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Sept. 19, 1901. 



might be poured in after the dirty soft water has been drawn 

 off through a faucet. But then, perhaps the advantage of 

 this method over other methods was its simplicity ; and when 

 we have put all the improvements on it, will not the simplicity 

 be gone ? Wires have a high specific gravity, consequently a 

 strong gravitativc attraction, much more than threads. I 

 suspect this originates some of the difficulty in getting the 

 wax to rise. A sieve bottomed with cheese-cloth instead of 

 wire.s might be tried. Page 516. 



HONKY FROM .M0LBERBY FKUIT(?|. 



If Dr. Peiro has honey that was stored from white mul- 

 berry fruit, and it is good, he has done experimental apicul- 

 inre a proper good turn. But I hope he will pardon the grain 

 of salt slowly melting on our tongues. If we knew he fed a 

 colony at least five pounds in 48 hours — if we knew said col- 

 ony didn't get over a pound of nectar meantime — if wo knew 

 •' the man on the fence "' found a marked difference in flavor 

 between the honey and the honey in the next hive — I am not 

 4sking him these (juestions, I am only ruminating them. On 

 the whole, I think I have more faith in that currant mulberry 

 jam. Page 52-1:. 



I Questions and Answers. ^ 



CONDUCTED BY 



DR. O. O. MLLLEie. Afarengx}, m. 



CThe Qnestions may be mailed to the Bee Journal office, or to Dr. Miller 



direct, when he will answer them here. Please do not ask the 



Doctor to send answers by mail. — Editor,1 



Pelt Roofing For DouWed-Walled Hives. 



Has any one had experience with felt-roofing-? If so, 

 what satisfaction does it give? I want to build some 

 double-walled hives and try it. Also state whether two or 

 three ply is required. Michigan. 



Answer.— I know nothing about the matter from 

 experience, but should expect good results. Can any one 

 tell us anything about it from actual practice ? 



Keeping Bees on Sliares. 



I have 16 colonies of bees — 11 in dovetail hives. I have 

 winter-cases for 25 colonies, foundation- fastener, bee- 

 escapes, and some other appliances. The colonies are 

 all strong and healthy, as they were examined by J. M. 

 Rankin, July 21. I expect to let the bees on shares to a 

 neighbor, he having the whole care and all the sales to 

 mak e. What share should each one have? Michig.\n. 



Answer. — Your conundrum is a tough one. So much 

 depends upon the knowledge and skill of the man who has 

 the bees in charge that about the only thing to do is to shut 

 one's eyes and make a guess. Taking into account what 

 Tou say of your neighbor in a private note. I should guess 

 that you should be satisfied if he turns over to you one- 

 third the amount of his sales. But mind you, I don't guar- 

 antee my guess : neither do I agree to replace it with a new 

 one in case this should not give satisfaction. 



Perhaps No Disease at All. 



I send a small piece of brood-comb for your examina- 

 tion. Can you tell me what it is? It does not seem to have 

 the symptoms of foul brood, nor pickled brood, as I think 

 they both attack and kill the larva?, and you see the bees 

 are perfect and nearly ready to hatch. I might think it a 

 case of chilled brood, but I had a colony similarly afflicted 

 July 16, and I would not think brood could be chilled at that 

 time. I have two colonies afflicted with it now, and both 

 have been, and are now, weak, but the first colony, affected 

 in July, was very strong. I treated it a/a McEvoy for foul 

 brood, and it is all right now. I shall treat these in like 

 manner, but I would like your opinion as to what the 

 trouble is. The bees do not seem to carry out the dead 

 brood, and the queens are laying only in one comb. Is it a 

 new disease ? Northern Illinois. 



. — Answer. — You give no descripition of the trouble, and 

 the" only thing^to judge from is the sample of brood sent. 



Giving a hasty glance, I should say there was no trouble 

 whatever ; the smell is sweet and good, and healthy bees 

 are now emerging, two days after mailing. A closer exam- 

 ination shows nothing wrong with the sealed brood, but 

 something wrong with the few specimens of unsealed 

 brood, they being well advanced toward maturity. If you 

 had made no mention of any trouble, I should still have said 

 there was none. The young brood has no diseased look, 

 but the appearance of having been partly torn out by the 

 bees, as in a case of starvation or chilling. It would 

 hardly seem likely that there would be chilling or starva- 

 tion, yet until you say there was no possibility of such a 

 thing my guess would lean that way. 



I ^ The Home Circle. ^ i 



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Conducted bu Prof. f\. J. Cook, Claremont, Calif. 



SYMPATHY IN SPORT. 



•• The Home Circle."" page 569, urged recreation. Let us all 

 sympathize fully and truly with our children in their varied 

 sports. I visited my sou two years ago. Though 2-t years of 

 age. he was a member of a base-ball club, which played 

 match games quite frequently. He was the man behind the 

 bat, and his side usually won, and he was a prominent factor 

 in the success. I rejoiced that he wrenched himself from his 

 regular duties for this neighborhood outing. First, it rested 

 and recreated him. It did the same to many others. It gave 

 the whole community a rest-day of pure, unobjectionable 

 pleasure. It robbed other attractions, not so wholesome, of 

 their power to lure and demoralize. 



The next day I found the players in the Sunday-school, 

 and rejoiced that my son showed the same enthusiasm in 

 teaching a large class of young people as he exhibited on the 

 ball-ground, the day before. 



I thank God for all wholesome sport. 



THE STRIKE. 



Among the many beautiful, wholesome, and inestimable 

 fruits or uses of our American homes is that of making senti- 

 ment. In our prayer-meeting last night we discussed rever- 

 ence, its use, and how it might be cultivated. A home with 

 the spirit of reverence ever gilding its precious environs — 

 reverence for God, for the Christ spirit, for truth, honesty, and 

 purity, will be one of the most gracious seed-beds of genuine 

 reverence for all that is holy and good. It should be the 

 happy privilege of all our home circles to foster and 

 strengthen every good sentiment. 



How excellent and frequent are the opportunities to do 

 this most beneficient work. My father had the reverent 

 habit. I am sure his life helped all of us children in this good 

 way. He hated tobacco, and the saloon. I never put tobacco 

 into my mouth, and I always feel like crossing the street to 

 avoid the saloon, which my father taught me was a very pit- 

 fall of wickedness and lust. With my father"s example, I 

 could never have used profanity, and vulgar language, and 

 slang has ever been distasteful. My own experience vivifies 

 and glorifies in my mind and thought the power of the good 

 home to make sentiment. 



Is it not unwise for us to magnify in our thought this 

 phase of home infiueuce and blessedness? Is it not wise to 

 discuss great questions as the times bring them before us. 

 that we, and all in the home circle, may gain and carry with 

 us from the home correct views of life, its duties, and func- 

 tions ? 



To-day the strike is the great theme in everybody"s 

 mouth. It comes from the widespread unrest, and the far- 

 reaching grievances among the laboring classes. Mr. Chauncey 

 Depew said, years ago — and he is in position to know — that 

 the laboring men have a grievance. 1 believe he was right. 

 That grievance does not down with the years; nor will it 

 cease to raise its threatening visage till the laboring classes 

 are as able to assert and maintain their rights as are those 

 who employ them. J assert a truism, when I say that for hon- 

 esty of purpose, real, genuine integrity, unswerving patriotism, 

 and unselfish desire to promote the good of all, the laboring 

 people, as a whole, are now, and will ever be, greatly superior 

 to the people of wealth — the employers of labor. Abundant 

 means to gratify every wish, with no let or hindrance; pos- 

 sessions not won by one's own .efforts; ability to overreach 



