Dec. 18, 1902. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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130 rods ; and especially it inij^ht have been dilTcreiit had 

 they been working- strongly right straight along on some 

 source of supply. 



CI.KAKINr, Ul' HONKY-DAUHKI) SRCTONS. 



Perhaps we are most of us too fond of killing two birds 

 with one stone. Might kill ten singly while getting the 

 two in line. As to the plan on page (MS to clean up daubed 

 sections, and incidentally feed in the open a needy colony, 

 I'll guess the latter bird will get away. Should have a lit- 

 tle more hope if the whole hive of sections could be set over 

 the needy colony for a few minutes, then carry all away 

 and treat as described. I think a strange body of bees on 

 plundering bent at times show soinf disposition to protect 

 their plunder. Defending an entrance is largely the work 

 of a particular and small number of bees, I believe ; and I 

 opine that these cannot readily be made to leave home and 

 do service elsewhere. A beginner will say to me ; Why not 

 leave the sections on the needy colony when you've got 

 them there once '.' To make bees clean up comb placed over 

 them, and carry down the honey, is one of the provoking 

 thing's of apiculture — more frequently failure than success. 



CALL "SHOOK swarms" SIMPLY " SHOCKS." 



As for the bad grammar of the term " shook swarm," it 

 helps some to leave the word "swarm " off, and say simply 

 a shook, or a lot of shooks. But I hear some of the boys 

 saying. That suggestion isn't worth "shucks" — grammar 

 may be better, but the sound of the thing is worse. Page 691. 



REn-TAPK AND RULES. 



How wonderful is red-tape ! A national association 

 and a government department are engaged in the same 

 good work, yet the latter must not directly recognize or help 



the former. Kulcs. Very true that rules are oft necesaary 

 things ; but may we not havi- a rule or two too many some- 

 times? When rules forbid that which is desirable, and we 

 see undesirable things getting done in spite of all rules, we 

 grumble. Wonder what sort of red-tape will be woven for 

 use in the millennium 1 Page 093. 



EXCHANGING EXTK A-PKOLIFIC QUKKNS. 



The experiment of Dr. Hamlin and Dr. Oallup, exchang- 

 ing extra-prolific queens, although somewhat costly, was a 

 valuable experiment. Of eight such queens sent a long 

 journey for test purposes all proved unprolific afterwards. 

 Still, I guess that a week or two of just the right preparation 

 will enable such a queen to go without much damage. Page 

 695. 



QUEENS TO SUIT HIVE-CAI'ACITY. 



" If bees will rear a queen to suit the capacity of the 

 hive where will the limit be found ? " I echo this parting 

 shot of K- F. At water, pages 696 ; but it is not (not on my 

 part) with any desire to fling a hostile argument. I should 

 not wonder if there was so»ullii?ig in the alleged corres- 

 pondence of queen and brood-chamber ; but whether that 

 something is a large something or a small one, I wonder 

 and doubt. Willing it should be either way. Also willing 

 to find out that any good little queen can be boomed to 

 the point of seeming a superior and larger breed. 



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Hennepin Co., Minn., Dec. 1, 



Short Season in Manitoba. 



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Manitoba, Canada, Dec. 4. A. Gilbert. 



Wild Swarms— Ginseng. 



On page 762, " Utah '' says he has had 

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