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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



pounds, and brought down the price of 

 extracted honey two cents a pound. 

 Guess it's all right — only way to keep the 

 New York importers from ousting him 

 from his markets — but it's hard on 

 we'uns. Perhaps it's a feather in 

 his cap that he frankly tells us about 

 it instead of keeping shady. At pres- 

 ent we are not supposed to have any 

 Cuban honey to carry, unless there are 

 remnants left yet of ship-load lots re- 

 ceived in New York before the Cuban 

 rebellion. 



In A. B. J., 659, E. S. Lovesy says he 

 has visited over 2000 colonies having the 

 new bee-disease, pickled brood. He 

 still thinks abuudance of salt sprinkled 

 over them a good remedy. This is si i/i77ia 

 siniilibus ciirautur, isn't it — using salt 

 for pickles ? And what a long list of bad 

 diseases apiculture is getting ! First foul 

 brood; second, paralysis; third, evapora- 

 tion; fourth, pickled brood. The last, 

 though generally milder than the rest, is 

 said to spread the most rapidly of all. 



A. B. J.'s Boiler, page 661, quotes Mc- 

 Intyre as saying that extracting partially 

 stops the income of honey for a day or 

 two — bees supposably employed licking 

 the cells dry and mending their ragged 

 tops. 



Fred. Bechly got two laying queens, 

 heavy with eggs, to fight, small-dog fash- 

 ion, on the top of a hive. Both were 

 killed. A. B. J., 677. This is a slight 

 warning to us that our prevalent habit of 

 letting surplus queens fight it out is not 

 exactly safe. But then, one would have 

 survived in this case if he had not inter- 

 fered. One got on the other's back at 

 the first onset, and he made them quit 

 and come together again fair and square. 

 Leaving all honey to be extracted at 

 the close of the season can not always be 

 practiced without losing a material part 

 of the later crop. What can be tlone 

 about the raw nectar in the combs ? O. 

 O. Poppleton says, put the honey in tall 

 cans, let it stand for a day or two, then 

 turn the too liquid portion off. A. B. J., 

 690. I never had to practice what follows 



— locality not rich enough — but I should 

 .say have your extracting-super in two 

 apartments or stories, one not in use till 

 the other is half full; then extract only 

 the chock-full apartment, and let alone 

 the apartment having raw nectar in the 

 combs — except that, if it's an upper stor^-, 

 the combs shoidd be put below. Or a 

 single ten-frame super can be managed 

 as {/it were two apartments, without any 

 shutting off^. Put in at the outset five 

 good combs on one side and five frames 

 with only starters on the other — with in- 

 tent to take the startered frames out later, 

 and replace them with five good empty 

 combs. 



C. P. Dadant is more of a humorist than 

 he thinks. He says Deacon makes too 

 many assertions that are \\i\.\\o\it/oitucia- 

 tion. A. B. J., 601. Allee same, when C. 

 P. gets to laying down his own founda- 

 tion he lays it wisely and well — at least, 

 some of it. When starters of foundation 

 are used in brood-frames bees often bend 

 off their construction to one side, and get 

 over to the next frame. With only a line 

 or strip of wax to guide them the evil 

 occurs more frequently. 



Potassium permanganate for stings. 

 Wet the wound and rub it on. Revue In- 

 ternationale quoted by A. B. J., 695. On 

 this I want to speak with my mouth just 

 a little, as our German friends say. Get 

 the best. Quite possibly the above may 

 be the best chemical remedy, but for most 

 bee-keepers the best remed}- is to think 

 of something else and let alone. A sting 

 is like a fire, and nerve force is like a 

 poker to the fire. You can not think, 

 think, think of a sting continually 

 without ttirning so much nerve energ\^ 

 loose upon the spot that it will poke up 

 more blaze than your remedy suppresses. 

 The best, in cases where letting alone is 

 not altogether sufficient, is a piece of 

 tissue paper two inches square put on 

 with strong mucilage. This simply 

 excludes oxygen, which would other- 

 wise get in by way of the pores of the 

 skin. A sting is again like a fire, in that 

 both nmst have oxygen before they can 



