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Vol. XXX 



APR. I, 1902 



No. 7. 



¥. B. Simpson says in Review that in- 

 breeding- has done us remarkable service in 

 improving our domestic animals, but only 

 one man in'a thousand succeeds with it, and 

 that thousandth man in only one of a thou- 

 sand cases. That's— let's see~1000X 1000= 

 1,000,000 — one chance in a million — a rather 

 black eye for inbreeding-. 



The Lone Star Apiarist says exposure 

 of brood will start robbing- quicker than 

 the exposure of honey onl}'. [I am inclin- 

 ed to think this is true. But, doctor, why 

 didn't you ofTer an opinion? There is noth- 

 ing- in mj' experience that makes bees more 

 ug-ly, and sting- worse, than to g-ive them a 

 taste of mashed brood. — Ed.] 



I've always held that, while the drones 

 of an impurely mated queen might be affect- 

 ed by the mating, the effect was so slight 

 that it was not worth considering. Now 

 comes Prof. Cook, p. 238, and presents con- 

 siderable proof that Dzierzon is entirely 

 right in holding that the blood of the drone 

 is not in the slightest degree aff'ected b}'^ his 

 mother's mating. 



Ontario Co., N. Y., bee-keepers' conven- 

 tion thought what money our government 

 expends in importing queen-bees from other 

 lands might better be made use of other- 

 wise. — Amer. Bee Journal. If my memory 

 is in good repair, at one time some inhabi- 

 tants of that region said things about me 

 not the most complimentary just because I 

 talked as they now talk. 



Frank B. White Co., publishers of Ao- 

 riailturat Advertising, were unfortunate 

 enough to admit in their columns the comb- 

 honey slander. Now they have done the 

 White thing, not only retracting, but send- 

 ing to the host of agricultural papers ii 

 statement of the truth in such clear and 

 concise terms that it stands a good chance 

 of general publication. [Yes, indeed; the 

 White Co. have done the ivhite thing. Mr. 



F. B. White himself is a gentleman who is 

 particularly interested in bees and bee- 

 keepers, and he has gone not a little out of 

 his way to help us offset the effect of the 

 comb-honey lies. — Ed.] 



A controversy is on, says the Amer. 

 Bee-keeper, as to the proper pronunciation 

 of "super." It says: " The man who pro- 

 nounces it ' sooper ' will probably find him- 

 self upon as safe ground as those who in- 

 sist in perverting it into 'supper.'" Just 

 so, Bro. Hill, but hardly safer, if both are 

 errors. If "beauty" were pronounced 

 ' ' booty ' ' by one man and ' ' butty ' ' by an- 

 other, you would hardly denounce the last 

 alone, but tell them they were both in error. 



Rambler, don't j^ou think you are blow- 

 ing hot and cold in pretty rapid succession, 

 p. 236? You first try to lull our fears lest 

 a lower tariff" maj' make lower prices for 

 us, and in the next breath say Cuban comb 

 honey is fine, and lots of it can be sold here. 

 But we ought not to be selfish. It would be 

 a great blessing to the country if honey 

 were so cheap that it would take the place 

 of half the 65 pounds of sugar annually 

 used per capita, even if it drove us all into 

 some other business. 



The editor's remark, page 232, reminds 

 me that, years ago, with ten-frame hives 

 and wide frames, I always put on 56 sec- 

 tions at the start, and I never had more sat- 

 isfactory work. But I usuall}' put a frame 

 of brood above for a few days. [But at that 

 time, doctor, the seasons were much better 

 than now; in fact, I think you have so stat- 

 ed; or, to put the question in another way, 

 would you — or, rather, do you — in actual 

 practice put on two supers at a time rather 

 than one? If not, why not? — Ed.] 



I AM sorry to have misunderstood the 

 work of a man to whom we are so much in- 

 debted as we are to Prof. Gillette, p. 233. 

 Let me amend by saying, "One thing that 

 seems settled is that lueasiireDient oi tongue- 

 reach is not settled by tongue- length." 

 [But do you think Prof. Gillette will sub- 

 scribe to your last statement? We consider 

 Prof. Gillette as a man of marked ability, 

 and we are indebted to him for his work on 

 the matter of measuring tongues. Perhaps 



