Vol. XIX. 



FEB. 1, 1»91. 



No. 3. 



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FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



Bees had best be broodless yet. 



The Apiculturist for Jaiiuarj' is a souvenir 

 number with a nobby cover. 



If Aixev doesn't stop fooling with that self- 

 liiver he may make a success of it. 



The Ramblei: thinks there is a bonanza be- 

 fore us in developing a bee that will work on 

 red clover. 



" To SELECT WELL among old things.'" says 

 Aineriatn Bee Journal, "is almost equal to in- 

 venting new ones.'" 



Bait .sections in supers are strongly recom- 

 mended, in Apl.. by A. C. Tyrrel, as a partial 

 preventive of swarming. 



Axothek in the dairy business. The Bee 

 World is going to give, "as it were, the cream 

 of apicultural literature." 



Dziehzox, at the age of SO. is living a quiet 

 life, at Brieg, Silesia— just the age of Lang- 

 stroth. who was 80 last Christmas. 



UxiTixG bees by spraying with cold water is 

 recommended by C. B. J. It cautions against 

 the use of flour if the bees should get wet. 



An Austrian bee-keeper has invented an ar- 

 tificial comb made of tin, having cells the nat- 

 ural size. Didn"t Quinbv do that long ago ? 



The Xatioxal Bee-keepehs" Uxiox is in 

 good shape financially — •?621.18 in the treasury. 

 It's a power, for all it" has only 331 members. 



The Amekicax Bee-keeper is beautifully 

 gotten up. Let's see. We've had A. B. J., 

 B. B. J., C. B. J., and now we have A. B. K. 



The C. B. J. has started opposition to the 

 Review in the dairy business. It's going to 

 give "the cream of all apicultural literature." 



Wide spacixg in the super, to keep the 

 queen from laying there, R. M. Reynolds says, 

 is all bosh. He has tried it 14 years with 275 

 closed -end frames. 



In the month of January, 

 Likewise the month of February, 

 The busy bees they store nary 



A drop. 

 " Ix Cuba."' says A. W. Osborn, in A. B. K.. 

 ".500 colonies can be kept in one apiary anv 

 time of the year, but they must be hybrids, not 

 pure blacks or Italians."' 



Artificial comb is one of the just-going-to- 

 be things in Cincinnati this time. Allen Prin- 

 gle, who tells about it in C. B. J., doesn't en- 

 thuse over it to an alarming extent. 



The '• Heddox pollex - theory," Heddon 

 thinks, "is now a practical, settled science." 

 May be: but sometimes he calls a thing settled 

 just because it agrees with his opinion. 



Mrs. L. Harrisox, in A. B. J., resolves to 

 "endeavor to have one-pound sections weigh 

 one pound." When you get 'em all to weigh 

 exactly a pound, Lucinda, tell us just how you 

 do it. 



The Bee World is the name of a new 16- 

 page monthly. .50 cents a year, published at 

 Waynesburg, Pa., by W. S. Vandruff. A paper 

 of the same name was published years ago, 

 wasn't it ? 



DziERZox says: "The want of air fit for 

 breathing, and perhaps also of water, is the 

 cause of bees becoming restless, which ignorant 

 and superficially informed people attribute to 

 excessive heat." 



Number Two. in Canadian Bee Journal. 

 wants to know about "close-framed friends," 

 in Gleaxixgs, page 891. It's " closed-frame 

 friends," Number Two. There is no such thing 

 as " close-framed friends." 



Some say ventilation of the callar is not 

 needed: that upward ventilation of the hive 



