. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 410 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL October ported articles are out of vcach in price. That is enough to disrourage any one. It takes 100 kilos (220 lbs.) of honey to pay for an ordi- nai-y umbrella; the same amount to pay for a case of gasoline; 600 kilos (1,320 lbs.) to pay for a rubber tirj 31x4 for my auto. I understand that your beekeepers are better off, and it gives me great desire of coming tD the United States and see. Perhaps I will come some day. Do you use the capping-melter? How does it succeed? Does it dam- age the honey? I have con-;;dei'able trou
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 410 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL October ported articles are out of vcach in price. That is enough to disrourage any one. It takes 100 kilos (220 lbs.) of honey to pay for an ordi- nai-y umbrella; the same amount to pay for a case of gasoline; 600 kilos (1,320 lbs.) to pay for a rubber tirj 31x4 for my auto. I understand that your beekeepers are better off, and it gives me great desire of coming tD the United States and see. Perhaps I will come some day. Do you use the capping-melter? How does it succeed? Does it dam- age the honey? I have con-;;dei'able trouble with small particles cf cap- pings that gather on top cf the honey after extracting, and a:> I have so large a quantity (509 bands this year) I want some good method of getting rid of these cappings. I do the extracting in a tent the edges of which are held down with bi^; rocks, the front, which is allowed to drop to the gi'ound as w.; go in and out. I would like to have a cen- tral plant, but it is out of the ques- tion, on account of bad roads and long distances. Last year I had ty- phoid fever in the middle of the sum- mer and had to delay extracting until cold weather. I did the work when there was snow and rain an<l had to warm up the supers with a stove un- der a pile of them, in order to warm up the honey so as to uncap and ex tract. Let me hear from you, pleaise, with advice as to what you think of the situation. (j. J. (It looks as if our correspondent's bees were suffering from some dis- ease like European foulbrood. We are sending him some information on the subject.—Editor). THE CENTURY PLANT In the Southwestern States, Mexico and Central America, there are a number of long-lived plants, common- ly spoken of as century plants. These belong to the genus Agave, more than 138 species of which have been de- scribed. Many of them are native to Africa and desert regions of Asia. Coulter seven species as native to Texas, and some others are to
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