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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEv», 



In a queenless colony destitute of brood, 

 Rev. Niccolo Jozzelli found a single queen- 

 cell, supplied with royal jelly, containing 

 the larvae of a moth. A similar case was 

 reported to him years ago. but thinking it a 

 mistake, he did not venture to speak of it. 



Leipzigek Bienenzeitung. — By the cour- 

 tesy of Pastor Fleischmann, I received a 

 sample horsehair veil. Only the face- piece is 

 composed of horsehair. By the accompa- 

 nying catalogue I see that this is true of 

 all styles of this kind of veil, so I must give 

 up my hopes of an indestructible article. 

 Hike the horsehair rather better than the 

 veils I have hitherto used. While pliable, 

 it never obstructs the vision by folds. It is 

 largely used about Hanover, where colonies 

 are counted by the hundred. The cost is 36 

 cents. 



Akvada Colo. Aug. 8, 1890. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



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FLINT. MICHIGAN. SEP. 10. 1896. 



The Next Review will probably be late, 

 as I expect to go to the fairs with an ex- 

 hibit of bees and honey. 



The Vote on '"Amalgamation" will not 

 be taken until the Annual Election in Jan- 

 uary next. This is the decision on the 

 Advisory Board. 



Geo. T. Wheadon & Co., the firm whose 

 ad. appears in this issue, can give plenty of 

 references as to their reliability. Before 

 accepting their ad. I asked for references, 

 and received the following: L. B. Smith, 

 Pres. First Nat'l Bank, Castleton, Vt. ; Gray 

 Bros., Bankers, Middleton Springs, Vt.; 

 Hughs Fruit and Produce Co., Salt Lake 

 City, Utah; Frederick Bros., Holland, Iowa; 

 Lowry City Bank, Ijowry, Mo.; L. D. Moses, 

 Pres. German Nat'l Bank, Ripan, Wis.; and 

 any wholesale house in Chicago. I may 

 also add that they have paid me promptly. 



Dbawn Combs increase the crop of comb 

 honey 100 per cent., writes L. A. Ressler to 

 Gleanings. When I flrst read that I thought 

 that Mr. Ressler had been a little extrava- 

 gant, audit does sound so, but I am not so 

 sure that he isn't pretty near the truth. 

 How much more extracted than comb honey 

 can you produce ? That's the question ; and 

 drawn comb will enable you to produce as 

 much comb as extracted honey. There is a 

 big field here for experiment and investiga- 

 tion. 



A Condensed View of Current 

 Bee Writings. 



E. E. HASTY. 



rnO see ourselves as others see us just look 

 1/ at the following, which was first pub- 

 lished in Lippincott's Magazine, then quot- 

 ed by the Literary Digest, XIII, 47.'). 



" Here is an industry that is adapted in some 

 degree to almost every section of our country, 

 that is not overdone, and cannot be overdone 

 until honey is as common on our tables as 

 milk. " 



Very likely that all the trouble is that the 

 writer of this has been reading foreign bee 

 literature, and has thus got the non-special- 

 ist view. Point of view counts for quite a 

 bit. " Barkis is willin " to put honey on the 

 tables ow as plenty as milk ; but Bite-is is 

 indifferent to having it there — until he gets 

 the bee fever and produces it himself. Who 

 knows but a wholesale propaganda of bee 

 keeping would create more market than the 

 new bee-keepers could supply ? 



The American Bee Journal is still in the 

 biography business ; and the sketch of H. 

 E. Hill, given 497, is more readable than 

 such work is apt to be. Friend Hill is the 

 champion " rolling stone " of the profession; 

 and his rollings embrace Cuba, California 

 and Canada. They aggregate over 20,000 

 miles— with 159 years yet to hear from before 

 he reaches the appointed three score and ten. 

 He kind o' owes it to his reputation to keep 

 bees a little while in Chili and a spell in 

 Palestine. Benton has been nearly half way 

 round the world and back, with lots of 

 European and African journeys thrown in, 

 and our younger trotter will still have to 

 hustle some to pass him. 



On page 499 A. B. J. Doolittle gives a 

 very interesting article on selecting workers 

 to put in the shipping cage with a queen. 



