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TBE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



In Painting Hives, don't " prime " them 

 as is usually done with oil and a little paint, 

 writes E, B. Thomas to the American Bee 

 Journal. He says the oil soaks into the 

 wood leaving a great part of the paint dry 

 on the outside, and the next coat cannot 

 properly take hold of the wood. The prim- 

 ing should be old, j-aiw linseEd oil, aTid raw 

 oil used in the paint. In repainting hives, 

 if the paint is not actually off, a coat of raw 

 oil is as good as a coat of paint and much 

 cheaper. 



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" Shifting Sections abuut from one place 

 in the super to another doesn't make me 

 favor it greatly, " writes Dr. Miller in the 

 American Bee Journal. He would let the 

 bees finish up each section just where they 

 began it — all but a few of the outside sec- 

 tions — and when only these are left unfinish- 

 ed he would take off the super, and then fill 

 up a super with the nnfinished sections from 

 a number of supers, and give them back to 

 the bees to be finished. My belief and prac- 

 tice, doctor, are like your own. I have 

 changed section just enough to know that I 

 didn't want to do it. All these things take 

 time. 



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BEE ESCAPES FOK HONEY BOOM WINDOWS. 



The Porters are now making ^ modified 

 form of their spring bee-escape for use on 

 honey room windows. It differs from the 

 ones used in freeing supers, only in the de- 



tails of construction. The body is made of 

 perforated tin, to admit light : and its open 

 end is extended into a cone to prevent rob- 

 bers crawling in at the sides of the springs 

 and interferriug with the bees passing out. 

 As compared with the other form, the in- 

 terior part is reversed in position ; the 

 springs are somewhat broader, and set 

 slightly more open. It will be sold by the 

 A.I. Root Co. 



Labeling the honey that a bee-keeper 

 buys to supply his customers after his own 

 crop is sold is being discussed a little. 

 Getting up labels praising one's honey as 

 being peculiarly superior to that raised by 



others, and then buying honey and selling it 

 under such labels would be deception. As 

 labels are usually worded, and as honey is 

 usually bought and sold, I doubt if there 

 will usually be any deception if both lots 

 of honey are sold under the same label. I 

 have bought and sold a great deal of honey, 

 but I don't know as the question was ever 

 asked me if the honey was of my own rais- 

 ing, although I have frequently toW custom- 

 ers that the honey was some that came 

 from so and so, but they never seemed to 

 manifest any particular interest in the mat- 

 ter. As a rule, I think people don't care who 

 raises the honey so long as it is good. I cer- 

 tainly would not word a label in such a way 

 as to deceive. It may be that some labels 

 are unintentionally deceptive, and if a man 

 is making a business of buying and gelling 

 it might be well to have his labels so word- 

 ed that no one could be deceived even if he 

 tried to be. 



HOME MATTEKS AT THE REVIEW. 



Ivy is still slowly improving. She takes 

 most of her meals at the table and can talk 

 with us in a rational manner — most of the 

 time. She is still very weak both mentally 

 and physically. From some of the kind, 

 sympathetic letters that I have received I 

 gather that some of the friends think that 

 she is a little girl. She was fifteen last June 

 and in health weighs about 130 pounds. 

 Now she weighs only '.(f) pounds and has 

 weighed even a little less than that. She 

 worries yet if I am out of the house, some- 

 times if I am not in the same room with her, 

 but most of the time she is content to let 

 me work in the office adjoining her room. 

 I tell you it seems good to get back to work. 

 It seems to me as though this issue of the 

 Review is a little better than the last few 

 issues have been. Is'ntit? There is always 

 an indefinable something about a journal 

 that indicates the amount and quality of ed- 

 itorial work bestowed upon it. The twins, 

 Nora and Cora, who were seventeen last fall, 

 now set all the type, and keep the oflice as 

 clean and tidy as three-year-old baby Fern, 

 with her picture cutting and pasting, will 

 allow. They have put curtains and house 

 plants at the windows, and pictures on the 

 walls, and it is a very pleasant oflice — for 

 me. There is no necessity for a printing 

 office being tiie " dirty hole " that some of 

 them are. 



