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Vol. XXIII. 



SEPT. I, 1895. 



No. 17. 



Canadian reports, as well as reports from 

 this side the line, indicate a short crop. 



Keep up the discussion about hives. [Yes, 

 but I must have more votes than this to keep it 

 up.— Ed.] 



Keep OUT of Gleanings the silver discus- 

 sion. [Quite right: and all other political ques- 

 tions.— Ed.] 



Superseding queens, when left to the bees, 

 is usually done in May, says C. W. Post in C. B. 

 J. I think my bees do most of that in the fall. 



Hutchinson says, as a rule a honey-board 

 need not come off oftener than once in three 

 years. He also thinks it is needless to number 

 hives. 



After using divisible brood -chambers for 

 years, Hutchinson says he has never seen any 

 evidence that the queen is likely to neglect one 

 section. 



"More good people in the world than we 

 sometimes suppose." is what I said, and Som- 

 nambulist warns me, " Look out, doctor, for 

 mud-balls from the anti-mutual battery." 



Squeezing and wringing still bring a good 

 lot of juice out of the hive discussion. As long 

 as that is the case, it is well to keep it up. 

 [Yes, I rather think so; but I want our readers 

 to indicate their pleasure.— Ed] 



Deutsche Imker, a (xerman bee-journal, 

 contains the information that, of the 3500 va- 

 rieties of plants in that region, only fiO yield 

 both honey and pollen; 000 yield honey only; 

 2.=)0 only pollen, and 130 propolis. 



A Colorado man thinks I'd better quit try- 

 ing to get honey from straws, and come out 

 there where I can get it from alfalfa. Perhaps 

 so; but if I can get the alfalfa to come here, 

 that may be cheaper than to move. 



Moving bees. Here's a plan for short dis- 

 tances, given by H. E. Hill in American Bee- 



keeper: Put three frames of brood with queen 

 and most of the bees on new location. In six 

 days move the rest, cutting out qneen-cells. 



'■ We've always to keep in view the fact 

 that next year's greatest problem may prove 

 to be the caring for an unusual crop," says 

 Somnambulist, in Procjressive. I've kept that 

 in view so long. Sommy, that my eyes begin to 

 feel strained. 



The queen of a colony that has wintered 

 badly is thereby injured herself, and is better 

 replaced, says C. W. Post, in C B. J. Such a 

 colony is usually hard to pull into shape; but I 

 never before thought of blaming the queen. He 

 may be right. 



Carniolans are said to be hard to distin- 

 guish from blacks. Some say it's easy, but I 

 don't remember seeing in print how to tell 

 them apart. [It simply can't be told on paper. 

 There is a difference, but you must learn to 

 know it by actual comparison.— Ed. J 



The American Bee-keeper reports that wS. M. 

 Keeler gets combs built down to bottom-bar by 

 using bottom-bars of ^% wire. [I have no doubt 

 of it. They will do more; they will build clear 

 past them on to the next set of frames below. 

 They did that with some of our three-eighths- 

 square wood bars. — Ed.] 



Laying workers sometimes make just as 

 nice and smooth work as queens, filling worker- 

 cells regularly with one egg in a cell, with no 

 difference that I could detect. But I think it 

 is generally if not always in cases where no 

 drone-cells are present, and generally a queen- 

 cell with two or more eggs will tell the story. 



The cost of honey-boards or thick top-bars 

 doesn't figure either way, you say on p. 636. 

 Beg pardon, but it does. A honey- board costs 

 several times as much as the extra thickness of 

 top-bars. My honey-boards don't last like top- 

 bars, and they cost me a good deal more than a 

 cent a year. [Perhaps you are right.— Ed.] 



Wood - base foundation, says Canadian 

 Bee Journal, was used by D. A. Jones 15 years 

 ago. All was lovely while the bees were busy 



