GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Stray Straw^s 



De. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 



H. H. Brown, replying to your questions, 

 just once I saw a laying worker deposit 

 eggs. I don't know whether a laying work- 

 er lives longer than other workers — would 

 guess she does. If young brood is furnish- 

 ed, I think a young queen will be often 

 reared, putting the laying workers (not 

 worker) out of business. 



A. I. Root, I'm interested in watching 

 Terry and you trying to reach the 100-year 

 goal; but I'm not so wonderfully stuck on 

 waiting to see the outcome of fiying-ma- 

 ehines, etc., p. 457. New things will be 

 coming up all the time whose outcome you 

 will want to see, and you'll never want to 

 get away. Besides, I'm sure I can watch 

 the outcome just as well after I get to 

 heaven (if I want to), and have a more 

 comfortable seat while watching the per- 

 formance. 



P. C. Chadwick, p. 435, they'll say black 

 stocking-s are stung more than bare leg's, 

 not because of color, but because of cloth. 

 Try one stocking black and the other white. 

 [It was Jay Smith, if we are not much mis- 

 taken, who reported how two dogs, one 

 black and the other white, went racing and 

 "cavorting" through his beeyard. The 

 black dog was badly stung, while the white 

 one was not touched at all. A good many 

 reports have indicated that bees will sting 

 black clothing when they will not attack 

 white. We do knov/ this — that they will 

 attack black spots in clothing; and Ave sup- 

 pose this is because they think they are 

 striking at the eye of their victim. Some 

 people say that bees do not think or rea- 

 son ; but they do something that is equiva- 

 lent, at all events.^ — Ed.] 



The Beekeepers' Review gives a scheme 

 for queen-candy that, when used for mail- 

 ing queens, is foul-brood proof. Don't use 

 honey at all — use syrup of granulated su- 

 gar, with enough glycerine to prevent gran- 

 ulation. [Here is a recipe that is said to 

 be foul-brood proof also : 



The candy feed such as I sent in queen-bee mail- 

 ing-cage is made of granulated sugar, glucose, coffee 

 A sugar, cream of tartar, and water, boiled to 238 

 degrees. The mailing-cage is the common Benton 

 cage made by the Falconer Mfg. Company. This 

 same kind of food I have, brought through since 

 January, 1912, nearly all of my bees. I could not 

 feed them last fall, on account of sickness and death 

 in my home. I have a number of letters from bee- 

 keepers vi'ho used this food this last spring with 

 good results. 



Blackstone, Mass. C. F. Fuller. 



We have not yet had an opportunity to 

 try it, as we have not yet secured a high 

 grade of glucose nor any kind that is fit for 

 the purpose. — Ed.] 



Mr. Editor, I've urged glass as wide as 

 possible in shipping-cases, to make a fine 

 show ; but now if you're going to throw out 

 glass altogether I'm with you. It will be a 

 relief not to have to worry for fear veneer- 

 ing is done — ^strength of case and saving in 

 expense count too. [Good! glad to know 

 that we can join hands in the sMpping- 

 ease proposition, even if we can not agree 

 on the width of glass. A sliipping-case 

 with solid wood, front and back, has about 

 twice the strength of one having a wide 

 glass front. Try it out and see what a 

 difference there is in the rigidity of the 

 boxes. In proportion as the shipping-case 

 is weak or wobbly, in that proportion we 

 have broken combs and a lot more that are 

 leaky. — Ed.] 



Looks rather logical, Bro. A. I., p. 460, 

 instead of punishing the murdeVer who is 

 crazed by drink to punish the man who 

 sold him the drink. But it's better to go 

 for the men "liigher up." The saloon-keep- 

 er is doing a legitimate business. Go for 

 the men who make it legitimate, the men 

 who make the laws, and, still further back, 

 to the Cliristian men who vote for them. If 

 you electrocute all who are responsible for 

 murders committed by men in drink there 

 will be some thinning out of our church 

 rolls. [But the trouble is, doctor, we can 

 not get the men who are higher up — too 

 many times their tracks are eovei'ed. By 

 getting the saloon-keepers we may be able 

 to get them to "squeal" on the men back of 

 them. Of course, you can never get the vot- 

 er. He can vote for the meanest man that 

 ever lived. It would be an excellent law 

 that would enable us to hold any saloon- 

 keeper liable for any damage a man may 

 do to life and property as the result of 

 liquor that he sells him. Such a procedure 

 would enable us to reach the man higher 

 up. For example, in Ohio just now our 

 officers are getting after our State senators 

 and representatives who have taken bribe 

 money in consideration of their votes in 

 the General Assembly. Three men have 

 been found guilty, and sent to the peniten- 

 tiary^ A lot more have been indicted; and 

 the prosecutor says he will send the whole 

 bunch of them to the penitentiary. Well, 

 it happens that these indicted men are be- 

 ginning to cry out "Enough!" They are 

 now willing to "peach" on the men higher 

 up. Misery loves company. The bribe- 

 taker is not always going to keep still. It 

 looks now as if we were going to get some 

 of the bribe-drivers. — Ed.] 



