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leading out through the roof 12 inches 

 square. This comes within 3 feet of 

 the cellar bottom, and is arranged to 

 shut off too much draft. The outside 

 has been reinforced with a foot of saw- 

 dust coming above the cellar a foot, 

 with tarred felt covering the whole. 

 The floor above is made frost-proof by 

 nailing on ceiling, filling in with saw- 

 dust between the ceiling and floor, and 

 nailing inch strips to the ceiling, and 

 then lathing and plastering. This cel- 

 lar has never been cold enough to 

 freeze, the temperature ranging from 

 41 to 45. I can put in 200 8-frame hives 

 if necessary. I have wintered 150 in 

 this cellar very nicely. It stays very 

 dry and nice all winter. The upper 

 part is used as a workroom and for ex- 

 tracting. The cost was about S150. — 

 James Hilbkrt, in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture. 



Good Honey at lo Cents Cheaper 

 than Thin at 8. 



I tested some well-ripened honey a 

 few days ago, and it tested about 14'2 

 pounds to the gallon. I figured out 

 how much water it would take to make 

 honey 13 pounds to the gallon. It takes 

 about 28 percent of water. That is, 

 take 100 pounds honey, 14'2 pounds to 

 the gallon, add 28 pounds of water to 

 it, 10 pounds to the gallon, and you 

 still have a honey 13 pounds to the gal- 

 lon, and the manufacturer who buys 

 the best honey at 10 cents a pound gets 

 it cheaper than the one who buys the 

 other at 8 cents. — Mr. Darling, in 

 Canadian Bee Journal. 



Our Sweet Tooth. 



That Uncle Sam has a " sweet tooth " 

 is demonstrated by the record of sugar 

 importations for the year, which have 

 increased to the largest total ever 

 known. In addition to the sugar raised 

 in this country more than 5,000,000,000 

 pounds have been imported, which 

 with the domestic production, would 

 give each man, woman and child in 

 the United States about seventy-two 

 pounds each per annum. As many 

 persons do not eat anything like this 

 amount and much sugar is introduced 

 into the human body in other forms 

 than the refined product, there must be 

 many people who consume more than 

 their own weight of sugar in a year. 

 The quantity eaten in the form of con- 

 fectionery is enormous, and, if sugar 

 would do it, America would be a land 

 of sweetness if not of light. — Boston 

 Transcript. 



To eat one's own weight of sugar in 

 a year is a menace to health, if not to 

 life. What a pity those enormous con- 

 sumers of sugar could not be induced 

 to consume their sugar in the more 

 wholesome and delicious form of honey. 



The California Sages. 



White sage is perhaps generally 

 thought by outsiders to be the princi- 

 pal one of the sages ; but Californians 

 say it cuts no great figure, the black 

 and purple sages being away ahead, 

 both in quality and quantity. — [Yes, 

 the average Easterner gets the impres- 

 sion that the white sage is the main 

 honey-plant of California, because all 

 California honey from sage is named 

 white sage. The black sage produces 



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a sfreat deal more, and the purple or 

 button sage comes in as a close second. 

 But white sage honey is not misnamed, 

 because it is white, and it is sage, but 

 not necessarily 2vhiie-sage-X)\a.nt\^oney. 

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Great Ragweed. 



What is the enclosed weed? I think the 

 local name here is " bull-weed." Bees are 

 fond of it. T. C. K. 



Knox Co., Tenn. 



[The plant is the Great Ragweed, and grows 

 abundantly along moist river-banks. The 

 bees may get considerable pollen from it, but 

 not much honey. Botanists know the weed 

 as Ambrosia trifida, and it belongs to the great 

 Composite family. — C. L. Walton.] 



Amount of Honey One Bee Stores. 



I saw in the American Bee .Journal a ques- 

 tion asked as to how much honey a bee can 

 carry during its life. I am an old bee-hun- 

 ter, and have found a good many bee-trees in 

 the woods. I have seen a bee lick up two 

 thin drops of honey at one time and carry it 

 home. If it can carry two dops of honey at 

 a time, how many drops can it carry in one 

 day i I will say it can carry three loads of 

 honey in one hour. If so, it can carry 30 loads 

 in 10 hours, or 60 drops, which make a tea- 

 spoonful of honey. So a bee can carry 26 

 teaspoonfuls of honey in 36 days, or the time 

 of its active life. This makes about one-half 

 of a small teacupful of honey. 



Dr. Miller says the life of a worker-bee is 26 

 days, and I think so, too. I don't say that 

 all the worker-bees will carry two drops of 

 honey at a load, but when a bee sucks its fill 

 of honey it can carry two drops. 



1 have watched bees for the last 30 years, 

 and I am satisfied that my figures are right. 



I don't say that a brown or black bee will 

 carry two drops of honey at one time, but X 

 do say an Italian bee will do it. So one-half a 

 teacupful of honey is all that a bee will store 

 during its life. That is my idea; and I think 

 I am right. E. E. Wilson. 



Van Buren Co., Ark., Sept. 15. 



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