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Vol. XXII. 



JAN. I, 1894. 



No. I. 



Thk bee-keepek needn't fear losing his job, 

 however hard the times. 



The Review is asking its readers how it can 

 be improved. W. Z. is great on hard questions. 



Cough medipixe from GiM-many.— Plantain 

 juioe and honey, equal parts, gently boiled for 

 half an hour. 



Many confectioners use strained honey for 

 the body of most of their candies.— Carrie M. 

 Ashton, in The Household. 



Isn't an error involved in that "candied 

 comb honey " item on page 920? Does greater 

 evaporation ever predispose to candying? 



If HALF the good things that are said about 

 the dead had been said while they were living, 

 some of the dead might now be living. 



Emma won't tell, friend Flansburgh (p. i»21 ). 

 how many sections her cases hold; but I'll 

 whisper in your ear, that, when she scrapes ]~M) 

 cases a day, each case holds just one section. 



I HAD a tool like that figured on page 930. 

 After scraping with it for half a day, Emma 

 went back to the case-knife — too slow work 

 holding that notch in just the right place. 



Salt, a teaspoonful to a gallon of sugar syr- 

 up, is recommended by C. H. Murray, in Revleii\ 

 as a catalytic agent, when feeding for winter. 

 As bees seem to like salt, it may be a good thing. 



Sealed covers, poor things, seem to be de- 

 serted by their best friends nowadays; but in 

 Revieir, Arthur C. Miller says he succeeds with 

 them every time. ]{ut he insists that conditions 

 must be right. 



The latest plan for polishing sections is 

 submitting them to friction by passing through 

 the mails. Some mailed from Medina, when 

 they got to Marengo were the smoothest sec- 

 tions I ever saw. 



That bicycle straw made A. I. stiffen his 

 spine, but it made E. R. "'get his back up" 

 more than ever. When I run I lean forward. 



and when I ride a bicycle I expect sometimes to 

 be in the shape of a C, sometimes of ;u) I, and 

 sometimes of an vS. 



The observation of Gerstung, that queens 

 cease to lay for a few days each month, is not 

 confirmed by other observers. Dadant thinks 

 it can occur only in small hives where queens 

 are crowded for room. 



Nebraska has its State convention at York, 

 the home of the Nebraskd Bcc-keejier. whe^ve 

 there isn't a saloon in the county. The other 

 York has plenty of saloons in easy reach, but he 

 doesn't patronize them. 



Foul brooi> can not be originated from 

 dead brood, says Mrs. Atchley. in A. B. J., her 

 own experience proving it as well hs the fact 

 that, before the introduction of f)ul brood, 

 there was plenty of dead brood. 



Linden seeds, according to an item in the 

 Rural New-Yorker, are used Germany for 

 the manufacture of table-oils. If any one wants 

 to start a manufactory of that kind at Marengo 

 I'll furnish bees to fertilize the blossoms. 



Rambler has discovered why the foliage of 

 maple-trees turns red in autumn. He says, in 

 Reviejo. that they're blushing over the decep- 

 tion practiced by dislionest men in selling the 

 stuff they do under the name " maple." 



Thirty-one out of eighty-three at the Chi- 

 cago convention voted for prevention of swarm- 

 ing. That's a gain, isn't it? Twenty years 

 ago prevention of increase was discussed, but I 

 stood almost alone in favor of preventing 

 swarming. 



In Russia, according to Olga Leva.schof. in 

 Revue, bees winter well in open air in spite of 

 the severe cold, when the harvest is good; but 

 after a bad season losses are disastrous. The 

 great requisite fer successful wintering there 

 seems to be good food. 



Spreading combs for winter has its advo- 

 cates, but their number is decreasing, I think 

 In reply to a question in A. B. J., 1 out of 22 

 would keep the frames the same, summer and 

 winter, and only one of the other three actually 

 practiced taking out a comb and spreading the 

 others. 



