Oct. 18, 1906 



American Itee Journal 



would probably fail somewhat when 

 he took an inventory at the end of a 

 quarter of a century or more." 



Now, Dr. Miller, Mr. Dadant, Mr. 

 Hasty — ves. any and all, not excepting 

 Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson, if he has time 



to write — tell us through the columns 

 of the American Bee Journal just how 

 many colonies a man or woman should 

 keep that he or she may be a " well-to- 

 do " bee-keeper. 

 Borodino, N. Y. 



Conducted by Emma M. Wilson, Marengo, 111. 



A Foreign Sister's Roof-Apiary 



Madame Delessale, as reported in 

 Elsass- Lothringischer Bienen-Zuech- 

 ter, has an apiary on the roof of a 6-story 

 building, centrally located in Strasburg 

 within 30 steps of the noted cathedral 

 with th^ curious clock. 



Honey. Lozenges 



This is a French confection. In an 

 enameled vessel melt one part gelatin 

 in one part water, stirring well. When 

 arrived at the state of a soft paste, add 

 4 parts of honey previously warmed, 

 stirring lively. Take from the fire ; 

 add desired flavor and color, mixing 

 carefully, and pour into a shallow dish 

 lightly greased with best olive-oil. 

 Then let dry a few days. 



A "Gay" Bit of Bee-Verse 



Here's a nice bit of verse, albeit the 

 poet is somewhat astray as to gender, 

 and his "hostile drones" are some- 

 what amusing : 



" The careful insect 'midsi his works I view 

 Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant 



dew; 

 With golden treasures load his little thighs, 

 And steer his distant journey through the 



skies. 

 Some, against hostile drones, the hive defend, 

 Others, with sweets, the waxen cells distend; 

 Each in the toil his destined office bears, 

 And in the little bulk a mighty soul appears." 



—Gat. 



Apiculture in the Schools 



T. Maguire suggests this in the Irish 

 Bee Journal : 



" It ought to be practicable to make api- 

 culture a prominent school subject — to have, 

 at least, every rural school equipped with one 

 or more hives, and to encourage, by fees, the 

 study of the subject among the teachers, who 

 could get periodical lessons and demonstra- 

 tions from the County Instructor." 



If the honey obtained from the bees 

 belonging to these rural schools is to be 

 the perquisite of the teacher, then all 

 right ; but if the extra burden of car- 

 ing for the bees is to have no extra 

 recompense, the Irish school ma'ams 



have a right to demur. Perhaps, how- 

 ever, Mr. Maguire has in mind the 

 fair thing in that word " fees." 



Yellow Sweet Clover Again 



I wish I had here some of the men 

 who fought sweet clover as a trouble- 

 some weed. I would like to show them 

 my latest field of it — S feet high, and 

 still reaching upwards and outwards — a 

 mass of golden bloom alive with bees 

 and fragrant as the spicy odors of the 

 Orient ! If they were not convinced of 

 the beauty and utility of the plant, I 

 would take them next to a hill pasture 

 where sweet clover has grown for a 

 number of years. They would find it 

 eaten as low as the little Dutch clover 

 itself, but holding its own, and bravely 

 blooming away so that it will seed the 

 ground. 



It is my experience that the yellow 

 is not so easy to run out as the white 

 kind when pastured, and I am con- 

 vinced it has merit as a pasture plant. 



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Our stock, from the poultry up, eat it 

 with a relish. 



I learned something new about this 

 plant the other day. We have in our 

 neighborhood a Syrian citizen — a man 

 from Damascus. His young brother 

 came over lately, and as they were 

 driving past my place where the sweet 

 clover grew rank by the wayside, the 

 young man jumped out and seized a 

 large handful that he might revel in 

 its fragrance. It reminded him of 

 home, he said. 



The elder man told me that in his 

 country they take the seed of this yel- 

 low sweet clover and put it with wheat 

 and grind both together for flour. He 

 says the clover seed is to give the 

 bread a good flavor. I would surely 

 be willing to try such flour if I could 

 get some. 



I found the first blossom of the sea- 

 son on May 22, this year, and the plant 

 is now in its glory — full of bloom and 

 maturing seed. 



I have concluded to cut some of it 

 soon, and offer for sale a limited quan- 

 tity of the seed to those who wish to 

 try it for themselves. The price is 

 necessarily high, as it is considerable 

 trouble to gather the seed, and it must 

 be done at a time when there is a pres- 

 sure of other work. Moreover, all 

 patches cut now deprive the bees of 

 the later bloom that would come by- 

 and-by, but there is a distinct advan- 

 tage to the buyer of this early seed. If 

 sown within the next 3 months it will 

 bloom next season. 



Mrs. A. L. Amos. 



Comstock, Nebr., June 23, 1906. 



Accompanying the letter of Mrs 

 Amos was a sprig of yellow sweet 

 clover in full bloom. Those who have 

 never seen a spray of it pressed would 

 be surprised to see how pretty and 

 graceful it is. — [We owe an apology to 

 Mrs. Amos for not publishing the 

 above sooner. It seemed to have be- 

 come mislaid until now, but its value 

 may not be lessened very much by the 

 delay. — Editor.] 



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Conducted by Morley Pettit, Villa Nova, Ont. 



Spacing 1 Extracting Combs 



In the 12-frame super I have tried 

 spacing with 10 combs — 11 combs and 

 12 combs for extracting. With the \ l /%- 

 inch wide top-bar I find 11 combs in 

 the super better than either 10 or 12. 

 With 12 combs the capping is so set in 

 that it makes very slow work uncap- 

 ping. With 10 combs there is too 

 much unevenness and bulging. When 

 this is cut down even with the frame, 



much more honey than is necessary 

 goes into the cappings ; but 11 combs 

 seem to give about the right bulge to 

 uncap readily, and not throw too much 

 honey into the cappings. 



Bees and Pumpkin-Growing 



A farmer in Elgin Co., Ont., who 

 keeps a number of colonies of bees has, 

 for a number of years, made a success 



