1900 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



191 



established apiaries without the 

 expenditure of capital. 



Editor R. B. Leahy, of the Frog- 

 /■tssioe Bee-keeper, has been taking 

 his annual outing among the bee- 

 keepers of that stretch of country 

 i)etween the Mexican border and 

 the Canadian frontier. In his 

 rounds he visited Texas, and was 

 present at the convention of the 

 Central Texas Association. Speak- 

 ing of this meeting of bee-keepers 

 in the Lone Star State, he says : 

 "I have never met with such an 

 enthusiastic gathering of bee- 

 keepers in my life." 



The Bee-keeper learns with 

 sorrow of the death of Mr. Doo- 

 little's mother, aged eighty-five 

 years, which occurred in August 

 .last, after an illness of five weeks. 

 Mr. M. F. Reeve, another of our 

 esteemed correspondents, writes 

 ])athetically of the death of his 

 father during the same month. The 

 letters to the editor of these bereav- 

 ed friends, expressive of such deep 

 afiection for their departed parents, 

 elicit our profound sympathy and 

 condolence. 



In working for the evolution of 

 bees with longer tongues, in order 

 that they may reach the nectar in 

 red clover, thus greatly increasing 

 the source of supply as well as the 

 seed crop, E. E. Hasty tells in 

 Gleanings of his personal efforts to 

 shorten the road to success by 

 working to establish a variety of 

 clover having shorter corolla-tubes. 

 Developments at both ends of the 

 line will be observed with interest 

 by those engaged in agriculture 

 and bee-keeping. 



posedly defunct organ is before us. 

 It very neai"ly approaches the de- 

 parted Bee-kee2)e)'s' Quarterly in 

 point of preference for its own 

 productions ; the matter being 

 chiefly editorial. Some of these 

 "editorials," however, are verbatim 

 reproductions from The American 

 Bee-keeper and other bee papers, 

 without credit. While we regret 

 that this bright little Westerner is 

 too young to "roast" — for its dis- 

 regard of propriety — we are pleased 

 to note that it has been resuscitat- 

 ed, and wish it great success. 



As a result of Mr. Doolittle's 

 ingenuity it is quite likely that the 

 bee-keeping world shall be provided 

 with a cell-cup, at an early date, 

 which is practically indestructible. 

 By its adoption, the use of cell- 

 protectors will become entirely un- 

 called for in the queen-rearing 

 apiary. Having queens hatch from 

 holes in a block of wood has some- 

 thing of the sound of a fairy tale; 

 yet this is exactly what Mr. Doo- 

 little has been doing, and we are 

 indebted to him for an account of 

 his experiments in this line, as well 

 as for specimens of the cells from 

 which queens had hatched. We 

 shall give it all in our queen-rearing 

 number. 



It appears that The Western Bee- 

 keeper "will not down." A copy of 

 the September number of that sup- 



Mr. Henry Alley, the veteran 

 queen -breeder of Massachusetts, we 

 are pleased to learn, has had great 

 success in business this year. He 

 has adopted a new system in the 

 starting of cells with which the 

 public will be made acquainted a 

 little later. Mr. Alley claims that 

 he is enabled to produce queens 

 sviperior to those reared under nat- 

 ural swarming. Anything giving 

 premise of such results as this will 

 immediitely elicit and retain the 

 interest of every bee-keeper, until 

 such times as Mr. Alley finds it con- 



