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Vol. XXIII. 



APR. I, 1895. 



No. 7. 



Illinois State Fair offers bee-keepers $255, 

 in premiums of $3 to $20 each. 



GuENTHER says Italian queens don't live as 

 long as black ones.— Bienen-Vater. 



The first page of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal for March 7 is well edited. Five editors ap- 

 pear on it. 



Propolis, warmed and applied as a plaster 

 to corns, is said to be a cure, in Schwelzerische 

 Bienenzeitung. 



Bees flew a little, March 18, with the ther- 

 mometer at 34°, and flew nicely at 44°; but the 

 sun shown brightly, and the air was still. 

 " In Italv an enemy of the wax-worm has 

 been discovered — a fly that lays its egg in the 

 worm, from which grows a larva 3€ inch long 

 that kills the worm. 



Le Frogres Apicole occupies a supplement 

 of 15 pages telling about a four-days' bee- keep- 

 ers' convention and exposition, with 184 prizes, 

 commencing Aug. 31 at Mons, Belgium. 



In buying seeds of honey-plants, look out 

 you don't get a start of bad weeds. A lot of 

 sweet-clover seed that I bought gave me a start 

 of three bad weeds I had not known before. 



'• How OLD may brood-combs be before chang- 

 ing them ?" is a query in ^. B. J. No one of 

 the repliers thinks of changing them before 10 

 years, and the large majority never change on 

 account of old age. 



Actinidia polygama is mentioned as a new 

 honey-plant in Germany — a twining plant, per- 

 fectly hardy, bearing long clusters of green 

 fruit that is of the size of gooseberries; sweet, 

 and with the odor of pineapples. 



A bee's EGG, according to some authorities, 

 weighs .00013 of a gram; according to others, 

 .00021 of a gram. Can Hasty or some one else 

 tell us which is correct? [Hens' eggs vary in 

 size; and, if my eyes have not deceived me. 



queens' eggs. That being the case, both figures 

 may be right.— Ed.] 



Black bees seem to be preferred to Italians 

 In England, but in Australia not. In the 

 Question-box of the Australian Bee Bulletin, 

 all the repliers strongly preferred Italians ex- 

 cept one man, and.he had had only one colony of 

 Italians. 



E. E. Hasty, in Review, and " Gleaner," in 

 American Bee Journal, seem to spend a large 

 part of their time nosing around in the pages of 

 Gleanings after choice bits. All right, breth- 

 ren, there's nothing wrong in your brousing 

 where you find the best picking. 



No WONDER beeswax was in demand in the 

 Middle Ages. I read in Elsass-Lothingischer 

 Bienen-Zuechter of the imrnense number of 

 wax candles burned in the churches.- In one of 

 them, 16 candles, each weighing 30 pounds, 

 were kept burning day and night. 



Hasty says, in Review, that " putting foot- 

 notes of the Gleanings variety on the Straws " 

 gives vivacity to the first page. So say I. 

 They're more interesting reading to me than 

 the Straws themselves. [Don't believe it; but 

 I'll stick 'em on so as to have my say. — Ed.] 



" We have always found bees build burr- 

 c_ombs when stariers only are put in the upper 

 story." — Australian Bee Bulletin. Never 

 thought of it before; but it's reasonable to sup- 

 pose burr-combs will be worse with small start- 

 ers, because the bees are slower about going up. 



Giant bees of India, or Apis dorsata, are 

 now advertised, and I'm afraid there is some- 

 wrong. The advertiser says one of the drones 

 put in a cage with a black or Italian queen will 

 fertilize her at once, "and will fertilize as 

 many as four queens before he stops"! [See 

 Editorials.— Ed.] 



Chemists say there is more "sweetenin " in a 

 dollar's worth of white than in a dollar's worth 

 of brown sugar. I never disputed it, but I'd 

 just like to know how it can be. Take a bar- 

 rel of brown sugar and change It to white, and 

 then it costs more, doesn't it? But have you 

 added any sweetness to it? 



