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Vol. XXIII. 



FEB. I, 1895. 



No. 3. 



I JUST believp: that C. Davenport has given 

 a capital plan for mice, p. 54, to give them such 

 a variety. 



Honey souring in the hive is something I 

 think I never heard of till lately. How far 

 north has it been known ? 



That statement on p. 45, that E. France 

 has 140 colonies in the home yard, makes me all 

 alive to know whether that's the regular thing, 

 and what supports so many. 



A BRIGHT American girl was asked in Eng- 

 land what was done with so much fruit in this 

 country. She replied, '"Ohl we eat what we 

 can, and we can what we can't." 



Is EUCAi^YPTUS. that Prof. Cook tells about, 

 p. .52, the same as in Australia that Australians 

 say is so fine, and that beekeepers in England 

 will not admit is fit for the table? 



From Switzerland come reports of two 

 cases of fecundation of the queen during the 

 act of swarming. I had supposed it was quite 

 a common thing with after-swarms. How is it? 



Fm gi.ad to know that cement-coated nails 

 are better than rusted. Sometimes I rust them 

 purposely; but it's troublesome to do it well, 

 and, besides, I don't like the looks of the rusty 

 nailheads. 



"Always make a new colony a full colony, 

 especially if made late in the season," says E. 

 France, p. 44, and it's worth saying again, both 

 for the sake of getting that dash out, and em- 

 phasizing it for beginners. 



About 150 colonies of live bees were at the 

 great (lerman convention and exposition, near- 

 ly all black or German bees. Somehow black 

 bees have more friends in England and on the 

 continent than In this country. 



Editor Leahy^ tells what a good time he had 

 with J. T. Calvert, of the A. I. Root Co., at a 

 visit on the way from St. Joe. Now. you can 



fling all the mud you like at the " mutual -ad- 

 miration " business, but that sort of talk makes 

 a good bit nicer reading than mud-flinging. 



A good point in favor of laws against adul- 

 teration is given by S. E. Miller, in Progressive. 

 It gives the public more confidence in purity of 

 product. Lately, in a region where good 

 cheese - factories abound in Illinois, I found 

 New York cheese on the table, simply because 

 New York laws were more strict as to pure 

 cheese. 



After reading what E. France says, the 

 old question comes back whether covered seal- 

 ed covers may not be all right, and uncovered 

 sealed covers all wrong. His covers have 

 straw over them. Is there nothing but the sky 

 over yours? [No, sir. There's a good big cush- 

 ion and cover over them. Our sealed covers 

 have always been so protected in winter.— Ed. J 



"Fruits produced by self-pollenation are 

 quite different from those produced by cross- 

 fertilization. Few varieties of apples will self- 

 fertilize to any extent. The chief agents for 

 fertilization are insects, and honey-bees are 

 among the best. Every fruit-grower should 

 keep some bees to fertilize his blossoms, or see 

 that his neighbor does." — Greenes Fruit-grower. 



A SY'MPOSIUM of six articles on five-banded 

 bees occupies most of the Progressive for Jan- 

 uary, leaving the impression that there are five- 

 banders and five-banders, or, as Hutchinson ex- 

 presses it, "the dark, leather-colored bees are, 

 as a rule, the better workers, but the brighter- 

 colored bee may be just as good workers as 

 their darker sisters . . . and some strains 

 are." [Them's my sentiments, and I think they 

 agree fairly with what I have said.— Ed. J 



"The honey-bee is not able to pierce the 

 skin of fruits; but they have the power of get- 

 ting in between the joints, as one might say, 

 consequently they manage to work in between 

 the pips of the raspberry, and also into the 

 grape, near its junction, and in this way crops 

 of grapes and raspberries are wholly ruined by 

 bees." That's what Meehans' Monthly says. 

 Now, will that good monthly tell us just how 

 it found that out? 



