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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 1, 1900. 



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Hreedlng lor 'I'ongfiieM is thus 

 mentioDed in Gleanings in Bee-Culture: 



" At the Michigan State Bee-Keepers' 

 Convention, held in Thompsonville, Jan. 

 1 and 2, Mr. J, M. Kankin. who has charge 

 of the apiarian department of the Michi- 

 gan Experiment Station, reported some in- 

 teresting experiments in the line of devel- 

 oping bees with long tongues. He found 

 that the average length of the tongue of 

 black bees is 4.5 millimeters; Italians, .5.1, 

 while he bad several colonies of a strain of 

 bees at the Experiment Station apiary 

 whose tongues measured 6.2 millimeters. 

 He believed that, by a process of selection, 

 and breeding with this trait in view, a race 

 of bees might be developt which will secure 

 more of the honey from clover-blossoms." 



Foiil Ail- and ("old in Oilai-s.— 



A Stray Straw in Gleanings in Bee-Culture 

 says; 



" Mr. Editor, you say that when bees 

 quiet down in the cellar after a Are has been 

 started, no one can state definitely how 

 much of the trouble was due to cold and 

 how much to foul air, Quite right. But 

 I'll tell you one case in which you can tell 

 definitely. Temperature in the cellar, ■5(l''" ; 

 same outdoors. Bees noisy. Fire started 

 toward evening, running temperature to 

 BO^'. Next morning bees still, with ther- 

 mometer .50^ inside and out. Foul air had 

 all to do with it in that case." 



Editor Root follows with this footnote: 

 "That is a clear case ; and the fact being es- 

 tablisht in t/iis case, it will be reasonable to 

 assume that in the other cases foul air is 

 equally the disturbing cause." 



niaUIng: Ilont-.v-VinrKar Rap- 

 idly. — In the American Bee-Keeper, M. F. 

 Reeve tells about a rapid plan used to make 

 vinegar out of soured mead, of which sev- 

 eral hundred gallons would have been other- 

 wise wasted. The mead was made of Cu- 

 ban honey and Demarara sugar spiced, but 

 any solution of honey might be used. A 

 whisky barrel set on end was the genera- 

 tor. Further details are as follows: 



"It was bored full of half-inch auger- 

 holes, sloping downwards, and was then 

 filled with beecb-shavings procured from a 

 shoe factory. A false bottom was put in, 

 on which the shavings rested, and a loose 

 head was dropt on top. A spigot was in- 

 serted in the barrel, and the generator was 

 ready for business. Tbe already sour mead 

 was poured into gallon stoneware jugs and 

 heated over night on a shelf above the 

 kitchen range; in the morning it was 

 poured in at the top of the generator and 

 allowed to percolate thru the shavings. 

 The air admitted thru the sloping holes in 

 the sides of the barrel did the business of 

 supplying the required oxygen, and a few 

 runnings thru the barrel, was all that was 

 necessary ito convert the fluid into the 

 sharpest, clearest vinegar anybody ever 

 tasted. There must be a generous body, 

 say a pound of honey or sugar, or molasses, 

 to the gallon; otherwise tbe maker will 

 have a thin vinegar which will lack the 

 prime requisite— acidity." 



Winl<-i-ing: IttM-M in a HouMe 



above ground has been pretty generally 

 voted not an entire success, the bees being 

 too often subjected for a long time to a 

 very low temperature, without the advan- 

 tage of a prompt flight on the occurrence of 

 a warm day. F. L. Thompson reports '^ 

 Utah bee-keepers who make an entire suc- 

 cess of such wintering, the secret of the 

 success appearing to lie in the fact that a 

 sutticient number of bees are piled together 

 to keep up the temperature. Practically, 

 that makes it tbe same tbiog as cellar-win- 



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