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



Vol. XIX. 



JULY 15, 1891. 



No. 14. 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



The boom is on for extra-yellow bees. 



Wanted. A plan to prevent swarming. 



-I WISH you could all see my bed of roses. 



Is A ^ TOP-BAR thick enough? I'm afraid. 



In spite of myself, I like the Hoffman 

 frame. Much. 



Hi'TCHixsoN sits up nights studying how to 

 make his advertisements look nice. 



What sweeter music than the roar of the 

 bees at night after a hard day"s work? 



OvT-APiARiEs require, you will find, some 

 little difference in plans from home apiaries. 



The a. B. J. has gotten out a list of 111 bee- 

 keepers' associations in the U. S. Big job. 



Hutchinson's new book. "Advanced Bee 

 Culture."" is a fine specimen of boiling down. 

 lt"s good. 



The Rcrieic, backed by Prof. Cook, says the 

 Union ought to prosecute adulteration. The 

 manager says no. 



The Detroit Journal has been mulcted $.500 

 for its litttle joke of giving a local habitation 

 to the "Wiley lie.'" 



Editor Newman has done a nice thing by 

 getting up a cajjital index at the close of the 

 half-year of .4.. B.J. 



"Let us be able,'" says Hutchinson, "to 

 control swai'ming. and what would be the re- 

 sult?"" Doirt tantalize us with such conun- 

 drums. 



If any lady or gentleman knows just why 

 bees swarm, please don't be backward about 

 coming forward, and speaking right out in 

 meeting. 



Do BEES swarm and stay swarmed without a 

 queen? It scarcely seems possible, yet I have 

 had two or three cases that I can hardly under- 

 stand any other way. 



Several times I have found young queens 

 in queen-cells wrong end foremost. They can"t 

 turn around in the cell, can they? Do the bees 

 let them out. or do they die in the cell ? 



That section-press of Hubbard's is fine. 

 But he ought to be prosecuted for making that 

 boy in the picture stand up to make sections. I 

 stand the pri'ss on the floor, and then sit 

 a-straddle. 



Thick top-bars for me. if for no other rea- 

 son than to keep them stiaight. I used to say 

 that my «« top-bars didn't sag, but that was 

 because I didn"t look close, and didn't realize 

 how exacting the bees are about spacing. 



A PROPHET in Tennessee sent me word that I 

 should have a failure of white clover this year. 

 I never knew the fields and the roadsides whiter 

 with clover bloom: and the only failure just 

 now that seems likely to occur is a failure to 

 have enough sections ready. 



SQUARE CELLS. Cowau. in •"The Honey- 

 Bee,'" gives an illustration of a piece of conib 

 that D. A. Jones gave him, and the cells are 

 nearly square. If Mr. Cowan's reputation for 

 veracity were not so well established. I shouldn't 

 believe bees had ever made such cells. 



J. P. Israel thinks the cause of the •"dwin- 

 dling" of all the defunct bee- journals is his 

 writing for tliem. I didn't know before that he 

 was so voluminous a writer. Try your hand on 

 the C. B. K.. friend Israel. It certainly doesn't 

 look very "dwindly " at present. 



Emma is enthusiastic over the latest Clark 

 smoker. Whei'eas formerly hi-r aprons were 

 riddled full of holes from smoker sparks or 

 coals, throughout the whole season so far she 

 hasn't had the teenty-tointiest bit of a hole. I 

 like it because she doesn't spend half her time 

 cleaning it out. 



Shade. The other day Emma was working 

 at some hives in the broiling sun. and I took a 

 little boy's spade having a handle of the incon- 

 sistent length of five or six feet, tied an umbrella 

 on the top of it, and then ran the spade into the 

 ground. Works easily, can be changed in a 

 minute, and is lots of comfort. 



Manum's swarm-catchek has been lying 

 around for two years, and I didn't think it of 

 much importance, having never had use for it. 

 The other day two swarms came out that I 

 feared had young queens, and I found the 

 "catcher" a jewel. If I encouraged natural 

 swarming. I should never be without one or 

 more. 



Have you tried raising queen-cells under 

 a full colony with a laying queen? Put one or 

 two frames with some eggs or just hatched 

 larva? into an empty hive: fill it up with dum- 

 mies: set it under your full colony, with a cloth 

 or a thin board between, of course not prevent- 

 ing the bees from going up. and see if you don't 

 get queen-cells of first quality. 



Pollen in queen-cells I had considered as 

 positive proof of a colony being hopelessly 

 queenless. Several times, however. I have 

 thought I met exceptions; and June 30 I found 

 two queen-cells with pollen, in a hive having a 

 good laying queen. The hive liad been filled 

 with foundation eight days i)reviously. so the 

 cells were made on the new comb built on the 

 foundation, the colony not having been queen- 

 less this year. 



Queens hatch in how many days after the 

 laying of the egg? Sixteen days is the orthodox 

 answer. Thirty years ago it was between 17 



