Vol. XIX. 



JAN. 1, 1891. 



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EDITED BY DR. C. C. MILLER. 



What a winterl 



TJees flying a little Dec. 1.5. 



What splendid kindling old wood separators 

 make! 



SuB-VENTiLATOKS are still in high favor with 

 Mrs. Harrison. 



I don't know how Rev. W. F. Clarke can make 

 such good poetry about what he doesn't know. 



A7neric(tn Bee Jouniai for 1891 is to have 

 1(564 pages. How does friend Newman expect 

 us to bind it? 



Winter days have come. 

 Bees no longer hum: 

 They hibernfite some. 



If 3 lbs. of honey make 1 lb. of wax, wouldn't 

 it be better to raise wax at 20 cts. a pound than 

 to raise .o-cent honey? 



A writer in the British Bee Journal, who has 

 ■' both straw skeps and movable-frame hives, 

 likes the latter better."" 



Closed-end frames, according to W. Camm. 

 in Tlie Guide, do not have the combs fastened 

 as well to the end-bars as open-end frames. 



Heddon says that one of the reasons (and he 

 puts the reason in capitals) that he sold his 

 honey so (]uickly. was. that he kept the priees 

 down. 



I have four colonies of bees outdoors — the 

 first in perhaps 20 years. '• Why haven't I tried 

 it before?"" Well, I don't know whether it was 

 more prejudice or laziness. 



Rev. W. F. Clarke and Bro. Newman are hav- 

 ing quite a controversy as to whether Canadi- 

 ans are Americans. When they agree on it, 

 w(^"ll know for sure just how it is. 



Hill and HrxcuiNSON are down on the cor- 

 ners of the Dovetailed hive. Is there any law 

 to prevent the two H.'s from making the same 

 hive with an improved corner, like a common 

 store- box? 



Cover Picti're.— That of the Review. It"s 

 ahead — neat, appropriate, beautiful. The only 

 chance for any one else to beat Hutchinson is 

 to copy his cov^r, and then sew it with colored 

 instead of white thread. 



'■ LorK-.j()iNTED Hive -corners" is the head- 

 ing to an item in the Review about the "so- 

 called Dovetailed hive." Say. W. Z., why didn't 

 you, years ago, lift up your voice against the 

 "so-called dovetailed " section ? 



Hasty thinks 3 lbs. or less of honey will make 

 a pound of wax; Simmins, less than (3}^ lbs.; 

 tradition. 20. Don't we stick to that 20 from 

 mere habit? I do. Has there been a single ex- 

 periment of late years to confirm it ? 



Whether your cellar needs ventilation for the 

 bees or not, if your wife and children are worth 

 keeping you will do well to see that the air in 

 your cellar is sweet and pure at all times. Pure 

 air won't hurt the bees, at any rate. 



Japan clover is sijokeu of in the American 

 Bee Jouriial as a kind that flourishes well, at 

 least in tlie South, doing well even on the poor- 

 est. stoni(>st land. It is highly praised as a 

 plant for grazing, but nothing is said of its val- 

 ue for honey. 



Upward ventilation, according to tlw Brit- 

 ish Bee JoiiriKtl. is not desirable. It says, 

 " Personally we prefer to keep the top close — 

 just as the bees will make it if left to them- 

 selves — and to ventilate from the bottom. We 

 have come round to this view after trial of 

 both methods."" 



Black bees the British Bee Journal decid- 

 edly prefers to the Italian, for profit and for 

 all-round superiority. It says, "After several 

 years' trial, our most experienced and success- 



