THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



west. I shall also try and take advant- 

 age of a little hollow, or ravine. One of 

 our yards in Northern Michigan is back 

 some five or six rods in the woods, shel- 

 tered by a dense growth of underbrush. 

 This apiary was out in the open last year, 

 but the cellar was built last fall in the 

 new location, and the bees carried to the 

 cellar- and it was a long, hard job, 1 can 

 tell you. Another yard up north is 

 sheltered by woods on the west and 

 north, perhaps ten rods away, and. in 

 addition, is in a hollow — a regular "pot 

 hole." Not a breath of wind can be felt 

 thsre whsn a strong breeze is blowing 15 

 rods away. What might be called the 

 "home-apiary,"" up north, is not sheltered 

 by trees close by. but it is in a valley 

 with high hills upon all sides, except one, 

 and that opening is filled with a forest. 

 Taken all in all. our apiaries are in fairly 

 well sheltered situations. 1 am satisfied 

 that this is a point not to be overlooked. 



Lloquence in writing or speaking is 

 cartainly a great talent, but there are 

 other traits equally valuable. To illus- 

 trate : 1 recently attended a public 

 masting in which two particular men 

 were prominent speakers. Each had been 

 a candidate for a high office in the gift of 

 ths State. One had been elected, and the 

 other was the defeated candidate. The 

 latter was an eloquent speaker, holding 

 his audience spellbound, bringing forth 

 laughter or tears at will. The successful 

 candidate was no speaker — didn"t claim 

 to be. The next day, in a crowd at the 

 post office, I caught a few words of con- 

 versation between two men. One was 

 saying : "1 don't see how Brown was 

 ever elected over Jones (fictitious names, 

 of course), and I think any one who heard 

 them speak last night would come to the 

 same conclusion." His companion re- 

 plied : "Of course. Brown is no speaker, 

 but he does things." That remark rang 

 in my ears all day, and I found myself 

 thinking that we had men in our ranks 

 who, at a bee convention, can flood the 

 hall with eloquence at a moment's notice, 



and still others who can write column 

 after column with apparantly no effort, 

 and then there are men who neither write 

 nor talk with fluency, but they do things. 

 1 would not speak disparagingly of elo- 

 quence, great things are done with the 

 tongue and the pen, but let the man who 

 has not this gift, remember that it is fully 

 as important to do things. 



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The Hershiser wax press may be a trifle 

 expensive, but I believe it stands at the 

 head of the presses for getting out every 

 last bit of wax. It is different in principle 

 from the others. Here is an illustration 

 of the way in which it works. Let a 

 sponge be saturated with some coloring 

 matter. Dip it in water and give it a 

 squeeze. A large portion of the coloring 

 matter would be washed out. Dip it 

 again into the water and give it another 

 squeeze. Still more is removed. Con- 

 tinue the dipping and squeezing, and. 

 eventually, the sponge will be frsad 

 from the coloring matter. The Hershiser 

 press works upon the same plan. It 

 admits hot water to the slumgum: than 

 gives it a squeeze. Then it releases the 

 pressure; than gives a squaaza. Tn5n 

 it releases the sumgum from pressure 

 and admits hot water again, only to give 

 it another squeeze. This process may be 

 continued until less than one per cent, of 

 wax remains. 



Many bee-keepers don't realize the 

 amount of wax that is left in slumgum 

 when the wax is rendered by the ordinary 

 methods. Mr. W. L. Coggshall. of York 

 State, is reported to have said, at a recent 

 Canadian convention, that by using the 

 Hershiser press on 20 barrels of slum- 

 gum, he had secured 700 pounds of ex- 

 cellent wax. This strikes me as an ex- 

 treme case, but there is no doubt that 

 large quantities of wax are wasted by the 

 ordinary methods of rendering. Were it 

 not so, Mr. Hershiser and others could 

 not afford to buy slumgum at a cent a 

 pound, pay freight on it. and then make a 

 profit by running it through the Hershiser 

 press. 



