1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



589 



as it is. I believe j'our sister once said 

 that, in actual practice, she thought it was 

 easier to remove a frame than a dumm)', 

 and I agree w^ith her. — Ed.] 



The editor, p. 563 and elsewhere, pro- 

 tests against encroachment upon fields al- 

 ready occupied, and at least one pathetic 

 appeal has been made that the rights of 

 bee-keepers should be respected; and now 

 the danger is that some freak-brain will 

 rise and inquire whj^ there should not be 

 laws to protect bee-keepers in their rights. 

 [While there are cases in which the rights 

 of other bee-keepers are not respected by a 

 too close encroachment on their territory, 

 }'et I was surprised, in my six-thousand- 

 mile trip among the bee-keepers last year, 

 to note that there is a certain unwritten 

 law, fairly well respected, that two yards 

 must not be located within a quarter of a 

 mile of each other. While, ordinarily, 

 there should be at least a mile and a half 

 between the apiaries, the distance has been 

 gradually reduced to about a mile. In 

 some localities this distance is practically 

 as good as two or three miles. I think I 

 saw places in Arizona, if I am not mistaken, 

 where there were four apiaries located on 

 the four corners of a section. A "section" 

 in the West is a square mile. But there 

 are only a few places in Arizona that will 

 admit of such grouping; because there is 

 nothing but alfalfa that would support such 

 a number of bees. — Ed.] 



"Bee-grower." — Um — er — well, I don't 

 know. Why is "bee-grower" any better 

 than "bee-keeper"? Doesn't it make for 

 clearness to have just one word for each 

 idea and one idea for each word? "Tau- 

 tology" ? There's no tautology in the case, 

 and Stenog must have been asleep to allow 

 such a thing to go in. [Why, doctor! not 

 tautology? Is it possible you have not con- 

 sulted your Standard Dictionary? If you 

 will look in that authority you will see I 

 used that word exactly right. I have in 

 my lap the Century Dictionary, acknowl- 

 edged to be authority the world over, and 

 it defines one of the meanings of tautology 

 thus: "A repetition of the same word." In- 

 deed, the original Greek from which the 

 word is derived means exactly that. Both 

 the Standard and the Century say we used 

 the word correctly. The flexibility and 

 wealth of any language depend on its syn- 

 onymous words to a great extent. Because 

 the English language has borrowed from 

 so many languages, it is more capable of 

 expressing fine shades of meaning than any 

 other language in the world. I have some- 

 times thought that the glossary of special 

 terms in bee-keeping was not quite extend- 

 ed enough, hence my suggestion to adopt a 

 word already adopted and synonymous with 

 bee-keeper. — Ed. J 



H. Margiol, in ///. Monatsblaetter, says 

 that uncapping by heat is the most rapid 

 way, but it gives the taste of wax to the 

 honey. That settles it that the knife or 

 fork must be used, and across the water 



they say the uncapping-fork works more' 

 rapidly' than the knife. [My, oh my! we 

 must test that uncapping-fork. If the bee- 

 keepers of Europe have determined that it 

 works more rapidly than a knife, we are 

 big — well, fools, for not trying it. How oft- 

 en inertia of conservatism stands in the 

 way of progress, preventing us from get- 

 ting out of the rut on to a good smooth road! 

 When I think of some of the old farmers 

 who make much ado about the increase of 

 taxes whenever the authorities proceed to 

 make good roads, I think the fools are not 

 all dead }'et. Those same farmers are stu- 

 pid, or, rather, so blind they will not see 

 that every mile of good roads would in the 

 end reduce taxes, and save them hours of 

 time and dollars in money. If I had the 

 power I would make good roads all over the 

 country, and let the farmers howl; because 

 I know that, in the end, they would rise up 

 and call me blessed. There, I did not mean 

 to talk about good roads; but let us not, as 

 bee-keepers, be penny economical and pound 

 extravagant. Let us be wise enough to try 

 any thing pronounced good by any consid- 

 erable number of people, even if they do 

 speak a different language. I have consid- 

 erable respect for the opinions of some of 

 those Dutch — no, Germans. — Ed.] 





'i/ffOM, OUR NE/GHB0R5 FIELDS. 



Fast o'er the fields, from flower to flower, 



Beneath the sun's bright blaze, 

 The bees at last secure the prize 

 And hum aloud their praise. 

 \b 

 Just as the forms for this issue were go- 

 ing to press, the following telegram was 

 handed me by Mr. Calvert. There being 

 no other page available, I have made room 

 for it here. 



Mr. Root: — Father died this morning at 11:30, after 

 a verv short illness. C. P. Dadant. 



Hamilton, 111., July 16. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 

 In speaking of sulphur as a cure for bee- 

 paralysis, Mrs. E. B. Hawkins says: 



Sulphur will cure it. I have had it in my apiary for 

 three years. I have tried salt, but it did not do any 

 good, and in rainy weather it makes the hives too 

 damp. 



This spring I tried sulphur ; it cures every time. I 

 take a flour-dredger and dust it over the combs. You 

 will see an improvement in less than two weeks, and 

 it is seldom that I have to give more than one dose. If 

 it makes its appearance again, give them another dose. 

 The sulphur has the merit of being harmless. 



Certainly worth trying. 



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As to the effect of different foods on ani- 

 mals and plants, Mr. L. Stachelhausen 

 says: 



If corn is raised in a fluid containing hyposulphide 

 of magnesia the voung plant will bear blos.sonis quite 

 different from that oTf corn. Frog-eggs develop into 

 quite other frogs in water containing salt, from sweet 

 water. In the animal kingdom we have another ex- 



