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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 18, 



Qet;)eral Iterr^s* 



Some "Learned" (?) Bee-Notes. 



The season is somewhat advanced, and 

 most of the " big guns " among the bee- 

 writers have exploded. To be sure, 

 some of them have gone off on the half- 

 cock ; however, they have made about 

 as much smoke and gas as they other- 

 wise would. New and luminous lights 

 are springing up in the ranks of the 

 honest and virtuous bee-keepers and 

 extracted honey-producers ; with little 

 or no glucose in the samples. One of 

 these bright and shining lights would 

 "sit down " on all one-horse bee-keepers 

 and freeze them out with ignorance, by 

 running up the price of bee-papers to 

 $10 and onward. This benevolent and 

 kind-hearted gentleman would make a 

 sweet and juicy missionary to the canni- 

 bal islands ; he has the right spirit and 

 plenty of gall, and if he is fat, he would 

 be acceptable. 



The season here is good and promis- 

 ing. The fruit-bloom was immense, and 

 the weather favorable for the bees. If 

 the few bee-keepers hereabouts do not 

 spend more than half their time in fuss- 

 ing with their bees, killing queens and 

 introducing others not half as good, and 

 puffing in smoke every day, and lifting 

 out the frames, and changing ends, and 

 tormenting the bees with division-boards 

 and queen-excluders, and turning the 

 hive to the right, and the left, and rear, 

 and dividing the colonies and then unit- 

 ing them again, and tracing up the pedi- 

 gree of the great and only white-headed 

 drone ever known, and pumping out un- 

 ripe nectar together with young bees 

 and grub-gravy, and bottling it up and 

 labeling it " pure extracted honey from 

 the apiary of John Do Lack Sense" — it 

 is possible that a few pounds of comb 

 honey may be obtained in the fall, 

 otherwise a sweet substitute can be 

 made with sugar syrup boiled with 

 empty comb and a drop of mint oil and 

 two drops of glucose to smooth it up. 

 This stuff cannot be known from the ex- 

 tracted honey on the market after it has 

 passed through the hands of the honest 

 retailers, and is good enough for the 

 pancake harvest. Great are the won- 

 ders of modern bee-scientists! 



C. W. Learned. 

 Dearborn, Mich., June 3. 



Losses in Winter. Etc. 



I commenced with 5 colonies of bees. 

 I have devoted most of my time in this 

 pursuit since that time. I have at pres- 

 ent 34 colonies, having lost three the 

 past winter — one by diarrhea and two 

 by starvation, although there was plenty 

 of honey in the hive. Last year I got 

 no honey. The past six years have been 

 rather poor years, save one, but last 

 year was a tough one. When 1 saw bass- 

 wood fall I took off all surplus arrange- 

 ments and commenced feeding for dear 

 life. I said, " Dead bees or sugar. I 

 choose the latter." 



I asked a neighbor, who had IS or 20 

 colonies, " How are your bees faring ?" 

 This was in September. "0 1 do not 

 know," was the reply. I said to myself, 

 " Dead bees next spring." He wintered 

 them in a very nice cellar, and has not a 

 live bee to-day. 



I put my bees in outside cases ou Oct. 

 3, and on Jan. 9 I put in the packing of 



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