THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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illustrated, very tastily 1 >ouiid. aud contains 

 a vast amount of knowledge upon the sub- 

 jects discussed. 



YELLOW OARNIOLANS. 



The yellow Carniolans get a "black eye" 

 in thjB last issue of the Missouri Bee-Keeper, 

 several correspondents showing them up as 

 a fallacy, but the editor of the Am. Bee- 

 Keeper claims to have given the matter as 

 thorough an investigation as possible, and 

 he says that the part of the country from 

 which come the gray bees is situated well up 

 the mountains, and it seems that in descend- 

 ing the mountains the less gray the bees be- 

 come ; aud. finally, in the valleys they are 

 almost entirely of a yellow or golden color ; 

 hence, Carniolans may be either gray or 

 yellow and yet be jnire. 



THE NUMBEE OF OPENINGS NEEDED IN A 

 QUEEN EXCLUDEK. 



Just at present there is being more argu- 

 ment used to show that two rows of perfora- 

 tions are an advantage in the strips of 

 zinc used in making the wood - zinc honey- 

 boards. There is also argument on the 

 other side. It is claimed that a large num- 

 ber of openings are needed for ventilation 

 and for passageway for the bees. In a 

 queen excluder with eight rows of openings 

 (for a Langstroth hive) there are 200 open- 

 ings, and their combined capacity is equal to 

 a space l^i inches high aud 14 inches wide ! 

 Just compare an opening of this size with 

 the entrance of the hive, through which a 

 whole swarm can pass in less than two 

 minutes. 



THE INFLUENCE OF SCENT IN INTBODUCINQ 



QUEENS. 



Mr. A. E. Morgan, of Chippewa Falls, 

 Wis., writes to recommend the plan of in- 

 troducing queens that was lately given, in 

 the Review, by Mr. J. H. Larrabee, that of 

 first caging the removed (lueed a few min- 

 utes in the cage that is to be used in confin- 

 ing the new queen. The theory is that the 

 old queen leaves a scent in the cage that the 

 bees recognize and thus mistake the new 

 queen for their former sovereign. Mr. 

 Morgan stops up the entrance to the cage 

 with Good candy, and allows the bees to at 



once begin the work eating out the candy. 

 He says he has practiced this method three 

 years, sometimes in a terrible dearth, and 

 never lost a queen — has often found a queen 

 laying in three hours from the time that 

 the old queen was removed. 



Of course, / can't say that the scent has 

 nothing to do with the queen's acceptance, 

 but I should like to see the same method 

 tried with the caging of the removed queen 

 left out. 



NEAT JOB TYPE FOE DISPLAYING ADVEETISE- 



I believe the Review can honestly claim 

 whatever honor attaches to having been the 

 first bee journal to pay particular attention 

 to its advertising pages. It encouraged ad- 

 vertisers to bestow more care on their adver- 

 tisements, it brought to their notice a jour- 

 nal devoted exclusively to the subject of ad- 

 vertising, it used new type of neat designs, 

 and care and thought were exercised in its 

 display, not only to make all advertisements 

 as attractive as possible, but to give each ad- 

 vertisement a distinctive character, some- 

 thing different from the others, so that read- 

 ers would be almost unanimously led to read 

 all of the advertisements. It is a pleasure 

 to notice that Gleanings is beginning to pay 

 more attention to this matter. Just look 

 over its advertising pages and see how they 

 have been brightened up by the new faces 

 (of job type) that have made their appear- 

 ance during the last two or three months. 

 Gleanings recently remarked, editorially, 

 that "It takes extraordinarily good editing 

 to boom a bee journal that uses poor paper 

 and ink, and is otherwise slovenly in typo- 

 graphical appearance." This is equally as 

 true of the advertising pages as of the read- 

 ing matter. The time has passed when ad- 

 vertisements can bo set up in any manner 

 with any type that happens to be on hand, 

 and then "slapped" together hap hazard in 

 their "make up," with the thought that "no- 

 body will ever notice the difference." To 

 have bee journals very neat typographically 

 is now the fashion, and I believe the Review 

 helped to set that fashion. 



THE ADULTEEATION OF HONEY . 



It is gratifying to notice the decrease in 

 the use of violent language when referring 



