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backward spring, the bees in a suitable cellar would no doubt have 

 shown the best record. * » * The importance of having colonies 

 strong for winter and spring, in order to have them sufficiently populous 

 to best improve the time during the honey harvest" is enforced by this 

 experiment. The system of feeding bees with dry sugar, recommended 

 by Mr. Simmins of England, was successfully tried by the author. 

 ''After several years' trial of the plan on a somewhat extended scale 

 we do not hestitate to recommend it. It is well suited to the manage- 

 ment of out apiaries, where but occasional visits are made, and in all 

 cases, though possibly in a dry country not so effective as sirup feed- 

 ing, saves the trouble of making sirup and the time required in its 

 daily distribution, while the danger of the disastrous results of oc- 

 casionally omitting the daily ration is avoided. Instead of dry sugar, 

 moist sugar, like good grades of molasses and C sugar are best, but the 

 former should first be well drained. ' This placed in a feeder where the 

 heat and moisture are confined, is slowly licked up or liquefied by the 

 bees. The rapidity with which this is done depends upon the heat and 

 moisture in the hive. * * * This mode of feeding is not only suit- 

 able for spring stimulation but is invaluable in a poor season to pre- 

 vent starvation, for queen rearing, for bringing up nuclei, and workiug 

 for increase or drawing out foundation, as well as for promoting brood 

 rearing, after removing what is in some localities the only honey crop 

 of the season." An experiment in the use of artificial heat to pro- 

 mote brood rearing has been successfully conducted at the station, 

 but will not be reported until additional results have been gained. 



Tennessee Station, Special Bulletin D, July 10, 1890 (pp. 47). 



Potash and paying crops. — A reprint of a compilation by the 

 German Kali Works. 



Tennessee Station, Special Bulletin E, July 20, 1890 (pp. 8). 



The cotton worm and Hessian fly, H. E. Summers, B. S, — Di- 

 rections are given for the application of the arsenites for the cotton 

 worm {Aletia argillacea). The Hessian fly {Gecidomyia destructor) is 

 described and illustrated, and suggestions are made as to means for its 

 repression. 



Texas Station, Bulletin No. 11, August, 1890 (pp. 16). 



Effect of cotton seed and cotton-seed meal on butter, G 

 W. Curtis, M. S. A. (pp. 3-14). — The objects of these trials were to 

 study the effect of cotton seed and cotton-seed meal, fed to dairy cows, 

 on the butter produced, with regard to quantitj' and quality in general, 

 and the extent to which these feeds may safely be mixed with other 

 feeds. 



Effect on body or firmness. — The determinations of melting point and 

 volatile acids in the butters were made by H. H. Harrington and W. 



