rHE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



73 



heavy shipment upon your market to pay 

 you for your lack of wit. (rleanings 820. 

 Worth tliinking of. 



A wrinkle not in universal use is to have 

 your uncapping box and drainer quite long, 

 and sized just so as to hauf,' in a frame. You 

 nncap and ha g in frames until there is 

 room for no more, and then turn to and run 

 them all out at once — saving the large 

 amount of time usually lost by a multitude 

 of changes from one kind of work to another. 

 Gleanings 8")7. 



The man who reported honey <>0 cents a 

 pound in Johannesburg, South Africa, is 

 Borry that he did. Price has fallen nearly 

 one-half, and likely to go lower. Gleanings 

 12. 



T. S. Ford, in Gleanings 13, vouches for a 

 case where a bumble bee tried to get hon- 

 ey from a painted flower ( in doors. ) 

 Doubtless the story of Solomon and the 

 Queen of Sheba's flowers is a hum, as he 

 says, and the Sunday School folks who be- 

 lieve it, easy dupes: but I fear that Mr. Ford 

 has somehow or other suff'ered himself to be 

 also. Would not his big, bumbling majesty, 

 blundering in the stable window, and alight- 

 ing in sudden fright and confusion on the 

 milking stool, have behaved just the same ? 

 One would not think that a queen cell 

 ready for the egg had just the entrance 

 diameter of a worker cell, neither less nor 

 more, as related by comrade Aspinwall, but 

 I guess its so. 



A. B. J. 77S, and a straw in Gleanings 1."), 

 call attention to slight poi-^onous properties 

 of propolis. I have noticed that the skin 

 of my hands did not feel right after being 

 in propolis dust a good deal; but I supposed 

 powdered rosin or any similar dust would 

 the same effects. Probably I was wrong in 

 that. 



The fear that Apis Dorsata may prove 

 auotlier Euglish sparrow is answered by 

 Prof. Cook. A. B. J. 78'.t, with the compre- 

 hensive declaration that no honey-storing 

 bees are ever mischievous. Of course he 

 would abate that as to an occasional sting, 

 and a little untimely /."sil at the candy 

 stands, and raisin-drying boxes, and sorg- 

 hum mills. 



In the American Bee Journal the genial 

 Dr. Peiro. after a long absense, has recent- 

 ly reaiJpeared. (ilad to see him. 



Comrade A. F. Brown of Florida tinds his 

 yields of comb honey 7(( or 80 percent of the 

 extracting figures. His method of getting 



rid of foul brood is effective, to say the least 

 — burnt everything, and left the location. We 

 hope he may not fare as did the historic 

 eel, who left his location in the spider for a 

 hotter one below. A. B. J. 802. 



Mr. Lyman ( A. B. J. 837 ) makes a good 

 point that those who buy candied honey do 

 not find fault with it afterwards; but those 

 who buy liquid honey just before it candies 

 very naturally complain. Very gcod, as far 

 as concerns the one man who Willingly buys 

 candied honey — but, alas, the nine, or ninety 

 and nine, who won't touch it with a pole ! 

 Mr. Chapman says the consumers of France, 

 Switzerland and Germany are educated to 

 the point of buyi g candied honey. Dr. 

 Miller says Mr. Muth has had some success 

 in educating folks around Cincinnati. Some 

 of us however are very faint hearted as to 

 our powers as educators in that sort of 

 school. Perhaps the best we can do is to 

 promise to exchange all honey that candies. 

 My way is to sell in small pails direct to 

 consumers, and be sure the honey is re- 

 cently heated up before going out. In this 

 way it is usually e ten up before granula- 

 tion occurs. 



Frie'id Green says he has known honey to 

 granulate when the average temperature 

 was not below 80°. Dr. Miller thinks heat- 

 ing up honey before selling too risky. A. 

 B.J. 838. Glad he isn't "boss "of me. 



It seems from what is related by C. Theil- 

 man A. B. J. 4 ( 1897 ) that quite a tribe of 

 Chicago commission men have got away 

 beyond the simple dishonesty of taking con- 

 signments of honey and giving nothing in 

 return — prepared to use violence, and clap 

 the owner into jail on trump' d up charges, 

 if he makes himself too plenty — also pre- 

 pared to seize on a pile of honey laid down 

 in reach, and put it out of sight forever 

 while the owner is merely talking with one 

 of the gang about consigning it. 



From what appears on 37, A. B.J. it looks 

 as though these rats now want five dollars of 

 each of you, in consideration of which they 

 will undertake to catch your rats for you — 

 for ten percent of the cheese recovered. 

 Don't bite at these five dollar memberships 

 until better informed. 



At present the battle of the rival frames 

 goes about thus. The 22 senators of the A. 

 B. J. arc 3 for the little low frames, 2 for the 

 "whaling" great big frames, 2 for odd- 

 sized frames of medium character, and 

 about 1.") for the Langstroth. 



