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li^fip^EAi^ \6) Medina Ohio 



Vol. XXH. 



NOV. I, 1894. 



No. 21. 



Caknioi.ans, says E. France, in Review, are 

 the best bees for extracted honey. 



Reports are coming in that white clover is 

 starting nicely. We'll hope for next year. 



In Russia, bees seem to be held as sacred — a 

 thief who steals them being transported to 

 Siberia. 



My home apiary isn't as strong in bees as 

 the other two. Neighboring cider-mills may 

 have something to do with it. 



A Russian authority has discovered that the 

 bee is warm-blooded— its body 85 to 95°, and the 

 cluster in winter from 50 to 53° F. 



" We ake considerably out of pocket by 

 clinging to golden bees as long as we have." — 

 Editor Qukiley. [Yes, I think so too.— Ed.] 



M. Bertrand, the able editor of Revue In- 

 ternationale, has observed that laying com- 

 mences sooner in colonies weak in numbers. 



In spite of the assertion that drugs do no 

 good in foul brood, cures ihat appear credible 

 are reported in Revue Internationale by the 

 use of formic acid. 



Bees seem to be partial to Given foundation, 

 according to experiments reported in Review; 

 but what kind of foundation is the Hunt that 

 beats the Given? 



Somnambulist thinks an apron with capa- 

 cious pockets for carrying scissors, knife, etc., is 

 a good thing in an apiary. I have one in my 

 apiary. Emma wears it. 



C. W. D.VYTON describes a new escape, "the 

 Stampede," in Review, which he says will pass 

 1000 bees per minute. I got one by mail, but 

 didn't know where it came from. 



An experiment reported by Doolittle, in 

 Progressive, showed that a colony of 4000 bees 

 working on apple-bloom would store a pound 

 of nectar per hour; but by next morning the 

 weight was reduced more than half. 



E. France indorses R. C. Aikin's view, that 

 the energy of a newly hived swarm is more ap- 

 parent than real. What's gained in the swarm 

 is lost in the parent coIouy.— Review. 



Experimenter Taylor {Review) thinks bees 

 prefer sections not wider than l%—\%, with 

 separator. Thafs an argument in favor of the 

 narrower sections used by Canadians. 



Reviewer Hasty says, " No matter how 

 solidly I get combs built down to the bottom- 

 bar, they'll not stay so many years." Can't you 

 keep quiet, Hasty ? I hear that enough at home. 



A revolution has taken place in the views 

 of bee-keepers as to what will prevent burr- 

 combs. In replies in A. B. J., 21 think correct 

 spacing will do it, while only 3 think a honey- 

 board necessary. 



Raising watermelons is suggested by Som- 

 nambulist, in Progressive, as a good business 

 to go with bee-keeping, as the raising and mar- 

 keting of them comes before and after the 

 busiest time with the bees. 



Dr. Von Planta says the ages of nurse-bees 

 correspond with the ages of the larva? they 

 feed, the youngest nurses feeding the youngest 

 ]arv;e Drone larvae, needing the stronger 

 food, are fed by older nurses from the start. 



Observer, in Prog^-csswe, thinks bee-keeping 

 is more like gambling than any other legitimate 

 occupation — the bee-keeper's always hoping to 

 win next time. I don't like to be called a gam- 

 bler, but there's no denying the uncertainties. 



C. W. Dayton says, in Progressive, that he 

 has given up alighting-boards, preferring the 

 old-fashioned fly-hole in the center of the front 

 of the hive. I don't know whether such fly- 

 holes are good for bees, but I'm sure they like 

 them. 



Hutchinson quotes Doolittle, and discusses 

 the advantages of brace-combs, and ends up 

 with "but, advantage or no advantage, brace- 

 combs built against the sections or the recepta- 

 cle in which they are placed can never be tol- 

 erated." 



S. E. Miller, in Progressive, raises the query 

 whether nurse-bees eat eggs when rearing 



