THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



157 



On page 'M^ri and 'Mi\ of Oleanings are fine 

 pictures illustrating the new queen rearing 

 — backed by a stront; article defending it. 

 It is by an Australian, H. L. Jones. Ernest 

 surrenders, and says he is going to try 

 the method over again. Certainly those 

 long rows of splendid cells, all ready to 

 slice up with a hot knife look very attractive 

 and business-like. The advantage of know- 

 ing within a few hours just when they will 

 emerge must, as he says, count heavily with 

 a practical queen breeder. 



Dr. Miller in a straw ;!('il says wet your 

 sections with boiling water through a fun- 

 nel. This fine stream of hot water is made 

 to run through the grooves of the f-ections 

 before they are unpacked from the box. 



The question box of tlie American Bee 

 •Journal gets after the new high wall foun- 

 dation on page :51i). 



Ten are favorable, seven unfavorable and 

 two on the fence. But the favorable re- 

 sponses mostly smell pretty strongly of 

 " ifs. " 



To exterminate yellow dock which has got 

 possession of rich bottom land sow sweet 

 clover. A. B. J. 181. Quite likely some bad 

 weeds could be cheaply exterminated by a 

 judicious use of sweet clover. But possibly 

 enemies might remind us of those ancient 

 dovesjwhich engaged a hawk to exterminate 

 the kite. 



California usually has a crop of honey or 

 not according to the number of inches of 

 rain in winter and spring. It already has 

 over the required amount, and feels happy. 

 A. B. J. 131. 



Mr. Muth, who is good authority on foul 

 brood, sets five years as the safe limit of 

 time during whicii natural forces of sun and 

 air will surely have killed off all the spores, 

 and make infected hives safe again. A. B. 

 J. 147. 



At the Vermont experiment station they 

 fed syrup to bees three times in succession, 

 kept samples of each, and had the chemist 

 try his hand on them. 'I'he figures as re- 

 ported prove very badly: but taking them 

 as they stand the amount "f water steadily 

 increased. More than two-thirds of the 

 cane sugar was changed (jn first feeding to 

 other sugars of the dextrose and levulose 

 classes. Then comes the queerest thing of 

 all; at second and third feeding the amount 

 of cane sugar (as reported i steadily increas- 

 ed. Most likely the bees changed some of 

 the material, on second and third feeding 



into other sugars unknown to the chemist, 

 and improperly classified by him. A. B. J. 

 14!t. 



Friend Aikin tells of a weed so conducive 

 to granulation that the bees are charged 

 with hurrying home to get there before 

 their little interiors get all solid. Gleanings 



lie. 



In the same article Mr. A. speaks sensibly 

 of the desirability of testing the relations 

 between weather states and honey flow, 

 which is one of the unsolved mysteries. 

 Tip top — if he can only get enough breth- 

 ren interested that they will not be squelch- 

 ed by the general indifference. 



In Gleanings 117 F. L. Thompson wants 

 to know why not recognize the unpleasant 

 fact that many eaters of honey get tired of 

 it after awhile. Sure enough, why not? 

 Also he suggests that little bits of comb 

 honey, perhaps accompanied by something 

 eatable (a doughnut, say) would go at lunch 

 counters, and that this honey-selling field 

 is almost wholly unoccupied at present. 



George L. Vinal sent a half and half mix- 

 ture of honey and glucose to five different 

 experts (not chemists) and only two of 

 them judged it ought else than pure honey — 

 and one of them had used the alcohol test 

 on it. Editor makes the sad confession on 

 it that the tasting test has played out, so far 

 as up-to-date glucose is concerned. Best to 

 keep the alcohol test prominently before the 

 brethren— One part honey to three parts 

 alcohol, very thoroughly stirred, and allow- 

 ed to stand 15 minutes. If pure it will be 

 nearly clear, if glucose is in it it will be 

 milky. Gleanings lit;'.. Ernest also thinks 

 the two Unions should now " beat their 

 swords into plowshares" and each pitch in 

 tremendous in its own chosen field. 



Anent the comparative quality of comb 

 honey and extracted honey, the editor of 

 Gleanings on page I'.)l remarks, in a foot 

 note, that usually comb honey is put in 

 shallow cells where it has a better chance 

 to evaporate rapidly, while extracted hon- 

 ey is usually stored in deep cells. This 

 rather accidental difference sometimes 

 counts pretty heavily, perchance. I would 

 suggest another accidental difference. 

 Section honey is stored when there is a 

 good and rapid flow. In extracting supers 

 of empty comb, honey is often stored when 

 the flow is not good enough to have any 

 section storing at all. And when the flow is 

 poor the quality is apt to be poor also. 



