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FLINT, MICHIGAN AUG. 10. 1893. 



" A Califoknia Number, " is what this 

 issue might almost be called. 



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All Humans have a strong love for in- 

 herited ideas no matter how cumbersome or 

 obnoxious modern science may prove them 

 to be. 



Eugene Seoob has been appointed judge 

 of the apiarian exhibits at the World's Fair. 

 Both Mr. Secor and the exiiibitors are to be 

 congratulated. 



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The Progressive and the Enterprise are 

 making rapid strides. I tell you the man who 

 starts a bee journal in these days has got to 

 hustle if he succeeds. 



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Mb. E. a. Daggitt suggests that the leath- 

 er to smoker bellowses be treated with some 

 substance that will till the pores and thus 

 stop the escape of air in that direction. 



Loose Bottom Boaeds may be held on by 

 means of hooks, as suggested by a Minne- 

 sota correspondent, but this plan always 

 seemed too expensive and too much rigging. 



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Glucose Bakbels, second-hand from the 

 candy factories, is what A. N. Draper uses to 

 ship honey in, and he has found nothing 

 cheaper or better; so he writes to the 

 Ainerica7i Bee-keeper. 



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E. Kbetohmee's Piotube (a good one) and 

 a sketch of his life written by his twelve 

 year-old daughter, appear in the last Pro- 

 gressive. There is something peculiarly 

 pleasant in reading the life of a man written 

 by his little girl. 



H. P. Langdon writes to Gleanings that 

 his non-swarmer has not worked satisfacto- 

 rily in every instance in his own apiary this 

 season. 



R. C. AiKiN ?ays in the Progressive, that he 

 has asserted for years, that not more than 

 one-third more extracted than comb honey 

 can be secured. He now doubts if we get 

 even that much more. I think much depends 

 upon the management. 



C. W. Dayton, in referring to the fact that 

 bees do not tear combs to pieces when only 

 a small opening is given them into the hive, 

 says that he thinks it is darkness that pre- 

 vents their tearing comb. He gives several 

 illustrations to show the correctness of his 



views. 



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The Enebgy of a newly hived swarm is 

 more apparent than real; so writes R. C. 

 Aikin in the Progressive. There is no brood 

 to care for — nothing to do but to gather 

 honey and build comb — hence the apparent 

 energy and the great rapidity with which 

 stores accumulate. 



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White Glue is used by a Mr. Hunt, of 

 California, for fastening foundation in sec- 

 tions. For applying the glue he uses an ar- 

 rangement similar to the one used by R. L. 

 Taylor, and described in a recent issue of 

 the Review. "Rambler" describes the 

 Hunt plan in Gleanings 



" Pulled " Queens is the name given 

 queens that are helped out of the cells by 

 man. It is easy to get these by opening a 

 hive just as the young queens are hatching. 

 Dr. Miller says in Gleanings that the giving 

 of one of these young queens to a colony 

 having fertile workers is a sure cure of the 



trouble. 



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That Foul Beood may generate from 

 dead brood is believed by the editor of the 

 Nebraska Bee-Keeper because he sent some 

 decomposing brood to a person who claimed 

 to be something of an expert with foul brood, 

 and this person said it was foul brood. Dead 

 brood that isn't foul brood has been mis- 

 taken for such in so many instances that it 

 would be much more satisfactory in this case 

 if we knew how good an authority this un- 

 known expert is. 



