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Vol. XXX. 



OCT. I, 1902. 



No. 19 



Heartseask has never been counted on 

 as one of the honey-plants here, but this re- 

 markably wet season has made it abundant, 

 and the bees are busy on it. [So here. — 

 Ed.] 



Russian thistle was dreaded as a great 

 scourge in the West not so very long ago. 

 On the way to Denver, stacks of Russian- 

 thistle ha}' were to be seen. It has a mi- 

 nute but really beautiful flower. 



Mention of foundation with cloth in the 

 septum, p. 780, recalls the fact that years 

 ago samples were sent out with tin foil in 

 the septum. But I think not many ever in- 

 vested in more than a sample of it. 



Mrs. K. — "So this is really artificial 

 honey. Where does it come from?" 



Mr. K. — "I understand it is gathered 

 from artificial flowers b}' artificial bees." 



Mrs. K. — "The idea!" — Philadelphia 

 Press. 



A SECOND CROP of white clover is report- 

 ed at Medina, p. 766. It has been yielding 

 here in September, but it seems like a be- 

 lated first crop rather than a second crop. 

 Fields that showed very few blossoms in 

 June gradually increased until they were 

 white in September, and the bees have per- 

 haps gathered considerable from it. 



Crimson clover is described in Amer, 

 Bee Journal, Jan., 1872. Strange it should 

 have received no more attention until lately. 

 [And it is not receiving the attention now 

 it should in any of the bee papers. I should 

 be glad to receive reports from those who 

 have been testing this crimson clover in va- 

 rious portions of the country.- — Ed.] 



Sometimes I see the statement that, when 

 a swarm issues with a clipped queen, the 

 queen may be found on the ground with a 



cluster of bees. In the hundreds of cases 

 I have seen, such a thing has not often oc- 

 curred. If the queen is found soon, she is 

 looking out for herself; if left long enough 

 for a cluster to form, she is generally back 

 in the hive. 



The Denver convention was a success. 

 Rauchfuss, Working, Thompson, and all 

 the rest, wore clothes just like white peo- 

 ple, none of them appearing in blankets. 

 If any of them had hatchets, they were car- 

 ried as "concealed weapons." The con- 

 vention was brightened by the presence of 

 an unusual number of women. 



Go SLOW o« inaki?ig plantalions of cahiip. 

 I saw a beautiful block of it under cultiva- 

 tion in the lifetime of Jessie Oatman, but I 

 don't believe it paid. It's an excellent hon- 

 ey-plant, however. Its favorite place of 

 growth in this region is along the osage- 

 orange hedges. [I put your "go slow" 

 sentence in italics. See paragraphs else- 

 where in this issue on this subject. — Ed.] 



It was a pleasure to meet at Denver 

 that veteran, J. L. Peabody, the inventor of 

 one of the first extractors. [He was the in- 

 ventor, I believe, of the first honey-extract- 

 or ever put on the market in America. 

 When I looked the matter up a few years 

 ago, I found that there were several others 

 almost cotemporaneous, but he had a little 

 the lead; and if his machine had been gear- 

 ed as he desired to have it, it would have 

 come very near being a perfect machine. — 

 Ed.] 



Wax scales, just as they have fallen 

 from the wax-pockets, are to be found in 

 many if not in all cases, among the debris 

 on the floor of the hive upon coming out of 

 winter quarters. That goes a little way 

 toward proof that to some extent the secre- 

 tion is involuntary, and independent of 

 needs. [Are you sure that those scales 

 found on the floor-boards in the spring were 

 real wax scales? or is it possible our Ger- 

 man friends across the water have been 

 making some new discoveries along these 

 lines? — Ed.] 



GoLDENROD is giving a strong flow of 

 honey at Medina, says ye editor. Abun- 



