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Vol. XXIII. 



MAY 15, 1895. 



No. 10. 



A Gi-ORious SPRING fof bee- keepers. 



That feeder of H. K. Boardman Is hard to 

 beat as an entrance-feeder. 



Crimson clover, according to J. C. Smith, 

 in Ajnericcm Bee Journal, does best sown 

 with buckwheat. 



Ten feet of snow covered four hives for 

 more than eleven weeks, and the bees came out 

 ail right.— B. B. J. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown, of Augusta, Ga., has tak- 

 en charge of the Southern Department in the 

 American Bee Jouryial. Good man. 



I can not resist the impression, from all 

 I've read in Gleanings, that, A. I. Root doesn't 

 entirely approve of Electropoise and Oxydonor. 



The lime, as a honey-tree, is a little confus- 

 ing. Sometimes it means the linden, or bass- 

 wood, and sometimes it means a small tree 

 much like the lemon. 



Statistical reports received by Glean- 

 ings seem encouraging, and yet elsewhere re- 

 ports are quite discouraging, losses even reach- 

 ing 50 and 80 per cent. 



Bassavood. says Dr. Brown, American Bee 

 Journal, is rarely found south of latitude 33°, 

 and then only on low land. The European va- 

 riety does better than the common. 



A NEW SMOKER, Zachringer's, is described in 

 German bee-journals. It's nothing more nor 

 less than an atomizer, or sprayer, with a big 

 rubber ball. But it's well spoken of. 



The ancient Romans believed that bees 

 originated from the decaying carcases of cattle. 

 [There was a good bit better reason for believ- 

 ing this centuries ago than for putting faith in 

 Electropoise and Oxydonor.— Ed.] 



Gravenhorst says that young queens that 

 do not issue with a swarm, but merely emerge 



from the cells and remain in the hive, are, as a 

 rule, much later in becoming fertile than those 

 issuing with a swarm. He prefers the latter 

 queens. 



DooLiTTLE defines his position as to spread- 

 ing brood, in American Bee Journal. He 

 would spread only when the queen does not 

 keep filled with brood the combs well covered 

 by bees. That's all right, isn't it? [Yes, sir; 

 and when that rule is followed, no bad results 

 will follow. — Ed.] 



Farmer Hard wear at the telegraph office. — 

 "How much will you charge to telegraph my 

 son $300 at college?" 



OpeTYttor.-" Two dollars." 



Farmer Hardwear. — Gosh! that's cheap! 

 Yer's the $;3. Send it quick as lightnin." — 

 Chicago Record. 



"Melilotus is one of the very few plants 

 which are able to draw their supply of nitrogen 

 from the air; and hence by and through its bi- 

 ennial decay it furnishes the most valuable 

 and most expensive factor in commercial fer- 

 tilizers free of cost, and in the best form." — 

 Prof. S. M. Tracy, Director Miss. Exp. Station. 



Doolittle's observation, p. 361, as to colo- 

 nies deserting in spring, leaving nice brood and 

 plenty honey, agrees with mine, and in every 

 case I think there has been more brood than 

 the bees could cover. Is it because the bees 

 have become so reiiuced in numbers that they 

 desert rather than stay and see that brood die? 



Dwarf Rocky Mountain cherry promises 

 well with you. friend Root, but it may be well 

 to add a caution. 1 1 was boomed at the World's 

 Fair, but I heard a company of horticulturists 

 denounce it as a humbug, and if I remember 

 rightly the veteran Edgar Sanders said it for- 

 merly grew wild on the lake shore near Chicago. 



A AsTOR, in Ttevue, says his hives containing 

 6770 cubic inches inside the frames are too 

 small. Dzierzon, in his "Rational Bee-keep- 

 ing," says, " A space of about 3000 cubic inches 

 will be sufficient in most districts; neverthe- 



