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Vol. XXIII. 



OCT. I, 1895. 



Nd. 20. 





If you must feed, belter rush it. 



Somnambulist, in Progressive, seems to be 

 warmly drawn toward mustard as a honey- 

 plant. But mustard often draws warmly. 



Sections that are extracted, to be used an- 

 other year, must be cleaned out by the bees, or 

 your sections will be likely to contain candled 

 honey. 



Australians are giving attention to the 

 question whether it may not be feasible and 

 profitable to so manage as to increase the pro- 

 duction of wax. 



" Once or twice, when I was not present, 

 somebody said there was a little jangle," says 

 A. I. Root. p. 713, which gOes to show he ought 

 to have known better than to be absent from 

 the convention. 



That vanilla flavor hardly came from 

 poppies, as hinted on page 704. for I had the 

 same-flavored honey a year or two ago, and 

 there are no poppies here. [Can you guess 

 what it did come from then? — Ed. J 



Apis dorsata. The editor of Review ears 

 that the introduction of the big Indian bee 

 might be like that of the English sparrow, the 

 new bee living wild and using the nectar that 

 our hive bees need. 



Hens' eggs were put in a colony of bees for 

 hatching, by Mr. Schornack. In a week the 

 eggs had started to hatch, but none ever pro- 

 duced chickens. — Centralblatt. [Why didn't 

 you give your rotten-egg experience along the 

 same line ? — Ed.] 



The crock -and plate feeder is as good as 

 the Miller feeder, except when you want to 

 feed more than the crock will hold atone time. 

 [Fill the crock once or twice more as the case 

 may warrant. Thafs the way we do. — Ed.] 



A PICTURE of alfalfa is hardly needed for 

 those who are familiar with sweet clover. Just 

 look for a plant with sweet-clover leaves and 



purple blossoms. [That's good; but will the 

 Western bee-keeper agree as to this similarity ? 

 -Ed.] 



Several casks of foul brood broke out at 

 the Michigan Experiment Apiary this season, 

 in colonies that were diseased years ago, but 

 healthy since. Mr. Taylor thinks the dearth 

 caused the bees this year to eat honey that was. 

 stored years ago with foul-brood germs in it. 



Did you ever notice how much harder it is 

 to get bees to take feed from a feeder in spring 

 than in the fall? It might pay to put a story 

 of empty combs over an excluder in the fall, 

 and feed enough to have them filled, just to 

 have them ready for the next spring. I'm try- 

 ing it. 



If THE interest among bee-keepers contin- 

 ues in such forage-plants as crimson clover, 

 sweet clover, alfalfa, lathyrus sylvestris, etc., 

 the tables will be turned; and instead of agri- 

 cultural journals with a bee department there 

 will be bee-journals with an agricultural de- 

 partment. 



Somnambulist complains in Progressive, in 

 a not very sleepy way, of the Ohio law that 

 makes sweet clover a noxious weed, to harbor 

 which is a crime, and wants me to go as a mis- 

 sionary to labor with the heathen legislators of 

 Ohio. Messrs. Boardman and Root are the 

 men for that job. 



Hasty, in Review, suspects that not more 

 than half the eggs laid by a queen are hatched. 

 I suspect, Hasty, that your suspicion is not 

 above suspicion. [A good many things seem 

 to point that way, that's sure. We ought to 

 have more light on this point. Nudge experi- 

 menter Taylor's elbow.— Ed.] 



A HASTY visit the other day to the small- 

 fruit farm of H. R. Cotta, Freeport, 111., made 

 me almost wish I could give up bees and go into 

 small fruits. I wish A. I. Root had been along 

 to see the fine shape in which every thing was 

 kept: $400 an acre from Ancient Briton black- 

 berries I 



The editor of Review says he no longer looks 

 to see if a young queen gets to laying all right, 

 philosophizing thus: "Suppose a queen i.s lost. 



