. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 762 AMERICAN BEE • JOURNAL. Samples of perforated zinc are received from Dr. G. L. Tinker. He has built a new automatic perforator for making the perforations, which operates more rapidly, but does just as accurate and smooth work as his old one. The workmanship is superb, the perforations are exact, the metal is thin and smooth, and the closeness of the holes allows no waste of surface. The Doctor remarks thus in a recent letter : My zinc works entirely satisfactorily on the new swarmers, and I do not see how it can be improved. It is, in fact, perfe
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 762 AMERICAN BEE • JOURNAL. Samples of perforated zinc are received from Dr. G. L. Tinker. He has built a new automatic perforator for making the perforations, which operates more rapidly, but does just as accurate and smooth work as his old one. The workmanship is superb, the perforations are exact, the metal is thin and smooth, and the closeness of the holes allows no waste of surface. The Doctor remarks thus in a recent letter : My zinc works entirely satisfactorily on the new swarmers, and I do not see how it can be improved. It is, in fact, perfect. But I greatly prefer the two-rowed zinc in the wood-zinc combination for queen- excluders in hives. The honey-flow is now on, and a fine one it is. Swarming will engage the attention of bee-keepers here for some weeks. G. L. Tinker. The accompanying illustration shows the exact size of the perforations in the. zinc as made by Dr. Tinker on his new automatic perforator. He is justly entitled to the praise he is getting from all the bee-periodicals for the excellence of his work on his specialties. Importiiis: Bees.—The following particulars concerning the importation of bees, written by a firm of bee-keepers in Massachusetts, will give some idea of the perplexities attending the getting of bees from Europe : Our bees came from Italy by express, via Havre. They passed through the hands of the forfeign express company, Baldwin Bros. & Co., 53 Broadway, New York. We were notified by mail from Havre, by an agent there, of the name of the steamer by which they were sent, giving ample time to write to New York and order them hurried through C. O. D. They, however, experienced considerable delay, and a multitude of small charges. The American agent also sent full notice to the local express company to collect the whole bill. The shipment was billed packages —— dollars each, duty being charged on the importers' bill. So many queens died cti route that we instructed the a
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