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Published by R. I. Root, IVIcdina, O. 



Vol. XIX. 



MAR. 1, 1891. 



No. 5. 



^Tl^^Y gTR^WS 



FROM DR. 



C. MILLER. 



Tjie STixG-TP.owEL tlicorj' lias goiie into hi- 

 bornation. 



The old officers of the Bee-keepers" Union 

 are re-elected. 



Divided tot'-uaks arc being repeatedly in- 

 vented nowadays. 



Outdoor wixterixg had a majority of votes 

 at the Ontario bee-keepers' convention. 



Reduced fake is a thing of first importance 

 in fixing time and place of conventions. 



Where are the one or two government sta- 

 tions that Prof. Cook speaks of as doing some- 

 thing with bees? 



Mr. G. DELAYEX'splan for an out-apiary is to 

 have very large hives, and visit them only 

 twice a year, spring and autumn. 



WiLU E. E. Hasty please tell us whether he 

 succeeded in getting an iinpi'oved breed of red 

 clover? Hasty is the man to do it if any one 

 can. 



The Ontario Bee-keepers" ^Association re- 

 ports 333 members for last year. Can you beat 

 that on this side of the line, you bragging Yan- 

 kees ? 



Artificial heat in cellars is bad — costs too 

 much. Artificial cold (or natural either) is still 

 worse. If cellars get too cold, choose the least 

 of two evils. 



Carbolic acid used for quieting bees, says 

 the B. B. J., was credited by the late Rev. 

 George Raynor as the chief cause of his immuni- 

 ty from foul lii'ood. 



'■ Xumrer Two."' in C. B. J., thinks I'm af- 

 flicted with versatility. That's not what ails 

 me, "Number Two." Ifs the grippe thafs got 

 its— got its— gi'ip on me. 



Larger bees are advocated in the Api.. in 

 the belief that doubling the size of the bee will 

 double the distance it will travel. Does a crow 

 fly any further or faster than a blackbird? 



The British Bee Journal is publishing a 

 series of " Bee-papers for Winter Reading." If 

 the first number is a fair sample, the series will 

 be valuable. In effect it will be a practical 

 treatise on bee-keeping. 



E. R. R. ASKS ME, on page 87, whether I 

 would " preach bee legislation, priority claim of 

 locality, or move out.'" if bee-keepers were too 

 thick around me. I wouldn't do either. I'd 

 shut my teeth tight together, and wish for the 

 day to hasten when bee-keepers would have 

 the same chance as farmers. 



Prof. Cook found tliat bees fed on pure hon- 

 ey, or honey and syrup, half and half, lived five 

 times as long as bees fed on Good candy made 

 from coarse granulated sugar. Powdered sugar 

 is the thing for Good candy. 



Heating bees in winter is discouraged by the 

 B. B. J. Tudoubtedly right where zero weath- 

 er is never known. But where for days it keeps 

 some .59° below freezing, give me a steady coal 

 hre. if my cellar is not warm enough. 



A COLD DAY. E. R. R. says, makes it all right 

 to carry in bees without bottom -boards. Yes, I 

 know, if it"s cold enough. But I want mine in 

 the cellar before it is cold enough. So I prefer 

 to carry in the deep space with my hives. 



An egg of a queen is ^^ of an inch in length 

 and 7V of an inch in thickness. If a queen lays 

 3000 In 34 hours, and they are laid in a row. end 

 to end. it will make a string about 18 feet long. 

 Even if she didn"t lay them in just that length 

 of time. I suppose they would measure the same. 



Sections by weight is the safe way. I'm 

 beginning to favor less than a pound section; 

 for if all are less than a pound, the public will 

 soon learn it. and then there can be no cheating 

 by selling light weight. The weight is too un- 

 even to make selling by the piece always best. 



Loose outside cases over hives are nothing 

 new, according to the B. B. J., and it pokes fun 

 at us for thinking they are. It says, ■• We trust 

 thev will give such hives a fair trial, and that 

 thev will also find them as advantageous as we 

 have don^ for the last fifteen years or more 

 back." 



Honey, according to Prof. Cook, is digested, 

 ready for absorption, making it a safer food for 

 manthan cane sugar, and a safer food for bees 

 in confinement. Practice doesn't always con- 

 firm this, but there may be something wrong in 

 the practice. It's hardly right to give the name 

 of honey to some of the thin sour stuff that goes 

 under that name. 



A STANDARD TEMPERATURE for CCllarS, I'm 



afraid, is a bad thing. If you say 40°, some be- 

 ginner will freeze his bees. If you say 45°, an- 

 other will roast his. Cellars differ. Thermom- 

 eters differ. Each one must find out for him- 

 self what's best for him. Better tell the begin- 

 ner, "There is no standard. Hunt for a quiet 

 spot somewhere between 37 and 50." 



The NAMELESS DISEASE is agreed to be cured 

 by changing the queen. I'd like to see some of 

 the ■■ ample evidence" of it. "A number of cases 

 and all recovered after changing the queen?" 

 I can give just as strong proof that red 

 paint on my shop has cured the numerous cases 

 that I have had. I don't say changing the 

 queen never cured a case, but I never saw satis- 

 factory evidence of it. Mine always got well 

 without it. 



