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Vol. XXIII. 



JAN. 15, 1895. 



No. 2. 



311 MEMBERS in the Bee-keepers' Union. 



Poppleton's pineapples, page 1.5, are pecul- 

 iarly tantalizing to those of us who can't aHord 

 the luxury. 



Sphagnum, or nurserymen's moss, is highly 

 ■commended in Le Prrmres ApiA^ole for absorb- 

 •ent material. 



Ernest's visit to the Frances reminds me 

 that, years ago, I visited the place but hadn't 

 the courage to introduce myself. 



Those who injure larvte, as mentioned p. 

 21, by using a quill toothpick, would do well to 

 try a joint of grass cut toothpick fashion. 



I CAN WAIT till February for the new cata- 

 log; but when's the seed catalog coming? A 

 horticulturally crazy brother-in-law has been 

 asking me. 



C. W. Learned, in A. B. J., says a five-band- 

 -ed queen carries more safely in the mail than a 

 •common one — "the more hoops, or bands, the 

 iess danger of bursting up!" 



Straw-colored sugar (sucre candi jaune- 

 jpaille) is recommended in L'Apiculteur for 

 feeding bees. No water; just put the dry crys- 

 tals over the frames and cover up. 



Experimenter Taylor fed back to get sec- 

 tions tilled, feeding 1.01 lbs. extracted honey to 

 get 1 lb. stored. That is, he had filled in sec- 

 tions more than '-« as much as he fed. 



Complaint is made in Le Progres Aplr-ole of 

 a law that imposes a fine of II to S3 upon any 

 •one who places bees less than 4 rods from a 

 ■dwelling or a public highway. No wonder! 



Capital idea that, of sending the right 

 kind and amount of nails with goods in flat. 

 I never can tell for sure the right nails for a 

 new thing, and sometimes I can't get them. 



Bee-keepers at the Rockford convention, 

 who. perhaps, had no better pasturage than I, 

 got more honey. Perhaps the reason was their 



mailer number of colonies. If I had had only 

 one-tenth as many bees, I feel confident I should 

 have had ten times as much surplus. 



A dangerous rival to A. I. Root has turned 

 up in no less a person than our quaint friend B. 

 Taylor, who proposes to get his living out of an 

 acre of ground, just for the fun of it. See He- 

 view. 



<^iTiTE an array of exposes on pages 26 to 21). 

 Keep at it. friend Root— makes good reading; 

 and although some people are never happy 

 without being humbugged, the hard-earned 

 dollars of others may be saved. 



R. McKnight, in his St. Joe paper, says the 

 Ontario Bee-keepers' Association " is the best 

 and solidest organization of its kind on this 

 continent." The worst of it is, that what he 

 says is true. Yankees can't come up to Ka- 

 nucks in that sort of thing. 



Friend Root, sorry to see you, on p. 2i5, give 

 currency to that hoary error that " the forest 

 leaves are decorated by the first frosts of 

 autumn." We often have beautiful autumn 

 foliage before frost, and the tendency of the 

 frost is to stop the coloring. 



Say, Barney, what's the row in the printing- 

 office? Four mistakes in three consecutive 

 lines on p. 37. Form not locked tight enough, 

 eh? [Type will sometimes pull out in spite of 

 any thing we can do. It was all right when it 

 went down to the press. — Ed.] 



The very intelligent set of York State 

 bee-keepers of the present day are not likely to 

 be succeeded by a set of ignoramuses. The new 

 law requires that every child between G and 14 

 years of age shall attend continuously during 

 the school year some recognized institution. 



"The old reijahle" celebrates the new 

 year by putting on a new dress, and shedding 

 with the old dress the editorial "we.'" It also 

 prints its own name the same as any proper 

 name. There's an example for you to follow, 

 Mr. Gleanings. [That's a matter of taste, 

 Mr. Doctor.— Ed. J 



Carbonyle, used to paint hives, according to 

 J. Chardin in Le Rucher, makes them last sev- 



