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THE BEE-KEEPEHS' ME VIE] 



Seven coloaies bought one fall, placed 

 nearly 200 yeards away from the other bees, 

 in a spot which was well marked, dwindled 

 badly from paralysis the next spring. 

 Another lot purchased, which were kept en- 

 tirely on their own combs, took the disease. 



Abvada, Colo. 



March 5, 189<1. 



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FLINT. MICHIGAN. JUNE JO. J 896. 



Eight extra pages again this month. 



California Bee-Keepers are very much in- 

 censed because of the reports concerning 

 the adulteration of their honey. I have re- 

 ceived several vigorous protests against the 

 publication of the Dayton article, some even 

 going to far as to assail his character. Of 

 course, 1 do not know in regard to the truth 

 or falsity of these reports, but I feel that 

 further discussion of the subject at present 

 would be untimely. A feeling is being 

 roused that can result in no good. This is 

 simply another case of all talk and do noth- 

 ing, and the Review must plead guilty this 

 time. All of these "exposures, " whether 

 they are true or not, simply injure the rep- 

 utation of honey, and it will be a long time, 

 I am thinking, before the Review will again 

 be led into helping one along. 



Later — Since the foregoing was put in 

 type I have received, from one of Califor- 

 nia's most prominent bee keepers, a long, 

 fair, reasonable letter, in which the writer 

 tries, impartially, to do justice to all parties. 

 As it is strictly confidential, I can give nei- 

 ther name nor contents, but it has satisfied 

 me that the Review has unwittingly injured 

 California bee keepers and the reputation 

 of their product, and 1 am sorry for it. 



Distillation of water may be effected, 86 

 writes J. O. West, of Fulton, Kansas, by 

 means of a tea kettle with a long rubber 

 hose attached to the spout. In parsing 

 through the hose the steam is condensed. 

 If it doesn't condense, lengthen the hose 

 until it does. 



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thefebkis wax extractor. 

 This extractor is far ahead of anything 

 that I have yet tried for rendering combs 

 into wax. The ordinary wax extractors are 

 all right in principle but lacking in capacity. 

 The comb basket soon fills up with " slum 

 gum " and this must be emptied if the work 

 is to be continued. It must be emptied 

 while it is fairly dripping with melted wax. 

 One superiority of the Ferris is that it has 

 two baskets, and as the refuse accumulates 

 it can be shoveled over into one basket and 

 be allowed to stand and drip while the other 

 basket is kept busy melting more combs. 

 These baskets are of such a size that five 

 Langstroth combs, in the frames, can be 

 hung in each basket. There is no cutting 

 out of combs, and no loss of wax by bits of 

 comb adhering to the frames. A float tells 

 when the water is getting low, and it can be 

 replenished without removing the extractor 

 from the stove. Another thing, there is 

 an arrangement whereby the steam is drawn 

 off into the stove and goes up the chimney, 

 thus avoiding filling the room with steam. 

 Making beeswax is, at best, an unpleasant 

 job, but the Ferris robs it of many of its un- 

 pleasant features, and does the work thor- 

 oughly and rapidly. 



A TRIP TO PHILADELPHIA. 



The Philadeplhia Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion is composed, mostly, of professional 



