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Vol. XXIX. 



NOV. 15. 1901. 



No. 22. 



My observation has been that, in a g-ood 

 j'ear, a larg-e part of the queens will be su- 

 perseded, and but few in a, poor j'ear. 



B. C. HuGENTOBi.KR Writes: "vSweet clo- 

 ver jdelded two tons for me, while the se- 

 verest drouth of years was upon us." Just 

 like sweet clover. 



I'm glad you're g'oins^ to do some more 

 cellar wintering-, Mr. Editor. That may 

 be a real benefit to some of us who wish 

 we could winter outdoors but can't. 



W. Z. Hutchinson has my hearty con- 

 gratulations. To have those twin daugh- 

 ters married to two young men whose lips 

 are never deliled bj'^ tobacco, whisky, or 

 profanity, is something to be profoundly 

 g-rateful for. 



The egg of a queen-bee, according to 

 German bee-journals, weighs J of a milli- 

 gram. According- to that, 170,097 egg-s 

 weigh an ounce, and 2,721,552 weigh a 

 pound. If a queen lays 3000 eg-gs in a day, 

 it takes her 8 weeks to lay an ounce. 



Carbolineum ought to be fine for bottom- 

 boards. It would keep away the large 

 wood ants that make bottom-boards danger- 

 ous in moving-, for they honeycomb them, 

 leaving- a mere shell. What's the cost? [I 

 have not j-et obtained the price, but I under- 

 stand it is less than that of paint. — Ed.] 



F. Beuhne, in Australian Bee Bulletin, 

 says that, when he has in a nucleus a queen 

 more than two years old, he gives a cell in 

 a protector, leaving the old queen in the nu- 

 cleus, and in three cases out of four the 

 young- queen will begin laying- without dis- 

 turbing the old one, when the young- queen 

 can be removed and another cell given. 



I don't understand, as you do, that J. 

 S. Wise, p. 861, daubed the queen with hon- 

 ey, but that he put her back in the cage and 

 then plug-ged the cage with soft candy. 

 That would be all rig^ht. [You are right. 



I misread Mr. Wise. But my advice in the 

 matter of daubing queens was all right, 

 even if I did shoot clear over the head of our 

 querist. — Ed.] 



Imbedding wire in foundation, says M. 

 F. Reeve, in Ajiicr. Bee-Keepci; works bet- 

 ter if the board on which the foundation is 

 placed be first covered with burlap, or with 

 tapestry carpet reverse side up. [I suppose 

 this is to prevent the marring of the cells 

 of the foundation, because the board has a 

 hard and unyielding surface ; but if imbed- 

 ding is done as it ought to be, by means of 

 electricity, it will- make no difference what 

 sort of backing is used. — Ed.] 



Colossal ladino is the name of a new 

 white clover orig^inatiug in Germany, and 

 well spoken of in Revue Internationale. It 

 winters well, dees well on poor soil, is larg- 

 er ever}' way than common white clover, and 

 yields about 70 per cent more green fodder 

 and 38 per cent more dry fodder than the 

 common. [Why, see here; here is a little 

 gold-mine. I am interested, as I am sure 

 all American bee-keepers will be. Now, 

 Dr. Miller, can you not arrange for us to 

 get some of that seed? — Ed.] 



Dr. Pachner saj^s 1000 drones' consume 

 a little more than 4 oz. daily. That means 

 that the drones rejired in 28 square inches 

 of comb will, in 5 weeks, consume about 9 

 lbs. of honey. [This is interesting and 

 valuable, and, moreover, it has a most prac- 

 tical bearing-, because, many times, bee- 

 keepers are careless in allowing- a consider- 

 able quantity of drone comb to be in the 

 brood-nest. Assuming that the brood-nest 

 is broken open only once during the height 

 of the season, it will be possible for a large 

 quantit}'- of drone brood to mature and hatch 

 out drones. The wise bee-keeper will look 

 to his profits by preventing this waste of en- 

 ergy and loss of what might otherwise be 

 surplus honey. — Ed.] 



Dk. B. F. Jones, in Revie7i\ quotes from 

 Gleanings, p. 522, "When one practices 

 clipping for a series of years he will be 

 surprised how many colonies he will come 

 across that have changed queens unbeknown 

 to him," and takes that as proof that clip- 



