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Vol. XXIII. 



JULY I, 1895. 



No. 13. 



About 52,000 bee-keepers, Mr. Cowan esti- 

 mates, are in England and Wales. 



Aix IN ALL I like the new Cornell smoker 

 better than any other smoker I ever tried. 



More good people are in the world than we 

 sometimes suppose. Every little while I find 

 some new ones. 



A PRIME SWARM, says Doolittle, p. 484, "is 

 often erroneously called a first swarm." Why 

 "erroneously " ? 



Hay fever is what Somnambulist, in Pro- 

 gressive, thinks is the matter with me. Caught 

 from sweet-clover hay. 



Alfalfa is a thing that I supposed belonged 

 outside of Illinois ; but farmers in Northern 

 Illinois are beginning to experiment with it. 



Prettylate to experiment with sweetclover 

 this year; but you might still try cutting the 

 big stalks to see whether stock will eat them 

 when dried. 



I CAN REMEMBER when clover yielded honey, 

 but it wasn't last year nor this year. [Why 

 don't you mov^ over into the basswoods of Wis- 

 consin, not far from you ? —Ed.] 



The HIVE DISCUSSION should stop— if it con- 

 tinues to bring out good points — in about five 

 years from now. [Do you mean it should or 

 shouldn't stop? Don't catch on.— Ed.] 



S. E. Miller, in Progressive, thinks the form 

 of hive, shallow or deep, doesn't matter much, 

 because in a state of nature bees don't care 

 whether a hollow log is perpendicular or hori- 

 zontal. 



J. B. Hall's picture graces the pages of 

 the Canadian Bee Journal. Friend Hall is 

 very economical of ink, but he knows a lot 

 about bees. [That's so. Too bad he doesn't 

 write more.— Ed.] 



The union of the Bee-keepers' Union and the 

 North American, shall it be or not? Better 



discuss it thoroughly in print than to take time 

 to discuss it at Toronto. [Yes, yes; the sooner 

 the better.— Ed.] 



Golden queens are offered by 11 advertisers 

 in last Gleanings, and 11 others offer plain 

 Italians. In the market for queens, as well as 

 for comb honey, looks go a great way. 



B. Taylor, after inventing and using for 

 many years the sectional brood -chamber, takes 

 away one's breath by saying in Review that he 

 prefers the single brood- chamber. [Will he tell 

 us in full why ?— Ed.] 



After -SWARMS often have a number of 

 queens accompanying. If instinct impels so 

 many to leave, what holds any in the hive? or 

 will all leave if all are out of cells? [Yes and 

 no. No, I don't know.— Ed.] 



The American Bee Journal, in the person of 

 Geo. W. York and wife, honored the Miller 

 family with a visit June 12. Brother York 

 brought along his usual stock of good nature, 

 and we had just the best kind of a time. 



Hasty tells in Review how to prevent swarm- 

 ing, and ends up by saying: " There, my bees 

 bother me so with their swarming that I can't 

 find time to tell you any more about how per- 

 fectly easy it is to prevent all swarming.'" 



F. C. Morrow, taking pity on my honeyless 

 condition, has sent me some Arkansas honey. 

 In appearance the honey compares with the 

 best, and only needs improvement in flavor to 

 bring price of gilt-edged section honey. 



In taking off honey-boards or any thing 

 else with dauby burr- combs under, just raise 

 up enough to break the burr-combs and then 

 let down again. In an hour or so you can re- 

 move and find the burr- combs licked dry. 



You Mediniters— no, I didn't say dynamit- 

 ers — have never told us yet whether fastening 

 wires by electricity was the right thing for us 

 common every-day bee-keepers. [Yes, sir, if 

 you can make it work. We have no trouble. — 

 Ed.] 



Tin pans, horns, etc., are generally con- 

 demned as no good in making swarms settle. 

 S. T. Pettit, one of the Canadian veterans, says 



