THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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A carload of comb honey, all gath- 

 ered from heartsease, was shipped 

 October 21 by Mr. Frank Coverdale, 

 of Maquoketa, Iowa. That is pretty 

 jiood for this poor season. 



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Photographs are wanted to be used 

 as frontispieces for the Review. For 

 such as I use I will pay $5.00. The 

 photograph need not necessarily be 

 one of an apiary. Anything that will 

 interest or instruct in regard to bee- 

 keeping will be accepted. 



Udo Toepperwein. of San Antonio, 

 Texas, is nominated by Mr. Homer 

 Hyde for election, at the coming elec- 

 tion, to the position of Director in the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association. 

 For aught that I know, Mr. Toepper- 

 wein would make a good Director, and 

 the South certainly ought to have a 

 representative on the board. 



Type of the ordinary kind was not 

 used in printing the reading columns 

 of this issue of the Review, and prob- 

 ably will not be used in future issues. 

 The macter is set up by machine — each 

 line is cast in one solid piece. It is 

 really the same thing as printing the 

 Review from new type each issue. 



A new style of paper is also used 

 in this issue. It is called Dresden 

 pamphlet, it is China white in color, 

 and has what is called an "egg shell" 

 surface. 



The frontispiece for this month 

 shows the wild cucumber and its hal)- 

 its. This view was taken on the flats 

 of a stream in Nebraska, near Dr, 

 Gaudy's. The vine completely covers 



the ground and tree trunks, trans- 

 forming the forest into a scene of un- 

 surpassing beauty. Each vine bears 

 many clusters of small, white flowers 

 that yield honey abundantly until the 

 vine is killed by the frost. 



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Old black combs are preferred by 

 the queen to new combs, says Geo. 

 Shiber, in Gleanings. Dr, Miller and 

 Bro. Root don't agree. Bro. Root thinks 

 that the queen has a preference for 

 partly drawn foundation. My experi- 

 ence is the same as Mr. Shiber's. In 

 examining nuclei to see if queens had 

 begun laying, I found that the place 

 to look for the first-layed eggs was 

 always in old, black brood combs— not 

 new combs. 



Sweet clover as a pasture has been 

 condemned by some people, but down 

 in Lenawee county, this state, I re- 

 cently saw a striking illustration of 

 the manner in which stock will eat It 

 down. Mr. C. A. Huff, of that coun- 

 ty, seeded down 12 acres to sweet 

 clover. By the way, he secured an 

 excellent catch by sowing the seed In 

 the spring with oats. One portion of 

 the field was fenced off and rented to 

 a neighbor, who put in plenty of 

 stock, and they kept it cropped down 

 close. Mr. Huff put in only a small 

 amount of stock, not enough to keep 

 the clover down, and it grew as high 

 as a man's head nearly all over 

 his part of the field. 



Stanilaus County, of California, has 

 had a foul brood inspector appointed. 

 His name is H. M. Cole. This county 

 has also passed an ordinance prohibit- 

 ing the bringing of any bees into the 

 county unless they are first examined 



