. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1896. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 713 here. Of course the full report of the proceedings will be read by all as they appear from week to week in these col- umns. We hope to complete them this month. A Oood Cement is made of four parts of rosin, one of beeswax, and one of brickdust, melted together. It will fasten the handles of knives', forks, and similar tools which may have become loosened. So says R. V. Murray, in Glean- ings. *-—•? XIa i r^ueen's Arrival.—Mr. R. B. Ross, Jr., of , Canada, sends us the following account of the way iTi which
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1896. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 713 here. Of course the full report of the proceedings will be read by all as they appear from week to week in these col- umns. We hope to complete them this month. A Oood Cement is made of four parts of rosin, one of beeswax, and one of brickdust, melted together. It will fasten the handles of knives', forks, and similar tools which may have become loosened. So says R. V. Murray, in Glean- ings. *-—•? XIa i r^ueen's Arrival.—Mr. R. B. Ross, Jr., of , Canada, sends us the following account of the way iTi which a queen-bee was received in the land where there are tw> kinds of queens : A loquacious telegraph operator grievously misled a crowd of loyal Britishers the other day and made them ridiculous. It seems that the son of the Marquis of Salisbury keeps bees, and being in need of a queen-bee, he sent to the nearest town for one, receiving, at Hatfield house, in reply to his message, a telegram to the effect that " the Queen will arrive by 3:40 this ; The operator, supposing it to refer to her Majesty, was unable to keep such important news to himself, and an immense crowd had assembled at the station when the bee arrived. The fate of the operator is unknown, but the bee reached its destination in safety. Apicultural Patents.—The following paragraphs are taken from the Official Gazette of the United Slates Patent Office issued last May : Bee-Cultube.—In this class 1,001 patents have been issued. The first movable-comb frame for bee-hives was patented to Langstroth, No. 9,300, Oct. 5, 1852 ; and im- provements thereon, disclosing simple and effective means for holding removable-comb frames in the hive were patented to Hedd-in, No. 327,268, Sept. 29, 1885 ; to Shuck, No. 329,- 341, Oct. 27, 1885, and to Danzenbaker, No. 547,164, Oct. 1, 1895. The first artificial comb foundation was made in Germany about 1842. An effective improvement thereon is the em-
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