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Vol. XXIX. 



APRIL I, 1901, 



No. 7. 



If S. T. Pettit wants to reform the thick 

 top-bar, let him commence nearer home and 

 straighten out J. B. Hall, the chap that began 

 it. 



March 6 it was 3° above zero. Today, the 

 18th, it is 65 above ; and as I am writing this, 

 Philo and Fred are taking the bees out of the 

 cellar. 



Novices should understand that the bees 

 spoken of at bottom of p. 240 as working on 

 red clover are bumble-bees. [Yes, yes, yes ; 

 this was a piece of careless proof-reading on 

 my part. The word biDnble should have been 

 inserted before the word bees. — Ed.] 



I WOULD SAY to Beginner, page 240, don't 

 trust entrance-guards or clipped wings to pre- 

 vent swarms going to the woods. Either one 

 will prevent the queen going away, but she 

 will surely be killed a few days later. [You 

 are correct, according to my experience. — Ed. ] 



Alfalfa, buckwheat, and alsike are given 

 as the principal plants for honey in addition 

 to their other value for planting. Ought not 

 S4?eet clover to be added in localities where 

 its value as a forage-plant is known ? And 

 are not those localities constantly on the in- 

 crease ? 



SoMK WILL LIKE Poole's entrancecontract- 

 or, p. 238, and some will prefer the simpler 

 pi m of Langstroth — two triangular blocks, 

 with three unequal sides. By placing these in 

 riifFerent positions, and by taking them away 

 al o ^ether, the entrance can be made of eight 

 different dimensions. 



Gravenhorst's BieiienzeituJig g\\es3. pic- 

 ture of Alberli's wander wagon for migratory 

 bee keeping. It is really a house-apiary on 

 wheels; contains 50 colonies, and costs $150. 

 When the harvest is better elsewhere than 

 where you are, close the entrances at night, 

 hitch on two stout horses, move to the better 

 place, open the entrances, and the bees are 

 ready for work in the morning. Extractor, 



etc., are inside the wagon, and the bees re- 

 main the year round. [Dr. Miller sent us a 

 print which we have had re-engraved. It is 

 reproduced on page 288. — Ed.] 



The question has been raised as to who 

 first gave to the public grafting or inoculating 

 larvae in queen cells. F. Goeken speaks in 

 Centyalblait of what I suppose is the same 

 thing {das Uinlarven or Larvieren der Bienen- 

 stoecke), and says it was given in 1866 by Meh- 

 ring, the inventor of comb foundation. 



Honey may be thick and of fine flavor 

 when extracted, so that it will not become 

 thin or sour afterward ; but it may neverthe- 

 less become flavorless, because extracted too 

 soon — not retaining its flavor like that left 

 longer on the hives. So says F. L. Thompson 

 in Progressive ; and if he is correct the mat- 

 ter is well worth considering. 



The question is asked, p. 240, " If I should 

 give my honey a good sulphuring on taking 

 it from the hives, would I have to sulphur it 

 again?" If you have Italian blood it will 

 hardly be necessary to sulphur it then or later. 

 In any case, sulphuring on first taking off will 

 do little or no good ; but if moth's eggs are 

 there it will need sulphuring later. Sulphur 

 will not kill the eggs, but bisulphide of car- 

 bon may. 



I BELIEVE I was among the first to urge 

 measuring tongues in the English tongue (I 

 think the French began it), but J. O. Grims- 

 ley is light in thinking that we must not go 

 so wild as to consider tongue length alone. 

 Some long tongued bees may be lazy or short- 

 lived. The question is not how deep a bee 

 can dive, so much as how much does it actual- 

 ly store? [See editorial elsewhere on this 

 subject — Ed ] 



I F THE YOUNG PEOPLE who read Gleanings 

 will read " bottom-bar " for " top-bar," p. 228, 

 second column, second line, it may save them 

 from thinking that something is wrong with 

 their understanding. [Yes, indeed. I had 

 the correction marked in the proof, but it did 

 not get into type until quite a number of im- 

 pressions had been run off. Fortunately, 

 most of the journals went out with the correct 

 reading. — Ed ] 



