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Vol. XXIII. 



NOV. I, 1895. 



No. 21. 



A GLORIOUS ENDING was that of our grand 

 old friend father Langstroth. 



Freeman potatoes have done well here, 

 and what beauties they are I Rural New- 

 Yorker No. 2 is also fine. 



In the discussion as to five-banders, the 

 fact is not as generally recognized as it should 

 be that there are five-banders and five-banders. 

 It seems that some of them are Italians, others 

 not. Why should they be alike? 



The fall yield in this locality doesn't 

 usually amount to much. I think it was better 

 this fall than ever before. Now, if the bees 

 that have got into the way of storing will only 

 keep in the same mind next spring ! 



Strawberry-plants kept in hills is a su- 

 perannuated plan in the West, voted out years 

 ago. But latterly it seems to be coming in 

 again, and I saw at Freeport a fine bed kept in 

 hills. Mr. Cotta claimed it was little more 

 work than the matted-row system. 



My first meeting with father Langstroth 

 was at Cincinnati in the winter of 1872-3. He 

 very kindly called to see me at my office where 

 I was helping to get up the first of the great 

 May Musical Festivals under Theodore 

 Thomas. 



You CAN GUESS pretty closely at the amount 

 of stores in a hive by looking at the tops of the 

 combs; but you can come closer to it by weigh- 

 ing each hive, and you can do it in less time. 

 Make abundant allowance in every hive for 

 weight of pollen and extra weight of old combs. 



Let us know more about rape. Do others 

 find it as profitable for forage as Jas. Pratt? 

 In Germany bees are moved to the rape-fields. 

 Is the Dwarf Essex also good for bees? [I 

 should like to have our readers who may have 

 had experience along these lines speak out. 

 -Ed.] 



Langstroth and Quinby are both gone; 

 but the Germans still have their Langstroth, 

 the revered Dzierzon. Only three of the 40 

 great wander-conventions has he missed since 

 their commencement in 1850. 



In that description of alfalfa on p. 778, 

 doesn't friend Taylor mean it looks like sweet 

 instead of red clover? When not in blossom, 

 alfalfa is very hard to tell from sweet clover. 

 Just look for sweet clover with purple blossoms 

 or snail-like seed-pods and you'll have alfalfa. 

 Can't miss it. 



A MAN IS cruel to his team who allows a 

 weight of 300 pounds of frozen mud to remain 

 on the wheels of his wagon. He's cruel to 

 himself if he allows himself to carry around 35 

 or 50 pounds of useless fat. Since reducing my 

 weight 30 pounds, it's a good deal easier to 

 carry my carcass around. 



Even though not interested in shipping 

 queens long distances, one can not help admir- 

 ing the adapting of means to ends in that cage 

 pictured on p. 774. Few lines of business set to 

 thinking about and planning new implements 

 and methods more than bee-keeping, and few 

 lines contain brighter thinkers and planners. 



"All impurities are left behind when water 

 is turned into steam," says S. S. Butler, p. 770. 

 I don't know about that. When a pot of meat 

 is cooking, the water is turned into steam, but 

 that steam has a pretty strong odor, and carries 

 with it something more than pure water. If 

 boiling kills all poisonous germs, can evapora- 

 tion do more? 



More and more I come to the view that I 

 don't want to see sweet clover grow six feet 

 high. I think more honey in the long run will 

 be had from it if it is kept cut down or eaten 

 down so that it never gets more than two or 

 three feet high. [I think you are right — at 

 least, the clover that stock browse down seems 

 to be more thickly covered with bees. — Ed.] 



Stop my paper! It isn't a safe thing to be 

 lying around where children can read it. When 

 J. P. Israel talked about cross-eyed bees that 



