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Vol. XXIII. 



HAR. 15, 1895. 



No. 6. 





What State society of bee-keepers has the 

 largest membership? Ontario? 



VoGEL says the Egyptian bee is nearly trop- 

 ical; and when 30° F. is reached, every bee in 

 the hive is dead. 



I've had vacation for two weeks, even from 

 bees, with almost nothing to do but sing. 

 Makes me younger. 



I FOUND some beautiful sections in Southern 

 Illinois, stamped P. H. Elwood, Starkville, N. Y. 

 Say, Elwood, you keep out of here. 



I KNOW NOW, from that picture on page 167, 

 what has become of Jake Smith. He got so 

 puffed up with gas that he exploded. A warn- 

 ing for others. 



The latest cure I've seen for a bee-sting is 

 from Bicnen-Vater, a strawberry applied. I 

 hope A. I. Root will no longer insist that straw- 

 berries have no use. 



Honey DEW honey has a defender in Stan- 

 ley & Son, in A. B. J. And no wonder; for in 

 12 years they have raised 80,000 pounds of it, 

 selling it for $10,000. 



What's best for a cushion, a right soft one? 

 At the rale they're settling the question of the 

 size of hives, it looks as if I'd have to sit on the 

 fence the rest of my days. 



The Bienen-Vater says queenless colonies 

 frequently fill queen-cell cups with jelly just as 

 if occupied by larvae, and build them out, some- 

 times almost a finger long. 



J. E. Crane, in Review, leaves the big -little- 

 hive question all mixed up. In his home apia- 

 ry small hives are best, and large ones 6 miles 

 away. The different conditions account for it. 



Sacaline is a Russian plant that is having 

 something of a boom as a forage and bee plant. 

 Director Wilson, of Iowa Experiment Station, 

 says in Stockman that it grows 8 to 12 feet high 

 in a year, but he has no hope of its being a for- 



age plant, because cattle won't eat it, even in 

 Russia. 



MiEi> de Narbonne, or Narbonne honey, 

 which sells in Paris at 60c a pound, Baist, in 

 Noerdlichen Bztg. says, is a white honey from 

 apple-blossoms. Phin's dictionary says, chiefly 

 from rosemary. 



Caraway, says V. Wuest, in Noerdlichen 

 Bztg., is a fine honey-plant in his locality. But 

 Editor Vogel says, although cultivated largely 

 in his region he never saw a bee on it. How is 

 it in this country? 



B. Taylor says, in Review, that he has 10 

 hives with 12 frames, 20 with 16, and 12 with 19 

 frames. After giving them a fair trial along- 

 side of 10-frame hives, he has thrown them 

 aside as useless. 



H. L. Jeffrey writes, "Things that I knew 

 for sure 2.5 years ago I have learned are quite 

 different now, and it takes years to know for 

 certain but very little of any thing." You've 

 got it about straight, H. L. 



A HivELESS colony is reported in Deutsche 

 Imker, hanging to the roof of a bee-shed. It 

 hung in the form of a hemisphere, built nine 

 combs, making them far larger than the stand- 

 ard German frame, which is less than the 

 Langstroth. 



"Do BEES PREFER uew or old comb?" is a 

 query in A. B. J. One replier thinks they pre- 

 fer new, three think they prefer old; three 

 "don't know," and the great majority think 

 they have no preference. Here's a nut for the 

 experiment stations. 



According to Baron Ambrozy, at the big 

 Vienna convention, the four notable steps of 

 progress since Dzierzon's discoveries are, 1. The 

 extractor; 2. Comb foundation; 3. The queen- 

 excluder; 4. The improvement in the manu- 

 facture of honey-drinks. 



When I read on p. 187 how nicely W. S. 

 Hart has every thing arranged, and when I re- 

 member what a nice fellow he is, I can't help 

 wondering why a man of such good taste should 

 remain a bachelor. Or has he such critical 

 taste that no woman comes up to the mark ? 



