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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



noticing' the cracl<s in the bottom of the 

 wagon. How about trying to hitch up 

 with a lot of bees around the wagon ? 

 Well, if the horse had been a strange 

 horse, or one known to be afraid of bees, 

 that would have been a mistake, but. 



with one accustomed to them, and not 

 afraid of them, 1 deemed it safe. I think 

 the trouble arose from such a lot of bees 

 swarming around the horse so suddenly. 

 So far as I know the horse did not receive 

 a single sting--it was simply frightened. 



EXTRACTED DEPARTMENT. 



STAYING AT HOML 



It is Neither Beneficial Nor Commendable 

 if Carried to Lxcess. 



1 doubt if many of the Review readers 

 remain always at home as a matter of 

 choice; it is more habit than anything 

 else. If one stays at home always it is 

 difficult to avoid falling into a rut. There 

 is a stimulus, a rousing of the faculties, 

 from getting out and seeing things; in 

 fact, well, let me quote a recent editorial 

 appearing in that most excellent journal, 

 The Youth's Companion. It reads as 

 follows:- - 



"I never was a hand to go gawping 

 round !" contemptuously exclaimed an old 

 woman who boasted of never having seen 

 a railway-train or a trolley-car or any 

 town but her own. The generation of 

 stay-at-homes in the country is perhaps 

 passing away — the women, — they were 

 chiefly women, — who prided themselves 

 on their self-imprisonment on farm or in 

 village as a virtue, serving to demonstrate 

 their devotion to home and children and 

 duty. 



There is a class of men in the business 

 world who have the same point of view 

 in regard to the object of life. Such a 

 one. dying at the dge of eighty-eight, left 

 a record of fifty-five years as the head of 

 a banking-house, during which he had 

 been absent from his desk but two days 



and those were accounted for by a 

 sprained ankle. No vacation, no travel, 

 no day of summer leisure with wife and 

 children— fifty-five years of steady, un- 

 swerving routine ! 



There is something impressive in the 

 story of a lifetime of persistent toil. But 

 there is another point of view which de- 

 serves respect. The gad-about may be a 



useless member of society; but the stay- 

 at-home is likely to be a narrow one. 



We find ourselves on this little planet, 

 with its oceans and m.ountains and mighty 

 rivers and wide prairies. We know not 

 whence we came, nor if we shall ever 

 pass this way again. Surely we may do 

 our task better incur own appointed place 

 if we look about the world, feed our minds 

 with the glories of nature, and discover 

 how men and women before us have 

 lived their lives, and embodied their as- 

 pirations in the great arts of building and 

 painting and sculpture. 



The wheat-field and the ledger and the 

 cooking-stove are facts of human life; 

 but so are the Cologne Cathedral, the 

 Sistine Madonna, the Canadian Rockies, 

 and the Valley of the Yellowstone. 



TRLATMLNT OF FOUL BROOD 



The Only Effectual Method That Can Be 

 Lmployed in the Fall. 



As a rule the only time that foul broody 

 colonies can be successfully treated is 

 during a honey flow, but there is one 

 method that may be used very effectual- 

 ly, even late in the fall; in fact, that is the 

 only time it can be used. Mr. McEvoy, 

 of Ontario, has an excellent article in a 

 late Canadian Bee Journal on the man- 

 agement and cure of foul brood, and in 

 that article he gives this late, fall treat- 

 ment. It is as follows: - 



Where you find the disease in a few 

 good colonies after all honey gathering is 

 over, do not tinker or fuss with these in 

 any way until an evening in October. 

 Then go to the diseased colonies and take 

 out every comb and put six combs of 

 sealed or capped stores in their place. 



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