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Vol. XXIV. 



JAN. 15, 1896. 



No. 2. 



The Ontario B. K. A. gives a copy of Cana- 

 dian Bee Journal free to each member. That's 

 the way to do things. 



The editor of Canadian Bee Journal thinks 

 sweet clover may do damage by keeping the 

 bees breeding too late. 



Dry-weather vine has been mentioned by 

 two or three as a great honey-plant. What 

 other name has it ? What's its botanical name? 



My bees were cellared Nov. 13, and cellar- 

 door left open. A week later, zero weather 

 closed the cellar; then it was open Dec. 17 — 25, 

 and no fire was needed till Jan. 4. 



Hutchinson says, "Many bee-keepers are 

 beginning to realize that, for them, bee-keeping 

 Is not what it was once." " Beginning ? " 

 Humph! 



There were 380 colonies of living bees on 

 exhibition at the great German convention at 

 Goerlitz. I didn't see that many at the World's 

 Fair at Chicago. 



The American Bee Journal opens up the 

 new year with new head-pieces for all its de- 

 partments, and a new head -piece for the whole 

 business. Looks right neat. 



The Progrenfiive Bee keeper for January 

 comes to hand looking very down-hearted- 

 blue as indigo. But it's only the cover; inside 

 it's chipper as you please, and full of good 

 things. 



Sections have been kept two years without 

 granulating, by putting in a common tin biscuit- 

 box and gumming a strip of paper round the 

 lid to exclude the air.— J. T.,ln British Bee 

 Journal. 



Some fioon work is being done in the two 

 Bee Journals^ American and Canadian, by way 

 of showing up men who are of the sort for bee- 

 keepers not to send money to. [Gleanings 

 is showing 'em up too.— Ed.] 



Specialty means happiness. It is the non- 

 specialists who say, " What's life worth living 

 for, if you can't have a little fun now and 

 then ?" The specialists have their fun all the 

 time. — F. L. Thompson, in American Bee Jour- 

 nal. 



Mme. Mod.jeska, the once famous actress, 

 according to an item in the Britisli Bee Jour- 

 nal, is now a California farmer with 760 colo- 

 nies of bees on her ranch at the foot of the San- 

 tiago Peak. What's Rambler about? or is he 

 keeping it all to himself.' 



Mrs. Axtell is right, p. 18, that too many 

 bees won't do in a small cellar; and she's also 

 right that too few in a large cellar won't do if 

 the cellar is too cold ; but if the temperature is 

 right I think I'd risk a single colony in a cellar 

 measuring a mile each way. 



Mrs. Atchley thinks I ought to mention 

 who originally wrote the articles heretofore 

 mentioned as copied from American Bee Jour- 

 nal in Soutltland Queen. The series of lessons 

 first appeared in the American Bee Journal for 

 1894, signed Jennie Atchley. 



The big-little-hive discussion is smothered 

 in Gleanings, but I shouldn't be surprised to 

 see it break out again any time. Chas. Dadant 

 is now giving little hives some heavy blows in 

 the American Bee Journal. [It had better not 

 open up right away, or I fear I'll get my ears 

 warmed. — Ed.J 



Referring to my statement that Dzierzon 

 tolerates frames with end-bars, only since the 

 advent of the extractor, T. Greiner writes : 

 " Are you aware that Dzierzon does not tolerate 

 the frame in the brood-chamber up to this day?" 

 There, you see how it is. When I think I do 

 happen to know something, some one knocks it 

 all over. 



A. I. Root seems kind 0' crazy over zwieback. 

 We don't have whole-wheat bread at our house, 

 but we're very fond of zwieback made of com- 

 mon bread. I wonder why zwieback of whole- 

 wheat bread can't be made wholesale by the 

 bakers. I'd like to send for a barrel of it. The 

 common kind used to be sold in Chicago. They 

 made it of stale or left-over bread. 



