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this year, " aud then it goes on and gives the 

 the tables from which the coucinsions were 

 drawn, anil, as thouyh to make assurance 

 doubly sure, over tiie top of the tables it 

 says: " Experiments with various brands of 

 foundation, ISitC. " 



A Condensed View of Current 

 Bee Writings. 



E. E. HASTY. 



JTTl bad " out " in Jan Review makes me 

 XI. tell vinegar makers just the wrong 

 thing. The direction should read ; " Use 

 fruit juice or yeast /"or //jf alcoholic fermen- 

 tation, and H little good strong vinegar for 

 the acetic. 



A painter of <'0 years' experience tells in 

 the American Bee Journal, page :?0, how to 

 paint theunplaned lumber of hives and bee 

 sheds. Easy as tumbling off a house. Just 

 good sweet skimmed milk mixed to the 

 proper consistency with Spanish white. 

 Don't he too generous aud use milk with the 

 cream in it : else, I suppose, you might have 

 butter frying out in the sun. The Spanish 

 white needs an ounce of fresh lime to each 

 ten pounds. Two coats are enough. Sur- 

 face can then be left just as it is, or nicely 

 finished with one coat of white lead. You 

 understand that the objection to white lead 

 on unplaned wood is that such a lot of it is 

 required as to make the cost unendurable. 

 What may be a still better preparation, as it 

 is in use by the I'nited States government, is 

 given on page 7(>. 



" Tak(> V6 bushel of unslacked lime, slack it 

 witli boilini; water, coyer duriiie the procesh to 

 keep thi' steam in ; strain tlirough a fine strainer, 

 ami add one peck of salt dissolved in warm 

 wator; throe p "umls of erouii'i rice boiled to a 

 thin pastp. and stirrefi in while hot; ^ pound of 

 Spanish whitinjr, and onf> prmnd of clean glue 

 previously dissolved. Add five gallons of hot 

 wntor to till- mixtupp ; stir well, and let it stand 

 a fpw days well covpred. It should be applied 

 hot. A oint will cover a square yard, if proper- 

 ly applied to wood, stone or brick. '' 



Samuel Simmins, a leading writer of Eng- 

 land, has space in Gleanings 779 ( 18!m; ) in 

 defense of his rather queer, and apparently 

 too fussy way of getting ready for the crop 

 of section honey. People in this country 

 are predisposed to pitch into it. And what's 

 a man worth, any way, who won't tight a 

 good tight in defense of his own pet plans ? 

 He is right that newly built comb is better 

 than that kept over; right that comb build- 



ing is not necessarily expensive of honey ; 

 probably right that a large sheet of founda- 

 tion laid over several nicely halved sections 

 will be a better set of combs than if squares 

 of foundation were inserted in each section; 

 probably right that bees can easily be made 

 to work above when things are not full be- 

 low — all that, and maybe more— but wheth- 

 er splitting every thing in two in the middle 

 lengthwise ( bee man's slumbers included ) 

 whether it altogether pays, there's the rub ; 

 and whether anybody can feed honey to 

 make bees work during a floral dearth with- 

 out enormous loss, nobody seems to know 

 how or why, there's another another rub. 

 Put only half your cash into the scheme 

 until somebody in this country has made a 

 success and some money at it. But if the 

 contrary little critters only ivould accept our 

 superior wisdom, and build a supply of 

 comb all nice before the rush comes on, how 

 nice it would be I 



F. Greiner discovers that the Root ship- 

 ping crate is too long to go crosswise in a 

 wagon box. and wastes wagon space shock- 

 ingly when put iu lengthwise. This pro- 

 vokes the wagoner to chuck it in some other 

 side up than it ought to be, to the ruin of 

 the honey. Gleanings 7S2. Perhaps some- 

 thing should be done about it, but apparent- 

 ly the crate Mr. G. illustrates is too tall, and 

 would too often topple over on the cars. 



Dolittlesays a laying queen is able to get 

 through just as narrow a perforation as a 

 virgin queen — does not usually try as hard 

 — but when frightened, or very angry, she 

 will try, and succeed. Gleanings 08(5. 



Ah, yes I we know it now. The honey 

 jumble is built on the model of that ances- 

 tral doughnut which has a round hole in the 

 middle, only you bake'em instead of fry'em. 

 Thanks. First mix the honey, molasses and 

 lard, and put in the salt. Next dissolve the 

 soda in the water, and stir it thoroughly 

 into the previous mass. Add next the va- 

 nilla — all in now but the flour. Next stir in 

 part of the flour: then betake yourself to 

 the rolling pin, and roll in the rest of it. 

 Cut them out half an inch thick. Never 

 mind if it is a little dauby. You can '"wras- 

 tle" them into a well buttered pan somehow. 

 Touch the button ( of a medium oven ) and 

 the oven does the rest. Thanks awfully, Dr. 

 Miller I Gleanings lit. 



In A. B. J. n."» our editor W. Z. " goes in " 

 on the fertilization of queens. Would like 

 no better job than raising virgins at 10 cents 



