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Vol. XXIII. 



DEC. I, 1895. 



No. 23. 



Cellared my bees Nov. 13. Oh, but they're 

 heavy I 



Lots of fun dreaming over what big things 

 the bees will do next year. 



Shall I have the pleasure of meeting you 

 at the Chicago convention, Jan. 9, 10? [Yes.— 

 Ed.] 



Will the urbane editor of Gleanings 

 kindly inform me whom I am likely to meet 

 from Medina at the Chicago convention? [E. 

 R. R. expects to be present.— Ed.] 



Never forget that bees can stand more 

 cold with good air than with bad. So can you 

 or any other animal. 



The linden, according to an article in 

 Gravenhorst's Biencnzeltung, yields well only 

 about four times in 2<) years. Better get some 

 American lindens. 



Former enthusiasm will comeback through 

 the meat diet, says Ernest, page 8<)]. If some 

 people only got their former enthusiasm they 

 wouldn't be very enthusiastic. 



Foundation with wood base h inch thick is 

 favorably mentioned in Gravenhorst's Bienen- 

 zeitung. For extracting it has the advantage 

 that no wire cloth is needed in the extractor. 



Part op my bees will be wintered in cellar 

 this winter, the resc outdoors. Number in cel- 

 lar, 157. Number outdoors, 1. [Fudge! only 

 one outdoors? Wliy don't you try more?— Ed ] 



These straws are shipped from the Illinois 

 State Be(i-keepers' convention at vSpringfield, 

 some being written in the M,.500.00() capitol 

 building. Small attendance, but lively interest. 



Why is it that bees get lazy in a little while 

 when working on feeders, and keep up a life- 

 long interest in flowers? Would they keep the 

 same interest in the feeders if they traveled the 

 same distance to them'.' 



W. K. Ball, p. 864, wants his frames to 



" stick " together so he can handle colonies by 

 the hive. But if I can have my frames solid 

 without any " stick " I don't want any " stick " 

 in mine. 



I'm not going to California. On p. 862 it is 

 stated the average annual yield for 20 years is 

 7 poundsl Now, don't tell me that "70 pounds " 

 was in all copies but one. I'm reading Mr. W. 

 J. Finch's copy. 



Gravenhorst says that a box-hive man, or, 

 rather, a straw-hive man. from .">0 colonies took 

 .5400 pounds of honey and 60 pounds of wax, and 

 increased to 200. Then he naively remarks, 

 " Pity that such cases are so rare." 



That series of lessons now running in the 

 Southland Queen, mentioned p. 865, is good, 

 and is copied from the back numbers of the 

 American Bee Journal. [This Is a surprise. 

 We turn to the Atchleys for a reply to this 

 charge.— Ed.] 



Gravenhorst cherishes some hope that apis 

 dorsata may yet prove an acquisition. He 

 thinks there is not so much dissimilarity be- 

 tween it and the common bee but that a 

 cross is possible. [Frank Benton says it is im- 

 possible. — Ed.] 



Round steak, according to p. 861, comes, not 

 from the shoulder, but from the "flank." 

 What kind of '• round " do you have in Medina, 

 anyhow? Didn't vou mean you get it from the 

 "shank"? [That was a typographical error; 

 it was corrected.— Ed.] 



Although bees are in cellar, I expect to 

 keep doors and windows open day and night 

 for some time— as long, anyhow, as keeping 

 them open doesn't bring the temperature of the 

 cellar below 40°. When it goes below that I'll 

 shut up and keep at 45° or more. 



Heather honey is so thick that as yet it 

 has never been emptied by the extractor. One 

 of the live questions at the present time in 

 Germany is as to some machine or management 

 by which it may be extracted, and the sturdy 

 bee-keepers of that land are hopeful. 



Who first invented inoculation, or the 

 plan of transferring a worker-larva to a queen- 



