March 6, 9 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Please Mention the Bee Jonrnal lSlSer"S... 



too motleriilc for tlie hecn. l.lolloir, one of 

 Ihi* editors of that paper, doi:8 not approve of 

 lonlliiint,' Iji'is In the hive iliirint: the winter 

 ( pi"art,icf;<l \iy Koriie noted l)ee-kee[>erh in Oer- 

 riiany). Mr. l.iedlofT clalinn that the coo- 

 hlruetloii of the lioney-beeB Is hiicIi thai they 

 I'liii do willionl a clcanftln^,' flii;hl for month*, 

 lull must hiivi' a cbanvc to leave the hive 

 when the wcatlier Is favorable In winter. 



I would like to add that I uite the double- 

 w;ill hive, dead-air space around the tides and 

 iHittoni, wilh a eushiun on the top only. 



lleiisiAN Cook. 



Wyoinlni; Co., I'a.. Kel). 17. 



King-Birds Long-Tongue Bees. 



.Mv bee.s did fairly well lasl siiniuier, aver- 

 ii^'int' US pounds to the colony, mostly red 

 clover honey. I think they would have done 

 better only for losin(j quite a numljer of 

 queens, which I found out hatipened by their 

 l>ein(j: caiitrht by the kintr-birds. I read an 

 item in lasl week's Journal, [hat ihe few Ijees 

 cautrht by kln(r-biidsdid not amount to much, 

 but 1 think ii amounls to a i,'reat deal. I 

 posilively know that kin^-birds catch queens, 

 for I was out one day wilh a sbot^'un watch- 

 in;,' for Mr. liird, and just when the bird 

 cauKlit a bee, I let t'o, and when I picked it 

 up 1 fotuid in its bill a drone and (jueen hanf?- 

 ing to it yet alive, only one win^; being torn 

 off by the shot. I took it back to ihe colony 

 that swarmed, and put it at the entrance; 

 there came about 'JO bees going for her like 

 they meant to pull her to pieces, but thai was 

 not iheir idea, for they pulled something 

 away from her, and then everything was all 

 right and the queen marched right in and the 

 bees were as happy as could bee. Since then 

 I have no mercy for king-birds. I may be 

 wrong, but I think they are not a bee-keep- 

 er's friend. 



In regard to long-tongued queens, I can say 

 a word. I think we should try to rear nothing 

 but long-tongued bees. I have watched the 

 bees on red clover. An Italian bee will alight 

 and go from one nectar-tube to another on 

 one blossom, and a black or hybrid bee will 

 alight and fly from one blossom to another 

 until they find the one with the short tube, 

 then they will slick. That shows that the 

 Italian bees can out-reach them. 



P. H. Habbece. 



LaSalle Co., III., Feb. 12. 



Don't Spit in Your Hives. 



Dr. A. W. Smyth says in the Irish Bee 

 .Journal: 



" Woodhead states on Ihe authority of Vig- 

 nal that the bacitlu.'* oJvel is an inhabitant of 

 the human mouth — that great home of the 

 bacteria where Leuwenhoek first discovered 

 them. It is well, therefore, in working 

 among bees to remember that human salira 

 can infect, and can start foul brood, and it 

 the conditions are favorable to the bacteria, 

 can destroy all the colonies in the apiary. A 

 spark, if it can ignite the tire, is just as effec- 

 tual as a torchlight. 



That Bogus Honey. 



In your issue of December 12lh. •■ Watson " 

 in his Chicago Business Letter says that " law 

 stops bogus honey." He tells us that ■' gen- 

 uine honey has a brown coloring around the 

 cells, while glucose honey is perfectly white." 

 I have been keeping bees almost 20 years, and 

 mj- bees have produced tous of perfectly white 

 honey in that time, and I never saw a pound 

 of glucose to my knowledge. Sometimes I 

 neglect to take off my comb-honey as soon as 

 I ought, and it becomes travel-stained or has 

 a •■ brown coloring around the cells "and then 

 1 have to sell it for a less price. 



While the item does not say so it gives the 

 impression that a carload of comb honey was 



