St. Side by side 

 husband and wife worked at the case until a 

 little girl, now old enough to say " up a da, 

 da," came to claim all of the mother's spare 

 moments. 



Mr. Burton's interest in bees dates back to 

 187K, when the post- master, by mistake, 

 handed him a copy of (ilecntiiigs. It opened 

 up a new world to him. Since then his iu- 



