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Vol. XXIV. 



MAR. I, 1896. 



No. 5. 



A MUSEUM of articles pertaining to bee-keep- 

 ing has been founded in Danzig — the first of the 

 kind in Germany. 



M. S. Thibaut, editor Le Progres Apicole, 

 says honey is used in the manufacture of all 

 the best toilet soaps. 



F. Gkeiner speaks on p. 143 as though an egg 

 in a cell was never moved; but we are told 

 that its position is changed every 24 hours. 



I NEVER WAS FED by the ravens, but lately I 

 was fed, and well fed, at Ravenswood, at the 

 domicil of the genial editor of American Bee 

 Journal. 



"Unless AT least four or five colonies in 

 the apiary have foul brood, I should not at- 

 tempt to cure it save by burning," says Doo- 

 little, in A. B. J. 



Carbonyle is spoken of very highly in the 

 French journals as a hive paint, although bees 

 can't be put in the hive for a long time after 

 it's painted. Now, what's carbonyle? 



The initials "A. B. J." don't stand for All 

 Bug Juice, nor for A Boot Jack, Andy's Big 

 Jumble, Adieu! Bald Jennie, Any Body's Jaw, 

 A Bad Job, Active Boy Joe, Aunt Betsy's Jig, 

 nor A Beer Jug, but just plain American Bee 

 Journal. 



I've been anxious for a genuine sample of 

 sweet-clover honey. I got some from Editor 

 York that's reliable. Smells distinctly like 

 sweet-clover seed. I didn't like it much at 

 first, but it grows on acquaintance. I"d like a 

 crop of it. 



Eleven- year-old queen. J. G. A. Wal- 

 lace reports, in A. B. J., that he put into winter 

 quarters a queen more than 11 years old; kept 

 always in the same hive— never swarmed ; right 

 wing clipped angling, so he thinks there can be 

 no mistake. 



Normally, no bee less than two weeks old 

 works in the field, and no bee more than three 



weeks old does housework; but if necessary a 

 bee five days old can forage, and it can tend 

 baby and build comb when more than six 

 months old. 



W. H. Young shipped extracted linden honey 

 to a Chicago commission house, as he relates in 

 A. B.J.; and the returns, after deducting for 

 shipping-cans, left him about an even 3>2 cents 

 a pound. Better peddle around home at 5 cents. 

 [Yes, indeed.— Ed.] 



Lindens from cuttings! Why didn't you say 

 so before? Of course, A. I. will try it. [They 

 can be produced in that way; but it is cheaper 

 to grow them from seed, so the nurserymen say; 

 but what you do get from cuttings are better 

 varieties.— A. I. R ] 



When talking about the danger of missing 

 queen-cells in cutting them out, bear in mind 

 that it makes a big difference whether you cut 

 out after natural swarming or after removal of 

 queen without swarming. In the latter case 

 the cells are much harder to find. 



The best surplus arrangement is asked for 

 in the question-box of ^. B. J. T supers have 

 a majority of votes, and wide frames come in 

 second. Section-holders have one vote. [Now, 

 doctor, you needn't chuckle over me, for those 

 sponsors happen to be nearly all T-super men. 

 Eh?— Ed.] 



Persistent diarrhea. Here's a cure taken 

 from Le Progres Apicole: Boil bran in water 

 20 minutes, and strain through a fine cloth. 

 Sweeten the liquid with honey, a tablespoonful 

 to a pint, and boil ten minutes. Use as a table 

 drink. [I should say that dose would be the 

 very thing that would make it worse. — Ed.] 



If wax affects the flavor of honey in a few 

 minutes when hot, why may it not affect it 

 when cold, if left long enough in comb that's 

 old enough? [But it doesn't; at least, I never 

 heard of it. Hot wax, we know, will give off 

 its flavor just as the hot beans give off that 

 horrible smell while cooking. — Ed.] 



Rundschau is the title of a new department 

 in Bienen-Vater, conducted by Alois Alfonsus, 

 who will fichau rund and tell what's going on 

 in ail parts of the world of bee-keeping. He 



