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Vol. XXH. 



JUNE 15, 1894. 



No. 12. 



FoKEiGN BKE-.JouRNALs are gaining appreci- 

 ation. Review is 10 have them culled by R. L. 

 Taylor, assisted by his niece. 



Dk. Tinker says queenless black bees will 

 eat eggs given them. Won't Italians, Dr. T.? 

 But sometimes they don't. 



Is ANY VENTILATION of hives better than the 

 old-fashioned way of raising the hive by a 

 block under each corner in summer? 



I'm glad to have Doolittle confirm my opin- 

 ion that a laying queen can get through as 

 small a perforation as when a virgin. 



" Oliver Foster dropped the supply business 

 because he could make more money raising 

 honey. That is encouraging."— B. K. Review. 



Weather here would rejoice first page of B. 

 B. J. May 17, a. m., 92° in shade; p. m., big 

 hailstorm; next morning, snowstorm and down 

 to 3G°. 



Mental overwork and worry seems to have 

 shortened Mr. Corneil's days. Many of us may 

 take warning. Mr. Corneil's loss is felt outside 

 of Canada. 



A SPLENDID place to keep combs is under 

 a hive containing a colony of bees. They'll 

 take care of them, even if not obliged to go 

 down through the combs. 



That latest Crane smoker, with its accu- 

 rately fitting, lightning-shutting nozzle, solid 

 bolts, and corrugated outside— what other im- 

 provement is left to dream over? 



Experimenter Taylor (Review) thinks 

 moisture in cellar does no great harm to strong 

 colonies; also that sealed covers do no great 

 harm with big ventilation below. 



The best foundation, according to Graven- 

 horst, should not have the thin and exactly 

 six-sided edges of walls we are accustomed to 

 see, but thickened and round, as the bees make 

 them. 



That trouble about mistaken identity of 

 queens that Mrs. Atchley tells about on p. 453 

 would not occur if queens were clipped. [That's 

 so; but beginners seldom clip, because they are 

 too awkward.— Ed.] 



Took out my bees from cellar April 18; all 

 but 10 taken out March 17, and 20 April 2,5. As 

 nearly as I can make out by the last of May, it 

 would have been some loss if I had taken all 

 out in March. 



The Canadian government is to establish a 

 department of apiculture at the experiment 

 farm at Ottawa, and the publication of a 

 French bee-journal for Canadians is in contem- 

 plation, says M. Benoit, in Bulletin chi Tarn. 



In England small hives are in favor. The 

 standard frame is 14^x8. 72 per cent as large as 

 Simplicity; 10 or 11 frames are used, 11 being 

 hardly as much as 8 vSimplicities. [Yes, yes; 

 here is a pointer in favor of the smaller hives 

 -Ed.] 



M. M. Baldridge gives in Review a man- 

 agement of foul brood worth considering. This 

 and some other things, to change Hutchinson's 

 words, makes it seem " to be one of those cases 

 in which you ought to be a subscriber to" Re- 

 view. 



When Emma saw the new Crane smoker she 

 said, "Now you'll not be always losing your 

 nozzle." To which unkind insinuation I made 

 no reply. [The nozzle was not hinged to pre- 

 vent losing it, but to facilitate filling and to 

 obviate burning fingers in handling a loose top 

 —Ed.] 



Mr. L. O. Howard succeeds Prof. Riley as 

 chief of entomology at Washington. The 

 Chicago Record says Howard "has been the 

 mainstay of that branch of the service for sev- 

 eral years, and is the author of a large portion 

 of the publications which bear Prof. Riley's 

 name." 



Prevention of after-swarming. Here's a 

 good plan from Frank Coverdale, in A. B. J. 

 Put the newly hived swarm side by side with 

 old hive; close entrance of old hive, and put in 

 its side next to new hive a cone escape, and in 



