Itit: BEh-KEEFERS- REVIEW. 



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me. If I cau't catch the game perhaps I 

 can yelp a little ou its track. Isn't it true that 

 wheuever there is goiug to be an unusual 

 crop of any fruit the bees show onnsnal zeal 

 at its blooui V 



Dr. Ciallup received a queen from Ohio 

 that brought paralysis with her. All her 

 daughters, live in number, died of the dis- 

 ease in a short time. Having had experi- 

 ence with constitutional diseases in fancy 

 pigeons and poultry, he is sure a similar 

 remedy is needed for paralysis — every head 

 cut off at once. Only at present he seems 

 to think it will suffice to apply the remedy to 

 queens alone. I have some doubts on that 

 last point. A. B. J. 482. 



In the Progressive Somnambulist has been 

 getting around again to the review and 

 critic business. His best efforts are in that 

 line it seems to me. The last article is in- 

 terjected with editorial, Stray Straw fashion: 

 and in one of these the editor ''gives away " 

 the (xleanings apiary. The view seen in 

 the A. B. C. book nowhere to be found. 

 General Demoralization been leading the 

 forces through a critical campaign. 



In a straw. Gleanings 441, Dr. Miller 

 thinks a tangle of swarms without any 

 any queen will sometimes sulk on a tree all 

 day — such a case not to be expected except 

 where the bees have been thwarted several 

 times in their swarming efforts. 



According to R.C. Aikin, Gleanings 47i», 

 Colorado folks think they have a bran new 

 bee disease. Xo corrupt combs like foul 

 brood, no swollenorshiny invalids tumbling 

 round the door like paralysis, but just 

 mysterious disappearance to such an extent 

 that a strong colony in a few days is so de- 

 populated that they have to let their brood 

 perish. A pretty how to do, I should say; 

 and we are few of us anxious for closer ac- 

 puaintance. They call their disease " eva- 

 poration. " I suspect that it is paralysis, 

 only in a more severe and sudden phase. 

 Bees usually Hy away from the hive when 

 they feel that they are yoing to die. The 

 usual phase of paralysis is an^exception be- 

 cause the affected individuals were born in- 

 valids, and never feel any one hour very 

 much worse than they did the hour before — 

 that is not till inability to fly arrives. 



When a man says an unpopular thing we 



find it very easy to pass him along. Just 



hear Mc. Knight on glucose. 



" (ilncosc is not vile stuff.' It is a lositi- 

 mate article of commerce, and it« productiuu 



^aiid sale are as honorable as the production and 

 sale of any other article of commerce when 

 sold for what it is." (jleanings 484. 



'Spects I should have to insert a" necessar- 

 ily" in the first sentence, and a "might be" 

 in the second — and decorate the last clause 

 with a parenthesis reading ( When's that V ) 



In extracting it's quite a serious matter 

 sometimes that bees receiving a set of wet 

 combs not their own get in a tlurry over 

 them (evidently considering them plunder) 

 and attract all the robbers in the yard. E. 

 H. Schaeffle says take off the combs at early 

 morn and don't make returns ^ntil eventide. 

 Gleanings 48.'). Mr. S. is is. Californian, 

 and takes part of his crop as comb honey. 

 First he used the triangular top starter 

 with the Miller bottom starter. The latter 

 was abandoned for curling over so often. 

 Next he used three triangles, a big one at 

 top and small ones in the bottom corners. 

 Bees gnawed these last out too often. Now 

 he usesa narrow strip on each side, in con- 

 nection with the top triangle, which seems 

 to be his sheet anchor. 



The editor (Gleanings 480) says the Cor- 

 nell smoker is more popular than the 

 Crane at present. 



Much interesting information about Apis 

 Dorsata appears in Gleanings 487. Mr. 

 Sladen of Eugland, who has lately studied 

 them diligently in India, says he is sadly 

 impressed with their laziness — only abroad 

 about three hours in a day, and even then 

 moving very languidly, often stopping on a 

 leaf to rest. His measurements of ligulas 

 (direct measurements of such slender organs 

 of dead insects must not be trusted very 

 much ) indicate that the ordinary bee's 

 reach is only one-tenth less than dorsata's 

 — a bumble bee's reach being more than 

 twice that of dorsuta. He also thinks dor- 

 sata wax of inferior quality. 



The missionary Mr. Bunker, who has 

 written us before on the subject, adds some 

 new items. In Burma, for a part of the 

 year, it migrates to a mountain district 

 where (as I infer) there are no trees. 

 There it accepts large stakes set horizon- 

 tally in steep hillsides by the natives. This 

 seems to be the nearest to captivity we 

 have heard of yet. But he notes that the 

 amount of honey they have seems small, 

 compared with what we would expect of 

 such great colonies of big fellows. (Natives 

 eat the brood; at least in some places they 

 do.; In the forest 1*0 miles east of Tonugoo 



