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Vol. XXII. 



APR. 15, 1894. 



No. 8. 





I ENJOYED reading p. 270 very much. 



" Honey-bees from $1 to ?3 a stand " Is to be 

 the regular assessment in Indiana. 



Stingy^ is a word that doesn't apply to bees 

 unless you make the g hard. 



Mei.ilot hay is a success with my stock. 

 Been feeding a good bit lately. 



Wagner's pea, the new forage-plant, is said 

 to yield honey from July to middle of October. 



Real-estate dealers in California and 

 Texas seem to be having quite a boom in the 

 bee-journals. 



The consensus of opinion among the repli- 

 «rsin ^. B. J. Is against efforts to urge early 

 brood- rearing. 



Another objection, friend Boardman, to 

 the 3 cornered starter in sections the drone 

 comb, which doesn't look so pretty. 



Poultry and bee men are to have a Scan- 

 dinavian monthly published at Cedar Rapids, 

 Iowa, called Fjarkra- ny Bi-Avl. I'm not go- 

 ing to read it. 



Doolittle has been having a hot discussion 

 in a local paper on tariff and temperance. His 

 opponents come from afar and not singly, but 

 Doolittle seems to draw the most blood. 



The repliers in A. B. J. are badly mixed 

 up over the question as to whether more honey 

 will be left in the brood-chamber when run for 

 comb than extracted, with a leaning toward 

 the affirmative. 



Eight-year OLD comb honey is reported in 

 A. B. J. as an article of diet on the table of 

 Hon. Eugene Secor. He says no one at the ta- 

 ble suspected it was old. Kept in the garret 

 and never granulated. 



.1. B. Trotzmueller, in Bic?ie?i-IYjter, says 

 May sickness of bees — which is, perhaps, our 

 spring dwindling— may be cured by speculative 



feeding. [We don't catch on to that word 

 "speculative," Doctor. — Ed.] 



Tell Ruth Moore I've seen that honeyed 

 butter mentioned in several papers, but no in- 

 structions for it given. Can any of our foreign 

 friends tell us how? 



Doolittle tells \n A. B. J. that his bees got 

 pollen March 10 from skunk-cabbage. Yet 

 nearly every number of A. B. J. tells how to 

 Mil skunks. [There must be here a missing 

 link. We fail to get the connection. — Ed.] 



That murmur. I don't know. My bees ai- 

 wai/.s murmur in the cellar, and I've had them 

 come through in fine shape. May be it's bad 

 for them, but it always sounds kind o' comfort- 

 able. [There I you've redeemed yourself.— 

 Ed.] 



I TOOK TEN COLONIES out of Cellar March 17. 

 Weather kept beautiful for a week, but wife 

 wouldn't let me take out more. Said I'd given 

 strict orders not to allow it; 24th, winter came 

 again. Big snowstorm, and about 10 above 

 every morning up to date, 30th. Glad I had a 

 wife. 



Some write that they have no troubk with 

 burr-combs with a >4-inch space between top- 

 bars and supers, even with thin top-bars. But 

 thin top-bars may sag as the years go by; and 

 at any rate I want thick top-bars to keep the 

 white sections at a distance from the black 

 brood-combs. 



That picture on p. 275 is just what bees 

 will always do when they get a chance. I've 

 seen them start building upward more than a 

 hundred times. Put an empty super over any 

 colony this spring, and they'll build rtp when 

 the flow begins. [Then you think such build- 

 ing is not a " strange freak." — Ed.] 



Yes, indeed, Mr. Editor, you're right, on p. 

 269. It's a hlij grain of comfort to have so solid 

 a man as H. R. Boardman with me on artificial 

 heat. But I don't believe in making fires so 

 often as he, once a week. I'd rather make a 

 fire only once each winter, and then keep it up 

 all winter. [Do you hear that, Boardman? — 

 Ed.] 



