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Vol. XXIV. 



MAR. 15, 1896. 



No. 6. 



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Can't wait— hardly— to see bees come out of 

 cellar. 



Exchange of virgin queens among bee-keep- 

 ers is recommended in B. B. J. 



My one hive of bees outdoors had a nice fly 

 Feb. 36, the lirst right good day for a flight 

 since l!>Jov. 10. 



Phacelia is m uch talked about by the French, 

 not only as a house-plant but as a forage- plant. 

 Has their kind of phacelia been tried this side 

 the water? 



My cellar was swept out for the first time 

 Feb. 20, yielding a trifle more than a bushel of 

 dead bees, loosely filled, and stroked measure. 

 That from 1.57 colonies. 



Seal honey at 180° to keep from granulat- 

 ing, says Ernest, p. ISl. R. McKnight, in Re- 

 view, says 160°. Which is right? [Never tried 

 160°. It may answer just as well. — Ed. J 



If a. B. Anthony learns to put sections in T 

 supers as given by Emma Wilson, p. 179, 1895. 

 he'll never again use the slow way given on 

 page 177. [See footnote to Hilton's T-super 

 article elsewhere. — Ed.] 



C. Weygandt advises that, where two races 

 are kept in the same apiary, the hives of one 

 race face east and the (fther west. The queens 

 and drones of those facing east will often fly as 

 early as 9 o'clock, the others not till .3. 



Sweet clover now turns up in a new role. 

 Pfarrer Weilinger. in Leipziger Blencjizeitung, 

 says gather it when in bloom and dry it, then 

 put between the empty combs in your comb- 

 closet, and the wax-moth won't touch the 

 combs. 



Doctok Dubini, in L'Apicoltore, sides with 

 my assistant against me, and says laying work- 

 ers often have a plurality of eggs in worker- 

 cells. Anyway, I'll stick to it that they prefer 

 drone-cells, and I have good backing in one G. 

 M. Doolittle, p. 177. 



Honey is quoted in the Sydney (Australia) 

 Herald thus: Garden honey, 6 cents; bush hon- 

 ey, 4 to 5 cents. [They have long seasons and 

 at least four times as many months of honey- 

 gathering. That means low prices.— Ed.] 



In tkansfekring the way G. A. Dyer pro- 

 poses, p. 180, he must count on the queen sulking 

 just about .5 days before she lays an egg, when 

 she's shut on the foundation under the excluder. 

 Besides, he'll have the honey gathered in that 

 21 days mostly in the old hive. 



February 20 the thermometer went lower 

 than any previous date this winter — 15° below 

 zei'o. Curiously enough, on that very day I got 

 a paper from an Australian friend, reporting 

 Jan. 13 as the hottest day ever known at Syd- 

 ney, 108.5 in the shade, and in some places 1201 



A sting about 5 inches long is sent me by E. 

 M. Kellogg. I'd hate to have bees with such 

 stings; but, fortunately, this belongs to a fish, 

 .sti7iga/TC. i>r sting-ray. It's barbed, and looks 

 much like the magnified picture of a bee's 

 sting, but makes a much more dangerous 

 wound. 



(Jeo. F. Robbins says. p. 172, that, with sec- 

 tion-frames and brood-frames in upper story, 

 the bees work old stuff into the new comb. I 

 used to work lots that way, and had cappings 

 darkened, but never had any trouble if I put 

 down the brood-frames before they commenced 

 capping the sections. 



For fastening foundation in brood frames, 

 try a saw-kerf ^^r wide and ,V deep, fastening 

 slightly with a few drops of wax from a burn- 

 ing beeswax candle, and you'll not likely be 

 willing to fool with any other way of fastening 

 afterward. Then you can have top- bars fully 

 K deep, and have whiter sections. 



Heather honey has always been consider- 

 ed too thick to extract, but Gravenhorst's Bie- 

 tienzeiUtng reports success by a high speed, and, 

 instead of the ordinary wire cloth, having strips 

 wide enough to support two rows of cells, leav- 

 ing two rows between unsupported, then when 

 these two rows of cells are extracted the posi- 

 tion must be shifted so as to extract the other 

 two. 



