AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



615 



Some Stolen Stra-»vs. — We find the 

 following among Dr. Miller's " Stray- 

 Straws " in " Gleanings " for Oct. 15th : 



" Honey-plant " is a common term in this 

 country, and •' bee-flower " stands for the 

 same thing in England. 



To shake bees off a heavy comb, hold the 

 frame with both hands: if the comb is 

 light, better hold it with the left hand, and 

 pound with the right fist on the left. 



In shipping bees, C. Dadant says, in 

 •'Revue," he would give no water, no pol- 

 len, no brood, only mded honey. All this to 

 avoid having the bees' intestines distended. 



A writer in " Sehweizerische Bienenzei- 

 tung " says bees don't propolize their hives 

 for warmth, but as protection against the 

 bee-moth, closing the cracks where eggs 

 might be laid. 



To avoid cracks in cakes of wax, don't 

 let the outside cool rapidly. Cover a cloth 

 and board over the dish while cooling, or 

 let it stand in a stove oven while the fire 

 dies out over night. 



Gerstung says extracting during fruit- 

 bloom is good, as returning the extracted 

 combs to be cleaned up excites brood-rear- 

 ing, but the same thing is not advisable in 

 the main harvest, as it excites swarming. 



Remember, when the robbers are trouble- 

 some, do anything, anything, rather than 

 take out of their way the thing tbey are 

 robbing, without leaving something in its 

 place. Outside appearances must remain 

 unchanged. 



Eggs, 2.000 daily, is only an average for 

 a good queen. Before the development of 

 her ovaries she weighs .2 gram ; 2,000 eggs 

 weigh .42 gram, so she lays more than 

 twice her own weight of eggs daily. But 

 the workers digest her food for her. 



A balled queen, we are told to release by 

 blowing smoke on the ball. But there's a 

 right and a wrong way. Hold the nozzle 

 of the smoker close to the ball, and blow 

 hot smoke on them, and you might as well 

 step on the ball. Hold your smoker at a 

 distance, and blow cold smoke on the bees, 

 and all will be lovely. 



"Fegling" is the German name for a 

 kind of artificial swarm originating with 

 Gravenhorst. and indorsed by Gerstung as 

 coming nearest to a natural swarm. From 

 a strong colony, take one frame of brood, 

 with adhering bees and queen; put in 

 empty hive on a new stand; fill out with 

 partly built combs; brush into it all the 

 bees, and trust old bees to return to the 

 old stand and rear a queen. Hardly looks 

 right, does it ? But remember Gravenhorst 

 is no spring chicken. 



Haudsonie Sections have been re- 

 ceived at this oflSce as samples, made by Mr. 

 O. H. Townsend, of Alamo, Mich. They 

 are nice enough for any one. 



Bees an<l Honey in Eng^land.— 



We find the following from a "Country 

 Gentleman " correspondent in Sussex, Eng- 

 land, dated Sept. 1.5th : 



We poor bee-folks have had a disappoint- 

 ing summer; the season opened early, and 

 swarms came freely, even under all the 

 anti-swarming aids of the day. Honey was 

 rapidly stored, and sale in sections prom- 

 ised well; but wet, or rather "broken," 

 weather followed, and the busy workers 

 got disappointed, as they could do no more 

 than hold their own, gathering on one fine 

 day what was needed for sustenance in the 

 three or four stormy or wet days that fol- 

 lowed. So the clover and summer-flowers' 

 season went, and the heather followed, but 

 with no better encouragement, for it is now 

 fast going off bloom on the moors, and 

 little good is done. There will be a moder- 

 ate supply of "run honey," but of sections 

 next to none. This enhances the value in 

 the neighboring fashionable towns, Brigh- 

 ton, Eastbourne, and Tun bridge Wells, 

 where there is a ready market; but the in- 

 creased price will not by any means atone 

 for a deficient yield. 



I notice with satisfaction one new profes- 

 sion which apiculture has introduced. Each 

 district has its perambulating "profes- 

 sional," who, for a very modest charge, 

 oversees the colonies, " drives "the swarms, 

 removes the honey, and advises as to all 

 future management. 



illr. T. B. Xerry— Ohio's famous 

 farmer — attended the first evening session 

 of the St. Joseph convention, and delivered 

 a most helpful and entertaining talk on the 

 great value of growing clover on farm 

 lands as a renovator and fertilizer of the 

 soil. The attractive feature of Mr. Terry's 

 talk was the fact that he spoke from per- 

 sonal experience. He bad thoroughly tried 

 and clearly proven on his own farm what 

 he presented to his hearers. He was em- 

 ployed to speak at some 40 farmers' insti- 

 tutes in Missouri this fall, and no doubt if 

 his instructions are well followed out, farm- 

 ing in that State will be made very profit- 

 able in a few years. We very much en- 

 joyed meeting Mr. Terry, and listening to 

 what he had to say. 



Foul Brootl.— The editor of the " Aus- 

 tralian Bee-Bulletin," in the September 

 number, gives this account of a little ex- 

 perience with foul brood : 



We have had a little foul brood experi- 

 ence that may be interesting. We visited 

 our out-apiary on July 31, and discovered 

 foul brood bad in No. 2 hive. The day had 

 been fine, but as we were looking at this 



