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Nothing is really settled until it is 

 settled right. 



W. G. King, 515 Court St., West, Flint, 

 Mich., whose home is in Ontario, hut 

 who is now attending our high school, 

 would be glad of employment in some 

 large apiary during the summer vacation. 

 He has had three years of experience in 

 his father's apiary, which is a small one, 

 and he would like to have the experience 

 to be gained in a large apiary. 



Straining ok Honev was talked 

 about quite a little over at the Ontario 

 convention. Let me ask if it is really 

 necessary to strain extracted honey ? 

 Will not every particle of comb even- 

 tually rise to the top where it can be 

 skinnnedoff? And. if we do strain it. 

 will there not still a scum arise that we 

 must skim off ? If so, what is gained by 

 straining? Perhaps I am exposing my 

 ignorance, but, never mind, if I thereby 

 learn knowledge. 



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Corrections should be made as fol- 

 lows in Mr. Stachelhausen's article of 

 last month. 



On page 105, first column, 7th line from 

 the bottom it reads as follows: "This 

 chyle is fed to the young larvje the first 

 three days. Worker and drone larvit 

 never get any other food during their 

 larval state." 



It ought to read as follows: — 



"This chyle is fed io young worker and 

 drone lati.ce the first three days. Queen 

 larvte never get any other food during 

 their larval state." 



Same page, second colunm, i8th line 

 from the top, "sperm and queen cell" 

 ought to read "sperm and ^^r;« cell." 



Wisconsin bee keepers have reason to 

 be proud of their efficient foul brood in- 

 spector, Mr. N. E. France of Platteville. 

 They have reason to be proud of him tor 

 the excellent work that he has done in 

 keeping foul brood in subjection, and, of 

 late, the}' can take an honest pride in his 

 Bulletin No. 2. — "Wisconsin Bee-Keep- 

 ing," he calls it. It is a book of over 70 

 pages, and shows up Wisconsin bee-keep- 

 ing in a very advantageous, yet truthful 

 liglit. Many of its apiaries are illustra- 

 ted with beautiful half-tones. Methods 

 of management, statistics, symptoms of 

 foul brood, methods of treatment, and 

 a lot of miscellaneous matter that could 

 have been gathered by no other man, 

 may be found in its pages. It is not for 

 sale, being intended for free distribution 

 among the bee-keepers of Wisconsin. 

 Would that every State had its France. 



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Five Hundred Coi^onies seem like 

 too large a number for one man to man- 

 age, judging from the report of the re- 

 marks that followed the reading of a pa- 

 per that I .sent last December to the On- 

 tario bee keepers' convention. Several 

 admitted their inability to care for that 

 many. Some regarded it as a dream. 

 One man said it would require having in 

 stock about 1,500 supers filled with foun- 

 dation. In this he must have spoken 

 hastily, as half that number of su- 

 pers would hold more than 20,000 pounds 

 of honey. Mr. Miller was the only one 

 who attempted a defense, and he ex- 

 plained that a man would need sufficient 

 super-room, no matter what the number 

 of colonies kept; and when everything 

 was in readiness, as the season ad- 

 vanced, there was little to do except to 

 put on supers, take off full ones, and keep 



