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Vol. XXII. 



FEB. I, 1894. 



No. 3. 



At the Iowa convention, IM inches seem- 

 ed the favorite width for sections. 



York's "Stinger" says Jake Smith can 

 spell better than 1 can. The spiteful thing I 



Butter and honev shall he eat, that he 

 may know to refuse the evil, and choose the 

 good.— Is A. 7:15. 



This avinter, so far, is one of extremes. The 

 coldest I ever knew at the first end, and ex- 

 tremely warm for the past few weeks. 



Quince jelly made with honey, of exquisite 

 flavor, is one of the delicacies mentioned as on 

 exhibition at a French bee-keepers' convention. 



Brother Abbott, of Saint Joseph, says it's 

 all a mistake about sweet-clover honey being 

 dark. No finer honey in the United States. — 

 A. B. J. 



" Do BEES ever swarm without having built 

 queen-cells previously?" is a question asked in 

 A. B. J. The 25 witnesses don't agree in their 

 testimony. 



Last Gleanings might be called a special 

 number on Bees vs. Fruit Culture. Might send 

 a small boy with a copy to the esteemed editor 

 of RuniJ New-Yorker. 



Gallup occupies I3<i pages of A. B. J. with 

 a glowing description of Orange Co., Cal., and 

 the wicked printer heads it, " By Dr. E. Gullup." 

 But Gallup would't gull any one. 



If formic acid, as now seems settled, comes 

 through the blood of the bee into the honey, 

 shall not some of us have to change our notions 

 about feeding for winter, and feed more slowly? 



Gleanings is getting to be so prompt about 

 appearing on time that it reminds one of the 

 old times when it was after all the other jour- 

 nals with a sharp stick when they were a day 

 late. 



Members of bee-keepers' societies enjoy spe- 

 cial advantages in Europe. They get bee-jour- 



nals at reduced rates, or free, and in one of the 

 journals I saw an invitation for manufacturers 

 to send in notice of the rebate they would al- 

 low members on purchases. 



"The bf.vl source of formic acid in honey," 

 at which I have already hinted, is given in an 

 able article by Dr. Planta, and nicely translated 

 for A. B. J. by Frank Benton. Exit Rev. 

 Clarke's "drop by drop from the point of the 

 sting" theory. 



The special flavor, very agreeable but 

 hard to define, found in butter on the breakfast 

 tables of English hotels, as well as of some 

 Swiss hotels patronized by the English, is, ac- 

 cording to the Bourgogne Agricole, due to the 

 presence of honey in the butter. 



I always hate to see any one try to have 

 the last word. Now, I wouldn't do a thing of 

 that kind; but I merely rise to inquire, anent 

 that third paragraph on p. (51, whether it was 

 the stacked-up hives or closing the door that 

 stopped the robbing in the honey-house.* 



Now that Rev. Clarke's "drop by drop" 

 theory is exploded, will some one demonstrate 

 that a sting can't be used for a trowel ? Or why 

 can't Bro. Clarke be candid enough to arise and 

 explain that there never was any basis except a 

 vivid imagination for the "sting-trowel the- 

 ory"? 



While breaking off from the habit of 

 chewing tobacco. Dr. Trask advises that the 

 patient take a chew of coarsely powdered gen- 

 tian root, about equal to the ordinary quid of 

 tobacco, after each meal. Within a few weeks 

 the cure will be complete if the patient has 

 strictly abstained from tobacco during that 

 time. — Medical World. 



Bees' eyes, according to Tony Kelien, in 

 Lux. Bienen - Zettung, do not accommodate 

 themselves to a weak light nor to a dazzling 

 one. Bees thrown in the air at dusk, a short 

 distance from their hives, circle around in the 

 air, and finally fall to the ground without find- 

 ing their homes, while the dazzling light on the 

 snow has much the same effect. 



* Both, doctor, 

 up.— Ed. 



The stacked hives eased things 



