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Vol. XXL 



DEC. 1, 1893. 



No. 23. 



Stray Straws 



FROM DR. C. C. MILUER. 



Now BEGIN to plan for next year. 



It wasn't RIGHT, Hutchinson thinks, to ad- 

 vertise a three-days' meeting at Chicago and 

 then cut it down to two. 



Coi.ic from eating honey, according to Isaac 

 B. Rumford, in Success, may be prevented or 

 cured by eating a bit of cheese. 



Feeding back, in R. L. Taylor's experi- 

 ments, to finish out sections, yielded a pound 

 of comb honey for every 1.7 pounds fed. 



Prof. Cook, in Rcviciv, thinks bee-keepers 

 can have experiment stations in all the States 

 if they only insiston their rights. Let's "insist." 



Only five of the States had a larger repre- 

 sentation at the Chicago convention than Onta- 

 rio. And it came near capturing the next con- 

 vention. 



Bee-escapes are nice things in some cases. 

 But I don't use them one time in twenty — 

 haven't time. But I use them a good deal off 

 the hives. 



Moved and seconded by Hasty and Hutch- 

 inson, that Taylor, of Minnesota, be appointed 

 experimenter for his State. The name works 

 well in Michigan, why not in Minnesota? 



Hutchinson hits the nail pretty squarely on 

 the head in the following: "I am becoming 

 more and more convinced that we can not put 

 our finger on any one thing, and say, 'This 

 causes bee diarrhea.' " 



Hutchinson proposes to learn to fight bee 

 diarrhea by learning how to produce it at will. 

 I think I can produce it at will by leaving fire 

 out of my cellars. But the same thing wlil not 

 work in all places alike. 



"Chii.i. November" was very mild as to its 

 front end this year. My bees flew nearly every 

 day till the 10th— something very unusual. But 

 the 15th brought the thermometer down to Hi, 

 and winter came with a jump. 



Pollen in winter. S. Cornell, in Review, 

 adduces facts which he thinks abundantly prove 

 "that not only is there nothing gained by the 

 exclusion of pollen from winter stores, but its 

 presence is essential for the health of the bees." 



The American Bee-keeper has an article in 

 which the name of Langstroth is entirely omit- 

 ted among the names of those who have brought 

 into use the movable frame. Better use a foot- 

 note, dear A. B. K., to supply the deficiency 

 caused by the ignorance of a correspondent. 



Quiet robbing is reported a failure on p. 856, 

 and a correspondent of B. B. J. also reports it 

 a failure. I wonder what can be the secret of 

 the failure. I've practiced it for years, having 

 hundreds of supers cleaned out without trouble. 

 Jones hauled some bees upon a sleigh. 

 One mild and sunny winter's deigh. 



To help a neighbor. 

 The bees got out upon the weigh. 

 And made the horses run aweigh: — 

 'Twas fruitless leighbor. 

 The Kodak is getting to be a terror to evil- 

 doers. "Spotters" on the railroad on which I 

 live are now armed with these deadly weapons. 

 If a railroad employe enters a saloon he is 

 afterward shown a neat picture of himself in 

 the saloon, and invited to walk out. 



Your head's level, Mr. Editor, when you 

 say the North American should hold Its con- 

 ventions at a time when some other large gath- 

 erings assure low railroad rates. Go in strong 

 on that idea; but then, don't forget that I had 

 the idea copyrighted long ago, and give proper 

 credit. 



It's A mistake, Hutchinson thinks, to com- 

 mence a convention without having a program 

 all ready to work from. Easy, friend H. Don't 

 you remember more than one excellent conven- 

 tion in that same city of Chicago where there 

 was less preparation as to program than at the 

 last one? 



Wax secretion. R. C. Aikin, in Success, 

 thinks it takes about four days for bees to get 

 under headway at secreting wax. He counts 

 the beginning of the flow the most profitable 

 time to furnish combs or full sheets of founda- 

 tion; and the close, the best time to furnish 

 only starters. 



The low murmur of bees in the cellar is 

 considered by .some a "hum of content," and by 

 others a sign of something wrong. In October 

 I heard the same murmur among my hives out- 

 doors. In that case it could hardly have been 

 the sign of any thing wrong, unless that the 

 bees were colder than they liked. 



To wash silk. Mix ^i lb. honey, }^i lb. soft 

 soap, a gill of gin, and a pint of cold water 

 together. Put the silk on a table or board, 

 scrub it with this mixture, rubbing it in well; 

 then rinse in clear soft water. Shake it as dry 

 as you can; do not wring it. Hang it up by 

 the edges, and, as soon as sufificientlv dry, iron 

 it on the wrong side.— jlfr.s. Rover's Cook-book. 



Success in Bee Culture is the name of the 

 new journal that has supplanted the Bee-keep- 

 ers' Enterprise. But there seems more enter- 

 prise in the new than the old. It has some 

 very bright things in it, and in mechanical ex- 



