1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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will be much closer to the top-bar than dur- 

 inc;' the honey-tlow. Durintf the swarming" 

 season there will be on .lu average about 

 two inches or more of hone}' circling- over 

 the brood." 



Now, Dr. Miller, it was the sivanning 

 season I was talking abuut; but I had for- 

 g-otten that there might be more brood be- 

 fore that time; and therefore I do not see 

 how you, during- the heig-ht of the honey- 

 llow or swarming- season, which j'ou ought 

 to be having-, should have brood clear up to 

 the top-bar; or is it possible you have been 

 having- no hone_v-fiow, or a verj^ light one, 

 and that the brood is higher than it would 

 be if your bees were heavily at work? and 

 that reminds me that, perhaps, you agree 

 with Mr. Warden. Is it possible that your 

 bees at the time 3'ou had been making j'our 

 observations were not in the height of the 

 honey-flow? Remember, the point I was 

 trying to make was that a Langstroth frame 

 was just deep enough to allow the bees dur- 

 ing the hone3--flow to put two inches of hon- 

 ey above the brood in each frame; that this 

 amount of honey in six frames of the brood- 

 nest, and a full frame of honey on each out- 

 side, would make the bees \evy loath to go 

 up into the supers. I argued that, if a frame 

 were made shallow enough to cut off 

 this two inches, then the bees would go into 

 the supers sooner, or more readily; so j'ou 

 can see I was referring to the honey- flow or 

 swarming season. I can not believe j'et 

 that j'our locality is different from ours, or 

 that your bees do differently from ours. It 

 may be I shall have to i-nake a special trip 

 to Marengo to be convinced by my own eyes; 

 or, better still, perhaps 3-ou and that sister 

 of 3'ours had better come to Medina and we 

 w-ill "convince" you. — Ed.] 





Gathered at last is the ripened sheaf 



Into the storehouse of the l,ord ; 

 Done is the work of fourscore years, 



Nobly earned is his great reward. 



Gone is he now from the human hive, 

 Labors all ended and cares laid aside ; 



Fold on his breast his benevolent hands — 

 They pass away, but their actions abide. 



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REVUE INTERNATIONALE. 



I am glad to find the following concern- 

 ing the late Dr. Dubini, whose death, so far 

 as I know, has not been noticed by Ameri- 

 can bee journals. He was one of the great 

 men of our times — a cedar among fir-trees, 

 like the late Mr. Dadant. Perhaps more 

 than an,v other two men these have estab- 

 lished the principles of rational bee-keep- 



ing in Europe — the former in Italy and the 

 latter in France. Mr. Ed. Bertrand says: 



We havi to deplore the departure from this world of 

 still one more of the veterans of movable apiculture. 

 The venerable Dr. Angelo Dubini of Milan, is dead, 

 at the age of 8i), in consequence of a fall in his house. 



He had been for about 38 years attached to the Grard 

 Hospital of Milan ; and after a brilliant and useful 

 medical career, in the course of which he published 

 .several important works which established his reputa- 

 tion, he retired at the age of 6-j years. But he had too 

 much activity of spirit "to remain idle. An amateur 

 experimenter with b es, he devoted his robust old age 

 to the advancement of apiculture. 



He became in lS(i8, one of the founders of L' Api- 

 coUoie, and worked for that journal assiduously till his 

 death. Understmding several languages he kept 

 abreast with apicultural literature, and published 

 nioTitbly. under the name of Spigolatme ApisUche a:i 

 analytical review of foreign journals, which was 

 greatly appreciated, as were all the rest of his contri- 

 butions to the journal. He left a very complete trea- 

 tise, " The Bee and its Management," which has gone 

 through two editions. 



The loss ot this gifted man and untiring worker, one 

 of vast erudition which he devoted to the service of 

 others, will be keenly felt in Italy and by all outside 

 of Italy, who, like ourselves, have had the privilege of 

 knowing personally the man, or who have been able 

 to appreciate his works. 



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 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



E. E. Hasty's review of the apicultural 

 world is alwaj's readable because interest- 

 ing. As a critic he is "the good-natured 

 man " of whom Goldsmith wrote. No stings 

 about Hasty. Some ftmny literature con- 

 sists of nothing else. 



In regard to selling honey, C. P. Dadant 

 has the following spicy paragraph. The 

 remarks were made at the recent Chicago 

 convention : 



To sell honey, as these gentlemen say, you have to 

 be known. Make yourself known to people ; j-ou 

 have to hang on, keep hammering at it ; don't get dis- 

 couraged ; keep fighting and disputin.g. Don't be 

 afraid when people say your honey is adulterated. 

 Don't be afraid to fight. I do some hard fig hting when 

 they say my honey is not pure, and generally I con- 

 vince them that it is pure. I had a gentleman say to 

 me once that my honey was not pure. I told him he 

 didn't know what he was talking about, and I knew 

 that he didn't know, and he certainly must know him- 

 self that he didn't know. I convinced him that my 

 honey was absolutely pure and he never doubted my 

 word after that, and was very nice to me, although I 

 called him a fool. 



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BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Mr. Hutchinson gets out a very fine issue 

 for July — not but that the A'6'Z'z'6'Z(y is alwa\-s 

 fine, but the one in question is especially 

 so. Among the editorials I notice one on co- 

 operation among bee-keepers, and the sug- 

 gestion contained in it ought to be urged 

 till acted on. Here it is: 



Organization and co-operation are the order of the 

 day to an extent that never has been equaled. Per- 

 haps I am telling tales out of school, but our enter- 

 prising neighbors across the line, the Directors of the 

 Ontario Bee-keepers' Association, are gathering infor- 

 mation with a view to forming a honey association. 

 Colorado already has such an association in excellent 

 working order California is trying to do something 

 in this line. Perhaps the National A.ssociation may 

 yet do something to assist in co-operation in market- 

 ing honey. 



In view of the great extent to which the 

 bee-keepers of most European countries 

 have carried the matter of org-anization for 

 mutual help, it is a pit}- that our National 

 Association does not have 20,000 members. 



