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Vol. XXIV. 



MAY I, 1896. 



No. 9. 



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Beginners should remember that a queen is 

 found more easily on a fine day when many bees 

 are afield. Fewer bees are in the way early in 

 the season. 



Feeding outside by wholesale is done by fill- 

 ing combs with thin syrup, then putting them 

 widely spaced in hives piled up where bees 

 have full sweep.— R. C. Aiken, in American 

 Bee Journal. 



Sweet CLOVER is always having some new 

 item to its credit. This time it's J. McArthur, 

 in AmerUxm Bee Journal, who credits it with 

 the protection of insectivorous birds where the 

 forests have been cleared off. 



M. Sevalt.e. editor of L'Apiculteur, reports 

 the case of a person subject to frequent attacks 

 of nettle rash being radically cured on receiv- 

 ing the first bee-sting. But he suffered so from 

 stings that he had to keep away from bees. 



Amalgamation seems to be opposed mainly 

 or wholly on mistaken grounds. The latest is 

 from a writer in American Bee Journal who 

 seems to think amalgamation means to "tack 

 on to members who do not wish it, the expense 

 of expensive meetings." Who ever dreamed of 

 such a thing? 



" I FIRMLY BELIEVE," says Observer, in Pro- 

 gressive, "'that A. I. Root has induced more 

 people to embark in bee-keeping than all other 

 persons or agencies combined." That's not 

 meant for a compliment, A. I., for he thinks 

 Skylark is not far wrong in saying that every 

 new bee-keeper lowers the price of honey. 



Unfinished sections are destroyed by some. 

 Others value them highly. Hutchinson says, 

 in American Bee Journal, " I have seen seasons 

 in which I was well satisfied that a case of 

 partly drawn sections of comb to give a colony 

 at first meant just one more case of iinished 

 honey." So he likes to have a lot of unfinished 

 sections. 



Answering that question on p. 313, 1 should 

 say very decidedly, print the names of those 

 who refuse to pay what every reasonable man 

 would be glad to pay, because the outlay was 

 made for his benefit, and without its payment 

 he would have had more to pay. There's been 

 too much hushing up. 



Prof. Cook reports in American Bee Journal 

 that A. D. D. Wood has gone to California and 

 expects to locate on Catalina Island two isolat- 

 ed apiaries where he hopes to secure pure mat- 

 ing of Italian and Carniolan queens. Prof. 

 Cook thinks the mild climate makes the pro- 

 ject more hopeful than D. A. Jones' experiment 

 in Georgian Bay. 



Please convey to Bro. Taylor my thanks 

 for his commiseration, and my regret that he 

 neglected to accompany it with an invitation to 

 come to his house to eat fish with him when he 

 had a good stock on hand. It might be a good 

 thing for him and me and a certain editor to 

 get together and have a fish-feast. [That e'd- 

 itor stands ready to accept.— Ed.] 



Some think that the increase of the circula- 

 tion of bee-journals is a damage to the busi- 

 ness by increasing the number of bee-keepers. I 

 wonder if these good people stopped to think 

 that a man doesn't subscribe for a bee- journal 

 until after he commences keeping bees. It's 

 the ignorant bee-keeper who does most harm 

 to the business, and every new subscriber means 

 the exchange of an Ignorant man for one better 

 informed. 



Adulteration of honey riles S. E. Miller, 

 who thus delivers himself \n Progressive: "I 

 am not now engaged in the production of hon- 

 ey, but would gladly pay .*3 per year to the 

 Bee-keepers' Union if it would hunt down these 

 scoundrels and give them their just dues." 

 [Yes, there are a good many more who would 

 pay their .?3, and more, if the Union would only 

 take a more active interest in this matter of 

 adulteration.— Ed.] 



A NEW IDEA. C. Theilmann thinks that not 

 only should hives be unpainted, but that the 

 outside should be unplaned. The outside 

 roughness prevents warping and cracking, and 



