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Vol. XXI. 



JUNE 1, 1893. 



No. 11. 



STR/ir Straws 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



The worst spring here in 30 years. 



Chicago is the place; Ociober 11, 12, 13, the 

 time. 



If robbers get started on a queenless colony, 

 giving a queen will be a big help. 



Your wife shouldn't wear her best clothes to 

 the World's Fair. Take something that won't 

 show dirt. 



A fear of want on the part of the bees is 

 about as disastrous as an actual want. — R. L. 

 Taylor, in Review. 



Fifty per cent increase in the crop of cu- 

 cumbers is reported by Dr. Hicks, in A. B. J., 

 as the result of keeping bees near them. 



WiLi. BEES REALLY build up faster with daily 

 feeding in spring than without it, providing 

 abundant stores are in the hive? 



When bees will not defend themselves 

 against robbers, R. L. Taylor says, in Review, 

 the best way is to let robbers and robbed swap 

 places. 



The bee-keepers" show at the World's Fair 

 is in the southeast corner of the gallery of the 

 Agricultural Building. A. I. Root's case is at 

 the extreme corner. 



"Bottom BOARD,'' S. T. Pettit thinks, is not 

 so good a name as "floor." The latter has a 

 decided advantage as to length. Has the longer 

 name any advantage? 



•Just as I feared. Although my loss in cel- 

 lar was light, the loss from this terrible spring 

 has been heavy, so that I expect to reach a to- 

 tal loss of about 40 per cent by June 1. - 



That boy Zed, of Jake Smith, is a right 

 smart youngster, but I venture the guess that 

 his honey-peddling machine was hatched in the 

 brain of a certain engraver in Cleveland. 



Mr. Editor, what makes you print such ag- 

 gravating things from Rambler? Look at 

 that S1..50 to ?<3.00 per pound for honey. Think 

 of *75 to $200 for the yield of a single colony ! 



No FLYING weather for bees for weeks till 

 May 19, when it suddenly changed to summer, 

 and fruit-bloom and dandelions opened all at 

 once, dandelions having tried to open weeks 

 before. 



A hive-cover made of two boards, joined by 

 a V-shaped strip of tin. warps as bad as or 

 worse than a cover made of a single wide 



board, probably because the wide board con- 

 tains better lumber. 



"Ask your bees questions, and you will get 

 honest answers,'" says John F. Gates, in C. B. 

 J. The only trouble is to know just what the 

 question was — that is, all the conditions put 

 with it. 



Editor York thinks if the honey-yield comes 

 up to the improved apicultural journalism of 

 to-day, all will be well. Yes, if it should turn 

 out so, bee-keepers could have new overcoats 

 for next winter. 



Lawyer Moore is right; don't lie about 

 yourself by saying guilty when you're not 

 guilty, any more than you would charge guilt 

 upon some one else. Stick to the truth, no mat- 

 ter what it costs yoa. 



Rath Fuer Anfaenger heads an item in 

 that progressive paper, the Progressive Bee- 

 keeper, which means that, hereafter, there will 

 be a department of advice for beginners, printed 

 in German. Good idea, and may pay. 



It may be well to know that, as a general 

 rule, a 16-foot board is better lumber than a 12- 

 foot one. Good lumber works into longer boards 

 than poor — at least, dealers have told me so, 

 and some years of observation corroborates it. 



Fertilized queens. Simmins says, never 

 fight. Long ago I reported in Gleanings a 

 case in which two laying queens remained for 

 days in the same cage, and afterward success- 

 fully headed colonies. I never saw two laying 

 quee ns show fight. Did you ? 



Is the instinct for storing pollen the same 

 as that for storing honey? Will bees continue 

 to store pollen as they do honey, just so long as 

 they can get it and find room for it, or will they 

 let up on gathering when well stocked? Can 

 any one give an answer with proof? 



Dictionaries have not the right to make 

 words — only to giv<' and define those already in 

 use. Will the friends who suggest new terms 

 in bee-language please remember this? Urge 

 all the improvements you can in our nomencla- 

 ture, and get them into use, then the diction- 

 aries, if they are alive, will be obliged to intro- 

 duce them. 



Some time ago I mentioned in Gleanings 

 that a queen was better received if hungry. 

 Simmins has reduced the thing to a system, 

 which he says rarely fails, no matter how long 

 or short a time the colony has been queenless, 

 or whether it has brood or (lueen-cells or not. 

 After fasting half an hour, run the queen down 

 from the top of the hive, after dark, and don't 

 disturb for two days. 



