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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



sympathize with cases of the latter type 

 (we all think the bump of order in our 

 brains is well developed) for I have been 

 right there several times. 



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Queen Breeders who still cling to 

 the plan of using one hive for securing 

 the fertilization of one queen, should in- 

 vestigate some of the modern methods of 

 having several queens mated from the 

 upper story of a strong colony. The 

 Swarthmore plan, advertised in this issue 

 of the Review, seems to have proved very 

 successful in the hands of its inventor. 

 The Roots have been having excellent 

 success with three nuclei over a strong 

 colon3-. Wire cloth is used to separate 

 the two stories, but the lower colony 

 helps to furnish heat for the weaker 

 nuclei. 



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No Difference exists between cane 

 and beet sugars after they have been re- 

 fined. Before they have been refin- 

 ed other substances that are present 

 give each kind some distinguishing 

 characteristics. Over these matters 

 there are four or five pages of discussion 

 in the last issue of Gleanings; W. K. 

 Morrison, Melvin R. Gilmore and J. M. 

 Rankin, together with the editor, taking 

 a part. After reading over the discus- 

 sion, it seems to me that the above is a 

 fair summing up. The refined sugar, 

 either cane or beet, (there is really no 

 difference) has given excellent results as 

 a food for bees in winter. 



I said, "do 3'ou keep the grass off this 

 plat of ground ? Do you use a hoe, or 

 how do you do it?" He explained it in 

 only four words, "Keep the water off," 

 yet it surprised me so that I felt like sit- 

 ting down upon a hive for a few seconds, 

 until I could catch my breath. In our 

 part of the countrv there is no way of 

 keeping vegetation off the soil except by 

 the almost constant use of the hoe or 

 some similar instrument. Out in the 

 arid regions they tackle the problem 

 from the other end — if you want vegeta- 

 tion you must put on water. 



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Advanced Bee Culture, the 50-cent 

 book that I got out some ten years ago, 

 has been practically out of print for the 

 last three or four years. I have stopped 

 advertising it, and refused to sell any 

 copies at wholesale, and in tiiis way I 

 have managed to fill the retail orders that 

 continued to come in from past adver- 

 tising. I have been waiting, hoping to 

 re-write and enlarge the book, but one 

 event after another has crowded on and 

 prevented. This spring there was an un- 

 ususlly large demand in a wholesale way, 

 and, finall}-, I decided to get out a new 

 edition of the book, leaving it at its for- 

 mer size and price. I have gone through 

 it, clipping out a paragraph here and 

 there, re-writing others, and adding new 

 ones. As I read over the proofs, I can- 

 not help admitting that the book con- 

 tains some pretty good advice, if I did 

 write it. The book will probably be out 

 in a month or two. 



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Str.\nge F.\CTS, strange to the person 

 who never before knew them, will occa- 

 sionally almost startle a sojourner in a far 

 country. When I was out in Colorado 

 last fall, I was admiring the nice, smooth 

 clean plat of ground upon which stood 

 one of Mr. Gill's out-apiaries. Not a 

 spear of grass appeared — all was as smooth 

 as a floor. "How in the world, Mr. Gill," 



SPR.A.V I NG fruit trees while they are in 

 bloom not only lessens the yield of fruit, 

 but is sure death to the bees and their 

 brood when they store honey from such 

 sprayed bloom, yet, in this advanced day 

 and age of the world, an experienced and 

 well informed man, like Wm. Stahl, of 

 Quincy, Ills., the manufacturer of a 

 spraying outfit, persists, in the face of 



