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Vol. XXIII. 



OCT. 15, 1895. 



No. 20. 



About this time we begin to whistle up our 

 courage by telling how bright the prospect is 

 for next year. 



The Hungarian government in ten years 

 has appropriated nearly 140,000 for the ad- 

 vancement of bee culture. In seven years the 

 products have doubled. 



The first frost here came Sept. 28— a hard 

 freeze. Oct. 3 the bees are at work on sweet 

 clover and on the few blossoms yet to be found 

 on spring-sown crimson clover. 



The Bienen-Vater contains an account of 

 bees carrying in the resinous little leaves from 

 the buds of poplars and horse-chestnuts, carry- 

 ing them with their jaws, evidently to be used 

 as propolis. 



A DRONE, we have always been taught, takes 

 24 days to develop from the egg; but 11. W. 

 Brice says, in Br'itish Bee Journal, that, after 

 much and careful observation, he is sure it re- 

 quires 25 days. 



Decidedly, I don't believe in many and long 

 essays at conventions; but if every one was as 

 meaty and discussion-provoking as that of B. 

 Taylor at Toronto I don't know but I might 

 change my views. 



The foul-brood bacillus, under favorable 

 circumstances, increases by division about once 

 every half hour, so that in 10 hours a single 

 bacillus increases to a million ! If you doubt 

 that, figure it up for yourself. 



Gravenhorst has been wrestling with the 

 conundrum, " Why do bees sometimes get noth- 

 ing from clover when in full-bloom?" and got 

 the worst of it. A young fellow like him had 

 better fool with something easier. 



If beeswax from foul-broody colonies is used 

 for making foundation before it is carefully 

 cleansed, the spores remain in the wax, and no 

 one then denies that foul brood may be con- 

 veyed thereby.— A'euma?!-, mi Centralblatt. 



So far as my own observation is concerned, I 

 agree with him that queens will pass readily 

 from one story to another, the trouble I report- 

 ed about getting a queen to lay in a second 

 chamber being when she was confined there 

 against her will. 



The standard frame of Germany is about 

 a sixth smaller than the Langstroth. Lehzen, 

 editor of the excellent Centralblatt, thinks 

 there should be two standards— the larger for 

 regions with spring and summer flow, and the 

 smaller for regions with fall flow. 



The rose of Sharon, by which I suppose is 

 meant the althea, on p. 742, is not the thing 

 that gave the vanilla flavor to that honey 

 York raised. The tree or bush is too tender to 

 live here. Sometimes I've had a little suspi- 

 cion the flavor came from sweet clover; but 

 then, again, I don't know. 



The bee-louse, Dr. Balint says, is not a par- 

 asite, as heretofore supposed, but a commensal 

 or table companion, merely sharing with the 

 bee the food taken by the latter.— Blenenpflege. 

 [I believe this is right. I never have seen a 

 case, and I've seen a good many, where the 

 queen or bee showed evidence of harm from the 

 so-called louse.— Ed.] 



Chilled bees, stranded away from the clus- 

 ter in the hive, are nothing very unusual; but 

 I think I never saw such a thing outside the 

 hive till this fall. Sept. 22 we had a90° temper- 

 ature, and at night it dropped 40 or 50°. Next 

 morning I found a few bees chilled on the front 

 of the hive where a cluster had been hanging 

 out the evening before. 



My sympathy is with the man who com- 

 plains of alteration of articles in Gleanings. 

 There's that article of mine on page 739; the 

 very best partiof it is suppressed — the editorial 

 footnote. [Yes. that was an oversight— that is, 

 the last paragraph of yours. I have been try- 

 ing to figure out whether it was a joke on me 

 or you. As to the footnote in question, see ed- 

 itorial.— Ed.] 



J. I. Earl, p. 731, takes a wrong meaning from 

 that Straw on p. 583. I meant it was of more 

 consequence to have a big harvest than to have 



