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Vol. XXIV. 



AUG. 15, 1896. 



No. 16. 



Don't try 10 scrape seciious when it's so hot 

 propolis runs. Better have it cool enough so 

 pr&polis is brittle. 



Wooden sepakators can be made to do 

 service very well instead of the basket-splints 

 used by N. T. Phelps. 



Don't leave sections on the hive, when 

 the flow stops, for the bees to daub wilh glue. 

 If you hope there will be a fresh flow, wait till 

 it comes and then put the sections on again. 



While this season has been remarkably 

 good in some places, from many others come 

 unfavorable reports; and I doubt whether 

 honey will rule as low a« was anticipated. 

 [Quite right. See editorials.— Ed.] 



Yesterda^y I passed a field of alfalfa in full 

 bloom. Bnrabk-bees and other wild bees were 

 on it. but not a hive bee. [This confirms the 

 old statement that some of tlie very best honey- 

 plants will not yield nectar some seasons or in 

 some localities.— Ed.] 



Crimson clover was coming up Aug. 1 very 

 thick where the seed dropped on my patch 

 sown in the spring of 189.5; and I don't know 

 that there has been a day this summer but a 

 few blossoms could be found, although it was 

 supposed to do its blooming last year. 



In reply to a question sent out by Secretary 

 Stone, he gives in A. B. J. the following reports 

 as to the prospects of the honey crop in Illinois 

 about July 1: Very good, 2; good, 6; fair, .5; 

 light, 1; poor, 6; very poor, 4. Balancing good 

 against poor, there is left 4 fair and 2 very 

 poor. 



E. E. Hasty first mentioned, I think, that 

 mixing bees inclines to swarming. It's true, 

 with limitations. Mix bees from a dozen colo- 

 nies, and introduce a queen to them, and I 

 think they'll not swarm any sooner than if all 

 from one colony, liut throw into a colony 



with a laying queen some foreign bees, and 

 they're very likely to ball the queen,start queen- 

 cells, and then swarm. 



Friend Getaz explains, p. 50.3, that the price 

 of honey is nearly inflexible, because " the price 

 of honey is governed by the price of the corres- 

 ponding quality of the corn syrup." But how 

 about comb honey ? Does glucose control the 

 price of that? [That is a good point. Comb 

 honey does not fluctuate any more than ex- 

 tracted. Will friend Getaz please help us out? 

 -Ed.] 



Bro. Brodbeck seems to think the interna- 

 tional Union can be made national if there is 

 no amalgamation. Now tell us why it can not 

 be made national after amalgamation. And 

 do I understand you to say. Bro. Brodbeck, 

 that you now want to kill the Union and get up 

 something else? If so, just tell us what it is; 

 and if you've got something better, I'm with 

 yon. [See editorials. — Ed] 



r cark very little what is done about 

 amalgamation, the Union, or the North Ameri- 

 can; bur I get weaiy with .'^o much foolish talk. 

 In one breath the plea is made to save the 

 Union as it is, and in the next to change it to 

 something else. Now, if there's some plan for 

 making out of either new or old cloth just 

 what's needed, why not tell us just what is 

 wanted? [See editorials. — Ed.] 



Mrs. Sherman says, in Am. Bee J., that she 

 had a ton of honey of such strong, fiery taste 

 from milkweed it could scarcely be eaten. She 

 put it in shallow vessels covered with cheese- 

 cloth, and after a time the strong, peppery 

 taste all left it. [This agrees with reports that 

 have come in during the past, to the effect 

 that all disagreeable or peppery or twangy 

 honeys when new become very palatable when 

 evaporated down.— Ed.] 



Those Californians have queer ways. Up 

 where I live, when a section of honey is put on 

 the table it's all honey with the wood removed. 

 According to Skylark, p. oGl, when a section of 

 honey is put on his table Ws nil uond I What 

 a digestion he must have ! But that's a won- 



