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Vol. XXIV. 



MAY 15, 1896. 



No. 10. 



Say. Elwood, some of these German fellows 

 will be after you for crediting to Huber instead 

 of Dzierzon the discovery of parthenogenesis. 



•'The oldest inhabitant" has no story to 

 tell of a season years ago that matched this 

 spring for forwardness. [That's about the case 

 here.— Ed.] 



That new desic4N for cover talked about on 

 p. 350 would suit me all right if plain type were 

 used without any pictures. [But the masses 

 like the artistic fancy designs better.— Ed.] 



Five - banders have judgment passed on 

 them on p. 35U, but that doesn't say what other 

 five-banders are. Red cows are not all alike. 

 [That's true; but our columns have given both 

 sides.— Ed.] 



"Most colonies," says John Handel, p. 339, 

 "if managed rightly, will build down to the 

 bottom of sections." But what is the manage- 

 ment? and is it less trouble than putting in 

 bottom starters? 



My sympathies go out to Bro. Draper, p. 3G5. 

 I was heavier than you, Bro. Draper, and it's a 

 big comfort to come down some 30 pounds. The 

 beef diet will fit you out; but if your wife won't 

 stand that, cut your meals in two and stop 

 drinking at meal time. 



Pick the two first lines off page 330 and 

 put them at the top of second column, page 339, 

 and then you won't think Elwood was crazy or 

 the printer tight. [Thanks for the correction. 

 We are glad to know that at least one of our 

 readers could unravel the mystery. We don't 

 believe it will happen again. — Ed.] 



"Laying worker-cells," p. 356, beat me 

 entirely. What are they, anyway ? Didn't you 

 mean mean "plurality of eggs laid by laying 

 workers in worker-cells?" [I didn't use that 

 expression, but let it go, as I supposed Mr. Has- 

 sett referred to something 1 hadn't seen. It 

 shouldn't have been " laying worker-cells."-ED. 



Painting hives with unpainted supers seems 

 to make lots of trouble, according to Skylark, 

 p. 33S. Then why paint hives? I don't paint 

 mine, and my supers stay straight and true 

 year after year. Possibly because they're not 

 overloaded with honey like Skylark's. 



" Phacelia grows spontaneously in Southern 

 California, and seems to be an excellent honey 

 producer," writes R. Wilkin. Wonder if there 

 aren't two kinds. The flower I've seen looks 

 quite a bit like heliotrope, and I should hardly 

 think the plant would do for fodder; but in 

 Europe they speak of it as a forage-plant. 



R. McKnight, p. 340, owns up that he hasn't 

 sold honey in his own town for ten years. Say, 

 you Canuck, don't you know it's against rules 

 to neglect your home market? What reasons 

 have you for acting so ? If you can make out a 

 good defense may be I'll confess that I always 

 ship away when I can get more money by so 

 doing. 



Prof. Bonnier, in L'Apiculteur, gives some 

 interesting results of experiments concerning 

 honey-dew. That from lice continues all day, 

 diminishing at night. That of vegetable origin 

 is produced during the night, being at its max- 

 imum at daybreak, and then ceasing, its pro- 

 duction being favored by the moisture of cool 

 nights between hot dry (^ays. 



B. Taylor starts on a new tack by wanting a 

 space between comb and bottom-bar for queen- 

 cells and winter clustering. May be all right 

 for queen-cells; but why not leave a two-inch 

 space under bottom-bars for winter clustering ? 

 My bees seem to cluster all right that way. 

 [I'd rather have the comb run clear down to 

 the bottom-bar every time; but our bees don't 

 respect my notion. — Ed.] 



That tramp sermon, p. 300, is just right all 

 through. It's kindness to feed tramps, but it's 

 greater kindness to make them work. When 

 brought down to the final analysis, tramping is 

 simply stealing. Straighten your Medina laws, 

 Bro. Root. [Better say our national laws. It 

 ought to be as unhealthy for a professional 

 won't-work tramp to prey upon communities as 

 for counterfeiters.— Ed.] 



