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AMERICAN BEE' JOUENAl- 



AprU 3, 1901. 



will usually be about the time when safe warm 

 weather comes on. We shall, however, set 

 our bees out late rather than early. We are 

 liable to have a ver^' warm spell in April, dur- 

 ing which the bees will get a large amount of 

 brood started. This will be followed by cold 

 weather during which not only a large part of 

 the brood is lost, but many of the bees, in 

 their efforts to cover and preserve the brood. 

 It therefore seems to me (except in the case 

 of actually diseased colonies) that March 15 is 

 about a month too early for most localities. 

 Last year we did not set our cellar bees outtill 

 after the ^s7 oj' Mat/.aiid 1ho>tt colonies provnt 

 til be the hext we ?hiii. Of course, if one can"t 

 keep his bees quiet he will have to set them 

 out earlier. 



A Handy Tool. 



'' It is a long iron spoon about 15 or IS 

 inches long. With it we can work our cap- 

 pings, also in lighting our smoker. A little 

 charcoal from last using in bottom, the spoon 

 can quickly take live coals from the stove to 

 add to, then till up with — we use dry apple-tree 

 bark." — Australian Bee-Bulletin. 



Foul Brood. 



Foul brood is not always apparent at a 

 spring examination. A colony that appears 

 free from the disease early in the season, may 

 turn out Ijadly infected in August and Sep- 

 tember. Don't be lulled into a sense of 

 security because no infected colony is found 

 when supers are put upon the hive. — Bee- 

 Keepers' Review. 



Purity of Italians Bees. 



"Nor do I consider any Italian queen as 

 pure." When Bro. Doolittle says that, I 

 think that what he niemiti is true, but that what 

 he -sd),* is not true unless he uses the word 

 ''pure'* with some meaning other than that 

 found in the dictionary. From what he has 

 said in other places. I understand him to be- 

 lieve that no Italians are of an entirely fixed 

 or permanent character, in which he is prob- 

 ably strictly correct. But I do not know that 

 in the term " Italian " there is at all involved 

 the idea of strict permanence of character. 

 If a man should order a queen, saying, "I 

 want a tested queen, for I want to be sure that 

 I have nothing but pure Italian," I think 

 Bro. Doolittle would be able to Bll the order, 

 and it would not enrprise me if at some time 

 he may have eold a queen that the purchaser 

 supposed was ■' pure Italian." If there is no 

 such a thing as a pure Italian C(ueen, there is 

 an immense amount of correcting that should 

 be done in our bee-literature. In looking 

 over a half-page in the "ABC"! found just 

 nine such corrections needed. Moreover, if 

 no Italian queen ever sold was pure, an im- 

 mense number of frauds have been committed 

 by men supposed to be honest. — Stray Straw 

 in Gleanings in Bee-t'ulture. 



Exposing Brood to Robber=Bees. 



Did you ever notice that bees rob worse 

 when brood is exposed ! If you never have, 

 the next time you have the ill luck to have 

 bees waiting to rob, just open a brood-nest 

 and see how quick the robbers pour into it. 

 Bees will rob when brood is exposed when 

 they would pay little attention to honey 

 alone. I suppose that when they smell brood 

 they at once conclude that some colony is in a 

 bad fix, and that it is a good time to make a 

 raid on it. — Lone Star Apiarist. 



English Versus American Pluck. 



C. H. Tomlinson, in the British Bee Journal, 

 reports that he was driving some bees, and 

 says : 



There happened to he staying in the house 

 a bright American girl, and a very inquisitive, 

 excitable and stout old lady (English), both of 

 them desirous of seeing " the fun " ! As it 

 was getting late in the day, and the bees were 

 not in the best of tempers, 1 advised the ladles 

 to don their veils (which the younger did), 

 and then placed them in an advantageous 

 position to view the whole proceedings. 



Hardly had I commenced operations, how- 



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 free, easy grace of perfect health'? The kind of man 

 thatgoessingingaboiu his work, because lie feelsthat way. 



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