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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



favorably impressed with them. We have 

 never given the Carniolais a fair trial. We 

 have, for three or four years, had one or two 

 colonies of them ; keeping them to exhibit at 

 fairs ratlier than for anything else. Taking 

 bees to a fair just about takes the life out of 

 them ; thus it happens that our Carniolans 

 have not had a "fair show" in every sense. 

 But we have seen enough of them, and read 

 sufficiently encouraging reports in regard to 

 their merits, to induce us to give them a 

 more extended trial. We have bought quite 

 a number of untested (lueens of Andrews & 

 Lockhart and of S. W. Morrison, and all 

 have proved purely mated and good layers. 

 By the way, both of these firms put up their 

 queens in a little the neatest cages we have 

 ever seen. 



COMBINED SHIPPING AND INTRODUOINCJ CAGES. 



As a rule, "combined" appliances are not 

 a success. The combiiied reaper and mower 

 gave way before r<'((pri-s and itiuwcrs. Com- 

 bined shipping and introducing queen cages 

 have not given perfect, satisfaction. The 

 requirements differ. The Peet cage does 

 very well, but it has faults in both direc- 

 tions. We received a nice queen a few days 

 ago from I. R. Good, and she came in a 

 cage that, for a comVjination, struck us as a 

 good thing. The outside is simply a long, 

 narrow, wooden box. Inside is a long, nar- 

 row cage of wire cloth containing the queen. 

 The inside cage is not quite so long as the 

 inside of the box, and is open at one end. 

 The open end is closed with a wooden plug, 

 through which is a hole filled with Good can- 

 dy. When the cage arrives, it is opened, the 

 plug removed and the bees allowed to escape 

 in a closed room. The queen is returned 

 and the plug replaced. Then this inside 

 cage containing the queen is thrust down be- 

 tween the combs or laid over the frames, 

 and the bees release the queen by eating the 

 candy out of the hole in the plug. There is an 

 advantage in allowing the bees to enter the 

 cage before the queen leaves it. She cannot 

 "run," and the bees do not attack her, and 

 she finally emerges in company with bees 

 that have practically accepted her. Friend 

 Good writes that he has used this cage with 

 the best success for tliree or four years. Dr. 

 8. W. Morrison also uses a cage for ship- 

 ping that can be used in something the same 

 way. The oi)eniiig is covered with a piece of 

 queen-excluding zinc, with a piece of tin 



over this. After the (lueen has been in the 

 hive a few hours, if the bees " behave " well 

 they are admitted to the cage by turning 

 aside the outer tin, but the queen can't get 

 out. .Just before dark the next evening she 

 is released by turning aside the zinc. 



MAKING ONE-PIECE SECTIONS SO TIIEY WILL 

 "stay SQUARE." 



W^e are using some one-piece sections this 

 year. If put together on a damp day (and 

 there were plenty of them this year) there is 

 very little breakage. On a dry day tliey 

 need moistening, or many are broken. After 

 a one-piece section has been put together, it 

 has an inclination to fly open again : and. in 

 its efforts to straighten out, the dovetailed 

 corner (the only one that can be bent out- 

 wardly) is tlirust out, making the section 

 diamond-shaped. When put into a case, the 

 section is not wholly changed to a square, as 

 the 1-1(! of an inch "play " allows it to still 

 hold considerable of its former distortion. 

 Mr. Luther Cudney, a bee-keeper and man- 

 ufacturer of one-piece sections, living near 

 here, called on us a few days ago and showed 

 us some one-piece sections that go together 

 square and sfai/ so. The reason for this is 

 very simple, but we have never heard the 

 idea mentioned. It is that of making the 

 middle groove (the one that comes diagon- 

 ally opposite the dovetailed corner when the 

 section is folded ) not exactly square, but so 

 that it "binds:" this has a tendency to 

 "throw out" the other two grooved corners, 

 and to "draw in" the dovetailed corner; 

 and when this change in the angle of the 

 middle V groove is made exactly right, the 

 the result is a section that folds up exactly 

 square. 



BEES change the OHARACTEE OF THE SWEETS 

 THEY HANDLE. 



Ever since Prof. Cook characterized honey 

 as "partially digested nectar" there have 

 been attempts to disprove his statement. 

 Among the arguments used is that of cane 

 sugar i-emaiiiing the same wiien handled by 

 the bees and stored in the combs. We make 

 no pretentions as a scientist, but we ilo know 

 that bees change the character of cane sugar 

 when they handle it. Many a time in the 

 fall, after frosts had come and storing ceased, 



