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Vol. XXIII. 



AUG. 15, 1895. 



No. 16. 



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I'm for the union of the Union with the 

 North American. [That's right.— Ed.] 



The Kanucks seem to be getting things in 

 good shape for the Toronto convention. 



Crimson clover when in bloom is pretty 

 enough to afford a bed of it room in a flower- 

 garden. 



The Revue Internationale contains an ac- 

 count of a successful case of transferring bees 

 in midwinter. 



I've seen two bees working on sweet clo- 

 ver, with pollen on their legs. It didn't look 

 brown, like white-clover pollen, but was a sort 

 of faded yellow. 



" The talent of success is nothing more 

 that doing what you can do well, and doing 

 well whatever you do— without a thought of 

 fame." — Longfellow. 



The tlan for determining adulteration in 

 wax by means of carbonate of soda is denounc- 

 ed in Revue as worthless. [What is the plan, 

 in brief ? I'd like to try it.— Ed.] 



A report on p. 596 says bees in Florida have 

 made two tons of honey. If one colony has 

 done that, it's big; but if it means all the bees 

 in the State, it's rather poor. 



If crimson clover will not stand the winter 

 so far north as this, perhaps a spring sowing 

 would mature a crop of seed to pay expense 

 •and give a crop of honey extra. 



That's a good idea of Wm. Russell, p. 599. 

 Make the annual payment to the North Amer- 

 ican 25 cts., and then give full value for that 

 money to all members who stay at home. [I 

 agree with you.— Ed.] 



The Canadian B. J. says you can extract 

 dark and light honey separately, even if in the 

 same comb. Hold up to the light ; uncap and 

 extract the light patches, then the dark. I 

 should think that would work nicely if too 

 much brood has not been raised in the comb. 



It seems that we can count .5000 bees in a 

 pound when not loaded, and 3000 when loaded. 

 That means a bee carries a load equal to two- 

 thirds of its own weight. [These would be 

 fairly correct for round numbers.— Ed.] 



A HINT is hinted at in Progressive, that I'd 

 better be giving a little grain instead of so 

 much straw. Now look here; the sign-board 

 over this shanty says " straw;" and when you 

 make application here, straw's what you'll get. 



During linden bloom I watched bees on 

 trees close by, and never saw but two bees dur- 

 ing the season gathering pollen. I always sup- 

 posed they got much pollen from linden. Can 

 it be that they gather less pollen from trees 

 close by? 



Better put a couple more ciphers in that 

 first column, p. 585, and make 7 or 8 lbs. of bees 

 count 31,000 or 34,000, instead of one-tenth that 

 many. [Dear me! how could I have let such a 

 mistake pass? We'll let this serve as a correc- 

 tion.— Ed.] 



Strictly fancy new comb honey is quoted 

 in the honey column, page 580, at 12 and 13; 

 and one firm says, " We anticipate a price of 14 

 to 15." I anticipate they'll anticipate a higher 

 price than that before they're flooded with con- 

 signments this year. 



" Mutual admiration " societies are getting 

 some hard knocks nowadays. For one, I'm a 

 hearty believer in such societies. If I can't find 

 a man in this world who has something in him 

 to admire, and if no one in all this world can 

 find a single thing in me to admire, then I want 

 to get out of this world right away, quick. 



Did you ever know a queen to lay an egg in 

 a cell containing pollen in a normal colony? I 

 have seen such a case, and I wonder whether 

 such eggs hatch out. [I have known of drone- 

 laving queens, and laying (or fertile) workers 

 laying on top of pollen, but never a normal 

 queen that laid eggs that would produce, work- 

 er brood.— Ed.] 



The problem of controlling fertilization of 

 queens seems to have no one working on it now- 

 adays. Can't some one dream out a solution? 

 So far the solutions seem to have been nothing 



