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Vol. XXIII. 



SEPT. 15, 1895. 



No. 18. 



Martins eat bees, says W Woodley. in Brit- 

 ish Bee Journal. 



Uniting bees will be more successful If you 

 kill the condemned queens two or three days 

 before uniting. 



Crimson clover is also called scarlet clover, 

 German clover, German mammoth clover, and 

 Italian clover. Its botanical name is Trifolium 

 incarnatum. 



That screw-eye of F. A. Gemmel, for fas- 

 tening number-tags on hives, is good — easier to 

 use, and more secure. With nails some of my 

 tags have been lost in hauling. 



About the time I'm writing this, bee-keep- 

 ers are focusing toward Toronto. How I'd like 

 to see them all I [So say all the members who 

 couldn't go, I imagine.— Ed.] 



Speaking on p. (uO of the very rare instances 

 when queens stiiig folks, you might have added 

 that, in rare instances, a virgin queen has been 

 known to sting to death a worker. Seen 'em. 



Honey clover and bee clover are among 

 the common names of balsam clover, melllotus 

 cemleus. From the names one would think it 

 ought to be a good honey-plant. But does it 

 grow this side of Germany ? 



Paris green, according to C. L. Marlett. in 

 Insect Life, is made in grains unnecessarily 

 coarse merely for the sake of looks. It can be 

 made tine at less expense, and will remain in 

 suspension three times as long. 



Punic bees are no longer mentioned. Yet 

 wherever any of that jet-black blood is left in 

 my apiary I find good workers. But they're 

 cross, and not fit to make comb honey. They 

 make watery combs, and, oh the bee-glue I 



My very yellow l.kes are very gentle, and, 

 so far as I can judge, uood workers. But I ob- 

 ject to the opinion thr i they or any others are 

 good because they are very yellow. [That's 

 the point; but the reports— that is, the great 



majority of them — show that they are not good 

 workers or good at any thing else.— Ed.] 



Honey vinegar is perhaps not made as 

 much as it should be A writer in British Bee 

 Journal says, '"By using an extra quantity of 

 honey one gets a splendid acid beverage that 

 will compare favorably with raspberry vine- 

 gar." 



If a. I. Root gets everybody on a strictly 

 meat diet, what in the world will he do with 

 all his garden sass? [That's a conundrum that 

 has come to me We'll see him going into cat- 

 tle-raising as his next hobby; so. look out. — 

 Ed.] 



The Heddon hive, says the British Bee 

 Journal, "' had a short run of prominence here 

 for a short time, but soon fell into disuse among 

 British bee-keepers." [But why? is a question 

 a Yankee would ask. Will some English cous- 

 in please tell us? — Ed.] 



The average yield of a good colony is set 

 down, p. 670, as " anywhere from 5 lbs. to 75 lbs. 

 of comb honey." You might lower the smaller 

 number about 2.5 lbs. [That's true; but t?ic?i it 

 couldn't be called a "yield.'' I was talking 

 about j/ietds, don'tcher know ?— Ed.] 



" In England, where crimson clover is grown 

 with some difficulty ,*it is said to winter-kill if 

 sown on newly plowed land, but to pass the 

 winter uninjured if merely harrowed in on 

 stubble."— BfiHetm 125, Michigan Experiment 

 Station. That is, sow on hard rather than 

 mellow ground. 



Chordis Stull says the rule about drouth 

 making tomatoes rot doesn't work in this local- 

 ity, where many acres are raised. Drouth was 

 worse this year than last, vines dying this year 

 from drouth, but not one tomato rotted this 

 year for ten last, until the recent rains. Since 

 the rains they're rotting badly. [It works just 

 the other way here. — Ed.] 



Say, Ernest, tell us more about that para- 

 graph. " Large Colonies for Honey," p. 673. 

 Did you get any section honey from a colony in 

 two eight-framers? [Now, you shouldn't ask 

 such questions. That whole apiary was run 

 for extracted; don't you remember my saying 



