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Vol. XXX. 



JUNE 15, 1902. 



No. 12 



White clover bloomed earlier, I think, 

 than I ever knew it to bloom before. I saw 

 a few blossoms fully out May 20. 



Bee journals are so thick nowadays in 

 Texas that they can't keep track of one an- 

 other. The Lo7ie Star Apiarist is not so 

 lone as it was. 



The wholesome honey. — Little Gret- 

 chen to the grocer. — "A tumbler of honey, 

 please, for the cough." "Is it for yourself, 

 my child?" "The honey? Certainly. 

 Grandma has the cough." — Bienen-Vater. 



Phacelia is a honey-plant much exploit- 

 ed in European journals. As it was ob- 

 tained from this country it seems a little 

 strange that so little is said about it here. 

 How much is it worth? Does it flourish in 

 the North? 



C. Davenport, in his closing paragraph, 

 p. 462, gives a plan that prevented swarm- 

 ing, but the bees built much drone comb. 

 Would not the plan work just as well with 

 full sheets of foundation below? [I do not 

 know. — Ed.] 



Glad to see G. M. Doolittle, p. 457, so 

 emphatic that good queens can not be rear- 

 ed in spring before colonies are strong in 

 young bees. Beginners are likely to split 

 on that rock. [Doolittle is orthodox, from 

 our point of view. — Ed. J 



"A breeder," in the National Bee-keep- 

 er, shortens the time of the development of 

 the queen beyond anj^ thing I have pre- 

 viously seen. He says the larva is fed four 

 days, and from the laying of the e.^^ to the 

 emerging of the queen is fourteen days. 



I read aloud what Bro. McGlade says, 

 p. 481, about the home where there is scarce- 

 ly a meal when the husband does not criti- 

 cise something. My wife said, "Oh dear! 

 that would break me up, wouldn't it?" I 

 don't know, for every thing is always so 

 good I've no chance to criticise. 



My good friend Adrian Getaz corrects 

 a stvipid blunder of mine on p. 411. In- 

 stead of saying there were 53 queens in one 

 swarm, I should have said that M. Bour- 

 geois with one caged virgin queen forced 53 

 colonies to swarm by introducing that caged 

 queen in the colonies, one after another. 



Discussing the question of the purity of 

 Italian queens, G. M. Doolittle said in 

 Anier. Bee Journal, 1871, p. 10, "I am for 

 calling them pure. ' ' I suspect he was near- 

 er the truth then than when he now saj's 

 there are no pure Italians. [The word 

 "pure" is a relative term. When applied 

 to any stock it means only a certain stan- 

 dard. — Ed.] 



Seeing copied in the latest British Bee 

 Journal Bro. Doolittle's article on p. 277, 

 reminds me that he has not yet answered 

 the question that I asked seven years ago, 

 and repeated in Gleanings for April 15. 

 Bro. Doolittle, please say why it is errone- 

 ous to call a prime swarm a first swarm, 

 or at least absolve me from the charge of 

 failing to comprehend the meaning of the 

 word "prime." 



I'm surprised at what is said at p. 462. 

 Years ago G. W. Demaree — I think he was 

 the man — gave as a sure prevention of 

 swarming to put all brood in upper stor; , 

 leaving queen under excluder without brood; 

 and this is the first time I remember seeing 

 any one say the plan was not a success. If 

 it is common for the plan to fail, why h?s 

 no one said so in all these j^ears? [I did 

 not know that there was any plan that was 

 a sure preventive of swarming. Now. 

 really, are you joking at the statement of 

 Demaree or not? Please label some of 

 your jokes so some of us thick-heads will 

 know. — Ed.] 



Self-smokrr "Vulcan," described in 

 ///. Monatshlaeiter. is the latest novelty in 

 the smoker line. The lower and larger part 

 contains a clock-work that runs 20 minutes 

 with one winding-up, and drives a windmill 

 that sends a blast of air through the smok- 

 er. A lever controls the action to make it 

 run slower, or to stop it altogether. [Say ! 

 I am interested. Now, doctor, if you know 



