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Vol. XXIII. 



APR. 15, 1895. 



No. 8. 





Five cents is enough to Invest in sacaline 

 till more is known about it. 



Sliced onions are given to bees 24 hours be- 

 fore uniting, by Wm. Stolley. — A. B. J. 



F. L. Thompson has been doing some good 

 work culling from foreign journals for Review. 



Gleanings is troubled to know what's done 

 with so much sweet clover. M. M. Baldridge 

 says some of it is used for tanning. 



Chaff hives are the things for East Tennes- 

 see, with its ever-changing warm and cold 

 spells in winter, according to Adrian Getaz in 



A. B. J. 



A CRUSADE ought to be started against re- 

 spectable papers— at h^ast respectable in other 

 respects— for advertising such frauds as Elec- 

 tropoise. 



That man Boardman must be squelched. 

 He's trying to break in on established tradi- 

 tions and customs, getting us to hanker after 

 old straw skeps and square frames. 



Vm glad the big-little-hive discussion is 

 not to be closed yet. Not that a positive de- 

 cision is sure to be reached, but incidentally 

 the discussion brings out points of value. 



The Wisconsin convention seemed to think 

 the " expert and careful bee-keeper" could get 

 along without separators. Don't you think 

 he'd get along just a Icttle better with them ? 



Mrs. Edith Miller is the name that stands 

 at the mast-head as editor of the new paper, 

 The Kansas Bee Jcmrnal. If Mrs. Edith is a 

 genuine live bee-woman, that paper ought to 

 succeed. 



Brood-spreading seems to be taking a back 

 seat. Of 23 repliers in A. B. ./., only one in- 

 dorses it unqualifiedly. Doolittle and a few 

 others use it less than formerly, and the major- 

 ity will none of it. 



Large-hive advocates are appearing in A. 



B. J. Adrian Getaz says, " Eight hives of thir- 



teen frames each will probably give more sur- 

 plus, and certainly as much, as thirteen hives 

 of eight frames each." 



Do bees WORK on strawberry-blossoms? Ab- 

 bott says, in ^1. B. J., that Secor's wrong in 

 thinking they don't. I don't remember ever 

 seeing them at it, and I've had strawberries by 

 the acre; but that isn't proof positive. 



" I placed in a long trough, in separate 

 piles, wheat flour, wheat Graham, rye flour, rye 

 Graham, ground oats, oat-meal, buckwheat 

 flour, and corn meal, and found the bees would 

 hardly touch any thing else till the cornmeal 

 was all gone."— O. K. Omstead, in A. B. J. 



" No dangp:r of the swarm absconding or 

 doubling up with others as long as you trap all 

 the queens," says C. H. Dibbern, p. 258. But 

 I'm sorry to say swarms sometimes return to 

 the wrong hive, which is the same as doubling 

 up. 



The Australian Bee Bulletin says, at the 

 last of January, "Swarming may now be said 

 to be practically over." I should think so! 

 That accounts for the big crops they get there. 

 We could get big crops too if we would work 

 the poor bees right through the winter. 



The past winter has been a terror across 

 the sea. In England the mercury went down 

 to 8° below zero: and one man says in B. B. J., 

 " If a recurrence of this extreme weather takes 

 place, we should make some experiments on the 

 American plan of cellar wintering." 



Alfalfa in Wisconsin. A report of a third 

 of an acre is given by S. Favil, in Prairie Farm- 

 er. P''irst year it didn't show much; second 

 year gave two good cuttings, and four cuttings 

 the third year. Flourishes in drouth that 

 checks red clover, and doesn't need re-seeding. 



Foundation made of two-thirds ceresin, we 

 are told on p. 272. is sold in Germany for what 

 it is. I'm afiaid there's some mistake about 

 that. Thi^re's much complaint in the German 

 journals about adulteration, but I never saw a 

 word in favor of the mixed article, nor any of 

 it offered for sale. 



Clover seed. Waldo F. Brown says, in 

 Prairie J'ar/rier, "In my experience the mam- 

 moth clover will in good seasons average about 



