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Vol. XXII. 



/HAY I, 1894. 



No. 



1 iioi'K to get bees out of cellar Api il iS. 



Ai'Kii. Review has a nice picture of tlie editor 

 iiiside a veil. 



Lettuce is one of the best things for fall 

 sowing, Bro. Root. 



Vaseline, I think, is used In England more 

 than elsewhere. [If a good thing there, why 

 not here also?— Ed.] 



The Review says I made a failure with sweet 

 clover. Yes, only because I couldn't get a 

 stand. I think that can be remedied. 



"Evii> COMMUNICATIONS corrupt good man- 

 ners." Who would have thought that, when 

 IMof. Cook went among those extracted-honey 

 men. he'd become one of tliem ? 



EXPEKIMENT STATIONS, H. W. ScOtt SUggeStS 



in A. ii. J., should communicate freely with 

 each other, each one being fully informed as to 

 what the others are doing. Why not? 



Apicui/ruJiE seems to grow in importance in 

 the eyes of agricultural journals. The Farm 

 unci Stock Ledger, a new paper, devotes nearly 

 one-fonrth of its reading space to bee-keepers. 



C. Thkii.man, in A. B. J., reports his bees in 

 cellar all right at 3()°, but they have unusually 

 well-ripened stores. lie thinks it bad to have 

 them ir>° or higher the first part of the winter. 



A PEitcoi.ATOK is my latest acquisition. I'll 

 tell you how it works, next time. [Yes. yes; 

 we are all anxious. We shall not have time to 

 try one till fall, so should like to know a little 

 in advance. — Ed.] 



Speculative feeding is much spok(!n of by 

 Germans, and seems valued. I'm not sure just 

 what it is — perhaps a compromise between giv- 

 ing a big lot all at once, and the scanty supply 

 of stimulative feeding. 



Gravenhokst relates that part of his colo- 

 nies were taken at time of rspe bloom to a 

 large domain and returned after, free of ex- 



pense, the owner getting double crop from the 

 rape by the work of the bees. 



J. A. Nasii thinks the vanilla-flavored honey 

 is from sweet clover. Possibly; but I've had 

 samples of so many different things as sweet 

 clover that I'm doubtful whether any one knows 

 what sweet-clover honey is. 



That echo on p. 327. It may l)e true that 

 honey gets its aroma from fresh- bulit comb, 

 but I can't swallow it, Rambler, unless you 

 give us something to help make it go down. Is 

 new white comb as fragrant as wax from black 

 combs ? 



Dk. J. P. H. Brown, speaking in A. B. J. of 

 the big freeze that went all over the country, 

 says, "It is the 7nost complete vegetable-kill 

 that ever I experienced in the South." The 

 effect on southern bees has been somewhat dis- 

 astrous. 



That rule that friend Schaeffle gives, p. 32.'5, 

 that queeiiless bees bring in no pollen, is a very 

 old one, but I think it has been laid aside for 

 some time as untrue. Hasn't a queenless hive 

 an unusual supply of pollen? But I doubt 

 whetlier they bring in as big loads. 



No woNDEK Rambler's nose looks so long 

 after playing Eugenia the slip wheji she 

 thought he was going on the cars with her. 

 But fate is on his track. In all his rambles, 

 the fear will always haunt him that Eugenia 

 will turn up in some unexpected place. 



Dk. Karl Rittek, a Pole, caged 133 bees 

 that had lost their stings. After 48 hours 80 

 were still living, and flew away as lively as 

 ever when freed. But bees are slow to show 

 the effect of injuries. Cut one in two, and it 

 doesn't seem to hurt it for a long time. 



The SECRET of the control of fertilization of 

 queens, accoiding to a writer in A. B. J., is 

 ready to be made public whenever a liberal 

 reward is pledged, as the secret is now positive- 

 ly known. May be so; but then, it has been 

 positively known so many times before. 



DooLiTTLE, p. 329, doubts a wintered colony 

 having no pollen in spring. I think I knew 

 just one exception about 30 years ago. A coIo- 



