'JoURHAls 

 • DELVoTELD, 



•To-'BE.E.S 

 •andHoNEY- 



•INTELi^EST^ 



Published Semi-nnonthly at $l.OO pep yeap, by A. I. I^oot, JVIedina, O. 



Vol. XIX. 



AUGUST 1, 1891. 



No. 15. 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



Cool summer. 



'"The Caiiniolax race, or strain, of bees is 

 the original yellow race." — Henry Alley, in 

 A.inericaii Dee-keeper. 



Killing queen-cells is a nice thing in the- 

 ory, but we're tired of it at our house. Some 

 cells are sure to be missed. 



E. R. IS MIXED about that foundation-fastener. 

 It's one of the things I thought worth trying, 

 and 1 tried it the tirst good chance I had. 



Pkof. Cook says, in A. B. J., that a student 

 came from Japan to Michigan Agricultural 

 College purposely to take a course in apiculture. 



•• Whexevei; yellow is found among bees in 

 Carniola it is to be taken as evidence of Italian 

 blood." — Frank Benton, in American Bee-keep- 

 er. 



Say, E. R., isn't that rather heavy stimula- 

 tive feeding to use quart jars and then "put 

 about a dozen of these feeders to each hive "V 

 (p. oGl). 



The nameless disease, if I am not mistak- 

 en, is called bee-paralysis (BffciiiH.s depll is) in 

 B. B. J. It's time the nameless thing had a 

 name. 



The White MijuiiUthi Apiarist champions 

 the black bee, and ^ays it is as good as, if not 

 better than, tlie Italian for honey-gathering 

 and wintering. 



Lately' I found a good-sized worm in foun- 

 dation that had been lying a year with paper 

 packed between the sheets. I never met the 

 same thing before. 



When a queen flies away when you catch 

 her to clip, we are told just to let heralone and 

 she'll come back. Sometimes she does with me, 

 but oftener she doesn't. 



Prick of honey hasn't come down as much 

 as I expected at this date (July 1(5). In a good 

 many localities honey will be honey this year, 

 and it may not be wise to sell it for a song. 



Friend Root, tell E. J. Purcell (p. .557) to 

 put his queens in penny cages and give them to 

 a colony to care for. I've kept seven in one 

 hive. liut it's safest to cage the queen of the 

 colony. 



Dadant & Son (A. B. J.) say that queen- 

 excluders are a nuisance; that only a few queens 

 go up into supers not oftener than once every 

 four or live years. In working for comb honey I 

 haveno need of excluders to keep queens down; 

 but or oDii er purposes I think a good deal of an 

 excluder that excludes. 



Calves, the otlier day, in the Wilson apiary, 

 amongst other mischief, knocked off five supers 

 which the bees robbed out. Sheep are not so 

 bad. although they have moved some hives on 

 their stands, and horses have never done any 

 harm at all. 



Cold nights, or something else, has hindered 

 the bees in their work a good deal of the time. 

 Still, I think I'm going to have a better crop 

 than for years. White clover is a sea of white; 

 linden, enough to make itself felt: and four or 

 five hundred acres of cucumbers will keep the 

 bees out of mischief till frost. 



British Bee-keepers are asking for a 

 clieaper rapid bee-feeder, 7.5 cents being consid- 

 ered at iiresent low for any thing in that line. 

 Why don't our British cousins try the Miller 

 feeder at one-third the pi1ce. holding 20 pounds, 

 and requiring only to lift the cover to retill? 

 Since Mr. Warner improved it. it is really a val- 

 uable article. 



White clover is the only thing I have ever 

 counted on for surplus, but I find there is more 

 linden here than I had supposed; and for a few 

 days it made quite a difference in the storage. 

 Every tree seemed to have all the blossoms 

 there" was place for. Without a good deal of 

 looking, one doesn't always know thoroughly 

 the honey resources of his locality. 



J. M. Hambaugh, the man that secured S.500 

 annually from the legislature foi' the bee-keep- 

 eis of Illinois, produced 1.5,000 pounds of honey 

 from 18 miles of territory. He figures out that, 

 if the whole State pi-oduced at the same rate 

 from its .5().0(X) square miles, it would produce 

 4(i.<)65.000 pounds, oi' nearly double the census 

 report of 18'.K3 for the whole United States. (A. 

 B.J.) 



Laxgstroth, in his book, gave a cut show- 

 ing a cell made by the bees, having an acute 

 angle. Cheshire referred to it, and gave a cut 

 to show that the cell '"is such that no bee ever 

 did or could construct." Without naming ei- 

 ther. Cowan, in the "Honey Bee," gives illus- 

 trations of several acute angles taken from 

 actual combs. But Dadant. who has found 

 several such cells, says they don't go the full 

 depth in that shape. 



Those replies on page 5.55 make me scratch 

 my head. All agree that I have no right to 

 overstock territory occupied by another bee- 

 keeper, and I'm afraid some one will yet say 

 that there ought to be some kind of a law to 

 secure him in his rights. For pity's sake, don't. 

 It's all right to make laws about every thing 

 else under the sun. so as to make bad people do 

 right; but bee-keepers are exceptions, and don't 

 need any laws to make them do right. 



Friend Bingham, you almost frightened me 

 by suggesting, on page .556, that I withheld 



