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Vol. XXII. 



SEPT. I, 1894. 



No. 17. 



"Top swarm " is a common iiamo in England 

 for a prime swarm. 



My percolator was startpd running Aug. 9. 

 Some of my bees shall be n-ady for winter. 



J. A. Grekn is mentioned in the Chicago 

 papers in connection with a bicycle robbei-y. 



A GOOD prcTURE of Hon. Eugene Secor. as 

 also an articlo from his pen, appears in The 

 MifJland Mohlhhj. 



The lime, or linden, in England, the D. B. J. 

 says, is "a precarious and uncertain source of 

 supply at the best.'" 



A HAPPY DISPOSITION, Dr. Peiro says in A. 

 B. J., is one of the best things to dispel disease. 

 I'm going to get one. 



Sweet clover seems to have a new use. 

 Mrs. Dunkin. in A. B. J., says it will keep 

 moths out of woolen goods. 



Queens are quietly superseded after the close 

 of the honey season much oftener than one who 

 never clips his queens would thitik. 



One pound vs. two pound sections. Re- 

 plies in A. B. J. agree that very little more 

 honey can be obtained in two-pounds than one- 

 pounds. 



Pollen seems to be gathered, not in exact 

 proportion to nectar. My bees have combs 

 empty of honey, but are laying up a good stock 

 of pollen. 



SoMETi.MES I've had queens lay in worker- 

 combs in sections when there was no excuse for 

 it, but not often enough to make it worth while 

 to use excluders. 



Mk. Editor, please don't let Prof. Cook write 

 any more pieces like that on p. 6.51. I don't 

 want to become discontented with the place 

 where I'm now living. 



Evidently the editor (see bottom of p. (iGl) 

 doesn't want to be considered "an ordinary 

 greenhorn around the bees." And yet he'd be 

 mad if you called him an extraordinary one. 



Doolittle figures, in A. B. J., that a good 

 queen during her lifetime lays on an average 

 about 739.00(3 eggs. He had one that averaged 

 more than 4000 daily for two months. 



No. indeed! You're fooled if you think only 

 beginners read that department of Doolittle's. 

 I don't dare to skip a \\ ord of it for fear he gives 

 some kink that I don't know. 



Porches entirely inclosed with wire cloth 

 are coming into fashion. Make a nice place to 

 sit. free from flies and mosquitoes. Wouldn't 

 it be as good a« a bee-tent to manipulate bees ? 



When comp.s have become old and black, 

 they are not worth melting for wax. — British 

 B.J. Wonder if they have real good sun-ex- 

 tractors over th(M'e, or doesn't the sun shine 

 enough ? 



C A. Hatch thinks that prolificness of queen 

 is of jess consequence than vitality of offspring, 

 and that crowding the queen beyond her nat- 

 ural wont, by spreading the brood, may be at 

 the expense of that vitality. 



"Insomnia," says Dr. Peiro, "sounds very 

 distinguished; but when a person can not en- 

 joy good rest there is usually something the 

 matter not exactly to his credit." I don't think 

 much of York's doctor. 



The Russian Church, backed by the gov- 

 ernment, has decreed that hereafter only pure 

 beeswax shall be used in church candles. That 

 mean-< a higher price for foundation, for enor- 

 mous quantities of candles are used. 



The young queen, says Troetzmueller in 

 Btenen-Vater, at3 days old, comes to the en- 

 trance and takes a look around without flying. 

 Next day she takes a flight to mark the loca- 

 tion. Not till the following day does she fly to 

 meet the drone. 



Mrs. Atchley says, in A. B. J., that if ever 

 Doolittle and I get non-swarming bees they're 

 likely to be worthless. Now I know what's 

 the matter with ray honey crop this year. My 

 bees haven't swarmed once, and so I haven't 

 got any honey. 



To a question in A. B. J., the veterans reply 

 almost unanimously that bees secrete wax 

 when fed on sugar syrup about as well as when 



