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Vol. XXIV. 



DEC. 15, 1896. 



No. 24. 





PossiBi-Y we may find that sweet clover of 

 the white sort is best in one place and the yellow 

 in another. 



Alfalfa, A. C. Tyrrel reluctantly admits in 

 Nebraslui Beekeeper, is of no value as a honoy- 

 plant at Madison, Neb. 



Baked beans usually have a little sugar or 

 molasses put in them. Try honey instead, and 

 see if it isn't an improvement. 



Caucasian queens have been imported into 

 England by H. W. Brice. They are very gen- 

 tle, and the Russians say they are productive. 



Honey-gems. Flour. 196 lbs.; lard, 10 lbs.; 

 honey, 7 galls.; molasses, 7 galls.; brown sugar, 

 15 lbs.; carbonate of soda, S^.f lbs.; salt, 1 lb.: 

 water, 4 galls.; vanilla extract, 1 pt. 



Great Britain has tried postal savings 

 banks for 25 years, and now has on deposit 

 *337,000.00O. Canada, after .5 years, has JJSG.OOO,- 

 000 at 3)4 per cent interest. Isn't this country 

 a little behind the times'? 



The lives of some people will be lengthened 

 by keeping bees in the cellar. Do you know 

 why? They'll allow the cellar to be so foul 

 that it isn't healthy to live over it; but if bees 

 are cellared they'll clean up and whitewash the 

 cellar. 



Peat, finely broken up, is recommended in 

 Revue Natinnale as an improvement on chaff 

 for cushions on hives. It is a good absorbent of 

 moisture, a disinfectant, and a poor conductor 

 of heat. It is liked in Germany. [The material 

 fs probably good, but hardly available for this 

 country.— Ei>.] 



An article in a leading Chicago daily grave- 

 ly explains the diflerence between bees in hives 

 and those in trees, or "wild " bees. The wild 

 bee is smaller, stronger, and fiercer than "his 

 tamer brother;" each bee thrusts in his sting 

 again and again without leaving it in the flesh. 



and the wild bee gathers from basswood a 

 honey whose richness no home honey can ap- 

 proach! 



The Royal Show of 1897, which will be held 

 at Manchester in June next, is now receiving 

 attention in the British Bee Journal. Oughtn't 

 we to begin to talk about the convention at 

 BulTalo? 



Leveling a hive by the eye may do fairly 

 well where the ground is level; but on a slope 

 the eye can't be trusted. The side of the hive 

 towaril the slope will always look higher than 

 it is. It pays well to use a spirit-level. 



The fraternity in general will regret to 

 learn that one of the veterans. H. D. Cutting, 

 has partially lost his sight, and there is fear it 

 may be entirely lost. [Mr. Cutting was former- 

 ly the very efificient secretary of the Michigan 

 State Bee-keepers' Association. He had the 

 reputation of being a very fine mechanic, and 

 the loss of sight will be a sad blow. I sincerely 

 hope the worst fears will not be realized.— Ed.] 



An added happiness will come to us who 

 live in the country if free rural delivery of mail 

 should come into general use. There seems a 

 little prospect of it from the fact that the Posi- 

 ofBce Department is now trying it on a little 

 larger scale than in the time of Harrison. Wan- 

 amaker, a man with a clear business head, urged 

 it. The present experitiaent gives daily collec- 

 tion and distribution of mail at farmhouses in a 

 number of selected counties in different States. 



" Will unfinished sections of full depth, 

 when filled with honey the second time, and 

 capped over, make first-class comb honey?" 

 To this question in American Bee Journal, 4 

 say yes, 11 no, and .5 say, "Yes, if the comb is 

 cut down." If the 4 have actually succeeded 

 themselves, their testimony outweighs that of 

 the 11 noes, just as the testimony of 4 witnesses 

 who saw a man commit murder outweighed 

 that of 11 who hadn'l. seen it. But some sec- 

 tions won't do without cutting down. [That is 

 just it exactly. One or two who know all about 

 what they are talking about ought to have a 

 good deal more weight than ten or twelve times 



