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Vol. XXX. 



FEB. 15, 1902. 



No. 4. 



Mr. Editor, if any one should ask me 

 whether that bee-cellar, so nicely described 

 p. 98, is in Canada or California, what 

 shall I tell him? [The address was left 

 off by mistake. It should have been Tisch 

 Mills, Wis.— Ed.] 



Basswood for top-bars, saj's Niver, p. 

 95. Say, Niver, " in this locality " if you 

 should put a basswood top-bar in a hive 

 and then go fishing-, when you got back 

 you'd find that top-bar had warped and 

 twisted clear out of the hive, and was 

 crawling- all over the bee-yard. 



Prof. Harrison, of Ontario, thinks 

 drugs that will not cure foul brood in this 

 country may do so in Europe, because bees 

 there are to a g-reater extent immune to the 

 disease. It is interesting- to know that he 

 reports success in disinfecting- foul-broody 

 combs with formalin. [I do not understand 

 why European bees should be more im- 

 mune to disease than American. — Ed.] 



Through the kind offices of my g-ood 

 friend M. Bertrand, Editor Revue Interna- 

 tionale , whom I thank heartily, thoroug-h 

 efforts have been made to oDtain seed of the 

 new white clover. Colossal Ladino, but 

 without avail. One house furnished seed 

 which proved to be that of melilot. Anoth- 

 er expressed the belief that an old sort, 

 trefle de Lodi, was meant. The strong- 

 probability seems to be that Colossal Ladi- 

 no is a colossal humbug-. [See Pickings. 

 —Ed.] 



Our foreign friends are still having a 

 time with American long-tongued bees. 

 Leipziger Bztg. is quoted in Le Progres 

 Apicole as mentioning $400 American 

 queens. That's up. [" Behold, how great 

 a matter a little fire kindleth!" Awhile 

 ago our European cousins were talking 

 about our selling $200 queens by the dozens; 

 and now they have got them up to $400 

 apiece! Some of those translators of Amer- 

 ican exchanges would do well to study 



English a little more. Or perhaps they 

 misunderstood the equivalent of our monej'. 

 —Ed.] 



Irrigation talk in last number reminds 

 me of my little nephew. He had never been 

 outside of Colorado till he came to Maren- 

 go, and when he saw so many trees here 

 he asked, " Who irrigates all these trees?" 

 [I do not wonder that a boy who was 

 brought up in Colorado should ask such a 

 question. And yet, after all, is there an3' 

 class of people in the world who are more 

 observing or fuller of questions than sons 

 of their dads? W^henever I take my son out 

 to see the world, he sees things I never 

 thought of noting, and asks questions — well, 

 just like all boys. — Ed.] 



G. M. Doolittle, in Reviezv, speaks of 

 "giving the combs that watery appearance 

 peculiar to most of the imported Italian 

 stock." I have had a number of imported 

 Italian queens, and I have not observed 

 that peculiarity with any of them. The 

 question is, whether my experience or that 

 of friend Doolittle is exceptional. [Our ex- 

 perience has been much like Dr. Miller's. 

 The leather-colored strains, especially the 

 imported, would cap their honey whiter 

 than the average of the yellow bees, al- 

 though I will acknowledge that Mr. Doo- 

 little once showed me some very white hon- 

 ey that his five-banded bees produced. — 

 Ed.] 



There's foul brood in your mouth, ac- 

 cording to Dr. A. W. Smyth, in the Irish 

 Bee Journal. He says: " Wood he ad states 

 on the authority of Vignal that the Bacillus 

 alvei is an inhabitant of the human mouth 

 — that great home of the bacteria where 

 Leuwenhoek first discovered them." If 

 that is true, it is worth while to look out 

 about where our saliva goes when working 

 with bees. [This is possibly true. Some- 

 thing over twenty years ago, when I was 

 spending so much time with a microscope, 

 I found there was a large variety of bacte- 

 ria in my own mouth. If we only knew 

 what foul places our mouths are, and if we 

 could see some of the forms of microscopic 

 life that grow there, we could not doubt 

 that it might be a favorable place for the 

 lodgment of certain disease germs. — Ed.] 



