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sell them by the piece. Mr. Green is going 

 to try having sections of such a size that 

 they may be retailed at ten cents each. I 

 think he told me that he had already done 

 something in this direction, but did not get 

 the sections quite small enough to allow 

 their sale at ten cents. He will, the coming 

 year, reduce the sections in breadth until six 

 will occupy the space of four 4^4 x4^4 sections. 

 Mr. Green is satisfied that no honey is lost 

 by using smaller sections, while sales will be 

 helped by a ten cent package. 



E, E. HASTY WILL WBITE A SERIES OF ABTIOLES 

 FOK THE REVIEW. 



Knowing that, of late years, our friend 

 Hasty has not been given to much writing 

 for the bee journals, it was with a feeling 

 that I might " get the mitten " when I " pro- 

 posed" that he write a series of articles for 

 the Review for 1892, but I was overjoyed to 

 receive the following " yes:" 



" Now about the serial. I was a bee keeper 

 for my father and his estate since my child- 

 hood ; but in the old, unenlightened way. 

 Along in the seventies I brightened and read 

 the papers, and in 1879 bought the apiary. 

 At that point I began a day book in which I 

 recorded pretty faithfully each day's doings 

 in the apiary. I have long thought- I should 

 like to write a serial entitled, 'Comments 

 on a Beginner's Day Book,' quoting an 

 entry here and there and giving my present 

 opinions about such 'doin's.' I think it 

 would convey some instruction and possibly 

 occasional merriment. What does W. Z. 

 think of it?" 



W. Z. thinks had he known of that gold 

 mine (that old diary) he would have been 

 after it long ago. By all means, friend 

 Hasty, write us the serial. Those who are 

 acquainted with friend Hasty's past writings 

 need not be told there is a treat in store for 

 them. 



PROTECTING THE GLASS IN SHIPPING OASES. 



Bee keepers west of Chicago have suffered 

 loss and annoyance because of a freight 

 ruling compelling them to cover the glass in 

 the shipping cases, thus defeatng the very 

 object for which the glass is used—that of 

 showing railroad men the fragile nature of 

 the merchandise tliey are handling. Evi- 

 dently the railroad men did not understand 

 the purpose for which the glass was used. 

 It would seem that they thought its chief 

 use was to show off the honey to the best ad- 

 vantage to prospective buyers. This is, of 

 course, one reason why glass is used, but not 



the only one. The transportation companies 

 feared that the exposed glass would be 

 broken, hence the ruling which resulted in a 

 large increase in the breaking of comb. 

 This ruling has now been so modified that 

 crates protecting but not concealing the glass 

 may be used. Narrow strips of wood are 

 fastened to the sides of the crates in such a 

 position that they are opposite, or over the 

 glass, yet they stand out an inch or such a 

 matter from the glass, thus protecting it yet 

 allowing a view of the glass and the honey 

 behind it. 



HANDLING HIVES INSTEAD OF COMBS. 



Bro. Hill, of the Guide, says "There can 

 be nothing new under this heading because 

 before movable hives were invented all bee 

 keepers handled hives instead of frames." 

 It is true that frames were iiot handled be- 

 fore they were invented, and, at that period, 

 neither were hives handled in the sense in 

 which the matter is now under discussion. 

 The bees were simply hived and left " sitting 

 so." As has been before mentioned, mov- 

 able combs were needed to enable us to learn 

 the mysteries of the hives ; having in a large 

 degree mastered these, there is little need in 

 practical bee keeping to handle combs. 



Evidently, bee keeping is on the eve of a 

 change. One man will own and manage 

 more bees. They will be scattered about in 

 different apiaries, and self-hivers or some- 

 thing that will eliminate the swarming diffi- 

 culty, will enable one man to care for them 

 all. When a hive and system pre-eminently 

 adapted to handling hives instead of frames 

 is ofifered to bee keepers, most of the criti- 

 cisms offered come about as the result of 

 viewing said hive and system from the old- 

 style, frame-handling point of view. 



WINTER REPOSITORIES ABOVE GROUND. — VEN- 

 TILATION NOT NEEDED. 



Some maa with a small bee house, or win- 

 ter repository above ground for bees, has 

 been having troable in wintering his bees in 

 the hoase. The house was only 7x10 feet in- 

 side, and 73^ high. The walls were of earth 

 ten inches thick. He says the frost got in 

 badly and he was obliged to use an oil-stove 

 in the latter part of the winter. He had 

 tubes, with slides in, for ventilation, and lie 

 watched closely, opening and closing the 

 tubes when necessary, trying to keep the 



