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Vol. XXH. 



JUNE I, 1894. 



No. II. 



Cotton-seed for winter packing is recom- 

 iiiiided by W. H. Pridgen in A. B. J. 



If Catjfoknia is to fail on honey this year, 

 we Northerners must scratch around to keep 

 he market supplied. 



Cabbage-leaves, externally applied, are 

 recuinmended in the Medical World for ulcers 

 uid diseases of the skin. 



Kvery year it's a fresh surprise to find how 

 [he bees can run out of stores so rapidly when 

 ■aising so much brood in spring. 



Four men who find large hives best have 

 reported. Now let those report who have tried 

 the two side by side and find small hives best. 



" Is MORE honey to be obtained by allowing 

 Dr preventing swarming '? " is a question before 

 both A. B. J. and C. B. J., but the juries dis- 

 agree. 



Can't California bee-keepers "chip in" 

 with the fruit exchange, and then can't the 

 rest of us "chip in" with the California bee- 

 keepers? 



Escort bees may be introduced with a queen 

 Dr not; but when a queen is shipped to me I 

 ilways kill the escorts on account of the remote 

 possibility of foul brood. 



Mistaken economy to make top-bars out of 

 iny thing but clear lumber. By throwing out 

 the knots you can make them out of cheaper 

 5tuff, but in a little while your frames will be 

 twisted. 



The ability to attach spacers to frames 

 ilready in use is not of great value, from the 

 Fact that such frames have not the wide and 

 leep top-bars, therefore the whole frame must 

 be changed. 



The 8 or 10 frame matter has been through 

 the query-box of the A. B. J. The replies sur- 

 prise me; .5 vote for 8 frames, 9 for 10, 5 say 8 

 for comb and 10 for extracted, and 7 are more 

 or less non-committal. 



Rambler, p. 41.5, tries to switch me off on to 

 the hay business. I've hardly capital enough 

 to run the straw business, and it isn't well to 

 try to spread too much. Rambler. Better stick 

 to the straw, hey? 



" Queens cramping " is a thing I never saw, 

 although I've clipped all my queens for 25 or 30 

 years. But I don't hold them by the wings 

 when clipping, but by the thorax. [Right here 

 is the secret of no cramps. — Ed.] 



Sharp practice isn't confined to the Yankee 

 nation. Capt. Hetherington writes a letter to 

 C. B. J., declining to write an article for publi- 

 cation, and the C. B. J. publishes the letter as 

 an article. Makes a good article too. 



The comb-leveler of B. Taylor has the 

 advantage that it is applied to the whole sur- 

 face at once, hence works more rapidly, has a 

 constant heat, and wax of the darkened edge 

 of comb runs off instead of on to the comb. 



Taken all together, I never knew a more 

 favorable year up to the middle of May. Bees 

 are booming, white clover luxuriant, and I 

 hardly see how we can fail of a crop unless we 

 have one of those years when the blossoms yield 

 no nectar. 



"We would not give a straw for a nation 

 which could not do a little boasting," says Hol- 

 termann. I don't want to boast; but I'm will- 

 ing to give a "straw" to say that, on this side 

 the line, we can beat any Canadian bee-journal 

 — except the C. B. J. 



That dough to clean wall paper, that artist 

 Murray gives on p. 4:.*:.', seems like a good thing. 

 Say, Rob. why not bake the dough after clean- 

 ing the walls, and clean the carpet? I've seen 



