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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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2400 beps daily, we can have in that hive, if 

 properly managed. 108.000 bees on the stage of 

 action right in the honey-harvest, when their 

 productive power is the greatest: and at such a 

 time such a number of bees are a host to roll 

 honey into the sections with the combs all 

 filled with brood below; and this rolling of 

 honey into the sections, means the rolling of 

 money into the bee-keeper's till. Experience 

 has shown these men who are advocating an 

 eight-frame L. hive that such is the best, as 

 this keeps the frames full of brood, and puts 

 honey into the sections. However, all our 

 questioner (or any one else) has to do is to use 

 part ten-frame and part eight-frame hives 

 in their apiary, when a little time will satisfy 

 them which is best. 



In order to make a symposium on the subject 

 of bee-paralysis, we have concluded to hold 

 over Mr. Baldensperger's article, which we 

 promised for this issue. A valuable one on the 

 same subject will be given from the pen of Dr. 

 J. P. H. Brown, of Augusta, Ga. 



The editor of the Review echoes the same 

 thought that has come to me at times regard- 

 ing the value of other bee-journals besides our 

 own. He says: 



Apicultural literature was never better tlian it is 

 to-day, and this in the face of about the hardest 

 times financially and apiculturally that we liave 

 seen in a long- time. As .iournal after journal came 

 in for December, all bright, fresh, well-printed and 

 Illustrated, and crammed with interesting: and help- 

 ful articles, I fell to wondering' if my own journal 

 appeared as attractive to the other editors as theirs 

 did to me. If it did I am satisfied. Bee-keepers 

 have every reason to be proud of their literature. 



"Honey-bee Concert" is the title of a 

 leaflet gotten out under the auspices of the On- 

 tario Bee-keepers' Association. It took place 

 on Wednesday, Jan. 23. Its object was purely 

 educational, designed to bring in outsiders. I 

 have no doubt it was a grand success. The fol- 

 lowing Is the program that was laid out: 



1. Instrumental duet, Alls. Scartt' and Mrs. Bruce. 

 2. Address by President A. Pickett. 3. Quartette, 

 Misses Mark and Eason, and Messrs. Ir\'ing' and 

 Hepburn. 4. Solo, Mrs. Stone. .5. Address by Hon. 

 John Dryden. 6. Solo. Mr. H. F. Gadsby. 7. Reci- 

 tation, Mildred Gemmill. 8. Magic-lantern exhibi- 

 tion and lecture, Mr. K. F. Holtermann. 9. Violin 

 solo, Mr. R. W. Roberts. 



It could hardly fail to be entertaining and 

 educational. The scheme is a good one, and I 

 hope it may be repeated In some form at the 

 next N. A. B. K. A., to be held at Toronto. 



D. A. JONES, PAST AND PRESENT. 



I LEARN from the CnnadUni Bee Journal 

 that one of the factory buildings (the largest) 

 of the former D.A.Jones Co., Limited, went 

 up in fire on the 30th of December last. Bee- 

 ton has been very unfortunate in its fires. The 

 office of the Cnmtdian Bee Journal, founded 

 by D. A. Jones, was burned out once, and now 

 virtually all that remained of the once large 

 supply business with it is gone also. The build- 

 ing was used for other purposes, and was owned 

 by Dr. Cheffy at the time of the fire. 



By the way. where is our genial friend of old, 

 D. A. Jones, whose fame Shot forth so like a 

 meteor? There was a time when he was the 

 leading bee-keeper of Canada, the leading bee- 

 editor, the leading supply-dealer, a leader in 

 apicultural thought, and a man known the 

 world over. He traveled over the Orient, and 

 spent thousands of dollars in the pursuit of new 

 races of bees, and later established queen-rear- 

 ing on islands of Georgian Bay. While we 

 remember him for his brilliant past it would be 

 a pleasure to know something of his present, 

 even though not a bee-keeper now. 



THE PRESENT WINTER, AND WHAT IT MEANS 

 TO BEE-KEEPERS. 



In our locality we have not had for years 

 such prolonged and severe weather with high 

 winds as we are now having. We scarcely ever 

 have more than ten days or two v/eeks of cold 

 weather, and then we have a thaw and a few 

 warm days. But up to date, Feb. S, our bees 

 have not had a flight since Christmas. Indeed, 

 the mercury has scarcely been up to the freez- 

 ing-point. For the past four days it has been 

 hanging, both day and night, close to zero — 

 scarcely varying a degree one way or the other; 

 and. more than this, there are high winds. I 

 am well aware this is not cold compared with 

 some localities. Indeed, Dr. Miller says, in the 

 first Straw in this issue, that his thermometer 

 showed 23 below zero on the morning of the ,5th; 

 and I doubt not it has been very much colder 

 in other northern localities. Well, then, if this 

 winter is so much colder than former ones, 

 which I think it is, it is going to be a terribly 

 hard one on bees, for bee-keepers have a habit 

 of preparing rather for mild winters than for 

 severe ones. The result will be, unless I am 

 very much mistaken, and unless the weather 

 moderates considerably, that there will be 

 severe winter losses, and, as a consequence, 

 there will be discouraged bee-keepers with a 

 lot of supplies on hand, perhaps unpaid for. 

 But it is the outdoor colonies that will suffer, I 

 fear, and particularly those that have not been 

 put into double-walled hives or winter cases. I 

 do not wish to forebode calamity; but I think 

 it would be well for bee-keepers to consider the 

 possibility of their losing heavily, and there- 

 fore not requiring the supplies that might oth- 

 erwise be needed. I am well aware that this 



