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Vol. XXIV. 



JUNE I, 1896. 



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No. II. 



Gkape pollen is light yellow. 



Prospects still brilliant for a crop of honey, 

 May 18. 



The Iowa Homestead reports an utter failure 

 with crimson clover sowed on 50 acres with 

 timothy in August. 



I didn't know alsike could grow so big. An 

 acre on my place has lots of leaves measuring 

 3 inches by 1%. Bees are working busily on it 

 May 18. 



Melt so'Sey slowly. It takes time. It takes 

 time at 212°, and very much more time at 150°. 

 Melted at 150° it's all right, and 212° it's ruined. 

 Give it half a day to melt a gallon. 



I never had combs troubled with worms 

 after they had stayed out over winter where 

 they could freeze, and I never had a set of 

 combs on which a colony of bees died in spring 

 that failed to become wormy, if not cared for. 

 [So here.— Ed.] 



M. Boris Spcerer, in L' Ajnculteur, says 

 liberty of the press is a fine thing; but he thinks 

 the insertion of many articles without being 

 accompanied by " rectifying notes such as the 

 footnotes of Gleanings and Revue,'' is not lib- 

 erty but anarchy! 



We may conclude, I think, that in some 

 cases bee-stings cure rheumatism, while in 

 others they produce no effect. And I don't 

 think it makes so much difference what kind 

 of rheumatism as what kind of people. You 

 know stings affect different people very differ- 

 ently. 



" It is more common," says James Heddon, 

 apparently indorsed by Hutchinson, "to find 

 imperfect honey in the comb than in the ex- 

 tracted form." Is that so? I feel pretty sure 

 it's just the other way where I've had a chance 

 to observe. [It depends upon what is meant 

 by "imperfect honey." If they mean ripened, 

 I should be inclined to agree with you.— Ed.] 



Very level was the head of the editor of 

 Review when he said, " I am well satisfied that 

 all this opposition to the amalgamation of the 

 Union comes about from a lack of thoroughly 

 understanding the matter." I don't remember 

 seeing a single objection that was founded on 

 fact and not fancy. 



"The lines of reading are very seldom 

 diagonal to the edges." I read on p. 391, and 

 that made me measure the page on which I 

 was reading, only to find the margin fo ioch 

 wider at top than bottom. I don't like to read 

 things that make me see faults in others that 

 didn't trouble me before. 



M. Sibille seriously proposes to domesticate 

 the bumble-bee, so as to start out in the spring 

 with a full colony instead of, as at present, 

 with a single bee. A page and a half of UApi- 

 culteur is given to the matter; but I don't 

 clearly learn just what advantage is expected 

 from it if he should succeed. 



I recant! I've always said I never saw bees 

 work on strawberries; but this year they're at 

 it, sure. [If you didn't claim any more than 

 that you didn't see them, why recant? Now 

 that you have seen them, you are to be com- 

 mended for acknowledging it. But, say, do you 

 mean that the bees worked on the blossoms or 

 on the berries?— Ed.] 



M. Bertrand, editor Revue Internationale, 

 thinks the novice in Europe will do well to 

 serve his apprenticeship with native bees. He 

 hints that the black bees of America are not as 

 good as in Europe. [This is quite likely true. 

 The British favor their blacks; but over in this 

 country they are pretty much tabooed by up- 

 to-date bee-keepers. — Ed.] 



Rather cool of Hutchinson and Rambler to 

 decide there will be no more important im 

 provements in appliances for the production uf 

 honey. How do you know? [We must judp'- 

 the future largely by the past. If there i-' 

 nothing- new in store for us, then the past has 

 failed to bring us progress. What of the ex- 

 tractor, the movable frame, comb foundation, 

 bee-smokers, bee escapes, and a myriad of 

 " little comforts"? 



