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Vol. XXII. 



APR. I, 1894. 



No. 7. 





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Hasty's had the gkip. Blithe hasn't lost 

 h\s grip as a reviewer. 



Adulteration doesn't seem to be much 

 hushed up in last Gleanings. 



Nakrow sections are more quickly tilled. 

 Ought they not on that account to be whiter? 



Soft maples bloomed here March 10—33 

 days earlier than last year. [Yes, they were in 

 bloom here earlier yet by two or three days. - 

 Ed.] 



Sections 1% wide, with separators, will con- 

 tain comb 1>6 thick, the same as the honey part 

 ■of brond-combs spaced 1%; \% sections will 

 have 1% combs. 



Yellow-jasmine honey, according to Mrs. 

 C L. Rice, in A. B. J., is not poisonous, but the 

 pollen is. [Is not Mrs. R. mistaken? How is 

 it. Dr. Brown?— Ed.1 



The ree-papers are discussing whether bee- 

 papers should be discussed, and the noes have 

 it. -AHce .samec, bee-keepers do discuss them. 

 [Allee samee, some of 'em get mad. — Ed.] 



On reading page 243 I was sti'uck with the 

 strong similarity hi-tween the intimate ac- 

 ■quaintancfi friend Root mentions and a con- 

 stant attendant I have away out in Illinois. 



I)on"t Medina printers know how to spell 

 ■catalogwe, or has Jake Smith disciples among 

 them ? [Yes, but we prefer the modern sliort 

 way. We also prefer " program " to program- 

 me.— Ed.] 



The old-fashioned way of having hives 

 in a straight row facing the same way has one 

 big advantage for those who watch for swarms 

 — one look along the row tells whether any are 

 swarming. 



The Bee-keepers' Union, more than ever, 

 seems to be looked upon as a protection for bee- 

 keepers in different ways. Those not members 

 get benefits from it; but is it fair for you to en- 

 joy the benefits without helping to support it? 



Keep in mind that, aside from prevention of 

 burr-combs and sagging, we need thick top-bars 

 to keep our sections white. Did you ever no- 

 tice that, when sections begin to darken, it's al- 

 ways at the part nearest the brood-combs? 



If James Heddon has any solid arguments 

 against discussing adulteration, now is the time 

 to bring them into use. After all, if he really 

 believed that adulteration was a good thing for 

 bee-keepers themselves, why shouldn't he go 

 into it? 



I'm anxious to hear a report of your trial of 

 that percolator, Ernest. It's a big thing to 

 have syrup that "will never sour or granulate." 

 Cooked syrtip will granulate without acid, and 

 sometimes with, and I'm afraid the acid isn't a 

 good thing for winter. 



"The indications are strongly in the direc- 

 tion that wax used for containing honey only is 

 whiter than and ditfereiit from that intended 

 by the bees to become a part of the brood - 

 ciiamber."— C. B. J. May be so; but, please 

 tell us i(;?if(t indications. 



Jake S.mitii says, "Some likes jist the white 

 part'' of onions, "and eats tops and all." 

 Dues that mean grub is so scarce in his region 

 that people have to eat what they don't like, or 

 has Jake been drinking? [Now, Doctor, you 

 needn't i)ol<r fun at our friend Jake. — Ed.] 



In RKPi.v to friend Shepherd, p. 23.5, 1 never 

 found the progeny of the new queen cros.ser 

 when I had killed the queen of a cross colony. 

 Not only were they always gentler, but I was 

 puzzled to find that sometimes there was a 

 marked improvement before the old stock had 

 time to die off. Of course, I never raised a new 

 queen from the cross stock. 



