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Vol. XXIII. 



riAR. 1, 1895. 



No. 5. 



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"No ONE can write for bee-keepers but hec- 

 keepers,'" says British Bee Journal. 



Dadant says queens are less likely to go up 

 and lay in shallow frames than in deep ones. — 

 A. B. J. 



" Ai'icuLTUKAi. literature was never better 

 than it is to-day." — Review. Right you are, 

 W. Z. 



336 POUNDS of comb honey is what J. D. 

 Endicott reports in A. B. J. from a colony hiv- 

 ed June 10. 



Two COLONIES whose hives stood 3 inches 

 apart, are reported in A. B. J. as working to- 

 gether all summer. 



FoRMATjN, a near relative of formic acid, is 

 spoken of in the German bee-papers as the 

 coming cure for foul brood. 



Gravenhorst thinks bees contract their en- 

 trances toward winter, not to keep out enemies, 

 but to keep out chilly winds and the light. 



It IS AN OLD fable, that, to eat fish, makes 

 brain. U — ml Why is it that fish areso plenti- 

 ful and brains so scarce? — Dr. Peiro, in A. B.J. 



Peach-pits, one eaten every hour or so, are 

 recommended by Dr. Peiro, in A. B. J., for 

 cough and whooping-cough; and for dyspepsia, 

 baked apples. 



Gravenhorst finds that a swarm furnished 

 with foundation from the start is not a whit 

 ahead of one which is first compelled to build 

 five or six natural combs. 



A COMB, no matter how many times it has 

 been filled and emptied, becomes constantly 

 better and stronger for extracting purposes. — 

 Chns. Dadant, in A. B. J. 



A mutual-insurance company of bee-keep- 

 ers at Lueneburg is mentioned in Centralblatt, 

 having had a successful career of 15 years. It 

 prevents damages to bees through spite work. 



as the loss to the individual bee-keeper is 

 slight. 



J. A. Green says, In A. B. J., that he once 

 had a large lot of queen-cells built in January, 

 and sold the royal jeLy at $35 an ounce, pre- 

 sumably for medicine. 



H. W. Brice says in B. B. J., that, when he 

 has trouble uniting bees, it's always those with 

 old queens, while bee9 with young prolific 

 queens may be united almost any way. 



Great wii,low herb, Epilohlum angusti- 

 foltum, says R. H. Ballinger, in A. B. J"., has 

 for years been used by the Indians from Neah 

 Bay to Alaska for making thread and fish-nets. 



The Nebraska Bee-keeper gives quite a full 

 list of honey-plants in Nebraska, and says, " It 

 well repays the apiarist for even breaking oft 

 small limbs" of box elder so the bees can get 

 the exuding sap. 



Quick cure for bad cold. Mix a tablespoon- 

 ful of honey in as much lemon juice in a big 

 pint of water, dusting into this a little cayenne 

 pepper. Drink at once, and keep warm in bed. 

 —Dr. Peiro, in A. B. J. 



In brushing bees ofT combs when it's too 

 cold for them to crawl back into the hive, put 

 two or three bottomless hive-bodies over the 

 hive and brush the bees into this as into a fun- 

 nel. So says J. A. Green, in A. B. J. 



Mother. — " You are at the foot of the spell- 

 ing-class again, are you?" 

 Boy. — " Yes'm." 

 " How did that happen ? " 

 " I got too many z's in scissors." — Oood News. 



A paradise for bees is described in A. B. J.; 

 and then the question is asked, " How many 

 bees can be kept there in one apiary?" The 

 answers vary from 75 to 500 colonies, which 

 goes to show that no one knows much about it. 



The Review reports a new non-swarming ar- 

 rangement of L. A. Aspinwall. Near swarm- 

 ing time, between each two brood-combs is put 

 a half-inch board filled with holes like cells, 

 but running clear through. The bees can't fill 



