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be surprised that, as he widened the space 

 between the bars, he lessened the number of 

 attachments between them. We have often 

 heai-d him rehite his experience in this mat- 

 ter ; and his exi)erience has been that of 

 others, else why has the l^s top bar been so 

 universally abandoned for the ?s s* ^Vith us, 

 r)-l() has proved to be fhi- Ijee space. If made 

 larger, the bees till it witli comb : if reduced 

 in size, they protest with wax and proi)olis. 

 Bro. K., we cannot helj) thinking that i/oirr 

 bees will eventually " protest:" if they don't, 

 let us know. Let us know anyliow. Then, 

 again, if tiie management is such as to lead 

 the queen above, the spacing of top bars can 

 never be made sufficiently accurate to keep 

 her below. It is possible that wide top bars 

 may act as a discouragement to the queen's 

 leaving the brood nest, but it is wholly im- 

 practical to make them queen excluding. 



The 4- Bee-Keepers' * Eeview, 



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FLINT. MICHIGAN, AUGUST 10, 1889. 



Twenty pages once more.- 



A Load of our bees will next week be sent 

 away twenty miles or more to our father's, 

 where they can revel in acres and acres of 

 fall tiowers. 



Although Bro. Newman has reduced the 

 price of his new paper, The Illustrated Home 

 Journal, to only .f 1.00, it grows brighter and 

 better each issue. 



We wish to get out the next issue a little 

 earlier — go to press September 1 if possible 

 — in order to give us time to get away to our 

 State Fair. Correspondents will please send 

 in their communications as early as possible. 



LNOKTH WESTERN CONVENTION. 

 After its long period of "hibernation," 

 the "Northwestern" Bee-Keepers' Society 



is to wake up afresh this fall at Chicago. It 

 is to be held at the Commercial Hotel, where 

 the North American gathered in 1887. The 

 time is Oct. IC, 17, and 18. Reduced rates 

 at the hotel, ami iH'ry low rates on the rail- 

 roads, on account of the Exposition. 



ONE-FBAME NUCLEI AT THE MICH. STATE FAIR. 



If bees are to be shown at fairs, it is appa- 

 rent that, for several reasons, single-comb 

 nuclei are preferable to full colonies. The 

 "copy" furnished the Secretary of the 

 Michigan State Agricultural Society, for the 

 apiarian department of the premium list, 

 read: "Single-comb nucleus;" but, for 

 some reason, the ([ualifying words, "single- 

 comb," do not appear in the printed list. 

 We have been having considerable corres- 

 pondence upon this subject, and the leading 

 exhibitors (all with whom we have corres- 

 ponded) have agreed to bring single-comb 

 nuclei, and to use eyery effort to inform 

 other exhibitors upon this point. The su- 

 perintendent of this department will sus- 

 tain the one-frame arrangement. 



THE MIGEATOKY DISCUSSION NOT YET CLOSED. 



We had a "summing up" of our special 

 topic all in type when the second install- 

 ment of friend Walker's article (see page 

 i:?0) came to hand. After reading the con- 

 tinuation of his article, we felt inclined to 

 modify some of our conclusions. The next 

 mail brought an article from Mr. C. I. Balch, 

 who was with Mr. Perrine when he made 

 his unproiitable venture up the Mississippi. 

 His views and those of Mr. Walker are some- 

 what conflicting, and we decided that the 

 time had not yet come for a "summing 

 up." We set out our editorial upon this sub- 

 ject, and put in its place one or two other 

 items that have been standing around a 

 month or two waiting for a place. If any 

 one has anything further to offer upon Mi- 

 gratory Bee-Keeping, let it be sent in ; and, 

 if valuable, it will find a place in the Sep- 

 tember Review. 



OAENIOLAN BEES. 



Bro. Alley has been trying a colony of 

 Carniolans from the apiary of Andrews & 

 Lockhart, and, in the July Apiculturist, is 

 quite enthusiastic in praise of them. Some 

 of his correspondents, however, are not so 



