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Vol. XXIII. 



JAN. I, 1895. 



No. I. 



Happy new-year! 



The war is on in Progressive between the 

 five-banders and the anti-five-banders. 



Ohio officers, I see by the papers, are look- 

 ing up syrups bleached by zinc poison. 



The Hainaut Bee-keepers' Association, Bel- 

 gium, numbers more than 2000 members. 



Foundation-machines are getting it down 

 pretty fine to make a septum to%(t of ^n inch 

 thick. That's 185 thicknesses to the inch. 



Wood separators, if loose; tin, if nailed, 

 has been my rule; but perhaps it will be all 

 right to nail wood if only one nail is put in each 

 end. 



M. M. Baldridge, St. Charles, 111., is getting 

 out some interesting bulletins concerning sweet 

 clover, compiled from government reports and 

 other reliable sources. 



The raking or scrubbing motion of bees in 

 front of the hive is only for amusement, ac- 

 cording to S. E. Miller in Progressive. Why 

 not ? Or for exercise ? 



"Syrups that have been adulterated with 

 glucose, and preserves that have been sweeten- 

 ed therewith, become a menace to health." — 

 Dr. Eccles, in iV". Y. Med. Journal. 



Lathyris Silvestris, growing a few miles 

 from me, was seriously if not fatally injured by 

 the terrible drouth of last summer. Sorry. 

 Sweet clover's the chap for drouth. 



Say, Brother A. I., after that performance 

 in flesh-colored tights, described on p. 954, don't 

 you grumble any more about the way they 

 dressed in the St. Joe variety show. "Oh-ow!" 



Hasty, in his condensed cream in Review, 

 objects to using old bedclothes in percolating 

 feeders. Wants them, "like Caesar's wife, 

 above suspicion and snufiin'." I am with you. 

 Hasty. 



Reports from Germany say large numbers of 

 dead bees are found as a result of working on 



Chelidonium majus. Possibly some of the 

 strange cases of mortality in this country have 

 been caused by working on poisonous plants. 



From the way C. A. Hatch speaks of that 

 Russian smoker on p. 943, he would hardly ap- 

 prove of my first smoker. It was a preserving- 

 kettle with a tin cover and a rubber tube. It 

 wasn't as good as the Crane! 



The controversy, " Ten vs. eight frames," 

 seems changing into " ten frames in one story, 

 vs. sixteen frames in two stories." How about 

 compromising on fourteen frames in two sto- 

 ries ? [Better make it 14K, eh?— Ed.] 



An article in a leading Chicago daily grave- 

 ly states that dark beeswax comes from Wiscon- 

 sin, where the bees work on tobacco. [Let's 

 get that Chicago daily to settle for us that vex- 

 ed question of large vs. small hives. — Ed.] 



Dr. Paul Marchal reports in Apiculteur 

 that he dissected 98 workers taken from a hive 

 of laying workers, and found among them 20 

 containing eggs fully developed, and a goodly 

 number with eggs in various stages of partial 

 development. 



Suppose one convention had all essays and 

 another all discussions. Other things being 

 equal, which convention would you attend ? 

 [I'd attend the last; but I'd go further to one 

 having the right proportion of both. The 

 essays of the right sort should stimulate dis- 

 cussion.— Ed.] 



Wax adulteration is hardly as bad here as 

 elsewhere. At any rate, I see mention in Le 

 Rucher of a brochure of 16 pages on the princi- 

 pal adulterations of beeswax. [The fact is, bee- 

 keepers of this country wouldn't have adulter- 

 ated wax, even if cheaper, and none of the pres- 

 ent American makers would furnish it. — Ed.] 



S. M. Keeler, in American Bee-keeper, rec- 

 ommends red lead and linseed oil to make in- 

 side corners of a feeder water-tight; and the 

 clasps worn by wheelmen, to make your trous- 

 er-legs bee-tight. [I have used the clasps my- 

 self. I always use them on long pants for 

 wheel -riding; so you see that, when I take a 

 spin to an out-yard, my trousers are bee-tight 

 at the minute of my arrival, and during my 

 stay there.— Ed.] 



