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Vol. XXIX. 



FEB. I, 1901. 



No. 3. 



Dr C.C.MILLER 



Stenog savs, p. 45, he will willingly pay 40 

 cts. a pound for extracted Nevada alfalfa hon- 

 ey. He's likely to get the Nevada output. 



When hauling bees, tacks sprinkled on 

 the platform, even two to a hive, will keep 

 the hives from slipping about, says F. A. Gem- 

 mill, in Review. That may do pretty well in 

 place of cleats nailed on the platform. [A 

 capital idea. — Ed ] 



I've used lots of dummies such as Bro. 

 Doolittle describes, p. 52, an inch thick, and 

 like them. But I now use dummies X or ^ 

 inch thick, cleated at the ends, and like them 

 better. In some cases it may take more, but 

 they're nicer to handle, and sometimes one 

 can be used where the thicker could not. 



To PREVENT cracks in a cake of wax, Le 

 Rucher Beige xQCom.mQnAsih.&\, when cooling, 

 it be covered with a cover having a hole in the 

 middle, so that the center of the surface will 

 cool first. A good way is to put the dish of 

 melted wax. in the stove oven at night when 

 the fire begins to go down, and leave it there 

 all night. 



Sometimes you put candied honey or bees- 

 wax in the oven of the cook stove to leave 

 there over night. You're sure you'll remem- 

 ber to take it out when you start the fire in 

 the morning, but never think of it again till 

 that dreadful smell greets your nostrils To 

 prevent such a catastrophe, put the stove-han- 

 dle in the oven at night, then you can't well 

 forget it in the morning. [Doctor, you talk 

 as if you had been having some very recent 

 experience. If so, Z£/^ will profit by it. — Ed.] 



Here's the way C. a. Hatch managed 10- 

 frame hives for comb honey, as given in Re- 

 view : When time for supers came, he put the 

 frames with eggs and unsealed larvae at the 

 outsides ; and the season being short these 

 outside combs were not emptied for honey till 

 it was over ; and as the bees didn't want to 

 store right in the middle of the brood-nest, 

 the surplus all went into the super. [At first 



thought, this strikes me as being a most ex- 

 cellent suggestion for either 10 or 8 frame 

 hives ; but, of course, in some localities and 

 under some conditions it might not give very 

 satisfactory results ; but I should suppose it 

 would work very nicely. — Ed.] 



Shall extracting-combs be given to the 

 bees to clean in the fall ? is asked in Revue 

 Internationale. Most of the repliers say no, 

 if the combs are kept in a dry place. The 

 sticky combs are less troubled with moths, and 

 the bees will occupy them more promptly the 

 next season. But it must be remembered that 

 candied honey is in favor in Europe more 

 than here, and the residue of honey in the 

 combs left over winter hastens candying the 

 next year. If you don't want candied honey 

 in sections, let the bees clean dry in the fall 

 all unfinished sections that are to be given to 

 the bees the next year. [Here, again, locality 

 has every thing to do with the matter. — Ed.] 



According to German journals, Dr. J. 

 Langer investigated 164 bee-keepers, and 

 found 11 of them immune to bee-poison from 

 the start ; 126 became immune after a time ; 

 and 27 remained as sensitive as ever. Some 

 lost their immunity each winter, and some- 

 times suddenly through sickness. [I have 

 never yet run across a case of one who was 

 immune from the start — that is to say, one on 

 whom there was no swelling after the first 

 sting. But I have known of instances where 

 it would seem as if certain people could never 

 keep bees, owing to the fact that the poison, 

 in spite of the repeated doses of it, seems to 

 act as disastrously as at first, not only produc- 

 ing swelling, but causing a sickness bordering 

 hard on the dangerous. — Ed.] 



Ira Barber says in Review that, when 

 there is not enough snow on the ground to 

 prevent freezing 2 or 3 feet deep, there will be 

 no surplus from white clover. If snow covers 

 the unfrozen ground all winter, the clover 

 yields nectar whether the ground be wet or 

 dry. That looks reasonable ; but how about 

 buckwheat ? Like white clover it may bloom 

 and not yield, but it has no roots the previous 

 winte'-. [Snow probably does have a very de- 

 cided influence on the growth of clover and 

 its subsequent behavior the following season. 

 In our locality we count on a large amount of 



