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Published by A. I. I^oot, lAedinei, O. 



Vol. XIX. 



APRIL 1, 1891. 



No. 7. 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



Makch 14, 1° below zero! 



Feed, feed, if the bees need. 



The first two weeks of March were the 

 severest of the winter. 



Sepahatoks. according to replies in C. B. J.. 

 are not so popular in Canada as on this side. 



Tex cents' worth of honey contains more 

 nutriment than 30 cents' worth of fat pork, says 

 Allen Pringle in C. B. J. 



The bammy breeze of spring 

 Is now upon -the wing. 

 When bees will sting 

 'Most any thing. 



•'The Bee-keepers' Union." says Jas. Hed- 

 don in A. B. K., '"will soon take out a patent in 

 the shape of a trade-mark.'' I believe in pat- 

 ents, but not in that one. 



And now E. R. Root has gone and written a 

 piece which Hutchinson has jjrinted in the Re- 

 view. If that sort of thing isn't stopped, the 

 rival editors will get to be friends yet. 



A Hi'NGRY queen, I am.somewhat inclined to 

 believe, is more easily introduced. She's so 

 much engaged trying to get something to eat 

 that she doesn't go around raising a row. 



Heddon thinks {A. B. J.) that, if the trade- 

 mark problem is abandoned, thei-e is "nothing 

 better than to keep still." and let adulteratoi-s 

 have their own way. James, you're off. 



Doomttle suggests that the reason I did not 

 succeed with his cell-cups was that I did not 

 make the cups as fleep as directed. I tliink it 

 quite possible that he is right, and I'll ti-y again. 



DooiaTTLE says, in A. B. i<C., "There is no 

 time in the whole year that it pays as well to 

 put a little money in feed for bees, where they 

 need it. as it does at this time." Doolitlle's 

 head is level. 



Contraction. I was somewhat surprised to 

 .see th(! editor of the Review say, "With an 

 eight-frame hive I have seldom found it advis- 

 able to contract the bjood-nestof an established 

 colony." Hut he adds. '"I would contract the 

 brood-nest of a newly hived ssvarm." 



And now No. Two (C. B. J.) wants to know 

 about "closed frame friends." Out west is a 

 family by the name of Frame, familiarly called 

 the Frame friends. When they get too much 

 tangle-foot, and ai'e shut up in the calaboose, 

 they are then called "closed Frame friends." 



That description of the cut on page 17+ 

 pretty nearly beat me. Finally I made it out 

 by putting B for D, making it read, " B is a 

 hollow point, etc." But it isn't up to A. I.'s 

 usual clearness. 



Rev. W. F. Clarke continues to quote me as 

 authority for the statement that he is long- 

 winded. alth(jugh I've said I didn't say it. If 

 he keeps it up much longer, I may begin to 

 thinh what I haven't said. 



The Illinois State Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation has been incorporated. The first meet- 

 ing was held at SpringHeld. The State Legis- 

 lature is to be asked for S,50(X) to help the bee- 

 keepers' show at the World's Fair. 



Hutchinson says he. Dr. Mason, and others, 

 always read the editorials first. That's no way 

 —at least not in (Ileanlvgs. Always begin at 

 the first page. If you begin at the editorials, 

 you might foi'get to read tlie first page. 



Macpherson. of the C. B. ./., has been laid 

 up with concussion of the brain from a fall on 

 the ice. Hope not for long. No Mac and no 

 "pollen-grains" in C. B.J. makes a bad hole. 

 •'Observer'" and "No. Two" liven up the pages 

 of the C. B.J. no little. 



••Bother the salt"" That's what you say 

 when it's all packed together and won't shake 

 out of the salt-cellar at the table. Let me tell 

 you how to fix it. Put about a teaspoonful of 

 corn starch in a teacup of salt, and mix. That's 

 the way it is on our table, and it always yields. 



Keep tools bright. I once saw a seedsman 

 care for his hoe after using it. He washed it 

 off clean in a pail of water, and then, without 

 drying it off in the least, he stuck it in a barrel 

 of wood ashes. ''There." said he. '"no matter 

 when I want to use that hoe again. I'll find it 

 dry and bright." 



Something will have to be done pretty soon 

 about the editorials in Gleanings. They're 

 getting to occupy altogether too much room, 

 and are covering so much ground in an inter- 

 esting manner, that in a little while I'll have 

 nothing to manufacture "■ Straws " from. Some- 

 thing will have to be done. 



L. D. Stilson. of the Nebraska Bee-keeper, 

 had a colony which woiked on red clover when 

 others did not, and wants to know if any one 

 else has had a like experience. He forgets 

 about the red-clover queens of Medina and 

 elsewhere. One year I had at least two colonies 

 storing white honey when all the rest were 

 storing buckwheat. 



E. L. Pratt, in Api.. thinks I'm off in rec- 

 ommending full sheets of foundation in al) 

 cases— thinl<s I'm "old enough to know better 



