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Vol. XXII. 



MAR. I, 1894. 



No. 5. 



Jennie Atchley reports in A. B. J. finding 

 laying worliers at work in a liive with a super- 

 annuated queen. 



New means for killing skunks are diligently 

 brought forward. Are the poor things to be 

 utterly exterminated V 



To peel an orange. After cutting the 

 rind in six sections, don't commence at the 

 blossom end. Try the stem end. 



Phin's Dictionary of Apiculture has my in- 

 creased respect. He had largely virgin soil to 

 work on, and he made a good job. 



The Layens plan, that Doolittle asks about 

 on p. 1.51, gives the bees in the spring a hive so 

 big they can't fill it, then lets them alone till 

 fall. 



SwAKMiNG seems to interest Wisconsin bee- 

 keepers, as the program for State convention 

 shows .T topics out of 12 relating to it. I'd like 

 to be there. 



Rambler, can't you get the Californians to 

 make that standard frame just >§ inch longer 

 so we can all have the same standard? [Yes, 

 yes. -Ed.] 



Wilder Graiiame hits the nail very square- 

 ly on the head in that talk aboutgiving swarms 

 a chance to alight conveniently for the bee- 

 keeper (p. 149). 



Longevity as a reason for such great differ- 

 ence in the working of two colonies has another 

 advocate in A. B. J., in Chas. H Thies. He 

 gives a strong illustration. 



Salt won't cure the bee-paralysis they 

 have in Texas, says L. B. Smith, in A. B. J., 

 and he thinks that disease in the last three 

 years has killed two-thirds of the bees. 



"All of Gleanings, except the part belong- 

 ing exclusively to A. I. Root, comes with en- 

 larged pii.it. Quite an improvement," says 



Mrs. Hallenbeck, in Progressive, and even the 

 editor of Progressive speaks of the new type. 



Gallup says, A. B. ,7., queens mailed when 

 just beginning to lay are not injured; and when 

 laying heavily a journey in the mails impairs 

 their prolilicness but not their longevity. 



How much honey is used to raise a pound of 

 bees? is a query in A. B. J. One man guesses a 

 pound, another 20, and the rest "don't know." 

 Some one ought to find out. [Doctor, suppose 

 you try the experiment next summer, and re- 

 port.— Ed.] 



Foundation, if sheeted as carefully as for 

 the rolls, can be made just as thin and even on 

 the press as by the rolls, says E. T. Flanagan, 

 in Progressive. But he adds that it takes care 

 and skill to do it. and in ail that I used I never 

 saw any such. 



Ernest suggests, p. 165, that a clear light 

 saves the eyes. Right. Not that the quality 

 of the light's better, but there's more of it. 

 And don't forgot that you can get more light 

 by being neaier the lamp. At 2 feet the light 

 is four times as strong as at 4 feet. 



E. a. Dodge thinks there are enough other 

 insects to fertilize fruit-blossoms without bees. 

 He says, "Take a lantern and visit a plum-or- 

 chard about 9 at night, and you will see moths 

 enough to fertilize all the trees in Nebraska in 

 a single night." Do night-moths do that sort 

 of thing? 



" We transfehred the bees from a wagon- 

 load of box hives a few days ago, and by care- 

 ful test we found the combs to average, as near- 

 ly as we could get at it, li?ti inches from center 

 to center."— Mcs. Atchley, in A. B. J. Do bees 

 voluntarily build combs as close in cold as in 

 hot climates? 



Ei)I'"or York is stirring up his readers with 

 the report of a man who regularly retails ex- 

 tracted honey at 24 cts., and H. D. Cutting is 

 selling an extra article of extracted at 16, 

 while plenty common can be had at 7. There's 

 lots in knowing how to sell, and if all extracted 



