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Published by R. I. Hoot, JVTedina, O. 



Vol. XIX. 



APRIL 15, 1891. 



No. 8. 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



Don't tinker with your bees unnecessarily. 



Sugar has a two-eent bounty. How about 

 honey ? 



A GENERAL CALL for State associations. 

 World's Fair. 



B.E.Rice (A. B. ,T.) thinks painting hives 

 "a loss of both time and money." 



Queen-excluders, says the B. B. J., are in- 

 dispensable in working for extracted hcmey. 



A STANDARD FRAME may yet be adopted in 

 California, according to a report in C. B. K. 



I WISH friend Cornell had included a double 

 wall without packing, in the experiments re- 

 ported on page 207. 



.St. Patrick's Day. March 17. my four colo- 

 nies outdoors had a gdod fly — I think the first 

 full flight in four months. 



Eggs are destroyed for me in queenless 

 colonies in the hottest weather, as well as cool- 

 er. This in reply to G. E. Fradenburg. p. 329. 



Another. The Mi-^aouri Bee-kecpcr. Union- 

 ville. Mo. Nicely printed, in type big enough 

 for those hard of hearing. E. F. Quigley, editor. 



Adulteration I St van says that xtvdws get 

 into the cream he fuiiiishi's in C. B. K. Still, 

 that may be borne if he doesn't water his cream 

 too much. 



"A little mixed " is that last item on p. 239. 

 Mr. James uses hives of bees to hatch chickens, 

 but the Medina folks use hives without bees. 

 Isn't an old hen bettei? 



A big country- this. I didn't realize how 

 big when I wi-ote my little hymn, " In January 

 . . . . the bees store nary a drop.'' The C«/"- 

 if or Ilia Bee-keeper says that won't do down 

 there. 



Wooden shoes are worn and liked by ]\Irs. 

 Hai-iison. They keep the feet warm and dry. 

 I had a pair. I don't know what became of 

 them. I think my wife didn't like the looks of 

 them. 



An item on page 230 is headed, "A colony of 

 bees which secrete no pi-opolis,'' as if that vvere 

 something strange. None of my bees secrete 

 propolis. They just gather it from trees or 

 something. 



Porcelain door-knobs get loose. One of 

 ours got loose the other day. and. instead of 

 throwing it away as usual, I put it into the fire 

 with the metal shank in it. took it out when 

 the lead melted, and it was as solid as when 

 new. But it cracked the porcelain somewhat. 



Cowan's new book. I've read it all through, 

 although some of it was pretty hard to under- 

 stand. It was like taking a dose of medicine a 

 little, but I feel the better for it afterward. It's 

 a capital book. 



That old Frenchman. Ch. Dadant. is not 

 in his dotage, by any means. A strong and 

 well-written article from his pen, of four pages, 

 in the Revue Internatiomile, defends Father 

 Langstroth against the charge of copying De- 

 beauvoys and others. 



A NEW THEORY' of foul brood. A. Leech, in 

 A. B. J., says the moth-miller lays eggs in the 

 cells beside the queen's eggs, which hatch out. 

 suck the food from the bee larvte, which die, 

 causing foul brood. As the newspapers say, 

 this lacks confirmation. 



The chickens scratch up the posy-beds 

 every now and then, and then your wife sheds 

 a few quiet tears. I'll tell you how to make 

 her happy. Fence in the beds with poultry- 

 netting two feet high. You can step over it. 

 but the hens don't know enough to fly over — at 

 least our Plymouths and Banties don't. 



After putting my bees in the cellar I no- 

 ticed that they didn't hang in as large clusters 

 under the frames as in the preceding winter. I 

 didn't know why. To-day, March 18, the cel- 

 lar being colder than early in the winter, the 

 clusters are much larger than then. I don't 

 know why. Do you? 



Here's a " wrinkle"' from Walter Marshall, 

 in B. B. J. He thinks the reason that some 

 have trouble in using, for the second time, sec- 

 tions partially filled, is because of propolis on 

 the edges of the cells. So he scrapes off the 

 surface of the comb to within '% of an inch of 

 the midrib, early in the season, when the wax 

 is brittle with cold. There's no slow working, 

 and no old look when done. 



Melilot. Bignens, in Revue Internotionnle, 

 reports a ijrofitable crop of melilot. getting a 

 good crop of honey during its bloom, while sur- 

 rounding bee-keepers a mile oi- two distant got 

 little or nothing. It was sown with barley, and 

 sheep and cattle ate the straw greedily.' Mr. 

 Bertrand. the editor, says his pony ate'a mix- 

 ture of oats aud melilot. and the'pouy much 

 preferred it thus -perfumed" to the clear oats. 



'•We" or '"I"? Bro. Newman savs ''we'' 

 has the indorsement of Ernest on account of 

 the plurality of editors. Yes, it's all right to 

 say "we" for two. We do at our house. But 

 when it's I, say I. I see the "I" is used in 

 Gleanings in 1.5 different editorials where "I" 

 was meant. Bro. Newman thinks "we" looks 

 better. That's a matter of taste. He savs " we'' 

 '■has the indorsement of manv centuries." 

 True, and so it has for the chief ruler of a na- 

 tion, and yet to-day the chief ruler of the great- 

 est nation on earth savs " I." 



