I907-] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 221 



utter confusion of the novices, but * * * "They fly away, and gather 

 gradually the debate would simmer the sweet juice out of the flowers." 

 down until one or the other partici- "The bee has a long tongue which it 

 pant would gain the other's point of thrusts into the flower , to suck up the 

 view. Perhaps each would be reach- juice." "Then it carries the juice to 

 ing the same results though holding the hive, and makes it into honey." 

 different theories as to the causes but * * * "The dust (pollen) they use 

 each wanted the truth and before they to make wax; and with the wax they 

 finished they generally agreed as to build a great many little cells." 

 what that was. Relative to the first part of this a 



We expected to give in this issue a pupil asked me, "Is that why the 

 digest of the more notable addresses flowers dry up after the bees have 

 and items of value to our readers but visited them?" Further comment is 

 we find that it will not do to rush unnecessary. 



the matter as would be necessary to In Aletcalf's Elementary English 

 do that, so will defer until the Novem- (American Book Co.) I find this: 

 ber issue. "The worms that become queens 



are fed with a richer food than is 



ERRONEOUS PRIMARY given to the others." "Five days 



INSTRUCTIONS after they are hatched they spin co- 



coons, and in sixteen days more they 

 L. M. GULDEN. come out perfect queen bees." "The 



IN THE DISSEMINATION of workers^ and males have a slower 

 information relative to the honey S^owth. . _ 



bee, its natural history and pro- ' ^"? ^?^'" )\\Vl°"^ any preliminary 

 ducts, where could a better beginning qualification; When the little queens 

 be made than in the primary public f '^^^ ^"'^ grown the old queen tries to 

 schools' ^^ them, for she is jealous and wants 



The 'introduction of interesting [» ''f'^" alone." "Either they must 

 reading matter into our school read- ?^ destroyed, or she must leave the 

 ers and language books, would go a hive with a part of the bees, to make 

 long way toward making this branch another home. But the workers 



of agricultural pursuit popular and ^^^P "Z ''^' ^"d do not let her come 

 placing honey on an equality with "^^i" ^he young queens until they are 

 butter and eggs as a staple diet and fure _ she doesn t mean to leave the 

 thus make our business very much l"^'^' . I" ^^f •n''''''n' ^^^ '^ allowed 

 more stable. It is not probable that ^o ,sting and kill^^ al the young fe- 

 this would tend to lower prices any 2-^ ' i""" r^ V,^^"^'. u " however, she 

 more than a knowledge of the hen ^'^^ °^' followed by many bees, a 

 and cow tends to lower the prices yo«ng qiieen is set free. This queen 

 on their products usually departs with another swarm, 



However there' is a phase of this f '\'^ called, and the next one will 

 scheme of introducing such articles f° ^^e same if the hive is stfll too 

 into the text books which will bear t^^\u- ^i j ^ 1 • r 1 -i 



the strictest supervision. I refer to ^' ,^^'^ orthodox teaching for chil- 

 the mode of its introduction and the !i[^",'- ^r 



correctness of the information. Such '^sakis, Alimr^ 



matter can not help but strike deep 



into the immature and imaginative Prof. A. C. Miller, a member of 

 minds of children and will secure the International Zoological Congress 

 such a tenacious hold that no amount now in session in Boston, spent the 

 of subsequent literary information afternoon with Mr. Adams at the 

 will be able to fully set aside the Highlands. Mr. Miller's more recent 

 basic ideas inculcated at that period studies of the hymenoptera will be 

 of life. published in 1908 by the State of 



Erroneous ideas given at this time Rhode Island. As editor of the 

 will, in the majority of cases, never American Bee-Keeper his investiga- 

 te dispelled. tions as to insect temperatures, which 



In the New Franklin Second Read- comprise some of the most patient 

 er, by Loomis J. Campbell (Butler, and careful work since Huber, have 

 Sheldon & Co., New York), I find already been given to the public. — 

 this: Newburyport (Mass.) Daily News. 



