. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. =\ Clftcrtl^ougl^ts =/ The " Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable GlasseB. Bj E. E. Hastt, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, Ohio. LOVELY AND LOVABLE CALIFORNIA. Prof. Cook is evidently not like the homesick individual who talks up his locality to sell out and get away. Jlis words about California are the words of a sincere lover—and not a new, love-at-flrst-sight lover either. Lovable climate, inspiringly lovable scenery, deliciously lovable fruits, fraternally lovable people—not so phlegmatic and uq- responsive as people in other States—and


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. =\ Clftcrtl^ougl^ts =/ The " Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable GlasseB. Bj E. E. Hastt, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, Ohio. LOVELY AND LOVABLE CALIFORNIA. Prof. Cook is evidently not like the homesick individual who talks up his locality to sell out and get away. Jlis words about California are the words of a sincere lover—and not a new, love-at-flrst-sight lover either. Lovable climate, inspiringly lovable scenery, deliciously lovable fruits, fraternally lovable people—not so phlegmatic and uq- responsive as people in other States—and once a Californian never long contented anywhere else. But I have a brother who has recently lived six years in California, and previous to that a number of years in the Magdalena Mountains of New Mexico, and I find the fascinations of the Magdalenas stick to him more persistently than those of Cali- fornia do. Page 3". CROSSWISE FRAMES AND CLOSED ENDS. So Allen Latham thinks crosswise frames and closed ends are a pair that should go together, or not at all. Will not be very hard to agree on that—because, you see, most of us will take the second alter- native. And while sitting on this contrary horn some of us would ask him whether he beHeves that story he told on three generatioas of our ancestors carrying stones on a horse's back to balance corn. I sup- pose, he sits waiting for us to answer the question, Why not tilt our ?dwellings forward to keep the rain from driving in under the front door? Tolerably pert question that—even if his deductions are not any more correct than his stories. Page 37. SHEEP IN THE APIART. It's quite a few years since I have had sheep within constant eye- shot, but it doesn't seem to me that they are much given to rubbing. So, Dr. Miller, I would suggest that their badness in moving hives comes not from rubbing but from their inclination to crowd one another. Whole Hock, be it little or big, makes a " Hying wedge " of . its


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