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AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



January: 



hausen. Or that he is a blankety- 

 blank lawyer or something of that 

 sort? Surely not. 



and that with suitable arrangements 

 the honey dew thus produced can 

 be collected and will be found identical 



He surely does not expect us to with the drops seen on the leaves and 



tell him that he did not look right around the trees? That the perfor-- 



or did not have his "specs" on, or mance can be verified by any one with 



did not have sense enough to know the help of a magnifying glass? That 



where to look for the "bugs" that the lice found on the rose bushes are 



produce it? Surely not. 



Does he know that one who pro- es to do so? 



the easiest to observe if any one wish- 



mulgates a new theory is the one to 

 prove that his theory is right? 



Does he mean for us to tell him that 

 if he will examine a leaf with a strong 



And that it is not necessary that sonK- microscope, he will find it of the sa;me 



body else proves that he is wrong? structure all over? And therefore, if 



How are we to prove that he is wrong the honey dew was a secretion from 



(if he is) when he has not even told it, it would appear in the shape of a 



us what he means? Or what would uniform coating all over, instead of 



he think of us if we were to tell 

 him that the moon is made of green 



being in big drops here and there? 

 If Mr. Massie will wipe off these 



cheese and invite him to "sail into drops, no more will be formed, while 

 us" if he did not accept our asser- if they were a secretion, more would 



tions? 



Does he mean for us to tell him that 



come as soon as the other is off. 



Does he mean for us to tell him 



if nectar is secreted by the flowers or that when he sees these drops of hon- 



is an exudation from them it is be- ey dew on the tree, he will find under 



cause they are provided with organs the leaves (not over) a few plant lice, 



(the nectaries) created for that pur- not near enough to account for the 



pose while the leaves do not have honey dew, to be sure, but some? 



anything like that? To form the nee- And if he had gumption enough to 



tar or any other special secretion, a climb to the very top of that tree, he 



special organ is necessary, just like would find there on the twigs and 



the milk given by a cow is formed young leaves enough lice to account 



in the udder and nowhere else. To for all. Provided of course, that he 



say that the leaves of the plants would succeed in getting there with- 



:t falling oflf and 



Knoxville, Tenn. 



can furnish a secretion similar to the out falling oflf and breaking his neck. 

 nectar under certain circumstances is 



nearly as bad as to say that milk 

 could exude from a cow's back if 



the "circumstances" were favorable. ^ scourge of bee paralysis is said 



Does he mean for us to tell him to have visited the Isle of Wight, and 

 that it is a known fact that the plant- discouragement among the bee-keep- 

 lice produce honey dew? That they ers is general. (H.) 



suck the sap of the plants with a 



trunk or tongue similar to that of A Hampshire correspondent, in 

 the bees, appropriate a portion of it British Bee Journal, has observed that 

 and transform the rest into honey for nectar secretion in the clover blos- 

 dew? That the honey dew is secreted som the ground temperature should 

 or "exudated" at the other end of be about 70 degrees, Fahr. The same 

 the body through two tubes created writer says that the past year the bees 

 for that purpose? That the operation did well — for themselves; but the bee- 

 goes on very rapidly all the time? keeper got but a short crop. 



