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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



" Wintering Bees." T. W. Wilcox. Chaff 

 in packing box 18x24x21. Boxes stored in a 

 house during summer. His boxes seem to 

 have bottoms to them ; and the tip-top idea 

 for tidiness in spring lies in storing the chaff 

 ovor right in the boxes. 



"Wintering Bees." T. B. Darlington. 

 Enamel cloth covering sealed on tight — yet 

 with a two-inch ventilating hole in the mid- 

 dle. Blocks above make a tiny chamber 

 over this hole, and many thicknesses of 

 coarse cloth over the blocks prevent upward 

 ventilation being too lively. Did use some 

 packing cases, but those not cased did fully 

 as well. Small entrance below thought best 

 when there is upward ventilation. 



" Progress in Bee-Keeping." G. .1. Robin- 

 son. This is a running comment on some 

 of the inventions and many of the names of 

 apicultural his4.ory. Some of the assertions 

 sprinkled in are noteworthy, and perhaps 

 liable to be contradicted, as — 



" Bees have uo respect of persons * * are 

 incapable of education and learn nothing." 



Considering how quickly they learn to fol- 

 low the apiarist around to his annoyance 

 while working, the latter assertion seems 

 rather thin. 



The copied articles are Doolittle's on little 

 wooden boxes for candied honey, from A. B. 

 ./. Pettit's on Wintering from the Canadian, 

 Wide Entrances and Robbing, from the 

 British Bee Jotirnal, and Lovesy 'stalk about 

 the ants of Utah, from A. B. ./. 



For the coming year more editorial atten- 

 tion is promised. 



SUCCESS IN BEE Culture. 



This takes the place of the Enterprise 

 which the postal department stamped out. 

 If it would rile up friend Sage to put as much 

 more improvement on it, we might almost 

 hope that our venerable Uncle S. would 

 stamp it out again. Hereby hangs a story. 

 The teamsters of Maine, my native state, 

 have (or used to have) a peculiar way of 

 driving oxen, not understood in the rest of 

 Yankeedom. For instance I am not going 

 to tell you what they mean when they say 

 " Hoosh !" Ask my grandfather's oxen. 

 Well, a Yankee from some other state saw, 

 and heard, and reported at home how the 

 Maine teamsters hollered, whoa, when they 

 wanted an ox to pull his utmost. It was a 

 mighty whoa ; and the verbatim report of it 

 can be dispensed with as a trifle too near the 

 profane. The stranger's ears were truer 

 than his eyes. He failed to see that during 



the thunderous whoas the teamster WR« 

 pricking his oxen with a brad. Make a pin- 

 cushion of an ox, and compel him to stand 

 still the while, and he will pull when you give 

 him permission. It strikes me the untoward 

 happenings have been hollering whoa pretty 

 loud to friend Sage and his publishing Kn- 

 terprise — at any rate he pulls this time like 

 the oxen of the State of Maine. 



"Success" commences with one of R. C. 

 Aikin's best articles. The topic is the use of 

 foundation ; and he sums it up with — 



■' First, use foundation to save the honey from 

 woing to wasfo while getting ready to secrete 

 wax. And second, using starters to save the 

 wax whilo gattiii'-r eeeretion stopped." 



ISext comes the humorist Uncle Cass, who 

 seems to open out fully up front, if not a 

 trifle in advance of all the other apicultural 

 funny men. This is the way he pokes it at 

 Demaree about the corrugations on a queen 

 cell. 



■' It was done by the " guards," presumably 

 coming to an "order arms" and denting the 

 soft material with the bntt of their muskets." 



The next article is the first of a series in- 

 tended to extract and bring forward for the 

 profit of present readers the most valuable 

 things in the bee papers of many years ago. 

 This scheme is a bright idea of friend Sage's. 

 The title is Mousings Among the Early Bee 

 Papers. The authorship is anonymous — or 

 as is quaintly expressed, " by Ann on a 

 mouse." If Ann and her mouse mouse as 

 they " mout " their mousings may rescue 

 from oblivion some valuable things. 



Then we have a right-square-from-experi- 

 ence article on the Home Market of Honey 

 by P. H. Hemingway, (^ver beyond the 

 editorial notes we have a noble page of ad- 

 vice to Success by friend Rumford of Los 

 Gatoft, California. In the course of this it is 

 suggested that a bit of cheese will cure or 

 prevent the colic which so often results from 

 eating honey — Worth keeping before the 

 people if it is a fact. And the copied arti- 

 cles are also very wisely chosen, as we might 

 surmise in advance. 



Now " scoot," baby Success ! And don't 

 come round this shanty again for a third 

 " obituary " on your birth. 



THE GENERAL ROUND UP. 



" We never could get yellow bees of any race 

 to rear tliose large, well developed queens so 

 mucli desired and admired by all bee-keepers." 

 Alley, in Nov. Api., 150. 



This from a breeder of such long experi- 

 ence is quite a big concession to the Ger- 



