THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



To PBEVENT bees from finding their way 

 back into the supers through a bee-escape, 

 is the great difficulty to be overcome in the 

 use of escapes, says Mr. Dibbern in Glean- 

 ings. He says it is practically impossible 

 for them to return through his latest escape. 

 The Porter spring escape is perfect in this 

 respect. 



T. K. Massie, of Concord Church, W. Va., 

 favors the Review with a copy of the Farm 

 and Fireside, containing a well written ar- 

 ticle which he contributed to that journal. 

 While there are a few points upon which I 

 should feel like taking issue with him, the 

 article as a whole shows that he is " well up" 

 in the bee business. 



J. A. Geeen writes that no one will use 

 long thin cushions more than two or three 

 times in packing bees, as advised by Ernest 

 Root, before deciding that they are utterly 

 impractical. That is the way it seemed, to 

 me. He also says that bottoms to packing 

 cases add to the expense and increase the 

 labor of packing and unpacking. 



A BILL for an act to protect bees from 

 poison through the spraying of fruit trees 

 while in bloom, is before both the Illinois and 

 Michigan Legislatures. It ought to become 

 a law. Even fruit growers, if well informed, 

 will vote for its passage ; as the spraying of 

 trees while in bloom fails to accomplish the 

 desired results. After the blossoms have 

 fallen is the proper time. 



CLOTH INSTEAD OF TIN FOB OOVEBING HIVE 

 OOVEBS. 



Some styles of bee hives are so large that 

 the covers must t)e made of more than one 

 piece. To prevent leakage, they have been 

 covered with tin. This is expensive, and 

 some bee-keepers have been trying heavy cot- 

 ton cloth instead of tin. The cover is first 

 painted, then the cloth laid on, and another 

 coat of paint put on over the cloth. 



A NEW VAEIETY OE BEES — THE PUNIC. 



In the C. B. J., "A Hallamshire Bee- 

 Keeper" describes a new variety of bees 

 — the Punic — Apis Niger. This variety is 

 from Africa, is very difficult to obtain, but. 



according to this " Hallamshire Bee-Keep- 

 er," who has tried it, no other bee is its equal. 

 He is going into the business of importing 

 them, but the price will be high at first — $40 

 for an imported queen. 



OPEN END FEAMES. 



When at the Ohio State convention, Ernest 

 Root said there was no difficulty in finding 

 a name for closed end frames, they were 

 closed end frames, but he was at a loss for a 

 name for frames that were not of the closed 

 end style. It would not answer to call them 

 hanging frames, as some of the closed end 

 frames are also hanging frames. Why not 

 call them open end frames ? 



BEES, NOT HONEY, WANTED IN THE SPBING. 



In the Am. Bee-Keeper, Mr. Doolittle 

 says it is bees, instead of honey, that we 

 need in the hives in the fore part of the sea- 

 son. Too many stores in May and June 

 will just as surely spoil a colony for section 

 honey, as it will to keep the bees so short of 

 stores that they keep their brood in check all 

 the spring. There is no such thing as having 

 the combs full of honey during the fore part 

 of the season, and then having the sections 

 filled with clover honey. 



THE MISSOUBI BEE-KEEPEE. 



Those Western fellows seem to have a 

 disposition to name their bee-journals after 

 the State in which they live. The Missouri 

 Bee-Keeper is the last example. "Vol. I. 

 No. I." lies before me. It is published at 

 Unionville. The price is .50 cents a year, 

 and E. F. Quigley is editor. With the ex- 

 ception that the type is rather coarse, it ie 

 well gotten up, and shows the " ear marks " 

 of considerable editorial work. The Review 

 welcomes it to its exchange list, and wishes 

 it success. 



STONES ON BEE HIVES. 



(F. A. Green lays stones on the covers of 

 his winter cases, to prevent the wind from 

 blowing them away. He says, in Gleanings, 

 that he considers a stone a necsesary part of 

 a hive's furniture, summer and winter. 

 Ernest Root quotes the editor of the Review 

 as dispensing with stones. He (the editor of 

 the Review) does not use them for holding 

 shade boards in place, preferring to replace 



