THK BKE-KKKPRRS' REVIEW. 



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Chinese. Malay.s and Klinijs were j^ivinij 

 l)ee.s a wide berlli; hnl a vi»jorous native 

 race called the Dyaks are j^reat bee keep- 

 ers. Of .Vpis Dorsata he tells lis not 

 tnnch that is new. .\pis Flava is inter- 

 esting^ — a little larj^er than our bees, and 

 much more yellow than any bee we know 

 of, and not difficult to handle, but alas, 

 the Dvaks, who of course know cheese 

 from chalk, reject them becau.se they 

 ujather so little honey. If some rogue 

 would i^et them, and chani^e their- name, 

 and tell us rijrht smart o' lies about 5(X) 

 pounds of suq>liis a year, marry he would 

 make quite a little fortune on their size 

 and beauty. The queen of this extra 

 vellow bee is not yellow at all. A])is 

 Indica he found the standard bee in 

 Borneo. They are somewhat smaller 

 than our bees. In Ceylon he found them 

 rather cro.ss; but in Borneo smoke was 

 not needed to handle them. In l)()th 

 places they would fiy, queens and all, 

 while their hive was beinj< manipulated — 

 a trick we should not like at all. On the 

 whole there don't seem to be anything; 

 for us to fancy. Say, let us be thankful 

 for the bees we have. 



Doolittle scrapes sections with a honey 

 crate bv his side to put in each section as 

 soon as it is clean. .-V. B. J. 530. Don't 

 believe tliat is the best way. Not favora- 

 ble to thorough assorting. 



.\ grown up boy, who '" wants to know, 

 \ou know. " asks the Canadian foul 

 brood ins])ector McEvoy what are the 

 svmptoms in the ca.se of the man made 

 -.ick by eating foul broody honey. 

 Mc. admits that he cannot tell — pretty 

 good evidence that the cases of sick- 

 ness from that cause have so far been 

 few. .\. B. J. 5.iO- 



When reading of the Dadant's remark- 

 able success in avoiding swarms we nat- 

 urallv wonder sometimes whether their 

 localitv does not have more to do with it 

 than their system. In A. B. J. 533 John 

 Ilamnion deposes ihat he kept four col- 

 onies within a stone's throw of their 

 apiar\-, and he got nine swarms and not 

 a pound of surplus. 



I'ertilizalion in confinement was up 

 again in the question box of A. B. J. 540. 

 Not much new li.ght; but M. Mahin had 

 seen two cases where queens incajxible of 

 flight became fertile somehow. 



Did you ever see the like of lliis wax- 

 extractor of Dr. Miller's, as per .\. B. J. 

 550 ? Old dripping pan with a hole in 

 one corner. Whole part of the pan slid in- 

 to the stove oven, the holy end projecting, 

 and dripping wax into a dish set on the 

 floor, 



'■() there's beauty all around 

 When there's—" 



a mild disposition among the women 

 folks at home. 



.\t how low a temperature may we 

 manipulate eggs and larvae destined to 

 raise queens? This query is up in the 

 question box A. B. J. 555. Doolittle's 

 Ijook advised not less than 85°. The 

 majority of the respondents think this 

 unnecessarily conser\-ative. Quite likely 

 if a larva were herself actually lowered 

 below 85°, as to her fingers and toes, and 

 everything except her "blessed little 

 heart," she might suffer somewhat from 

 " idflued/.a"" or .something. But manip- 

 ulation when the air is at 70° does not 

 necessarily compel such chilling. With 

 her toes in wann royal jelly, and her back 

 up against a warm plate of wax, she'll 

 not get cold enough to hurt her, if the 

 o])erator watches out as well as he can. 

 Of course with the surrounding air up 

 toward the nineties one could leave 

 things exposed more freely. Would not 

 a warmed ho.v to keep all things in not 

 actuallv under the hand be less awkward 

 than a warm room .sometimes? Or would 

 one half the boys vary the regimen un- 

 favorablv bv getting the box roasting 

 hot? 



B. V. Lewis, .\. B. J.,565 has a new way 

 to fa.sten his veil. Cuts a piece of clock 

 spring just long enough to go around his 

 neck, and lets it clasp the veil down tight. 

 Some may fail to .see how this is better 

 than the very jjrevalent old way of tuck- 

 ing the veil under the colkr. 



