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little doubt that such was the case in Mr. 

 Barber's cellar. The high temperature in 

 spring was most likely caused by foul air 

 and warm weather. 

 Lindsay, Ont. Sept. 28, 1893. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN, NOV. 10. 1893. 



G. B. Bankston. of Chriesman, Texas, has, 

 I am sorry to say, lost his home by fire. 



Gleanings is giving some very excellent 

 pictures and descriptions of English apicul- 

 ture. 



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The Canadian Bee Joubnal was the first 

 to give a large share of the report of the pro- 

 ceedings of the Chicago convention. 

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Daek Queens are the result if the nurses 

 are dark ; at least, this is the opinion of 

 some breeders, but my own experience and 

 that of other breeders is different. 



R. L. Taylob has been sick since his re- 

 turn from Chicago. As a result, his 

 "Timely Topics" were not sufficiently 

 '* timely " in their arrival to be given a 

 place in this issue. 



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The Fighting of bees over a queen when 

 she is being introduced is quite likely to in- 

 jure her. Better keep her caged until the 

 bees cease to ball the cage. Doolittle gives 

 this good advice in Gleanings. 



The Nobth Ameeican will hold its next 

 meeting at St. Joseph, Missouri. Emerson 

 T. Abbott of that place was elected Presi- 

 dent ; O. L. Hershiser, of Buffalo, Vice 

 President ; Secretary Benton was re-elected 

 and so was Bro. York as Treasurer. 



C. C. Van Deusen and wife, of Sprout 

 Brook, N. Y., both lost their lives in the ter- 

 rible railroad accident at Battle Creek, Mich- 

 igan. Mr. Van Deusen was one of the part- 

 ners in the firm of J. Van Deusen & Sons, 

 manufacturers of the fiat bottomed founda- 

 tion. All bee-keepers will be most sincere 

 in their sympathy for the fattier, whose 

 kindly face has often been seen at our fairs 

 and conventions, also for the other friends 

 that are called upon to mourn the loved 

 ones that met such a terrible fate. 



E. C. PoETEE, the bee escape, man was at 

 the Chicago convention and showed me a 

 letter from some one who had tried escapes 

 with an opening at each end and he believed 

 that having two openings was objectionable 

 in that there were bees calling at each end 

 and it was confusing to a bee that had just 

 entered the escape, she turned first in one 

 direction and then in the other — " halting 

 between two opinions." While on this sub- 

 ject of escapes I may say that judging from 

 au examination of the Porter patent, and 

 from a letter received from Mr. Hastings 

 when I asked him for an explanation, I am 

 led to believe that the Hastings escape is an 

 infriugment upon the Porter, and the 

 Hastings advertisement will not appear in 

 the Review again until I am satisfied that 

 Mr. Hastings has the right to make the 

 escape that he does. 



Gkading Honey was discussed at the Chi- 

 cago meeting, but the rules adopted at the 

 Washington meeting were not changed. It 

 was noticeable at Chicago that some of the 

 members had heard the subject discussed 

 until they were sick of it. Mr. Muth made 

 one remark in his paper upon the subject to 

 which I would like to reply. He said he did 

 not see how the word *' fancy " could be ap- 

 plied to darA; honey. The words "fancy," 

 "No. 1," and "No. 2," apply simply to the 

 condition of the combs and sections, not to 

 the honey itself which is classified into 

 "white," "amber" and "dark." By this 

 arrangement it will be seen that there may 

 be "fancy " dark honey as well as " fancy " 



white. 



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Hasty would have us call Mr. B. Taylor's 

 apiary the Minnesota experimental apiary 

 and thinks it would be just as good as though 



