THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



347 



SELECTED ARTICLES 



AND EDITORIAL COMMENTS 



Baptizing Queen3. 



Wesley l""oster tells ns in Gleanings 

 ill Bee Culture of the fo!!o\ving method 

 of introducing queens : 



Did you ever hear of baptism by 

 sprinkling for bees, and baptism by im- 

 mersion for the queens? Well, such are 

 the rites administered by Mr. E. J. 

 Wallinger when introducing queens. He 

 uses a pan of water that has been 

 warmed in the sun, and sprinkles the 

 cluster of bees at the time the old queen 

 is killed. Then he innnerses the new- 

 queen, cage and all. in the water, and 

 after a moment releases her among the 

 sprinkled bees. By the time the bees in 

 the hive are dry they all smell alike, 

 and so are of one accord. Mr. Wall- 

 inger says this is the most satisfactory 

 method of introduction he has yet 

 found. He operates between GOO and 

 700 colonies of bees ; is a farmer, as- 

 sessor of Bent County, secretary of a 

 new irrigation district to water 20,000 

 acres of land, and is secretary of the 

 Bent Co. Melon-growers' Association. 



bees, being only a side line, will usually 

 have to take chances, and if disease 

 should strike them, become a menace to 

 the whole community. 



Live Bee Demonstrations. 



Are live bee demonstrations good 

 things to encourage? Do they properly 

 educate the public regarding the bee in- 

 dustry? Read what Miss Ethel Rob- 

 son says in the Canadian Bcc Jounial: 



The O. A. C had the exhibition of 

 handling live bees again on the grounds, 

 with some of the students interested in 

 apiculture in charge. My visit was paid 

 too late in the day to see a demonstration. 

 Bee-keepers are not altogether favor- 

 able in their comments on this method 

 of bringing bee-keeping before the pub- 

 lic, the fear being that making a popu- 

 lar side-show of bees may have a tend- 

 ency to make bee-keeping appear mere 

 child's play, and so help to swell the 

 ranks of incompetent bee-keepers. Bee- 

 keepers welcome all capable men to their 

 ranks, I)ut thev do fear the men whose 



Renewal of Old Combs. 



L. S. Cranshaw tells us in the Brit- 

 ish Bee Journal of a simple little tin 

 marker which can be used for marking 

 combs whi'e in use in the apiar\-. The 

 device is descrilied as follows : 



H at any time during summer man- 

 ipulation I discover a comb which needs 

 replacement, I mark it. For this pur- 

 pose I use small tin clips. These I 

 make from pieces 1^ in. long by about 

 Y4 in. wide. When the ends are bent 

 up the result is a channel-shaped clip 



I 1, which exactly fits the top 



bar. If a trifle slack, the ends may be 

 closed a little. These marked combs are 

 selected by preference for nuclei, or 

 driven bees, or similar purposes. They 

 thus automatically collect themselves, 

 and may be disposed of in due course. 

 If a stock be wintered upon them, a 

 number will be free the following 

 spring. The method is not very differ- 

 ent or original, but may have some 

 advantages. 



False Impressions Concerning Amer- 

 ican Methods. 



It seems that American methods are 

 not clearly understood "across the way." 

 Today I was reading in one of the 

 foreign journals about American "junk" 

 honey. What do you think of that. 

 Friend Scholl, having your delicious; 

 "bulk comb honey" referred to as; 

 "junk" honey? I thought it was a 

 typographical error until I saw it re- 

 peated in the same article. 



Along this line we have the follow- 

 ing from the British Bee Journal, but 

 we should be pleased to know what 



