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Vol. XXIII. 



JULY 15, 1895. 



No. 14. 



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Linden gave my bees a taste, the trouble be- 

 ing the scarcity of trees. 



I'm cultivating a strain of bees that can 

 live whei'e there is no pasturage. 



No HIVE with more than eight frames has 

 given a single pound of surplus for me this year. 



"Top swarm" in England means a prime 

 swarm. I don't think they ever say " bottom 

 swarm." 



Golden Carniolanr. A correspondent re- 

 quests the experience of myself or others with 

 these bees. I've liad no experience with them. 



For numbering hives, is there any thing 

 better than movable tin tags? If not, what can 

 I buy the numbers for? [Tagboard manilla, 

 50 cts. per 100.] 



I SHOULD have added in a preceding straw, 

 that my eight-frame hives did no better than 

 the larger ones. Neither of them gave any sur- 

 plus. So I can't come to any decision this year. 



Years and years ago I got from Adam 

 Grimm hives having spacing-arrangement with 

 the principle used on p. .533. Have your spacers 

 attached to the frame, not to the hive. [Yes, 

 sir, every time. — Ed.] 



White clover sometimes blooms late, mak- 

 ing a second spurt as a kind of afterthought. 

 But I never knew this late bloom to be used by 

 the bees; whereas, they seem to work busily on 

 the latest bloom of sweet clover. 



Alfalfa looks almost exactly like sweet 

 clover, unless I've been fooled as to what alfal- 

 fa is. Why has no one ever told us this? But 

 when alfalfa blooms, the blossom is purple, and 

 the seed-pod looks a little like a snail. 



I don't care for color or bands on the out- 

 side of bees, only so they have the good work- 

 ing qualities inside. But the outside marks 

 help me to judge something of the inside qual- 

 ities. [But do you think lots of yellow is an 

 indication of longevity and energy?— Ed.] 



The hive discussion will be interesting and 

 useful for five years more, if it keeps bringing 

 out good points. Now do you catch on, Mr. 

 "Ed."? [Yes, but I want to be sure that a 

 majority of our readers feel as you do. — Ed.] 



I didn't know you were so heavily loaded, 

 Ernest, when I came at you on that section- 

 holder business, p. .517. Just as quick as I can 

 get myself assembled together I'll come at you 

 again. [I still have lots of ammunition left. — 

 Ed.] 



C. Davenport gives some pretty good argu- 

 ments, p. 513; but after all, I've a kind of notion 

 that bees will put as much honey in a nail-keg 

 as in the best hive, if left without help in each 

 case. [But I was assuming that each was in 

 an equally normal condition. — Ed.] 



Cement-coated nails are among the new 

 things, and I didn't think I'd like them better 

 than rusted nails; but I've been using them, 

 and like them very much. The advantage of 

 being able to use lighter nails with the same 

 holding power is not a small one. 



W. W. WooDLEY complains in British Bee 

 Journal of foundation in center sections left 

 untouched when others are sealed. He thinks 

 it may be that wax sheets were too thick, and 

 pressed when too cold, making the foundation 

 too hard for bees to work— a hint for foundation- 

 makers. 



That phrase, "catch on," is slang for which 

 there is no excuse; and after I get through 

 using it in this straw it never ought to be seen 

 again in Gleanings. " Understand " expresses 

 the idea just as clearly and forcibly. [Beg 

 pardon, it doesn't; but then, perhaps I can get 

 along with the less expressive term. — Ed.] 



" Whoopde-dooden-doo!" That's what I 

 said when I read a certain editorial item in 

 Gleanings. Then I added, "So they've found 

 out at Medina that there's value in sweet 

 clover." If sweet clover, alfalfa, and a few 

 more honey-plants, get a high seat as forage- 

 plants, the future of bee-keeping may turn out 

 better than the good old times before the wild 

 flowers weie all destroyed. [You shouldn't say 

 " Whoop-de-dooden-do," because " hip, hip, 



