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Vol. XXII. 



SEPT. 15, 1894. 



No. 18, 



Only three weeks till the conventicii at 

 !St. Jo — excuse me, brother Abbott— soph. 



In Gkkmany they have a convention of bee- 

 keepers as is a convention— from Siipt. 1 to Sept. 

 16! 



The stixg-tkowel theory, that Rev. W. F. 

 Clarke first gave out as a fact, he now holds 

 only as a supposition. 



Fruit gathe];ixg time has come, and we 

 find these boxes just capital that come from 

 Medina with sections. 



My bees seem to empty the feeders faster 

 in daytime than at nij^ht, although the nights 

 are warm, and bees fly well all day. 



To prevent second swarms, says Ruchcr 

 BcJrjc. run a laying queen in at the entrance on 

 the day of first swarming, smoking before and 

 after. 



I SECOND that motion, on p. 081, to reduce the 

 N. A. B. K. A. aflfiiiatlon fee; at least, to let 

 alSiiating societies have full value for their 

 money. 



Qui;?:x cells, when you cut them out to use, 

 are often daubed with honey. Lay them on 

 top of the frames or at the hive-entrance, and 

 the bees will clean them off. 



TiiK Britisli B. J. says no greater mistake 

 could be made than to extract from the brood - 

 nest in the fall, to replace with sugar syrup. 

 Your head's level, Mr. Britisher. 



A NEW CLOVER, THfoJiuin incarnatiuu nistl- 

 ciDii, is highly spoken of in Germany. I think 

 it is an improved Italian or scarlet clover, and 

 it is said to grow three feet high. 



A POINTER that W. R Grannis didn't give on 

 p. 702 is. that raspberries don't suffer as much 

 as oher things from bi'ing in partial shade. 

 I've had good crops betwi-eu apple-trees. 



We all like to tell a big story about our 

 honey-yields, but my report on p. 693 is exag- 

 gerated a little too much. The omission of a 

 decimal point makes my average Hi oz. It 



should have been just one-tenth that. My 

 entire crop came from one colony. 



"Does an old queen pipe?" Reepen an- 

 swers in Centmlblatt in the affirmative. No 

 doubt about it. I've both heard and seen an 

 old clipped queen piping. 



Several say that the way to manage sticky 

 fingers is to carry a wet towel along, some hav- 

 ing a pocket for that purpose. If it weren't for 

 the trouble, a wash-dish would be a good addi- 

 tion. 



GiiAVENHORST, the able editor of DeiiUclie 

 lllustrierte Bieiienzeitumj, has prepared a 

 paper for the N. A. B. K. A. convention, giving 

 interesting details as to apistical matters in 

 Germany. 



" If A COLONY has a virgin queen, also un- 

 sealed queen-cills, is there any danger of 

 swarming?" is a query in A. B. J., and the 

 veterans are all mixed up in their replies. I'd 

 like to know the true answer. 



I'd have given two spools and a potato pop- 

 gun to see the real face when Ernest opentd on 

 the counterfeit, p. 691. [Yes, you knew all 

 aboi.t it whim I was at Marengo, and kept 

 miiiu. How could you ? — Ed. J 



Propolis Is recommended in Revue as a cure 

 for corns. Use as a plaster. Why wouldn't 

 propolis make a good adhesive plaster for gen- 

 eral US'' ? [If there should be a general demand 

 for it. we can spare a little. — Ed.] 



Ouserver, in Progressive, says when frames 

 of brood are given to colonies having laying 

 workers, nine times out of ten "if adhering 

 bees are given with the brood, a cell or a queen 

 can be given at the same time if other condi- 

 tions are favorable."' 



That wiDE-AWAKK drea'ner. Soinnami)ulist, 

 in Progressive, bears, testimony to the eflicacy 

 of bee-stings in rlieumatisni, from personal ex- 

 perience. But it looks almost like a case of real 

 somnambulism when he says he didn't feel the 

 stings — only saw the bees prodding him. 



Wm. McEvov, in A. B J., indorses Prof. 

 Cook's view, that bi'e-paralysis is caused by 

 starvation, and says there will never be trouble 

 if bees have plenty of unsealed stores while 



