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Vol. XXIII. 



JUNE 15, 1895. 



No. 12. 



Is FAILURE to be our doom another year? 

 June 4 white clover is In full bloom, but bees 

 are doing nothing. 



Please keep watch, and tell us whether a 

 queen prefers to lay in new or old comb; also, 

 which the bees prefer to store in. 



"Gleaner" gathers items "Among the Bee- 

 papers " for A. B. /., and, as might be expected, 

 he gleans a good many gleanings from Glean- 

 ings. 



" Do DUCKS eat bees'?" is a question asked in 

 British B.J. I don't know; but at one time in 

 this country the bees were charged with eating 

 ducks. 



Adulteration of foundation is so bad that 

 Prof. Foucart complains in Le Progres Apicole 

 that nowadays he finds foundation that sags 

 at 77° to 88° F. 



Ex Pres. Abbott " roasts" ex- Secretary F. 

 Benton, in A. B. J., for not publishing report of 

 St. Joe convention, after accepting $25 in pay- 

 ment for his services. 



The tuermometer did not vary from 58° all 

 winter in the cellar of O. E. Douglass, and his 

 bees came out in splendid condition. But the 

 cellar was well ventilated. 



In Cuba, according to H. G. Osborn, in 

 American Bee-keeper, there are places where 

 the honey is squeezed out and thrown away, the 

 wax only being worth saving. 



A NUMBER of cases, carefully observed by F. 

 Goecken. showed young queens to be fecundat- 

 ed at from 8 to 10 days old, the first egg being 

 laid 3 days later.— Centralblatt. 



In East Africa, says R. Ludwig, in Graven- 

 horst's Illustrierte Bieiienzeitung, bees are kept 

 chiefly for the sake of making out of the honey 

 an intoxicating drink of disgusting taste. 



I don't feel left out in the cold with my cel- 

 lar stove so much as I did, since I know so good 

 a man as H. R. Boardman is with me. Artifi- 



cial heat may be a bad thing, but natural cold 

 is worse. 



To MARK A hive temporarily, green grass or 

 weeds will do nicely. It practically takes itself 

 away, for next day it is withered, but a stone 

 or block might be taken for a fresh mark the 

 next day. 



Queenless colonies are often the result of 

 a bee-keeper's handling. A queen is some- 

 times taken off with the cover, and once I found 

 a queen on the hat of my assistant— a clipped 

 queen too. 



Rev. E. T. Abbott, in A. B. J., quotes Her- 

 bert Smith as saying that " particular parts of 

 the body may become temporarily inoculated 

 against insect stings." I wonder whether the 

 inoculation is only local. 



Wood-base foundation reminds me of the 

 foundation with tin-foil base that came out 

 with a flourish years ago. It was a nice thing, 

 only the bees would none of it. What have they 

 said about the wood base? 



" Buckwheat, north of the latitude of North 

 Carolina, may be a good forage-plant; but 

 south it is perfectly unreiiabfe. It will secrete 

 an abundance of nectar only when the atmos- 

 phere is cool and moist. This is a condition we 

 can not well have in the South." — Dr. J. P. 

 H. Brown, in A. B. J. 



Dr. Brown relates in A. B. J. that he gave 

 goldenrod credit for being a good honey- plant, 

 as bees worked on it more or less all day long, 

 but afterward found that the honey stored 

 came from aster that commenced yielding each 

 day toward noon, and he concludes that golden- 

 rod is a poor yielder with him. 



I WAS scared a little when I got before such 

 a big lot of railroad men in Chicago, but I found 

 them a pretty nice lot. They seem to have 

 hearts as well as other people. If a bee-keeper 

 can be allowed to judge, I should put down J. 

 T. Ripley, Chairman of Western Classification 

 Committee, as a real gentleman. 



Lysol may prove to be the drug for foul 

 brood, in Gravenhorst's opinion. It is cheap, 

 and is more like crude than refined carbolic 

 acid, and in his experience crude carbolic acid 



