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Vol. XXIV. 



JULY 15, 1896. 



No. 14. 



"Applications of honey," says a medical 

 quarterly, " are said to quickly relieve the pain 

 and abort the attack In erysipelas of the face." 



Proper spacing is clearly reasoned out on 

 p. 498 to be just IJ Inches, while Doolittle, in A. 

 B. J., reasons out just as clearly that it should 

 be IK; l/i is a pretty fair compromise. 



"The very blackest old comb you may 

 have," says R. C. Aikin, in Am. Bee J., " will 

 give a bright wax from the solar; but if put 

 through water it will be very dark. [Quite 

 right, according to our experience. — Ed.] 



Last number of Gleanings, in its editorials, 

 smacks strongly of practical work in the apiary. 

 Wish its editor could be kept there about all 

 the time. [I wish so too; but I am in the api- 

 ary more than you are perhaps aware.— Ed.] 



I WOULD give a dollar a pound for some nails 

 of the right kind to use for spacers on brood- 

 frames — wire nails 134" long or less, with heads 

 }4 inch thick and -f^ across. [What do you 

 mean by "right kind"? We'll take a contract 

 for a few thousand pounds. Be generous in 

 your order. — Ed.] 



A decided advantage it is to be able to 

 dispense with honey-boards — saves time and 

 muss. But I'm afraid there's one disadvantage. 

 I'm afraid queens will go into sections oftener 

 without honey- boards. But even if honey- 

 boards must be used, I'd want thick top- bars 

 with them, % thick at that. 



Sweet clover can never, I think, take the 

 place of white clover as a honey-plant, and we 

 may as well know it first as last — just because 

 sweet-clover honey can never take the place of 

 white-clover honey on the market. Some will 

 like it better than white clover, but others will 

 not like it at all. [If white clover can not be 

 had, sweet clover would be a most excellent 

 substitute, at all events.— Ed.] 



R. C. Aikin reports in -4. iJ. Journal, that, in 

 the solar extractor, 100 Langstroth combs yield 

 from 17 to 20 pounds of wax. That means 

 about IK pounds of wax for an 8-frame hive. 

 [This would be quite a large amount of wax 

 from old comb, according to our experience. 

 Perhaps Mr. A.'s combs were not very old.— Ed.] 



E. E. Hasty, the Review reviewer, says, "I 

 have a sneaking notion that the current imper- 

 sonality of editors is an error and a nuisance — 

 a nuisance which is tolerated, not for its own 

 sake, but because it renders impossible the much 

 worse nuisance of editorial garrulity and self- 

 parading." He thinks both evils should be 

 avoided, and the golden mean taken. 



A GOOD scratcher to scratch the surface of 

 sealed honey so as to get the bees to empty it 

 out is made of a piece of heavy wire cloth, 

 three meshes to the inch. Possibly five to the 

 inch would be better. Take a piece three or 

 four inches square, and you'll find the edge 

 where it is cut off just the thing to rake the 

 surface. 



Bees defy all rules sometimes. To-day I 

 found in a hive post-constructed queen-cells 

 and queen-cells containing pollen. Either one 

 of these ought to be taken as good proof of 

 queenlessness; but a laying queen was in the 

 hive doing good work. [We may first as well 

 as last set it down as an axiom, that bees never 

 do any thing invariably. — Ed.] 



Skylark says, p. 489, that " once more" the 

 Chicago market is opened up for Californians, 

 still implying that his former charge against 

 me was correct. Say, Skylark, wouldn't it be 

 the square thing for you to come out like a 

 man and say that you were in the wrong, and 

 that I had never whi-jpered a word against 

 Californians camping right down in the Chicago 

 market? 



It's all very well, Mr. Editor, for you to 

 suggest warmer weather as a remedy for the 

 trouble of bee-glue with tin rabbets; but you 

 don't send out an assortment of weather with 

 the rabbets; and work has to be done, weather 



