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Published by R. I. l^oot, IVIedina, O. 



Vol. XIX. 



JULY 1, 1891. 



No. 13. 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



I LIKE the Dovetailed hive. 



White clover is now blooming, June 15. 



California's honey crop, last year, was nine- 

 teiiths extracted. 



Alley says, "In future only a 7-frame (L. 

 size) will be used In the Bay State Apiary." 



The Bee World has a Texas department con- 

 ducted by Mrs. Jennie Atchley. Ifs good. 



A TRADE-MARK for bee-keepers is character- 

 ized by editor Newman as "that trade-mark 

 foolishness." 



HoREHOUXD HONEY, I think, has the reputa- 

 tion of being bitter. A. C. Aten (^-l. B.J.) says 

 it is not. 



"The Southern States" is the heading of 

 a department in the Missouri Bee-keeper, con- 

 ducted by Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



Canada has now a place where bee-keeping 

 is taught — Ontario Bee-keepers' College, 

 Guelph, Ont.: Rev. \V. F. Clarke, Principal. 



First clover-blossom here, May 33. Bfees 

 commenced working on clover ten days later. 

 Ten days has been the rule for several years. 



That Dakota man (L. R. Hillman, p. 476) 

 has hit on my rule to prevent spring dwindling 

 — keep "em in the cellar till it's too late to 

 dwindle. 



Chickens are not likely to be hatched to any 

 extent by bees, but there Would be one advan- 

 tage — the chickens would not get very lousy 

 from the bees. 



That case of brood in so many sections (E. 

 H. Shaetile, p. 47.5) is a tough one. Were sepa- 

 rators used? How wide were the sections? 

 How much room in the brood-chamber? 



W. Z. Hutchinson, at the Toledo convention, 

 admitted in a manly way that his plan of hiv- 

 ing swarms upon starters only could not be de- 

 pended upon, in general, for securing perfect 

 combs. 



Bees have claws by which they can hang 

 on to a board upside down. But if it's glass, 

 the claws will not hold, and then an oily secre- 

 tion of the foot allows them to stick. Wet the 

 glass, and the oily foot will not stick; and 

 down comes your bee. 



Wormy combs are thus treated by Mrs. Jen- 

 nie Atchley (Bee World): •'Soak in clear water 

 34 hours, and hangout to dry, or throw water 

 out with the extractor, and hang so they don't 

 touch." If this settles the fat old fellows an 

 inch long, it beats brimstone. 



Carniolan (or Krainen bees come in for a 

 good share of attention in the Missouri B. K. 

 The claim there made is, that the gray type are 

 the only pure ones, any showing of yellow being 

 a showing of admixture. 



Brace and burr combs have always been 

 confused in my mind till J. A. Green explained 

 on p. 473 that brace-combs are built between 

 combs, and burr-combs on top. Plain enough, 

 when some one shows you. Thank you, Jimmie. 



Wax-worms. The types on page 4.5S make 

 friend Root say worms "generally live-over" 

 winter, when, of course, he meant "do not live 

 over." My experience agrees, and I find the 

 combs of a colony which has died invariably 

 become wormy where the bees had clustered. 



Contractionists seem to be all settling 

 toward this point: "Expand your colonies all 

 you can; get them just as strong as possible up 

 "to the time of the chief honey-flow; then con- 

 tract." I feel sure the expansion is all right; I 

 don't know so well about the after-contraction. 



BuRR-coMBS are desired by some, as ladders 

 to climb up into the supers. With as much 

 space as a good many of my hives have over 

 top-bars, I think the bees would like them; but 

 with only 14 inch space, any smart bee ought to 

 be able to rear on her hind feet and reach up 

 without a ladder. 



Doolittle advises, in Am. Bee-keeper, to al- 

 low about two square inches of drone comb in 

 one of the outside frames of each hive. Then 

 you will know just where to look for it. and can 

 shave off the drones' heads every 30 days, and 

 the bees will not try so hard to build drone 

 comb elsewhere. 



The cherry crop at Vacavllle. Cal., former- 

 ly large, has of late years been a very uncertain 

 quantity. One firm, thinking that the decrease 

 in bees might have something to do with it, 

 last year introduced several colonies of bees, 

 witha. very gratifying increase in the cherry 

 crop. They are testing the matter more fully 

 this year. {A. B. J.) 



Robbers. The C. B. J. says if robbers attack 

 a weak colony, and you remove the colony, put 

 in its place an empty hive with a bee-escape, so 

 the robbers can get in but not out. " Leave the 

 bees fooling around in the empty hive until 

 night, and then open it and let them go home 

 just about sundown, and they will come to the 

 conclusion that there is very little profit in that 

 kind of business. They won't be caught there 

 more than two days in succession." 



Bee-papers, years ago. rather ignored the 

 existence of each other, and there didn't appear 

 to be any great friendship between their editors. 

 Then animosity seemed to fade away, and the>' 

 treated one another politely, although some- 

 what as strangers. Latterly this polite age 



