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Vol. XXIX. 



DEC. T, 1901. 



No. 23. 



Arthur C. Miller says that, when he 

 said sudden confinement of a queen works 

 injury, he did not mean that sudden cessa- 

 tion of laA'ing- was the trouble, but starva- 

 tion. 



R. C. AiKiN, in A)Hc'iicaii Bee Journal, 

 says his averag'e for ten j-ears has been 40 

 lbs. per colon}', and the general averag-e for 

 all except the best bee-keepers in his re- 

 ofion has been only half that. 



I HARDLY THINK that shouldered staple, 

 p. 890, would suit me as well as a common 

 wire nail for a spacer bctivccn bars. But 

 for those who find that the common staple 

 used as an end spacer will not stay in 

 place, the shoulder might make all the dif- 

 ference between failure and success. 



" Shook swarms," p. 896. It's a small 

 matter, but it might be as well to use cor- 

 rect English, and call them "shaken 

 swarms." [Ye-s-s-s ; but the correct gram- 

 matical form does not, to my mind, express 

 the idea. A " shook " swarm indicates to 

 me one that has heeu jarred or huDiped, not 

 •'shaken" by a feeble backward and for- 

 ward motion. — Ed.] 



I SECOND the nominations of Messrs. 

 Hill and Rohrig for directors. And in that 

 connection I want to ask that, when my 

 term expires, my friends will do me the 

 kindness to vote for a new man in my 

 place. [Look here, doctor, it is not going 

 to do at all for all the other directors to fol- 

 low the example of A. I. R. and myself. 

 There oug-ht to be some old timber left on 

 the Board. No, sir ; I will nominate you 

 again, see if I don't.— Ed.] 



"When a colony is made queenless, will 

 the bees, in their haste to rear a successor, 

 select larvK too old to secure the best re- 

 sults ? " When that question was up at 

 Buffalo, you and I were absent at a direc- 

 tors' meeting, Mr. Editor, and on now 



reading the excellent report in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, I am surprised to find 

 there was not one (Hutchinson was absent 

 with us) to say a good word for the hojiry 

 error that teaches that bees can not be 

 trusted to select young larvae. 



The two Americans are not agreed as 

 to the profits of bee-keeping, the American 

 Bee-Keeper supporting the statement that 

 at least $5.00 a 3'ear for each colony is a 

 conservative estimate. I wish I covild be 

 sure of at least $1.00 a year. [Here again 

 is a case where locality should have some- 

 thing to say. In Marengo, perhaps you 

 might be satisfied with SI. 00 per colony ; 

 but in Florida, Texas, Arizona, California, 

 and Colorado, during .s-<;W6' seasons as much 

 as ?5.00 might be made. I say some sea- 

 sons, because the year likewise has some- 

 thing to do with it. — Ed.] 



The question is whether it is starvation 

 that hurts a queen in the mails or being 

 bumped about when heavy with eggs. Pos- 

 sibly both. It seems reasonable that she 

 will not be so well fed as when surrounded 

 by thousands anxious to feed her. But 

 with the cessation of laying will there be 

 the same need of food? And if the trouble 

 comes from starvation, ought there not to be 

 about the same damage in each case ? In- 

 stead of that, some queens are fatally injur- 

 ed and others unhurt^ — seeming to favor the 

 accident theory. [It looks somewhat that 

 way. — Ed.] 



Thanks, Stenog, for turning your bat- 

 teries with such good effect on the use of 

 "swarm" for "colony," page 895. Now 

 please train them on the wrong use of the 

 word "stand." This last error has not 

 yet got so strong a foothold as the first, and 

 will be more easily routed. [There is no 

 use in your laboring with Stenog. He 

 maintains, as does your humble servant, 

 that the word " stand," as we have used it 

 in our columns, is correct enough ; and, be- 

 sides, it avoids the repetition of the word 

 "colon}'" every time. Then by general 

 acceptation it has crept into all bee-litera- 

 ture to such an extent that I doubt whether 

 we could change it if we tried. — Ed.] 



