. Gleanings in bee culture . I think will bean adornment to the pages of men are not >\liite Caps nor mem-bers of the Ku-Klux-Klan, neither are theyphysicians administering to sufferers af-flicted with bubonic plague. The furthergentleman, having more latitude and lon-gitude than altitude, is Hon. Mason .J. Nib-lack; and, although he is a bachelor, yet heis the father of our Indiana foul-brood other gentleman, having considerableheight as well as depth, is Benjamin , State Entomologist, and Inspect-or of Apiaries of Indiana. Mr. Niblack prides himself on th


. Gleanings in bee culture . I think will bean adornment to the pages of men are not >\liite Caps nor mem-bers of the Ku-Klux-Klan, neither are theyphysicians administering to sufferers af-flicted with bubonic plague. The furthergentleman, having more latitude and lon-gitude than altitude, is Hon. Mason .J. Nib-lack; and, although he is a bachelor, yet heis the father of our Indiana foul-brood other gentleman, having considerableheight as well as depth, is Benjamin , State Entomologist, and Inspect-or of Apiaries of Indiana. Mr. Niblack prides himself on the factthat the veils they are wearing are a homeproduct; but there are certain featvires aboutthem that might lead the casual observer toinfer that they were made in Germany. Vincennes, Ind. ^ [The Indiana law is a good one, and thefather of it is to be congratulated. The ex-cellent work that Mr. Douglass has doneentitles him to a better picture—one with-out a veil. The State may well be proud ofhim and his record.—Ed.]. Benjamin W. Douglass, State Entomologist of Indiana, and Hon. Mason J. Nib-lack, who fathered the excellent foul-brood law of that State. It seems to me worth while to say some-thing further in elucidation of the case oftwo-inch glass vs. three-inch, and I am mov-ed to this now more especially because ofthe manner in which Dr. Miller makes useof quotation-marks in inclosing guesses ofhis own, which, on a cursory reading, areapt to leave the impression that the wordsinclosed are mine, and I am confirmed inthis view from the fact that the printers suf-fered them to remain—Oct. 1, p. 582. Now a few words that the doctor may beinformed as to why I think the narrow glasslooks the better; and, first, what is the pur-pose of using glass? Plainly, it is not primarily to exhibit thequality of the honey, for at most a two-inchglass shows only about oV part of the surfaceof the honey in a single-tier box of 28 sec-tions, and a three-inch glass only about jVpart. At


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