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Vol. XXI. 



NOV. 1, 1893. 



No. 21. 



Stray Straws 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



St. Jo is the place for the next pow-wow. 



Now BEGIN to polish up hopes for next year. 



Hauled home last bees from out-apiaries 

 Oct. 19. The later the better, so they get one 

 good fly after hauling before going into cellar. 



Never before. I think, were so many bee- 

 keepers assembled in one place in this country 

 as at the convention at Chicago. When shall 

 we see the like again ? 



Gallup is on the war-path, in A. B. J., with 

 the vigor of old, giving heavy blows against 

 extra light-colored bees, quoting Adam Grimm 

 and Chas. Dadant as backers. 



The prevailing idea, that bees carry ants 

 away from'the hives and drop them. E. S. Love- 

 sy says in A. B. J., is a mistake. He says the 

 ant grabs the bee and never lets go till the bee 

 gives up in death, no matter how far it flies. 



Which end foremost should bees go when 

 being put into a cage? I always supposed head 

 foremost was the orthodox way; but friend 

 Graham, of Texas, told me he saw the young 

 folks at Mrs. Atchley's putting them in very 

 rapidly tail foremost. 



"PszczoLA," the Polish word for "bee," is 

 "put out" for me to spell, in C. B. J. Not 

 much, friend Wilkins; I've no notion of going 

 around with a broken jaw. Possibly I might 

 try it if the last half of the word had its vowels 

 extracted, so as to be like the first half. 



Hasty, in Review, seconds Phin's dictionary 

 in objecting to the use of the word hatch as 

 applying to any thing except hatching from the 

 egg; instead of hutchimj brood, emcrgliuj brood 

 being the proper term. He's undoubtedly right, 

 unless a b-'tter word than emerge can be sug- 

 gested. 



Honey is of a gallant cleansing quality, ex- 

 ceeding profitable in all inward ulcers in what 

 part of the body soever; it opens the veins, 

 cleanses the reins and bladder. I know no vices 

 belonging to it, but only it is soon converted 

 into c[\o\n\—Nlch(ihis Culpepcr, A. D. 1653. 



How easy it is to make a wrong impression ! 

 I find that I have given the impression that I 

 got a big crop of honey this year. I didn't. A 

 fine flow of honey is one thing, and a big. crop 

 quite another. The fine flow was liere, but I 

 didn't get the big crop. Hadn't the bees. Died 

 last spring. 



One trouble with the Chicago convention 

 was, that there were so many there that one 

 hadn't time for half the visiting he wanted to 

 do with each one. ISome that I'd been wanting 

 to see for years were there, and Pd only time 

 for a few words with them; and the same with 

 many old friends. 



Pity every thing in the bee-keeping line 

 could not have been in one place at the World's 

 Fair. Many bee-keepers never saw the fine 

 honey from England, it being in the British 

 exhibit among other things, and there were 

 other interesting apiarian exhibits scattered 

 over the grounds. 



Ants, according to E. S. Lovesy in A. B. J., 

 are kept out of hives by setting the hives on 

 posts. He paints a two-inch ring around each 

 post, putting on two or three coals of tar as a 

 body, then a mixture of equal parts of lard, 

 axle-grease, and tar, with one-ninth white lead, 

 renewing if necessary. 



Killing bumblebees, according to a corres- 

 pondent of the St. Louis Olobe- Democrat, is a 

 laudable enterprise, and he somewnat gleefully 

 tells how a farmer destroyed several colonies. 

 But after that farmer gets all the bumblebees 

 killed ofl", he may wonder why his red clover 

 doesn't seed any better. 



A swarm-announcer is described in Cen- 

 tralblatt. It is a patent electrical arrangement. 

 An entrance of ^V is allowed, over which hangs 

 a swinging gate, and the swarm crowds open 

 this gate and sets a bell to ringing in the house 

 or office. Non-swarmers and self-hivers must 

 fail in this country before announcers get a 

 hearing. 



Australia, as represented by J. W. Pender 

 at the convention of Chicago, must be a land 

 flowing with honey, however it may be with 

 milk. Think of an average yearly crop of 234 

 pounds extracted to a colony, with a price of 5 

 to 8 cents a pound! But even at that rate it 

 would take the proceeds of a good many colo- 

 nies to bring a man 12,000 miles to a bee-conven- 

 tion. 



Elias Fox, on page 782, says government 

 helps farmers in protecting domestic animals 

 against diseases, and seems to think that's all. 

 Why, what is there in the line of farmers' work 

 that government has not experimented on? 

 Full particulars as to how and when to plant 

 potatoes, how far apart, which end of the pota- 

 to for seed, how many eyes, etc., and so of every 

 crop the farmer raises — except honey. 



Cucumbers don't give bees cholera morbus 

 in this region, Bro. Pryal (see p. 781)— at least, 

 I don't see them going around doubled up with 



