(iLI':ANIN(;S IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 15. 



36 "PAGEs7ylO 

 12 P£HYEARj 



The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing: to di-aw 

 with, anil the well is deep: from whence tlieu hast thou that 

 living- water? Art thou greaier than our father Jacob, which 

 gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, 

 and his cattlt !— John 4: 11, 12. 



The second number of the new series of the 

 Canadian Bee Journal shows further evidence 

 of improvement. 



Last week we sent a consignment of 40 

 queens by mail to Australia. Of the 50 we sent 

 some months ago in a previous consignment, 

 only three or four have been reported dead; the 

 rest we have not heard fi'om as yet. 



We regret to learn, through the Illustrated 

 Home Journal, that C. P. Dadant, the founda- 

 tion-maker, has been down for several weeks 

 with the typhoid fever; but as he is now con- 

 valescent we hope he will soon be himself 

 again. 



So far the indications show that there will be 

 a very light crop of fall honey. A very little 

 yield "is reported from buckwheat. The honey 

 on the market will be almost entirely of the 

 light order, made up of California honey; and 

 in the East, clover. 



N. F. Boomhow^ek, an extensive and practical 

 apiarist, gives in another column, quite inci- 

 dentally, some facts that strongly support our 

 position that swarms unaccompanied with 

 queens do not unite, and that those with queens 

 do quite the contrary, or did do so in the in- 

 stances he records^ 



The Australia7i Bee Bulletin is a monthly 

 bee-journal that has been coming to our desk 

 for a few months back. Up till- recently the 

 Australian bee-journals have had a rather hard 

 pull to maintain an existence; but the above 

 seems to be going on with flying colors, and 

 gives every evidence of long life. 



There, we are all at sea again. Hasty, in the 

 leading article in this issue, has given a batch of 

 statistics that leaves us without any rule. But 

 say, friend H., if we succeed in cutting out all 

 queen-cells in five days, and again in five days 

 more, as explained in Dr. Miller's Straw, won't 

 that stop second swarms'? Or is it a fact that 

 second swarms iaay come out, cells or no cells ? 



In our last issue the Reports L>iscouraging 

 rather overbalanced the Reports 2?ncouraging. 

 In this issue we have no Reports Encouraging, 

 but quite a batch of the other kind. Yes, in- 

 deed, there will be a good demand for all the 

 crop of white- clover honey, and prices ought to 

 be good. As soon as fresh fruit is off the mar- 

 ket, the demand for honey will begin to in- 

 crease. 



In our last issue, on page G87, an omission oc- 

 curs in the fifth line from tlie bottom of the last 

 column that almost destroys the full foi'ce of the 

 editorial. The sentence should read : " We 

 stowed these [the combs] away until after the 

 honey- flow, when they were put in tii-rs of four 

 or five hives." The important thing omitted is 

 the word " after." It is easy enough to stop 

 robbing during the honey-flow; but the point 

 we wanted to make was. that we could stop it 

 after the honey-flow. 



We have never taken very much stock in 

 drug remedies for curing foul brood; and after 



having made several experiments with them 

 we are less in favor of them than we were at 

 first; but naphthaline is suggested in the British 

 Bee Journal as being a very efficient remedy ; 

 and we suggest to R. L. Taylor, the experi- 

 menter at the Michigan Agricultural Station, 

 the wisdom of testing this remedy. Mr. Taylor 

 has had considerable experience in handling 

 foul blood, and it would be far cheaper for him 

 to test it than for several bee-keepers to trouble 

 with it. with the possibility of i's failing to 

 cure. 



One of our correspondents, Mr. S. B. Kimmell, 

 of Diamante, Cal., writes: 



The estimate for Southern California is about 500 

 tons; but prices for extracted honey are quite low 

 —4 cts per pound is all that is ottered, and buyers 

 are scarce on account of the nK)ney crisis at this 

 time. But honey can be lai.'-ed with a profit at this 

 price lierc in any faiily good season. 



Samples of California honey, so far as we 

 have tested them (and samples have been sent 

 us from scores of bee-keepers), show that the 

 crop is unusually fine— light in color, and very 

 heavy in body, and the flavor unusually pleas- 

 ant. 



We notice in the Illustrated, Home Journal, 

 of which Thomas G. Newman, formerly editor 

 of the American Bee Journal, is editor, a de- 

 partment entitled "• Apicultural." It is a plea- 

 sure to read again bee editorials fiom the " Old 

 Roman;" we are very glad indeed to hear of 

 his improved health. In answer to some in- 

 quiry as to why he did not have an exhibit at 

 the World's Fair, Mr. Newman says: 



Early in tlie season for preparation, Bro. Boot 

 wrote, asking if ] would make an e.xliibit, and sug- 

 gesiing- that we liad some one in common to look 

 alter boili. I liad then another an ack of la grippe 

 whicii left me without ambition enough to under- 

 take it, and I replied that I hoped to be in heaven 

 long before the fair materialized, and should not 

 attempt to make a display. But since then my 

 health has improved and 1 am still here to see the 

 Fair and be seen, and now hope to put in an appear- 

 ance at the National Convention next month. 



May we suggest to those who have papers or 

 essays to be read at the convention, to bring or 

 send extra copies for the use of the bee-journals 

 and the reporters of the regular newspapers? 

 At almost every convention we have attended, 

 there has been more or less confusion or bother 

 because there has been only one copy of a pa- 

 per. A reporter of one of the daily papers 

 would borrow it to make a brief resume of it. 

 It may get lost; and if returned, and several 

 bee-journal editors want a copy of It, there 

 is apt to te no little trouble in "getting it 

 all around." Indeed, when the report of the 

 last Washington convention was made, sin- 

 gle copies of the ditt'erent papers that wei'e read 

 at the convention were scattered among the 

 different bee-journal editors; and it was no 

 little trouble for the reporter. Mr. Hutchinson, 

 to get them all together so that they could be 

 put into the oliicial report. We hope the es- 

 sayists will bear this in mind. If you do not 

 care to go to the trouble of making extra copies, 

 get some member of your family to do it for 

 you. If you use a typewriter, extra copies can 

 be made as easily and conveniently as one. 

 Now. all of this is said in the interest of accu- 

 rate and careful reports. 



GIVING UP A GOOD THING TOO HASTILY. 



We have all seen instances of the folly of 

 testing ei'eriy new thing as soon as it is barely 

 mentioned. On the other hand, we have seen 

 the folly of rejecting many of these new things 

 before they were lairly tested. We at flrst re- 

 jected the Boardman solar wax-extractor at 



