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Vol. XXIV. 



NOV. I, 1896. 



No. 21 



About half of the wild bees have drones 

 with stings, and some of the wild bees are only 

 ^ of an inch in length. So Prof. Bruner told us 

 at Lincoln. 



I INDORSE every word A. I. Root says about 

 the way we outsiders were treated at Lincoln. 

 It was no second-class fare we had, but just the 

 best of every thing. 



A. I. Root never visited a single cabbage or 

 turnip patch while at Lincoln, unless he did it 

 before the rest of us were up in the morning. 

 [That is true, and it is something remarkable. 

 —Ed.] 



I WONDER if some of the old hankering for 

 strong drink doesn't yet remain with A. L Root. 

 At any rate he inquired of me if there was any 

 saloon connected with the Lindell Hotel, where 

 we stopped. And neither of us could find any. 



If paraffine is left untouched by bees, why 

 not apply a coating of it to ends of top-bars and 

 other points we don't want glued? [I'm not sure 

 but that paraffine at the edges of brood-frames 

 that come in contact with each other might be 

 a great help.— Ed.] 



Stray Straws in last Gleanings are not as 

 good as usual. They never are when the editor 

 is at Lincoln. If he thinks it's fair for me to 

 write Straws without footnotes, some of these 

 days I'll let him write a full set of footnotes 

 without Straws, and see how he'll like that. 



Nebraska bee-keepers are to be congratu- 

 lated on having two such aids as Prof. Bruner, 

 the entomologist, and Prof. Bessey, the bota- 

 nist. Besides being able they're good. I just 

 fell in love with both of them. [I would go a 

 little further, and say the bee-keepers of the 

 United States are fortunate in having such 

 aids as Profs. Bruner and Bessey.— Ed.] 



Sweet clover. Mrs. L. E. R. Lambrigger 

 says in Nebraska Farmer, " For honey purposes 

 we should prefer one acre of the yellow to four 



of the white, while for hay and pasture one 

 acre of the yellow is preferred to a dozen of the 

 white." Now, who can tell us more about this? 

 I always supposed the yellow was inferior, and 

 have never seen but a few stalks of it. 



The Britisfi Bee Journal says honey will re- 

 main liquid longer at 65° to 75° than at a high- 

 er temperature. I wonder if that's correct; 

 and if so, why? [We in this country have 

 come to the conclusion that a temperature of 

 from 70 to 80 degrees Fahr. is more favorable to 

 keeping honey liquid than a lower temperature. 

 Possibly English honey is a little different from 

 that produced in this country.— Ed.] 



Let me tell F. Greiner (see page 740) that I 

 learned bees would forage at 5 days old much 

 in the same way he did — that is, by actually 

 seeing them at it. I did it for the entirely safe 

 introduction of a costly queen, putting in the 

 hive no bee out of the cell but the queen. And 

 when I saw bees only 5 days old carrying in 

 pollen, it would be hard for Herr Vogel to rea- 

 son me into the belief that it was impossible till 

 13 days later. 



Brother A. I., please don't run that microbe 

 theory into the ground. At least, don't insist 

 that all stomachs must be governed by Medina 

 rules. I can go out this minute and find an 

 apple on the ground under a snow-tree, mellow 

 and delicious beyond any thing I can find on 

 the tree, and I can eat double as many of those 

 on the ground without hurting me. Much de- 

 pends on the kind. I shouldn't like to eat a 

 Baldwin or a Spitzenberger right off the tree. 



The hush up policy seems to be going out 

 of date. Years ago there would have been a 

 vague hint that " certain parties in one of our 

 large cities might well be investigated before 

 being entrusted with large consignments." 

 Now Geo. T. Wheadon & Co., and other names, 

 are given in very plain English, with not only 

 the city but the street and number. That's 

 right. When a man goes crooked, whether in 

 or out of our own ranks, and it's known that he 

 is deliberately bad, and intends to remain so, 

 the general good demands that his name be 

 given. 



