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Vol. XXX. 



JAN. T, 1902 



No. 



Medina is the name of the postoflRce of 

 the editor of Australian Bee-keepers'' Re- 

 view — in honor of A. I. Root. [In behalf 

 of A. I. Root, my father, I extend my most 

 grateful acknowledg-ments. — Ed.] 



That report on p. 976, as there said, 

 " does not prove that the g'athering- was in 

 proportion to the length of tongue." Nei- 

 ther does it prove that in general gathering 

 is not in proportion to length of tongue, and 

 especijilly to reach of tongue. 



J. W. Rouse says in Progressive : "We 

 somewhat doubt if queen-bees can be made 

 to hatch, at least in our climate and condi- 

 tions, in less time than 15 !2 days." They 

 do it here, friend Rouse. Suppose you try 

 some eggs whose age you know for certain, 

 have a queen reared from one of them in a 

 full colony, and then tell us just how long it 

 takes. 



The report of the International bee con- 

 vention held in Paris in 1900 is a volume of 

 265 octavo pages. Our own Camille took a 

 prominent part, and had a salvo of ap- 

 plause upon first rising. Modestly he took 

 that as honoring Charles Dadant, his fa- 

 ther. [That is just like the younger Da- 

 dant; and yet how many sons of their fa- 

 thers but what would have taken the honor 

 as meant for themselves? — Ed.] 



The use of carbolineum on hives is not 

 encouraged in 3luencliencrBienenzeifung,on 

 the ground that it afi'ects the flavor of the 

 honev'. [Those who have tested the same 

 preservative in this country have made a 

 similar objection. About the only use we 

 cjui make of it in bee culture is in applying 

 it to bottom-boards or hive-stiinds. The 

 very fact that railroad companies use it for 

 ties goes to show that it must be a good 

 preservative. — Ed.] 



The i^atest uncapping-device recom- 

 mended in foreign journals is a lamp such 

 as gas-fitters use. It quickly melts the cap- 



pings so they shrink away to the cell wall, 

 and no cappings need be strained out of the 

 honey. Looks worth trying. [There may 

 be something in this. Yes, I know it would 

 work; but would it not burn the wax, and 

 so taint the honej^? I should feel very sure 

 it would. — Ed.] 



We've been promising ourselves great 

 things if we could only control fertilization. 

 Now comes Adrian Getaz, in American Bee 

 Journal, indorsed by F. B. Simpson, in the 

 Review, asking, "If we could breed from 

 an individual drone of our choice, how 

 could we tell that this drone would give 

 better workers than that one? " [That is 

 true; but if we could somehow control the 

 mating of our queens so that they would 

 meet a drone from some choice colony, the 

 chances would be that we could improve our 

 stock. — Ed.] 



S. E. Miller says, p. 974, "The adver- 

 tiser has, of course, a right to say what he 

 likes in the space which he pays for, pro- 

 vided he uses no bad language." My good 

 friend of the floury name, I hardly think 

 you meant just that. No advertiser has ri 

 right to say what is not true. More than 

 that, no publisher has a right to accept an 

 advertisement, at any price, if he knows it 

 to be untrue. [You are correct; and, how- 

 ever imperfectly it may have been done in 

 the past, we attempt to carry out that rule 

 in Gleanings. — Ed.] 



In spite of some sittings-down-upon I 

 can not entirely get rid of the idea that mea- 

 suring live tongues with a glossometer ma3' 

 be more satisfactory than measuring dead 

 tongues with a rule. The rule tells what a 

 bee can do: does it tell what it will do? The 

 glossometer tells what it will do, or, if you 

 please, what it does do. [There may be 

 something in this. Outward physical ap- 

 pearance or measurements often give a 

 wrong impression. A man may be six feet 

 high, and one mass of muscles, apparently, 

 but may be no match in strength for a short- 

 er and lighter man. — Ed.] 



You ARE RIGHT, Mr. Editor, in your de- 

 fense of the mountains, p. 972, and I must 

 confess that the credit side of their account 



