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Vol. XXII. 



OCT. 15, 1894. 



No. 20. 



For diarkikka. Pfarrer Kneipp says take 

 pure yellow beeswax, the size of a pea, once an 

 hour. 



My two-gallon crock feeder worked first- 

 class. Don't know but it's best of all. [Yes, 

 sirl— Ed.J 



" Honey-plant " is a common terra in this 

 country, and " bee-flower " stands for the same 

 thing in England. 



What's best to make water-tight the inside 

 corners of a feeder — white lead, beeswax and 

 rosin, pure beeswax, or what? 



M. M. Baldridge mentions, in A. B. J., a 

 man who sowed 80 acres of sweet clover. He 

 keeps no bees, but sowed it for hay and pasture, 

 and to enrich the soil. 



In shipping bees, C. Dadant says, in Revue, 

 he would give no water, no pollen, no brood, 

 only sealed honey. All this to avoid having 

 the bees' intestines distended. 



To SHAKE bees off a heavy comb, hold the 

 frame with both hands; if the comb is light, 

 better hold it with the left hand, and pound 

 with the right fist on the left. 



A lively round, that, 'twixt the light- 

 weight and heavy-weight on page 7.57. Sick 

 'eml [Yes, sick "em. Come off that fence, 

 and try a round yourself. — Kd.J 



Tobacco I don't use; but I use 13i-inch to- 

 bacco staples, and like them the best kind to 

 fasten covers and bottoms on hives. [I've 

 tried the same things; they are good.— Ed.J 



Kissing is tabooed by Dr. Peiro, in -4. C J.— 

 at least, indiscriminate kissing, especially of 

 babies, on the score of health. The blessed 

 babies will all want to kiss Dr. Peiro for com- 

 ing to their rescue. 



'Ti^n't fair, Bro. Hatch, for you to take 

 hold of my leg and pull. Let me alone on the 

 fence till I see on which side is the best landing, 



and then I'll jump on that side. [You can even 

 things up a little, Bro. H., by pushing that 

 leg on to my side. The doctor has been on the 

 fence long enough. — Ed.] 



Gerstung says extracting during fruit- 

 bloom is good, as returning the extracted combs 

 to be cleaned up excites brood-rearing, but the 

 same thing is not advisable in the main har- 

 vest, as it excites swarming. 



Replies in A. B.J. leave the impression that 

 absence of drones is no security against swarm- 

 ing. [Say! is there any thing that is a security 

 against swarming in the production of comb 

 honey, in the case of a normal colony during 

 the swarming season '? — Ed.] 



Gravenhorst says that American lindens 

 planted in Germany give far greater yields 

 than European. [Of course, he doesn't mean 

 Canadian lindens. They are not as good, you 

 know, as the linden on this side.— Ed.] 



The heavy rains following the terrible 

 drouth have fooled vegetation into thinking it 

 is spring. I never knew grass so bright green 

 in the fall, and dandelions are blooming by the 

 hundred. [Just so here at Medina.- Ed.] 



Le Rucher, Amiens, France, illustratesand 

 describes the Simplicity, portico, and chaff 

 hives as three American hives. They tvere 

 prominent American hives, respected Rucher, 

 but have now given place to the Dovetail hive. 



A percolating feeder isn't fit for late 

 feeding. Feed too thin. But then no feeding 

 ought to be done late. [Yes; and if late feed- 

 ing must be practiced, the old thick syrup (2 of 

 sugar and 1 of water) should be fed in the old 

 way.— Ed.] 



Eggs, 20()0 daily, is only an average for a 

 good queen. Before the development of her 

 ovaries she weighs .2 gram; 2000 eggs weigh .42 

 gram, so she lays more than twice her own 

 weight of eggs daily. But the workers digest 

 her food for her. 



A WRITER in Schweizerlsche Bienenzeitung 

 says bees don't propolize their hives for 

 warmth, but as protection against the bee-moth, 

 closing the cracks where eggs might be 



