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Vol. XXIX. 



AUG. I, 1901. 



No. 15 



A FOUL-BROOD LAW is strongly opposed by 

 bee-keepers in Australia. T'other way here. 

 The Chicago Record- Herald has this: 



The bee stings once, and then 

 May never sting again ; 

 The slanderer, day after day, 

 In wanton malice stings away. 



Australia now has a third bee-journal. 

 Ivike its predecessors, the new comer rejoices 

 in a long name, Australian Bee keepers^ Re- 

 view. 



The worst drouth I ever knew in July. 

 Grass entirely dead, to all appearance. Bees 

 in danger of starving. [See answer to Straw 

 elsewhere. — Ed. ] 



For tartar on the teeth, dentists use, says 

 Le IMiroir des Modes die Jour, the following : 

 One part muriatic acid, one part water, and 

 two parts honey. 



For cracked lips. — Apply, on going to 

 bed, a lotion consisting of two parts honey, 

 two parts lemon juice, and one part cologne 

 water. — Le Progres Apicole. 



Doolittle says in Progressive that stimu- 

 lative feeding in time of dearth will keep up 

 laying if weather is fairly comfortable, but it 

 will do little or no good after three or more 

 days of continued bad weather. 



Silver linden was accused of destroying 

 bees, many dead bees being found under it. 

 Numerous defenders have appeared in the for- 

 eign journals, and it now seems doubtful that 

 it was ever guilty in any case. 



Mrs. Barber's explanation seems reasona- 

 ble for her bees, p. 598 ; but it still leaves the 

 puzzling question, why do my bees act so 

 differently.'' for when honey comes in a flood 

 the baits are the first sections sealed in the 

 super. 



E. RuFFY reports in Revue hiiernationale 

 that he put in his hives beside the feeders 

 balls of unwashed cappings, and the bees used 

 the wax of the cappings in building out comb 

 with great rapidity. The balls may be the 



size of an apple to the size of one's head, and 

 it is essential that the cappings be unwashed. 



B. F. AvERiLL beats me in using founda- 

 tion-splints without waxing. The bees tore 

 down such splints for me. I like better the 

 length of his splints, but putting them in out 

 of hot wax I must use them shorter. I think 

 I must try again and see if I can succeed with 

 dry splints. 



July 15 some of my colonies have stopped 

 brood-rearing on account of the drouth. 

 Sealed brood and eggs in the hive, but no un- 

 sealed brood, showing that the queen still 

 lays, but the workers will not rear brood. I 

 think that occurs more frequently than is 

 generally supposed. 



" After a bee has filled a cell with nectar 

 she turns round and puts a drop of formic 

 acid in it to preserve it." — Dear British B.J., 

 how could you allow such a statement in your 

 columns without saying it was rank nonsense? 

 [That does sound queer in so reliable and sci- 

 entific a bee -paper as our esteemed cotempo- 

 rary the British Bee Journal. — Ed.] 



In IVegiveiser is reported the case of a child 

 brought up on the bottle. Equal parts of 

 milk and water were used, sweetened with 

 honey. In 7 months the child had consumed 

 25 lbs. of honey (nearly 2 oz. a day). Later the 

 proportion was 4 parts milk to 1 of water, the 

 honey still continued. The child was very 

 hearty, sleeping the whole night, and being 

 remarkably free from the usual ills of child- 

 hood. 



That honey is used for a coloring materi- 

 al, Illustrierte Monatsblcrtter rightly says, is 

 not generally known. The coloring of agate 

 depends upon the porosity of the individual 

 layers of the stone, which are capable of 

 absorbing liquids. The stone lies several 

 weeks in dissolved honey, and is then boiled 

 in sulphuric acid. The charred honey colors 

 the stone black where of greater porosoty, 

 gray or brown where of less. 



At Medina you like horizontal wiring. So 

 do I, if I could get combs built clear down to 

 the bcttom-bar. Can you do that at Medina 

 with horizontal wiring? [Yes, and no. It 

 depends on the season when such frames of 

 wired foundation are given to the bees in the 



