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Vol. XXIX. 



JUNE 15, 1901. 



No. 12. 



In Centralblatt it is reported that, when 

 honey is used as a lubricant in making: foun- 

 dation, bees take more readily to such founda- 

 tion than to others. 



Honor to whom honor. Le Progres Api- 

 colc gives a picture of a cell-protector it says I 

 invented. Sorry to say I wasn't smart enough 

 to do so — it was our good friend N. D. West. 



The use of honey is recommended in 

 L'' Abeille de PAisne, for insomnia, when it 

 proceeds from indigestion, and in some cases 

 when it results from a wearied brain or muscu- 

 lar system. 



To REAR A DRONE costs .0141 oz. houcy ; 

 and after it is reared it will consume .00635 oz. 

 of honey daily. — Bulletin Alsace-Lorraine. 

 [This is splitting hairs ; but I believe it is not 

 far from the truth. — Ed.] 



A BLUER SEASON up to June 3d I think I 

 never knew — so cold that fire is needed yet, 

 and many colonies have not held their own. 

 A severe drouth is now on, which has obliged 

 some to plow up their fields of oats. I made 

 a mistake in taking bees out of the cellar too 

 early. There is a big show for white clover, 

 but a small show of bees to work it. 



M. A. Gill may be right, page 467, in pre- 

 ferring starters to full combs for swarms, and 

 certainly he is not alone in that view. But in 

 my own practice, if I had the full combs I 

 do not think I'd melt them up and use foun- 

 dation. With only four combs in the brood- 

 chamber and a lively queen, I should expect 

 her to hold her own against the honey-storers. 

 To give a whole hiveful of full combs would 

 be another story. 



"The perfect hive-cover for Colorado is 

 yet to be made," quoth ye editor, page 468. I 

 wonder how mine would work. It is much 

 like the one described, with dead-air space, 

 but covered with tin. Possibly paper would 

 do as well. Out of the fifty in use for two 

 years, not one has twisted, the only flat cover 



I've ever tried of which that could be said. It 

 is essential that the grain of the two thick- 

 nesses of boards shall run in opposite direc- 

 tions. That prevents twisting. 



Many a pound of pollen is allowed to go to 

 waste by those who would not think of wast- 

 ing that amount of honey. Yet in some re- 

 gions a pound of pollen may be worth as much 

 as a pound of honey. Dr. Planta's analysis 

 showed the pollen of the hazel to contain 5 

 per cent nitrogenous material, 8 per cent cane 

 sugar, and 5 per cent starch. 



Bees in winter, when short of stores, have 

 the same appearance as bees that die of starv- 

 ation in summer. But death is not real, only 

 apparent. Bring them into a warm room ; 

 and if the apparent death has not been too 

 long continued they revive. So starvation in 

 winter, properly speaking, is not starvation, 

 but death by freezing. — German Journal. 



The Rocky ^fountain Bee Journal seems to 

 have sprung out of the ground. Who knew 

 they had a man out there by the name of 

 Morehouse who could get up so beautiful a 

 publication, and edit it like a veteran ? Love- 

 sy, Rauchfuss, Thompson, and the other sages 

 on the western frontier, know a lot about bee- 

 keeping ; and if that journal doesn't live it 

 will be a wonder. 



The colder the weather in winter, the 

 warmer the center of the cluster. That being 

 the case, theory would lead us to expect 

 brood-rearing earlier in cold than in warm 

 winters. I've often wondered whether that 

 theory was indorsed by practice. Now comes 

 Iv. Stachelhausen, in Sotithland Queen, and 

 says: " When I kept bees in a cold climate, 

 more than 30 years ago, I observed in outdoor 

 wintering that, the colder the winter, the ear- 

 lier brood-rearing commenced." 



"Lest we forget," Editor Wathelet, of 

 Le Rucher Beige, expresses the hope that the 

 eminent editor of Gleanings will do his best 

 to learn and make known Swarthmore's plan 

 of wintering 75 queens in one colony. [Those 

 Frenchmen are great fellows in the use of ad- 

 jectives. "Eminent" doesn't fit me, and 

 never will. However, I appreciate the motive 

 back of it, and hereby ask Swarthmore to tell 

 how he does it before he forgets it. — Ed.] 



