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Vol. XXIV. 



FEB. I, 1896. 



No. 3. 



Symposiums are to come this year, eh ? Good ! 



Carbolic acid is recommended as a remedy 

 for burns in The Prencriptio^i. 



Many bees give much honey, and much hon- 

 ey gives many bees.— ^Ifthe Collin. [Very true. 

 —Ed.] 



That reversible boitom- board, p. 6.5, is a 

 good thing, only the deep side should be an 

 inch deeper. 



Pollen, says Prof. Brabant, in Progres Api- 

 cole, is not good for bees in winter, but getting 

 rid of it is as troublesome as leaving it. 



The latest cure for bee -stings I find in 

 Bulletin de la Somme. Cut the head of a 

 white poppy and drop the milky juice on the 

 wound. 



A record book has this advantage, that it 

 can be referred to at any time, and is often use- 

 ful in furnishing testimony as to events that 

 transpired years ago. 



That discovery given on page 50 is a good 

 thing; but if Mr. Sallemand had read Glean- 

 ings I think he would have found that way of 

 getting out. bees years ago. It's been in use 

 here may be ten years. 



The new Porter escape, p. 64, will be fine 

 to clear bees out of a pile of supers off the hive. 

 Isn't it just possible it may work better than 

 the old kind when on the hive? [Perhaps. 

 Tests this summer will determine. — Ed.] 



Foundation with cells an eighth larger 

 than worker-cells, for the sake of raising larger 

 workers, is one of the things meditated in 

 France, according to Le Progres Apicole. J>een 

 tried in this country, hasn't it, A. I.? [Yes; 

 but it didn't make larger bees. — Ed.] 



Numbering hives is favored by about three 

 out of four of those who reply in A. B. J., and 

 about the same proportion think the numbers 

 should be detachable. Say, you Medinamiters, 



are you going to have any tags ready for us by 

 spring? [Yes, they are ready now— tag-board 

 manilla, 50cts. per 100.— Ed.] 



Those who SAY fires are bad in bee-cellars 

 have been in the habit of quoting Doolittle's 

 experience; but you see on p. 61 he says it was 

 the "poisonous vapor" of an oil-stove that did 

 the mischief. If I'd let the smoke of my stove 

 empty into the cellar the fire would be a bad 

 thing for my bees too. 



A WRITER in B.B.J, gives a case to prove 

 that a colony made queenless starts a queen 

 from a larva and not from an egg. I didn't 

 suppose there was any question about that 

 nowadays. [Given eggs and larvie they will 

 invariably start the cells from the latter, if 

 queenless— at least, that is our experience. — 

 Ed.J 



I've LEARNED two things from last Glean- 

 ings among others — that live steam will burn 

 wax, and that the presence of wax will spoil 

 honey at 150°. [Mr. Taylor ought to try his 

 honey-heating experiment over again; because 

 as it is, nothing is proven except perhaps what 

 we already knew, that wax, when heated with 

 honey, darkens the honey.— Ed.] 



M. Bektrand, editor of the Revue, accepted 

 with favor the theory that bees inherit charac- 

 ter from the nurses. He introduced a Cauca- 

 sian queen of great gentleness into a very 

 vicious colony, and the progeny of the new 

 queen showed no trace of viciousness. He is 

 now very doubtful as to the correctness of the 

 theory. 



A delightful visit I had from the editor 

 of Gleanings; but his coming made a sensible 

 diminution in the amount of beef on the mar- 

 ket. His appearance certainly speaks well for 

 the benefits of a beef diet. [Yes, I weigh the 

 most I ever did in my life. Early in the sum- 

 mer my weight was 117 lbs.; now it is 145, and 

 is still on the increase.— Ed.] 



The report of the U. S. Secretary of Agri- 

 culture quotes the English honey market as 

 giving "Thurber-Whyland's white-sage, strain- 

 ed, 1-pound jars " at only Ic a pound more than 



