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A. I. ROOT, Editor of Home Department 



Vol. XXXVI. 



JANUARY 15, 1908. 



No. 2 



A TABLESPOONFUL of honey, even measure, 

 weighs f of an ounce — 24 spoonfuls to the 

 pound. — American Bee Journal, 747. 



Possibly dividing a swarm into two or 

 more parts at time of swarming, as given by 

 Wm. M. Whitney, p. 37, has been given be- 

 fore; but I don't remember seeing it. Looks 

 good. 



J. E. Hand has the endorsement of the 

 bees as to the best time to requeen an apiary, 

 page 40; for, if I am not mistaken, nearly all 

 their superseding is done about the close of 

 the honey-flow. 



A PROFIT of $300 is figured for Mr. Howe 

 for moving 100 colonies to the basswoods, p. 

 23. That's right, if absolutely nothing is 

 stored in the home apiary during the time of 

 removal. Otherwise the home surplus must 

 be deducted from the $300. [Here is a chance 

 for a nice little conflab between Dr. Miller 

 and G. M. Doolittle. If we knew how to egg 

 on the fight we would do it. Gleanings 

 will furnish the arena.— Ed.] 



Split-top sections are mentioned, page 

 1557. When sections were first introduced 

 they were all 4-piece, and did they not all 

 have split- tops? Certainly I never saw any 

 others for some time. The tops were not 

 split in two entirely; a saw-kerf was cut in 

 the under side, and then they were bent 

 apart to receive the foundation. [You are 

 correct that split tops were used with four- 

 piece sections, but not exclusively. They 

 were made both ways. — Ed.] 



"A SYRUP two parts of sugar and one part 

 of water" for late feeding, p. 32. Wouldn't 

 you rather have it just a bit heavier? All 

 the syrup I ever fed late was 2^ parts sugar 



to one of water, and it never seemed too 

 thick. It may be well to remember that 

 many excellent authorities in Germany 

 strongly insist that continued sugar-feeding 

 is at the expense of the stamina of the bees. 

 [Possibly you are right, doctor, that a thick 

 syrup given all in one feed should be two 

 and a half to one. We shall be glad to get 

 results of experiments on this point from our 

 subscribers. See discussion by J. L. Byer on 

 this subject in this issue.— Ed ] 



A correspondent whose bees are now in 

 the cellar wants to change the location of his 

 apiary in the spring about half its length, 

 leaving the east half on its old stands, and 

 moving the west half east of this. He wants 

 to know whether there will be any trouble 

 from bees returning to their old location 

 when thus placed in the spring. I think not; 

 and, what's more, he will have no trouble if 

 he puts each colony just where he likes when 

 taken from the cellar, with no reference to 

 its former location, as I have tried it a num- 

 ber of times. 



State's Attorney Healy, of Chicago, 

 whose ofiice has 15,000 or 20,000 criminal 

 cases a year, says, ' ' When you put the lid 

 down hard on the liquor-traftic, or wipe it 

 out altogether, then you can close half of 

 your courts." [And he was quite within the 

 limit of facts. Whenever the lid is put on 

 hard, there is not much doing in the criminal 

 courts. Only recently the lid has been screw- 

 ed down on Sunday in Cleveland, and the 

 newspapers have been commenting on the 

 fact that the usual bums and toughs that 

 come up before the criminal courts on Mon- 

 day are conspicuous by their absence. — Ed.] 



Endorsing what Prof. Cook says, page 24, 

 let me add that, if the bees of this country 

 are ever brought to their highest develop- 

 ment, it will not be so much because a few 

 of the queen-breeders have done conscien- 

 tious work, but because the rank and file all 

 over the land have done what Prof. Cook 

 commends. What John Smith, with ten col- 

 onies, ten miles distant, does with his bees 

 may not seem of any interest to me, and yet 

 in time it has its influence on the character 



