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Published by fl. I. Root, |VIcdina, O. 



Vol. XIX. 



MAY 15, 1891. 



No. 10. 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



A PorLTHY DKPAKTMENT added to C. B. K. 



Theke akk some tilings that I know all 

 about, but it isn't about bees. 



Cheap hoxey is Hutchinson's cure for adul- 

 teration. Too cheap to be good. 



Nectap. contains lio to 85 pei' cent water, gen- 

 erally SO to Sr> per cent: ripe honey, 18 to 2.5 per 

 cent. 



D. A. Jones defends in vigorous style his be- 

 lief that hon<>y is the principal vehicle for car- 

 rying foul brood. 



Poi-i.EX from white, red. and alsike clovers. 

 Doolittle says in A. B. J., is not of different col- 

 ors, but all greenish-bi'own. 



A French bee-keepers' song is wanted, and a 

 prize (Dadant's French Langstroth) offered 

 therefor. Have the French a Secor? 



Hutchinson's skimmek is in good working 

 order — S^.. pages of "cream '" in last number, 

 and ,-;5 of it from Gleanings. Nice compliment 

 for Gleanings. 



In baking bkeai). or at any othe)' time, if 

 your oven is too hot. put a pan of cold water in 

 it and you'll be surprised to see how rapidly it 

 will cool off'. 



vSoFT MAPLE w as ill blooiu March 3u, but it 

 turned cold light off. and wasn't warm enough 

 to get bees out till April 12. Don't put your 

 trust in maple bloom. 



Spheadixg the hrood-nest. H. Spuhler. 

 ill Revue, says of it: When we wish to resort to 

 it. it is dangerous: and when it is no longer 

 dangerous we can dispense with it. 



ExcLiTDEi! ZINC. The B. B. J. says. "We 

 prefer the metal to lie close on to the top-bars, 

 with no space between, and with the lengthway 

 of the holes running across the space between 

 the frames. 



Mv RESPECT for E. R. R. is increasing. On 

 page 323 he applies "she" and "her" to a 

 worker instead of '•he" and "him." Twenty 

 years from now I hope no one will speak of he- 

 workers. 



Interesting axi> profitable conventions- 

 how to make them so. was discussed at the 

 Ohio State Convention. Among things sug- 

 gested were: Talk: recess; getting aciiuuiiited: 

 asking questions. Listening to long essays was 

 not mentioned. 



A. G. Hill tells in the Revicfr, that, in 11 

 consecutive years; he found the average shrink- 

 age on summer stands, protected thorouglilv. 

 was 12 lbs. 14 oz. per colony from Nov. 1 to April 



1: in cellar, about H.. lbs. less, but the outdoor 

 bees were more thrifty, and seemed to have 

 more biood. Would it be the same further 

 north? 



Don't either. Friend Hatch. I don't see 

 that you would be obliged at all to keep from 

 changing ends with round-headed nails on top- 

 bars. 1-tut after trying the Van Deusen spacers, 

 I don't believe I should be satisfied with them 

 or with nails either. 



Elwood reports his bees carried into the 

 cellar with closed-end frames at the rate of two 

 per minute for live men. Mine, with open-end 

 frames, were carried out at the rate of two and 

 a half per minute for five men. But they were 

 dangerously light. 



Harmon Smith, in A. B. J., is after the 

 Michigan convention with a sharp stick, be- 

 cause of their adulteration i-esolntion. He 

 thinks there was no foundation for the state- 

 ment. " that many of the cities of this State are 

 supplied with adulterated honey.'' 



Mr. Cowan, in his new book, tries very care- 

 fully to conceal the fact that \w has ever made 

 any investigations for himself. His book fairly 

 bristles with citations of authorities. In spite 

 of that, he is well known as an able microsco- 

 pist and careful investigator. 



Chilled isrood never made foul brood. Does 

 any one really believe it ever did? Don't they 

 rather hold this vi(nv ? The spores of foul brood 

 are so ijlentiful that they are tioating around 

 ev(n'ywliere. and a lot of chilled brood is just 

 the right soil for them to take root in, just as 

 white clover seems to come up of itself. 



Prof. Cook lias me in a corner again. I 

 never thought of tluM'e being any difference be- 

 tween sugar syrup fed in fall and in winter. 

 So I must agree that good honey may be a safer 

 food to be given in winter than sugar syrup. 

 But anothei' question comes. If we feed 25 lbs. 

 of syrup in 24 hours, have the bees time to di- 

 gest it before storing it? 



Cheap watchix(;. Instead of keeping some 

 one watching for swarms, lieie's the way the 

 Review repoits Mr. West's plan: Clijj the queen. 

 Clear away rubbish, and a few inches in front 

 of the hive stick in the ground, not upright, 

 but leaning away from the hive, a branch of 

 an apple-tree perhaps an inch in diameter and 

 two feet long, with a few twigs at top, twigs 

 cut back to 4 or fi inches. Swarm issues, queen 

 climb-* stick, returning swarm clusters with 

 her, and stays till hived. 



A NEW crop of )\(>ms de plume is coming on. 

 I'm sorry. Xam-s de phone used to be rather 

 common, but they had about all died out. and 

 I'm sorry to see tiieni re\-ive this side the water. 

 In a specific use, a iiom de pluiae is all right: 

 but when a man writes as a bee-keeper it's 

 more useful, to sav the least, to see him use his 



