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Vol. XXIV. 



AUG. I, 1896. 



No. 15. 



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July 15, 4439 finished sections in the house, 

 and more to follow. [That sounds like busi- 

 ness.— Ed.] 



Bee-keepers will be public benefactors if 

 they succeed in getting farmers to learn that 

 sweet clover is a good forage-plant. 



Bee paralysis has never been a very serious 

 matter in my apiary; but there has been more 

 or less of it for years until this year, and I'm 

 not sure that I've seen a case this year. 



If you want an omelette to be light and 

 nice, treat it somewhat as a griddle-cake. Use 

 only two eggs at a time, and bring it on the 

 table to be eaten hot before another is made. 



The bees are making trouble in this family. 

 For the past two years my wife has held un- 

 disturbed possession of the honey-room as an 

 annex to her kitchen, but the crop of honey 

 this year has routed her. 



Try to do without medicine if you can; but 

 if you must use some one of the headache prep- 

 arations, try Dr. House's yellowzones. They're 

 as good as any, and they're made by a straight 

 man from our own ranks. 



No, SIR, friend A. I., doctors don't swear, as a 

 rule. I've known lots of them, and I've seldom 

 known one to swear. As a class, doctors are 

 intelligent; and a man who swears shows that 

 he is just so far lacking in intelligence. 



What A SHORT time of feeding makes the 

 difference between a worker and a queen I If it 

 is true that the same food is given during the 

 first three days, there remain only two or three 

 days' feeding to ch'ange the worker to a queen. 



Just as I expected. While the wise ones 

 were trying to explain ivhy we were never to 

 have any more good honey years, one of them 

 was quietly getting ready to come; and the 

 year 1896 will be remembered by many as one 

 of the best honey years of their lives. 



A PILE OF HONEY 1.5 supers high tumbled down 

 for me July 15. How many of the .360 sections 

 do you suppose were spoiled? Just five! But 

 the thermometer stood at 95° in the shade. If 

 it had stood at 45°, as it did two days later, 

 nearly all would probably have been ruined. 



Don't use rosin to fasten foundation in 

 brood-frames. Some day you may want to 

 melt up the old combs, and then the rosin will 

 spoil the wax. Don't use it to fasten starters 

 in sections unless you want your customers to 

 wonder why some honey has a bitter taste. 



" How use doeth breed a habit in a man!" 

 says Shakespear. I've tried clipping a queen's 

 wing with a knife a few times, but made bun- 

 gling work of it. With the scissors it's no trick 

 at all. With Doolittle I suppose it's the other 

 way. [Your knife was dull or sticky. Eh?— 

 Ed.] 



If Weed foundation is tougher than other, 

 won't it be tougher to " chaw " in a section? 

 Or is it "more readily worked by the teeth" as 

 well as by the bees? [Your last suggestion is 

 correct. It is much less liable to stretch in 

 drawing out than the old process, and the bees 

 take to it quicker. — Ed.] 



The argument in favor of clipping queens 

 with a knife, that one always has a knife with 

 him," doesn't count with me. I'm more sure 

 to have scissors than knife in the apiary, for I 

 never go without my book, and the scissors are 

 tied to the book. [You're the only man or boy 

 I know of that doesn't carry a knife.— Ed.] 



Put a super without a bait on a hive, and 

 the bees won't touch it till they're crowded to 

 do so— probably several days. But if they've 

 been in the habit of going up, it's quite another 

 thing. Take off a full super and put in its 

 place an empty one, and they'll cotumeuce work 

 on the foundation right straight. 



A queen of the current year's raising has the 

 reputation of being much less inclined to swarm 

 than one older. But I find little diiference be- 

 tween a queen raised last year and one raised 

 this year in May. I find a great difi'erence, 

 however, between a queen raised this year in 



