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Vol. XXII. 



JULY 15, 1894. 



No. 14. 



Two M11.T.T0N colonies of bees in Germany, 

 about one-third with movable combs. 



Watching bees working on linden, 1 found 

 not one in 50 with pollen. Is that usual ? 



I HOPE Prof. Cook and those Germans will 

 3ome to an agreement about honey-dew. 



Don't fokget that, independently of any 

 thing else, we want thick top-bars to make 

 white sections. 



Bee-keepeks' tobacco is one of the special- 

 ties advertised in German papers. I can't find 

 it in A. I. Root's catalog. 



Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson finds, after 

 ong experiment and practice, that 64° Fahr. is 

 the best temperature in which to conduct men- 

 tal labor. 



That golden-queen fad is hard to resist, 

 the bees look so handsome. I've some beauties 

 Df Doolittle's stock, but he says they're no bet- 

 ter than three-banders. 



"What proportion of bees less than 16 days 

 Jld should be in a colony during clover '?" is a 

 juery in A. B. J. Only lour venture to give a 



uess, and they say 20, 50, and 75 per cent. 



An international frame " that would be 

 accepted by all nations "is one of the things 

 talked about in the foreign bee-journals. I'm 

 ifraid we'll never reach even a national one in 

 this country. 



Pollen-clogged combs in queenless colo- 

 aies show how far wrong is the notion that 

 jueenless bees carry in no pollen. It also shows 

 tiow large an amount of pollen must be used in 

 I normal colony. 



That Frenchman at Hamilton, III., is still 

 wailing for an answer to his conundrum, " Why 

 should a larger hive be used for extracted than 

 or comb honey?" Can none of us eight- 

 'ramers answer him ? 



For chapped lips, dissolve beeswax in a 

 small quantity of sweetoil by heating carefully; 

 apply the salve two or three times a day, and 

 avoid wetting the lips as much as possible.— 

 Herald and Presbyter. 



Reepen objects to my plan of trying"heredity 

 from nurse-bees by raising queens from the 

 same stock in a cross and a gentle colony, that 

 the influence of the drones would interfere. 

 You're right, mein Herr. 



That picnic on clover that I told about in 

 last Straws lasted about while I was telling 

 of it. Now, July, empty combs in all my hives 

 make me anxiously wonder what price Congress 

 will make on September sugar. 



In an article about bees, in Harper's 

 Young People, the writer gravely recommends 

 the use of camphor to keep out moths which 

 sneak into hives, " just as they sneak into seal- 

 skin cloaks and woolen garments." 



That other Taylor, who runs the private 

 experiment station in Minnesota, says, in A. B. 

 J., " What v/e need is not so much an improved 

 strain of golden Italian bees as an improved 

 "strain" of practical bee-keepers. [That's 

 very true. — Ed.] 



That stubborn case, in which the queen 

 stayed 28 days in the upper story without lay- 

 ing, continued 18 days longer, with the queen 

 having full run of the hive, but not an egg, 

 when I found her on the ground, as if having 

 swarmed, and I killed her. 



That vindictive German, Reepen, in Ceri- 

 tralblntt, replying to the charge of cruelty in 

 making little children learn such a hard 

 language as the German, says all the stutterers 

 in Germany became so by the continued vain 

 endeavor to sound the English " th." 



My .JOKES need labeling sometimes. Speak- 

 ing of old bee-books, I said none were published 

 in America before 1492. Now comes a grave 

 statement in a foreign bee-journal, that the 

 first bee-book in America was printed in 1492. 

 1492 isn't so familiar a date across the water as 

 here. 



