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Vol. xxn. 



JULY I, 1894. 



No. 13. 



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Sweet cloveb showed first bloom June 18. 



Tky sweet clover, friend Root, in that hard 

 clay where you can't get a catch of clover. 



Honey sales by county associations with 

 trade-mark labels is under discussion in Eng- 

 land. 



A delightful visit from .^1. B. J. York, 

 bringing with him a big rain to break the long 

 drouth, made us all happy. 



Harper's Monthly is an ally to bee-keep- 

 ers. See "The Welcomes of the Flowers," in 

 March number. 



Cure for burns. Dissolve 1 lb. epsom salts 

 in 3 qts. water, and hold the burn in it, or bathe 

 with it. — Med. and Surg. Jour. 



I'm with N. D. West (p. 503) in wanting 

 plenty of room to get out the first frame, and 

 with the editor in wanting nothing screwed or 

 wedged tight. 



Clover should not be cut for seed, says Carl 

 Zelenka, in Bienen-Vciter, unless weather was 

 favorable at blooming time for bees to fly. 

 Otherwise the yield of seed will not pay. 



Gravenhorst mentions a colony that did 

 not swarm for 29 years, renewing its queens 

 according to its own notion, and giving a larger 

 yield than any of its neighbors. I'd like that 

 strain of bees. 



Old hives, to be used again for swarms, 

 should be well scrubbed with strongest salt 

 water, says Dr. Hachenberg, in ^, B. J^. He 

 thinks he has thus stopped the troublesome 

 desertion of swarms. 



The hardest lesson, perhaps, that begin- 

 ners have to learn is, that number of colonies 

 doesn't count as much as strength. It takes 

 backbone for a beginner with 6 colonies to bring 

 them down to 5 by uniting a weakling with a 

 stronger one. Yet the 5 stronger colonies will 

 sooner increase to 100 than the original 6. 



Excluders are made by Robert Nitzsche, 

 Sebniiz, in Saxony, of hardrned pasteboard, 

 proof against moisture, gnawing, and warping. 

 Gravenhorst commends them. Strips 4 inches 

 wide at 5 cts. per running foot. 



Queen-excluders of wire are made across 

 the water. The claim is, that the bees like 

 them better than the common kind, because 

 they have no sharp edges. [Don't see how they 

 can be accurate excluders. — Ed. J 



"We formerly used two boxes (or crates) of 

 shallow frames as a brood-chamber, and, after 

 exhaustive trials extending over 12 or 15 years, 

 we gave up the idea, though it was our pet 

 notion at the time."— Editor B. B. J. 



What with fewer frames, closer spacing, and 

 deeper top-bars, the present Langstroth, or 

 Dovetail, has now a capacity inside frames of 

 1540 cubic inches. My first Langstroths, 10- 

 frame, had 43 per cent greater capacity, or 2200 

 cubic inches. 



Stubborn. I put the queen of 57 over an 

 excluder in an upper story where the bees were 

 storing honey. She didn't lay for about 48 hours. 

 At the end of a week, not an egg was hatched, 

 when I succumbed and took away the excluder. 

 No queen-cells were started. 



Very stubborn. May 17 I put the queen of 

 a strong colony. No. 76, over an excluder in a 

 second story. Forgot about it till I opened the 

 hive June 14 and found not an egg or brood of 

 any kind in either story, and the queen digging 

 for dear life to get down through that excluder. 

 Queer. 



That picture on p. 517 is fine; but isn't it 

 just an excuse for A. I. to show up his wind- 

 mill ? [He didn't know it was going to be " took 

 in " when he asked E. R. to photograph the 

 boys. Nevertheless, he seemed pleased that 

 the picture " took in " so much, especially that 

 rye.— Ed.] 



Foul-brood cure. Mr. Carl Schroeter, in 

 Deutsche linker, reports entire success with 

 carbolic acid. As generally used, it is a failure, 

 being too weak if diluted, and driving the bees 

 out if full strength. He uses full strength, a 



