. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. deavoring to sift the wheat troni the chaff, although A'ou are generally very successful at this. As is usual with me each winter, I am building air castles in regard to the com- ing season's work, but whether the}' will be more than air castles, only the future will tell. One more thing which occurs to me in regard to the securing of bright yellow wax. I have fround from careful experiments that many a lot of fine wax has been spoiled or very much darkened by allowing the water in which it is melted to boil together with the wax
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. deavoring to sift the wheat troni the chaff, although A'ou are generally very successful at this. As is usual with me each winter, I am building air castles in regard to the com- ing season's work, but whether the}' will be more than air castles, only the future will tell. One more thing which occurs to me in regard to the securing of bright yellow wax. I have fround from careful experiments that many a lot of fine wax has been spoiled or very much darkened by allowing the water in which it is melted to boil together with the wax. What chemical change this produces is beyond me, but that it does make a difference is beyond dispute. Providence, R. I. Jan. i, 1898. PLAIN SECTION'S AND SLAT-SEPARATORS. They are Severely Condemned by one who has tried Them bv the Thousands. JAMES HEDDON. To Truth's house there is a single door, Which is Experience.âB/iy/4/?D [N this paper ^ for October, tv _ and more c o n - *"* '*' fr s p i c u o u s 1 }â in '*'â Cj 1 e a n i n g s for November 15, we find cuts and des- criptions of two claimed steps in advance, which I have been taught in my experience, are radical steps back- luard. I refer to sections without spaces, and cleated separators, called "fences. " Having been one of the original inven- tors of sections (whether prior or not, I don't know) I thoroughly tested, as I be- lieve, the spaceless sections. One year, I used 5000 of them, opening the spaces with thick separators, and I have relics of them yet about ni}- home apiary. They became things of the past, wholly because sections with bee-spaces, that is, with tops and bottoms narrower than the up- rights, are ninch superior to them, at ever}' step, from the surplus case to the consumer. Bro. Root tells us that he believes these two features are improvements, although tried and laid aside by several foremost honey producers. He says that the times were not right for them, but he does
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