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Vol. XXII. 



MAR. 15, 1894. 



No. 6. 



Please rise and tell what " an average 

 crop " means. 



Dishes prepared with honey at one of 

 Nero's suppers are said tu have cost $160,000. 



Bee-keepits"g is to be taught at the Univer- 

 sity of California. Prof. Cook lives in Cali- 

 fornia. 



The Langdon nonswarmer is a great suc- 

 cess in at least one direction — it keeps down 

 drones. 



The iiush-up treatment for adulteration 

 seems to be given up, and " fight" is the word 

 all along the line. 



Michigan, Vermont, Rhode Island, Califor- 

 nia, Nebraska — not a bad list of States with ex- 

 perimental bee-stations. 



Five carloads of glucose were used by one 

 firm in adulterating honey in California, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Levering, in Cal. convention. 



The right space between top-bars being 

 asked for in A. B. J.. I was surprised to see 

 that more of the repliers agreed upon J^ inch 

 than upon any other distance. 



Wasps have the credit of making the break 

 in fruit, which is followed up by the bees. With 

 me it's birds and not wasps that make holes 

 shaped like dumb-bells, in grapes. 



The king -bird gets a good word in A. B. J. 

 from Will A. Bryan, taxidermist in Iowa Agr. 

 Coll. He thinks it eats enough noxious insects 

 to pay for the few bees it gobbles, and eats bees 

 only when other insects are scarce. 



I thought I had seen sections as smooth as 

 they could be made But now come some from 

 Medina with not a scratch of sandpaper or 

 mark of plane to show they were made smooth. 



Just looks like they " growed " smooth. What 

 a world of progress it is! 



Less brains are said to be needed to raise 

 extracted than comb honoy. I'm getting to 

 doubt that. A viler article of extracted can be 

 thrown on the market by the novice than he 

 can possibly get the bees to seal up in comb. 



Robbers. Pres. Mclntyre used a trap, re- 

 moved the hive that was being robbed, put in 

 its place the trap, and caught all the robbers. 

 At night the robbers were released, and seldom 

 commenced operations the next day.— Cal. con- 

 vention report in A. B. J. 



British bee-keepers are so stirred up as to 

 the importation of foreign honey that the B. B. 

 J. says, " If we devoted space to all the copy 

 sent for publication, referring directly or indi- 

 rectly on the foreign-honey question, .... 

 there would be little room for aught else."' 



Vanit,i.a seemed to be used in flavoring some 

 honey I took this year, the finest I ever tasted, 

 and I sampled some of the same that Editor 

 York raised. A sample sent to Medina was 

 pronounced extra clover, but I never tasted va- 

 nilla in clover before. Wish I knew what it 

 was. 



Quite an improvement in the pages of 

 Gleanings to have the name of the author at 

 the head of an article. The old way was much 

 like introducing a speaker to an audience after 

 he had finished his speech, or putting the name 

 of an author at the end of his book. 



Say, Rambler, from the way Eugenia holds 

 up her chin, slie'll make you dance and skip to 

 another tune when she settles down on you. 

 You'll not be an "eversteamed friend," you'll 

 be a " roasted" one. [How do you know, Doc- 

 tor? Have you been there?— Ed. J 



One-sixth of an inch is about the right size 

 for perforations in queen-excluders. That's 

 tV"}^, and 105 to 170 seems agreed on. One-sixth 

 is easier said and remembered. [We have wish- 



