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Vol. XXIV. 



OCT. I, 1896. 



No. 19. 



An unfortunate quarrel is going on at 

 Flint, Mich., Canadian bee-keepers being in the 

 ring. Better part 'em, Bro. Hutchinson. 



Experimenter Taylor's last report shows 

 Given foundation still ahead, but the Weed 

 much ahead of the old kind of milled. [See ed- 

 itorial in another column. — Ed.] 



" Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, 

 sweet to the soul and health to the bones." — 

 Prov. 16:24. Pity they're not more generally in 

 use, considering how little they cost. 



How SEASONS VARY in a short distance! J. 

 L. Anderson, 15 miles from here, has been get- 

 ting crops during my failures, but this year the 

 season is poor with him and good with me. 



In answer to that question on p. 692, I don't 

 think it would pay at our house to extract and 

 feed. But I suspect that we make very slow 

 work extracting with our old Peabody compar- 

 ed with those who are used to it. Every one to 

 his own trade. 



I wonder why friend Greiner doesn't use an 

 excluder in sorting queens out of swarms (p. 

 674). Put a frame of brood in a hive, an empty 

 hive over it, and an excluder between; then 

 dump the swarm into the upper hive and sift 

 out your queens. 



My experience doesn't tally at all with 

 that of friend Muth, p. 680. After being stung, 

 my horses show an increased fear of bees. Per- 

 haps if stung as badly as his the case would be 

 different, although I had one stung pretty bad- 

 ly. [Your experience is ours. — Ed.] 



Iv. A. A.SPINWALL gives in Review this plan 

 of uniting: Put the two colonies, one queenless, 

 in the same hive, with a partition of double 

 wire cloth between, both entrances facing the 

 same way. In a few days the queenless bees 

 will of their own accord join the others. I 



know that will work, for a number of mine 

 have united n much the same way without my 

 desiring it. He says bees of a laying queen 

 will kill those of a virgin queen to the last bee. 



I don't KNOW how " What I don't know 

 about bee-keeping.— Dr. C. C. Miller" got into 

 that program on p. 684, unless the printer's dev — 

 dev— oted assistant has been copying from an 

 old program. That's the essay I read at the 

 North American at Keokuk, and it wouldn't do 

 to read it again at Lincoln. 



I didn't bristle UP at what was said on p. 

 689; but a certain young woman did; and she 

 said, " Just you tell Mr. Root we are always 

 waked up here, and always take care of our 

 bees." As a matter of fact, she was left alone 

 with the bees for more than two weeks at be- 

 ginning of harvest, and he excellent work she 

 did at that time, together with the good care 

 they had last year, has much to do with the 

 crop of honey they gave. 



Friend Getaz is right, I think, in believing 

 that the use of glucose pulls down the price of 

 honey; but I don't quite see that the price of 

 comb honey goes up and down with the price of 

 glucose. Look at the Honey Column. Did best 

 glucose drop 2 cents a pound in Chicago from 

 July 20 to Aug. 20? And has it gone up in 

 Detroit and elsewhere? And is best glucose 5 

 cents more in Philadelphia than in Denver at 

 the present time? Its control seems to be only 

 one way — always down and never up. 



Here's the sentence you couldn't find on 

 p. 6.12, Mr. Editor: " We separate the section of 

 honey from the wood." Is there any wood in 

 the "section of honey " you separate from the 

 wood? And you rgot to tell us what you 

 would say instead of saying, " We ate a section 

 of honey." [Surely there is no wood in the sec- 

 tion of honey, in the sense I used it. The 

 meaning of " section " in the sense as there em- 

 ployed, is a portion, or what would be enough 

 to fill a section. When you say, for instance, 

 you threw a pail of water on the fire you mean 

 not the pail but the water. The best answer I 



