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Vol. XXII. 



DEC. I, 1894. 



No. 23. 



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Good sleighing Nov. 13. 

 Le Progkes Apicole gives 18 lbs. as the 

 minimum winter stores in France. 



" Speak oni.v good of the dead " is not a bad 

 maxim ; but some make it, " Speak good, only of 

 the dead." 



" I HAVE KEPT green fruit in jars for a season 

 by sealing tight with beeswaxed cloths."— Mrs. 

 Atchley, in A. B. J. 



Nov. 9. Snow 3)3 inches deep on my hives. 

 Won't I wish they'd been in the cellar if they 

 don't get another flight? Later.— They didn't 

 get it. 



Fl'migation with sulphur is a good thing for 

 a bee-cellar— of course, before the bees are in; 

 and don't fumigate the people if any live over 

 the cellar. 



An apiary of 30 colonies, kept in the city of 

 Chicago by Mrs. S. M. Brooks, gave a crop 

 averaging S13 per colony, mostly from sweet 

 clover. — A. B. J. 



"It is BECOMING apparent that hives should 

 be sized according to good and poor seasons 

 rather than poor and better localities. "—C. W. 

 Dayton, in Review. 



The Revue Internntionale occupies the 

 whole of its October number with a sketch of 

 the life of Francis Huber: and an interesting 

 number it makes too. 



I don't know the answer to Bro. Poppleton's 

 question about bees propolizine late in the sea- 

 son. I've also known them to put big daubs of 

 glue at the entrance, which rather looked as if 

 meant for warmth. 



GoLDENROD, says .1. K. Goodrich, in .4. B. J., 

 yields well in moist localities, but not on drj 

 ground. He says, when abundant in the hives 

 the odor is such that a novice might mistake it 

 for that of foul brood. 



Cellared my bees Nov. 20. They had gone 

 through two hard freezes, with thermometer 7 

 and 10^ above 0, and ought 10 have had another 

 fly; but it was too risky to leave them out long- 

 er. I wish they had been put in Nov. 1. 



Egyptian bees have the reputation of being 

 cross. F. W. Simond writes from Alexandria 

 to Revue Internationale, that, on their native 

 soil, they are very gentle; but taken to Europe 

 they become vicious, as do animals of larger size. 



DooLiTTLE says, in ^. B. J., that winters are 

 gradually becoming harder on bees, and thinks 

 that, by the year 2000, nearly all if not all the 

 bees north of 40° will be cellared. But he much 

 prefers a special bee-cellar with no building 

 over it. 



In Switzerland large numbers of bees died, 

 death being attributed to fine dust or rust on 

 pine needles getting into the breathing pores of 

 the bees while working on the pines. Could 

 that explain some of the unexplained cases in 

 this country ? 



Rambler, on p. 8(58, handles the term " frog- 

 eating" very gingerly, fearing to show disre- 

 spect. If he has ever tasted the hind quarters 

 of a "bloody-noun," well fried in butter, and 

 concluded he didn't like it, I've a good bit of 

 " disrespect" for his taste. 



British bee-keepers have two kinds of con- 

 ventions. The one seems to be chiefly a busi- 

 ness meeting. The other they call a "conver- 

 sazione," which hasn't the least shadow of a 

 program, but is taken up with solid bee-talk. 

 Reports of the latter are very interesting. 



The kepoht of the convention at St. Joe, so 

 far, in the American Bee Journal, is unusually 

 full. Even for those who were there, it will be 

 interesting to read it over. So much is crowded 

 into two days that we can't remember it all; so 

 in reading the report, much of it comes as new. 



Editor Yohk says the editorial " we" seems 

 more natural than " I." Some very bad things 

 are natural. He says "I" is sometimes ego- 

 tistical, but "we" isn't. Tut, tut, George! is 

 there any thing very modest iVi a man's feeling 



