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Vol. XXIX. 



JULY 15, 1901. 



No. 14- 



I'm delighted to see by the footnotes that 

 A. I. Root is getting interested again in bee- 

 keeping. 



The American Bee Keeper now v e irs foot- 

 notes, and Editor Hill seems to be a good 

 footnoter. 



E. F. Robinson says in Canadian Bee Jour- 

 nal that he weighed a lot of natural-wax scales 

 on jeweler's diamond scales, and found 192 to 

 the grain. That makes 1,3M,000 to the pound. 



Editor York is determined the young 

 Methodists shall not grow up in ignorance as 

 to bees. The Epworth Herafd contains two 

 instructive articles from his pen. [Good for 

 York!— Ed.] 



It seems strange that C. H. W. Weber, 

 the man who is in the front rank in bottling 

 honey that never granulates, should be a suc- 

 cessor to C. F. Muth, the man who did more 

 than any one else to popularize granulated 

 honey. 



The Dzierzon theory " is the cornerstone 

 and solid rock upo". which nearly all we know 

 about bees is based." I am glad A. I. Root 

 had to read proof, so as to make him say that 

 on page 531. Every bee-keeper who is not 

 yet familiar with the Dzierzon theory should 

 make it his first business to get it. 



Eastern bees may not do exactly as Texas 

 and Arizona bees are said to do on page 523 ; 

 but still it is well known that they are much 

 less inclined to swarm when a full yield is on 

 than when there is a moderate flow. [But did 

 you ever know them, when the honey- flow be- 

 gins, to kill off the drones and destroy cells ? 

 —Ed] 



A notion lingers with me that, before the 

 year is out, the editor will discover that hot 

 water is ahead of steam for wax-presses. Ger- 

 mans who are familiar with both put hot wa- 

 ter in the lead, and Rambler seems to be of 

 the same way of thinking, page 513. Now, 

 Rambler, tell us all you know about it. [I 



may change my mind, perhaps. But I don't 

 see how the hot-water device is going to be as 

 simple and clean. — Ed.] 



Friend A. I. Root, when you solve the 

 puzzle why government can't give us bulletins 

 about beer as well as beans, here's another f.ir 

 you to tackle : Why is it that, if more liquor 

 is drunk since the abolishment of the canteen, 

 the men who manufacture the liquor are the 

 ones most anxious for the re-establishment of 

 the canteen ? 



After a queen has distinguished herself for 

 three successive seasons as the best in your 

 apiary, you are anxious to have her live lon- 

 ger so as to breed from her. Don't shorten 

 her life by profuse laying in a strong colony, 

 but ket p her in a nucleus. [That is just what 

 we are doing with our best breeder, and did 

 do last season. The advice is sound. — Ed.] 



DaviTTE says the important thing in his big 

 tent is to tame the drones. The problem now 

 is to find the smallest tent in which drones 

 can be trained to fly at ease. Possibly it may 

 be yet brought within the reach of every bee- 

 keeper. [When I get home I expect to try a 

 small tent, then a larger one later. I can't 

 get away from the belief that a small tent 

 would fill the bill.— Ed.] 



Is it true that, when bees are deprived of 

 a queen, they of choice select for the rearing 

 of queens larvae that are three days old or old- 

 er? Any one ought to be able to settle the 

 question for himself. All you need to do is to 

 look at the cells first started and see the size 

 of the grub. I have yet to see a case where 

 the first larva selected was three days old if 

 younger were present. 



After reflection I am not prepared to 

 admit that "scientific queen-rearing" is a 

 misnomer, and I think there's very little sci- 

 ence in most of the queen-rearing that's done, 

 page 545. The man who rears queens with no 

 attention to the stock from which his queens 

 are reared, and no regard to the drones used, 

 is not doing a scientific job, even if he uses 

 up to-date methods, Doolittle cups and all. 



W. W. Somerford thinks the flat cover 

 perfect, p. 553. That may be due to the " pe- 

 culiar conditions in Cuba." In Illinois it will 



