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till at least a yearhas passed. Howcau Mr. 

 Walker know whether the disease is cured, 

 of merely abated, wheu he experimented in 

 swarming time, and wrote his article in 

 August the same year ? If I get the idea 

 paralysis has regular periods of appearance 

 and disappearance, even when left alone — a 

 sort of annual ague with on fit and ofif fil. 

 Of course uf I may be allowed so Irish a 

 bull) running in a swarm of healthy bees 

 would help on the off tit, when the ofif fit 

 was already coming due. We must expect 

 that more than half of new plans and reme- 

 dies will be failures: and if this proves a 

 failure it is likely also to be a frightful 

 multiplier of the disease. The method 

 alluded to is to hive diseased swarms in 

 hives that have just cast healthy swarms, 

 and vice versa. 



Dr. Miller notes, Gleanings 621, that the 

 usual darkening of the honey as the season 

 advances does not appear this year. Same 

 peculiarity here, until (juite late. 



Another straw on the same page says the 

 wood of the hedge shrub osage orange has 

 wonderful smoke making qualities. Don't 

 have to wait for it to rot— just sound and 

 dry. 



Alas, friend Thompson, we knew you 

 were away off in the wild west, but we 

 did'nt suppose you were driven to the des- 

 peration of shaving yourself with a table 

 knife I See (ileanings t>2'.». No wonder he 

 wants all the chaps who are presidents and 

 secretaries and factotums put out of the 

 room . 



C. A. Hatch confesses that in Californian 

 migratory operations a good many bees turn 

 up dead in some of the hives, especially 

 when the journey takes two nights. He 

 shrewdly suspects that where some bees die 

 at once many more have their lives seriously 

 shortened by the worry they have gone 

 through. Gleanings CSi*. A very reasonable 

 supposition indeed I should say. 



.Inst seventeen minutes is the time it takes 

 for Michigan bees, set down in a strange 

 place, to take bearings, find nectar, and get 

 home with the first load. I rather suspect 

 that no other state is likely to break Mich- 

 igan's record right away. A. L. Boyden, a 

 member of the Home of the Honey Bees 

 staff, talked with the man that saw the bee 

 come in. Gleanings );;'._'. I am skeptic 

 enough to 8usj)ect those t>ees were distress- 

 ed for water, and that, there being some 

 near by. they got at it quickly. 



Living in California and editing a maga- 

 zine in England at the same time ! Until 

 some way of hopping to Mars is invented 

 one can't get much further in the line of 

 living at a distance from his daily work. 

 This is anent editor Cowan of the British 

 Bee Journal, as related Gleanings G32. Has 

 spent one winter in California, and thinks 

 of spending the second one. 



R. S. Wilson, on page (>3,') of Gleanings, 

 gives us a picture of a nice queen-register 

 card, clock dial style. But the specially 

 attractive thing is where he puts it — under- 

 neath a square bit of thin board, just laid on 

 top of the hive. Soak all to ruin the first 

 shower, eh ? No sir'ee. A tack at each cor- 

 ner driven half way in holds it high and dry. 



As to the new foundation since the last 

 " View, " Mr. Doolittle, who was inclined 

 in its favor, makes a very unfavorable re- 

 port. No advantage appears, and makes a 

 comb that resists the knife much more than 

 ordinary comb. Ernest himself discovers 

 that when the bees have time they pile in 

 wax next the juncture of wall and septum, 

 to remedy, (in their eyes) its ugly flat-bot- 

 tomedness. The edict has gone out that 

 next year's drawn foundation must have 

 natural bases. Gleanings 639. 



What little things a laugh sometimes de- 

 pends on. In the last American Bee Jour- 

 nal I laugh to see a string of the senators 

 saying, " I don't know, " " I don't know, " 

 " I don't know, " just as the dog barks of a 

 pleasant evening, at nothing at all. They 

 think they are responding to a question; 

 but the question is'nt there. Got left out 

 somehow. 



Here's another thing that makes me 

 laugh, almost the next page A. B. .7. .590. 

 Emm Dee (presumably the department 

 editor, Dr. Peiro) and his bee-keeping 

 neighbor, much wiser than himself (pre- 

 sumably editor York; are in it. Both had 

 some honey to sell from their home apiaries; 

 and both engaged the same smart little boy 

 to retail for them. Now Emm Dee " slouch- 

 ed " a little — put on old, discolored sections, 

 and couldn't bother to scrape the propolis 

 off— and his honey sold tip top. The wise 

 neighbor's honey needed more pushing to 

 make it go. Folks thought it looked too 

 proper for this world of sin, and imagined 

 it must be manufactured. 



In A. B. J. .">7'.i, Deacon savagely pitches 

 into our habit of saying that bees "draw 

 ont " foundation. The idea that a bee can 



