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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIJS^W. 



end of the supf)ort through a hole in the 

 center of the bottom bar and yive the end a 

 couple of winds around a nail to temporari- 

 ly hold it. Next wire the frame?, passing 

 the wires through the loops of the supports 

 as well as through the holes in the uprights 

 of the frames. Put the frames in - square, 

 if out of it, and remove the end of the sup- 

 port from the nail. Draw the support tight 

 enough to align the loops, and after they are 

 aligned draw the support tight enough so 

 that the loops will grasp the wires tightly, 

 slack the support to the proper tension, wind 

 the end around the nail, drive the nail in 

 and the work is done. Two or more supports 

 can be used if desired, but one seems to be 

 sufficient. VV'hen the fou dation is put in it 

 sliould be well attached to the top bar. I 

 put four horizontal wires in a frame of the 

 same depth as the Langstroth frame, putting 

 the bottom one ;',i inches from the bottom 

 bar and each two inches apart. 

 White House Sta. N. J. Apr. 20, 18(jG. 



Notes From Foreign Bee Journals. 



F. L. THOMPSON. 



The Bee-Keepeks' Record. — John Walton 

 has struck the same device for watering bees 

 as that mentioned on page oil!) of the Review 

 for outside feeding, except that instead of 

 placing a trough under a leaking faucet, he 

 uses a piece of sacking spread over a board. 

 This method ought to run Dr. Miller's 

 " finality " a close second. 



" I am confident that many colonies are 

 lost by rapidly feeding at a later date than 

 August, simply because feeding is put off 

 until the bee-keeper finds the stores of his 

 stocks in such an Impoverished condition 

 that he puts on a rapid feeder at once, and 

 by so doing in many cases destroys any 

 chance of his bees making headway the fol- 

 lowing spring. " — W. B. Webster. 



If the editor will allow a" home note" 

 here, Mr. R. L. Taylor's theory on page 44, 

 that it is not easy to change the characteris- 

 tics of the worker bee by the selection of 

 queens and drones, — even if it is the quiutes- 

 sence of common sense, calls for the obivous, 

 if shallow, reply ; for in its present shape 

 it means nothing to the average queen- 

 breeder, who is sure to say, first, that breed- 

 ing out the swarming impulse almost alto- 

 gether wonld be practically as good as " alto- 



gether ; " second, that workers cannot get 

 their special characteristics from any other 

 source than their parents as vehicles, for the 

 production of specially characterized work- 

 ers is a characteristic of queens and drones, 

 just as much as the size of their own bodies ; 

 that the characteristic, through natural 

 selection, determines the modification of 

 the bee of the future, for if the workers of a 

 colony have such characteristics as to be 

 distanced in the struggle for existence, the 

 queen and drone progeny of their queen 

 will either be fewer, or not exist at all ; that 

 the impulse to sting enemies has been con- 

 siderably bred out in some cases, through a 

 seleciion of queens and drones ; that the diffi- 

 culty of understanding how a queen can have 

 a worker for a daughter in one gen eration is 

 all there is to it, but this has nothing to do 

 with breeding ; etc. Of course Mr. Taylor 

 had it all thought out beforehand how this is 

 ninsense. He" thinks. " ( Review for 1893, 

 page 292. ) 



The Australian Bee-Bulletin. — The 

 Provisional Directors of the proposed Hon- 

 ey Supply Co. have decided to wind up its 

 affairs, as the required number of shares was 

 not applied for. Strange to say, no prop- 

 osition is made for starting again on a 

 smaller scale. 



La Revue Internationale. — W\ K. Morri- 

 son spaces his frames accurately any desired 

 distance by a fixed strip of tin toothed like a 

 saw, the points of the teeth being V in* 

 apart. He uses a reversible frame. Four 

 screws with projecting arms instead of heads 

 are fixed near each end of both the top and 

 and bottom bars. By turning the arms out, 

 they act as shoulders to suspend the frame ; 

 by turning them in, the bar in which they are 

 is free to become the bottom bar. 



Prof. Bonnier has proved that honey-dew 

 is often produced without the intervention 

 of insects. With blotting paper, he removed 

 the honey-dew from the leaves observed, 

 aud examined their under surfaces, with a 

 microscope, by reflection, while they were 

 still attached to the tree. Little drops 

 continued to ooze from the stomata, or 

 pores. By covering the branches with net- 

 ting to keep away honey-loving insects, and 

 measuring the quantity exuded at different 

 times and imder different conditions, he 

 found that honey-dew of vegetable origin is 

 produced in the night, attaining its maxi- 

 mum quantity at dawn. That of insect 

 origin is continued through the day and 



