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GEORGE W. YOKK, Editor 



CHICAGO, ILL,, MARCH 14, 1907 



Cdiforial JMes «vi 

 and Commenfs 



Sugar and Honey for Pulmonary Con = 

 sumption 



In European scientiflo circles interest has 

 been aroused in the experiments of two Ital- 

 ian physicians, Prof. Massalongo and Dr, C. 

 Daino, in the treatment of pulmonary con- 

 sumption. Besides the ordinary diet, sugar 

 was administered in increasingly large doses, 

 from 100 to 500 grams (3^ to 17>< ounces) 

 per day. The patients increased rapidly in 

 weight, some gaining even 30 to 30 pounds in 

 2 or 3 months. The honey was well borne, 

 but in some cases it was considered advisable 

 to dilute it with milk, black coffee, or a few 

 teaspoonfuls of bitter tincture. 



Commenting upon this in Praktischer Weg- 

 weiser, Jul. Herter suggests the substitution 

 of honey for sugar, as being pleasanter, and 

 better for weak digestions. One would nat- 

 urally think that consumptives would prefer 

 honey to the by no means luscious cod-liver 

 oil that has been used in such large quantities. 



Granulated Honey for Bee-Candy 



The British Bee .Journal says: 



Granulated honey may be used as bee-candy 

 if made stiff enough by kneading into it suffi- 

 cient castor-sugar for the purpose. 



C. P. Dadant uses the granulated honey 

 without any sugar; flattening it upon the 

 top-bars toward the back part of the hive. 



No-Bee-Way Sections and Fences in 

 England 



In reply to the question, " Is the no-bee- 

 way section an improvement on the old 

 style?" The British Bee Journal replies: 



It appears to be definitely settled by the 

 great majority of bee-keepers in this country 

 that the older style of section is preferable to 

 the "no-bee-way" and the fence separator 

 necessary for use with the latter. 



Young Queen Swarming, and Leaving 

 Mother 



Marking a queen with paint, so as to be 

 able to identify her afterward, has been prac- 

 tised to some extent across the water. In 

 Prak. Wegweiser it is said that this practise 

 has led to the astonishing discovery that in 

 one case a young queen went with the first 

 swarm, the mother remaining and going with 

 an afterswarm. 



If this be at all a common thing, it surely 

 must have been observed in this country more 

 than once. A large proportion of American 

 bee-keepers clip their queens, and this they 

 have done for years. Has any one a case to re- 

 port in which the clipped queen has been 

 found doing duty in the mother colony after 

 the departure of a swarm with a young queen! 



Reliability of Linden or Basswood 



Prak. Wegweiser copies from Die Biene u. 

 ihre Zucht a paragraph which claims that one 

 reason that lindens sometimes fail to secrete 

 is because of peculiarity of soil ; but that all 

 lindens fail when they have attained a certain 

 age, and that not such a very great age. Even 

 though very old trees are visited by bees, it is 

 only for their pollen. But does not so careful 

 an observer as G. M. Doolittle say that lindens 

 yield no pollen? 



That Dead Bee With Pollen 



A note from a critic of our genial critic, the 

 " Afterthinker," says : 



"Mr. Hasty, page 152, questions thus: 

 ' Will the poet, on page 27, take notice that 

 bees don't die (except by violence) with pol- 

 len on their legsi' In spite of his 'unre- 

 liable glasses,' Mr. Hasty usually has a very 

 keen vision. How does it come, Mr. Editor, 



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that he has never taken note of bees with 

 loads of pollen lying dead near the hives on 

 chill days? And how does it come that he 

 failed to see the cause of death when the poet 

 said the poor little thing was stiffened with 

 death and with mid ?" 



Locality, perhaps. It is true that many a 

 bee-keeper has seen such bees lying dead with- 

 out any marks of violence; but are you sure 

 that such chill days occur in our "After- 

 thinker's " locality? It maybe that he does 

 not need more reliable glasses, only a larger 

 vision. 



Great Value of Alfalfa Pollen 



The Australasian Bee-Keeper reports an ad- 

 dress by Dr. Cherry, Director of .\griculture, 

 before the Victorian bee-keepers, in which he 

 strongly urged the cultivation of alfalfa, or 

 lucerne, giving as one reason the superior 

 value of its pollen. He said : 



The bees will derive very much benefit from 

 the pollen they obtain from it. From the 

 analysis of the samples of pollen submitted 

 to me. It will be seen that cultivated plants 

 give the best result in protein ; as much as 27 

 percent is shown on the table— eucalyptus 20 

 percent, weeds 10 percent. If we were to 

 generalize we might see the more valuable 

 the fruit the better the nitrogen. Lucerne 

 produces more protein than any other plant 

 that we are acquainted with. 



How Long are Swarms Provisioned ? 



Three days will perhaps be the general an- 

 swer; but a case of 5 days is reported in 

 Prak. Wegweiser. The swarm was settled on 

 a tree, and held there by rainy weather. 



Spraying Fruit-Bloom 



We have received the following from Mr. 

 C. P. Dadant, of Hamilton, 111., who is a 

 member of the Legislative Committee of the 

 Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association : 



Mr. Editor:— It appears that in Italy they 

 now have another enemy of the bee in the 

 olive-growers. They have lately been experi- 

 menting upon a new preparation to destroy 

 an insect that preys upon the olives, and this 

 preparation also kills the bees. According to 

 the February number of L'Apicoltore, of 

 Milan, this matter is mentioned in the Jour- 

 nal of Agriculture, of Tuscany, by a bee- 

 keeper, Ippolito Pestellini, of Florence, who 

 asserts that wherever this new method is used 

 the bees are all killed. This is somewhat in 

 the line of the bloom-spray against which the 

 American bee-keepers are aiming to take 



