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Vol. XXII. 



JAN. 15, 1894. 



No. 2. 



Immense crops but poor sale is the cry among 

 bee-keepers in France. 



Annual insurance for bees andbee-lixtures 

 in Germany costs 3 mills on the dollar. 



That man makes the best success in the long 

 run in his vocation who has an avocation as 

 well. 



" Quiet robbing to stop robbing " is a head- 

 ing on page 2(). That's hardly the thing. Bet- 

 ter put" prevent " in place of "stop." 



York took a pretty big contract when he 

 agreed to have a bee-keeper's picture every 

 week of 1893, but he got there all right. 



Gleanings looks quite gay with its new fix- 

 ups. Funny that lead, which usually makes 

 things heavier, makes a printed page lighter. 



Gravenhorst, editor I llustrierte Bienenzeit- 

 ung, thinks we might learn something from 

 German bee-keepers, and viceversa. Oanzrecht. 



Lathyrus Silvestris Wagneri is a new 

 honey-plant that's getting a boom across the 

 water. I think it's some kind of a pea used for 

 forage. 



Sugar for feeding, free from ultramarine, 

 sulphur, and sulphuric acid, is advertised in 

 foreign bee -journals. May be it would be a 

 good thing here. 



A SALVE much esteemed for ulcers and ex- 

 ternal sores is made by mixing equal parts of 

 honey and Hour with a very little water so as to 

 make a stiff paste. 



That's a mean advantage Rambler takes of 

 me on p. 20, in claiming that washing-recipe 

 for the benefit of bachelors. Bet you he gets 

 kerosene in his flapjacks. 



He liked the comb. Papa (to little boy who 

 has been at a party): Well, my little man, 

 what did you have that was nice? 



Little Boy. Oh! we had honey, and it had 

 ehewing-gum in \t.~Harper'^ Young People. 



Austria has 1,550,000 colonies of bees; Ger- 

 many, 1,450.000; France, 950.000; The Nether- 

 lands, 240,000; Belgium. 200,000; Russia, 110,000; 

 Denmark, 90,000; Greece, 30,000. 



The old reliable A. B. J. has so much foul 

 brood in its columns nowadays that I have to 

 wash my hands after reading it, for fear of get- 

 ting the disease among my bees. 



Friend Root, tell your "sun time" friends 

 that you can get telegraph time every day, rain 

 or shine, but they're in a bad fix if the clock 

 stops and the sun doesn't shine for two weeks. 



Brace and burr combs, after several years' 

 trial, have not appeared in a hive with top- 

 bars 1}^ X %, spaced 1^, with }4 space over top- 

 bars, according to a report of O. G. Rislow, in 

 A. B. J. 



Those mummies were quite a find, as told by 

 Karl R. Mathey, p. 18; but isn't friend Mathey 

 himself more of a find ? I tell you, if we find 

 out all those Germans know about bees we'll 

 know a heap. 



Pile remedy. One cupful honey, two table- 

 spoonfuls sulphur and two of black pepper, 

 mixed, and taken a tablespoonful at a.dose, 

 three times daily in bad cases. — Rural New- 

 Yorker. 



That last straw on page 7, that says, " 1 

 out of 23 would keep the frames the same, sum- 

 mer and winter," should read "19 out of 22." 

 Get some new harvest hands that can set up 

 .straw right. 



My first cellaring was with box hives. 

 I turned them upside down, according to Quin- 

 by's advice. That made upward ventilation 

 with a vengeance, and all closed below. My 

 present practice is just the opposite. Either 

 way is good if other things are right. 



An old sign that a colony is not queenless 

 in spring is, to find the remains of wax-worms 

 thrown on the floor of the hive. There may be 

 a good deal in it, for a queenless colony will not 

 clean out such things with much vigor. 



Mr. Editor, haven't you got things a little 

 mixed on page 9? Herr Lehzen, and notGuen- 

 ther, is the able editor of the Centralhlatt, and 



