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Vol. XXIV. 



JAN. I, 1896. 



No. 



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Happy New Year! 



The British Bee Journal invites a discussion 

 of house-apiaries. 



A. B. J. doesn't stand for "A Big Joke," but 

 for the only weekly bee-paper on the continent, 

 The American Bee Jonrnnl. 



A PRIMING roAT of paint, says E. B. Thomas, 

 in American Bee Juurmd, is all wrong. Give 

 hives first a heavy coat of old raw linseed oil. 



Railroad authorities in France, says Le 

 Progres ApicoJe, were petitioned to sow honey- 

 plants on railroad embankments, and gave a 

 favorable re.«ponse. 



Impurities on the bottom of a cake of bees- 

 wax are trouhli>>ome to scrape off. Do the work 

 while the cake is still hot, and it won't be half 

 as hard.— British Bee Journal. 



That TABLE on p. 951 is decidedly interest- 

 ing, and its value would be increased if we 

 could know whether the colony was above or 

 below the average in numbers. 



Some years ago I saw at McHenry, 111., an 

 apiary that was wintered after the manner de- 

 scribed by Mr. Coggshall. p. 945. If I remember 

 correctly, the plan was quite successful. 



Can it be that intended marriage is the 

 cause of Rambler's ceasing to ramble? Well, 

 when he get-* settled down with Eugenia let 

 him tell us all about svhat they do with their 

 bees. 



In repainting hives, says E. B. Thomas, in 

 the American Bee Journal, if the paint is not 

 actually off the wond. one good coat of raw oil 

 is quite as good as a coat of paint, and much 

 cheaper. 



The memory of the Rev. W. F. Clarke is at 

 fault, I think, when he says, on p. 933. that he 

 never met Mr. Langstroth e.xcept in 1871 and 

 1895. I think I distinctly remember seeing 

 both of them at the Toronto convention in 1883. 



Father Lang.stroth wrote to have me try 

 malted milk on bees, and I did so, but I couldn't 

 make out that it produced any effect on the 

 queen's laying. Possibly It might make a dif- 

 ference at a time when bees were gathering 

 absolutely nothing. 



Here's a quotation from a Louisville paper 

 that's a little out of the usual: " Honey.— In 

 pound sections, 13}^@15c; wild honey, .5(")6." 

 [It's no worse than the constant use of " strained 

 honey" in the market quotations of our big 

 dailies. I suspect the cuiumission houses are 

 responsible for this.— Ed.] 



Hon. Geo. E. Hilton says, in Michigan 

 Farmer: "' I not only believe there should be a 

 bee-keepers' organization in every county, but 

 in every township; and through the winter 

 months these township organizations should 

 meet monthly at least, and semimonthly would 

 be belter." My! but wouldn't that make a 

 lot of conventions ! And a good many would 

 have only one in attendance. 



Sweet clover. I challenged the statement, 

 in Dadant's Langstroth, that cows would de- 

 stroy sweet clover. They write that they turn- 

 ed cattle in a field having a patch of sweet 

 clover, "and before the end of the season they 

 had destroyed every single plant, and they have 

 never allowed a stalk of it to grow on this land. 

 Our experience is that cattle will eat sweet 

 clover in preference to any other grass." 



Referring to that footnote on p. 945, it's bad 

 enough 10 have ray poor joke about my article 

 being run as a serial throughout the new year 

 being taken seriously; but it's still worse to be 

 all torn up with uncertainty in trying to decide 

 whether the editor himself is joking or in 

 earnest. [You didn't label that as ''A Big 

 Joke," so I took it in earnest. Say, A. I. R. 

 says your summing-up of the whole subject 

 was the best treatment we have ever had in 

 Gleanings on wintering.— Ed.] 



An event in London was the presentation to 

 the Lady Mayoress of a representative collec- 

 tion of native honey, contributed by women 

 bee-keepers, or the wives and daughters of bee- 

 men in various parts of Great Britain. Object, 



