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Vol. XXII. 



AUG. 15, 1894. 



No. 16. 



I'm not so suke about my percolated syrup 

 remaining free from granulation. 



Hasty thinks a tax of 5 cents a ton on honey 

 would bring down the figures of some of the 

 big yields. 



r.M SORRY H. Lathrop has to break his back 

 for want of a seat when timber looks so plenti- 

 ful on p. cm. 



Rub the .iuice of an ox-eye daisy on your 

 hands, and bees will not sting them.— DeutscJie 

 linker. [Don't believe it would ahcai/.s work. 

 Ed.] 



Jennie Atchley", when she gets her bees 10 

 miles out at sea, can perhaps settle some of the 

 questions on which we're all at sea.— [We see, 

 C. C.-Ed ] 



Editor York has a German setting type for 

 him, so he has adopted the German plan of 

 mixing funny-graphs among his advertise- 

 ments. Good idea. 



Experimenter Taylor found spring pack- 

 ing an actual disadvantage; but Hutchinson 

 thinks it was because the spring was so unusu- 

 ally warm.— Review. 



Lightning struck the bee-house of H. W. 

 Brice (B. B. /.), and "out of 12 queen-cells 

 which were going on nicely till the storm, 8 of 

 the embryo queens were killed outright." 



A correspondent of B. B. J. says that, as 

 sitting hens turn their eggs over, so the workers 

 from time to time turn the eggs in the cells; 

 also that the newly hatched larva is not fed till 

 •-4 or .31) hours old. 



Drone comb, aside from objections on p. (520, 

 is condemned for sections because it doesn't 

 look as nice as worker. [But do you think bees 

 will draw out, fill, and cap over drone founda- 

 tion quicker than worker, even if the objections 

 mentioned do hold true?— Ed.] 



C. W. Daytox thinks bees leave a super in a 

 regular stampede, and says, " I have seen them 

 go through a siiigie-exit Porter escape four 

 abreast and two deep, or at the rate of .500 per 

 minute."— Reyie 10. 



Jennie Atchley, in .4. B. J., protests vigor- 

 ously against giving up the use of the word 

 "friend" among bee-keepers. Your head's 

 level, friend Jennie. [Her article we publish 

 in another column.— Ed] 



The editor uf the British B. J. doesn't take 

 kindly to the latest improvements in the Bing- 

 ham smoker, lie calls it an uncanny-looking 

 affair with the i)elIows " wrong end up." [He 

 isn't used to it tliat way, perhaps.— Ed.] 



Allen Pringle objects to a high Chinese 

 tariff wall. Hasn't he heard that's what makes 

 this country prosperous '? We'll get one around 

 the State, and then we'll all be rich. If we had 

 one around the county, we'd be millionaires. 



A CORRESPONDENT of Deutsche Imker uses 

 one of the rooms of his dwelling as a bee-room, 

 dark(!ning all windows but one, through which 

 the bees fly. While he makes it work for a 

 numberof colonies, he frankly names objections. 



HuTCiiiN'soN says, where the flow is shorl 

 and abundant there is less need of separators 

 than where it is slight and long-drawn-out, or 

 subj(!ct to frequent interruptions. Most likely. 

 I didn't need any separators this year -nor sec- 

 tion.> either. 



The Well.s plan, having in the same hive 

 two queens with a queen-excluding perforated 

 wooden division between them, has created 

 quite an interest for the past two years in Eng- 

 land, and now ihey are disputing whether the 

 occupants of such a hive shall be called one or 

 two colonies. 



Hasty tells in Review how he solders leaky 

 wash-boilers with propolis. "In applying the 

 stuff, heat the bottom first, then rub all round 

 and over the leaky territory with a lump of the 

 propolis. Put a generous piece of clean tin over 

 the place so the clothes can not get soiled." 

 Leaky wash-dishes, etc., likewise. 



