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Vol. XXIV. 



OCT. 15, 1896. 



No. 20, 



Brother A. I., is that Anti-saloon League 

 dead? If not, lots of us would like to know 

 what it's doing. 



W. D French thinks eucalyptus is the thing 

 to plant to avoid years of failure in the honey 

 crop. — Pacific Bee Journal. 



Linden seedlings come up of their own ac- 

 cord on our place too, Bro. Root, where they 

 fall from the trees on a strawberry-bed. 



Rev. E. T. Abbott says it is an advantage 

 to mix saltpeter with sulphur half and half to 

 make sure of burning when fumigating combs. 



The only honey the Pacific Bee Journal 

 has heard of in Los Angeles County is two tons 

 extracted by Mrs. C. Gray, from 100 colonies. 

 "Her theory is planting bee-forage."; 



C" Practical WORK amid the hum of the busy 

 bee in the apiary and the buzz-saws in the fac- 

 tory is what it takes to make an able editor of a 

 bee-journal."— S. E. Miller, in Progressive. 

 GFeeding by tipping up the front end of the 

 hive and pouring the feed right into the en- 

 trance is more or less practiced. But by some 

 means I found a good many dead bees about 

 the hive when I fed that way. 



The editor of Pacific Bee Journal offers $25 

 to the man who comes the greatest distance 

 outside the county and exhibits at the fair; $'> 

 to the man who sells most honey in the exhibit 

 building, and $3 to the man who comes from 

 the greatest distance. If I weren't so busy I 

 might try for that $3. 



Here's the way J. F. Mclntyre weighs: 

 " With a spring balance that weighs over 100 

 pounds I go along the backs of the hives and 

 just weigh the back end : if it weighs 3.5 pounds 

 I feed at once, because I know that they are 

 just out of honey. The figures range from 3.5 

 to 70 pounds, with supers on." — Pacific Bee 

 Journal. 



The change to the new color in the cover of 

 Gleanings seems to meet with approval on all 

 hands, but I hope no such adical change will 

 occur again for a long time. haven't yet got 

 used to it so but that I feel disappointed at not 

 Gnding Gleanings in the mail, and wonder 

 what that light-blue-covered thing is. 



Formerly I thought bees both could and 

 did cut into sound grapes, but now I can't go as 

 far as Eli as Fox, page 70(5, for I feel pretty sure 

 they would if they could. Bees an tear wood, 

 but not the softer grape. If E. F. will try bit- 

 ing a piece out of a big pumpkin he may under- 

 stand why a bee can't bite a grape. 



My honey's sold, but yet it's a real pleasure 

 to see that there's a little upward tendency in 

 prices. The fact is,.;that 'an Impression got 

 afloat that there was a bigger general crop 

 than I think the facts warranted, and that im- 

 pression made a depression in prices from 

 which they are now beginning to recover. 



EnoughI hold on I let up! Messrs. Editor, 

 Skylark, and Norton. If Marengo folks are the 

 only ones that talk about sections with no wood, 

 then Marengo folks are wrong and must amend 

 their English, and that's all there is about it. 

 And yet, when the ABC talks about using up 

 unfinished sections in one's own family 



We got a good hint at Brother Packham's 

 wedding. When the arty were seated around 

 the room after coming from the church, among 

 the refreshments handed round were thin slices 

 of bread, on which a spoonful of honey was 

 dropped in the middle. The recipient doubled 

 the bread up, making a delightful little sand- 

 wich. — Australian Bee Bulletin. 



C. P. Dadant did a bright thing by way of 

 an object-lesson to the scholars of the public 

 school. A day was set, the scholars bringing 

 grapes, pears, peaches, to see if the bees would 

 attack them. "A little honey served to attract 

 the bees. They came in numbers. Then the 

 honey was removed and some damaged fruit 

 given them. On this they worked, though not 

 so readily as on the honey. After they got fair- 

 ly started to work, the damaged fruits were re- 



