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Vol. XIX. 



SEPTEMBER 1, 1891. 



No. 17. 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



LiXDEX is a better name than linn or hiiss- 

 loood. 



SuPER-CLEAREK is what our English cousins 

 call a bee-escape. Appropriate. 



Pleurisy-root is so highly spoken of as a 

 honey-plant, why doesn't Gleaxixgs give us a 

 picture of it ? 



PopiiUir GariTening says: " We believe bees 

 are a good thing, and a number of colonies 

 should be kept in or near every orchard." 



Porter's escape is a good thing to put under 

 a pile of supers with a little tent on top. It ac- 

 commodates those bees which have a down- 

 ward tendency. 



I HAVE HOPE of A. I. Root. When a man 

 cares as much as he does for a bed of portulaca. 

 there's something of good in him. Some day 

 he'll go crazy over roses. 



The xameless disease (bee paralysis) is 

 said to be more plentiful this year, but. strange- 

 ly enough. I haven't seen a single case, although 

 plentiful in previous years. 



That xew titi.e-page of Gleaxixgs is a 

 gem of art. For solid weai'. however, month 

 after month, nothing equals a very plain title- 

 page with little besides the title. 



Hasty says he is "sour on conventions." 

 Take some saleratus. friend Hasty. A man 

 who can write with so much good nature ought 

 to be able to sweeten a whole conventitm. 



The British Bee Journal is making arrange- 

 ments to send, post free, a packet of naphthaline 

 sulHcient for any single apiary, to be used as a 

 preventive of foul brood, at a cost of twelve 

 cents. 



Sweet clover comes a little too early, be- 

 ginning right at the height of white clover. 

 That which was cut before blooming does bet- 

 ter, blooming in good shape after white clover 

 is gone. 



W. S. Hart seems afraid I don't fuss enough 

 with bees. Bless your heart, friend Hart, don't 

 worry. Till swarming is over I go through 

 every colony about once in ten days. I wish I 

 didn't need to. 



The Review says: ''The Ajjieulturist for Au- 

 gust is but little more than a great big booming 

 cii'cular for the business of E. L. Pratt and H. 

 Alley.'' Now look out for the Apl. saying, 

 "The Review for September is but little more 

 than a great big booming circular for the Hed- 

 don hive." 



I WONDER if the fur cap that friend Root 

 wears for the grip in August is the same that 

 he wore to bed with him when I slept with him 

 at the Chicago convention. But he took his 

 boots off. 



L. Staciielhausen, in Aplcultrtrlst, com- 

 bats the idea that bees are natives of warm 

 climates, and maintains his ground with vigor. 

 He thinks it more reasonable to believe them 

 natives of Northern Germany. 



Sweet clover, says a writer in the Omaha 

 Bee. is supplanting the wild sunflower in the 

 neighborhood of that city, and he becomes 

 poetically eloquent in speaking of the beauty 

 and fragrance of the new comer. 



Editor Newmax thinks I "don't know" 

 that ril have a "better crop than for years." 

 May be I ought to have said "a better crop 

 than for a year." Anyhow, when he. an editor, 

 doesn't know, how should I? 



Cucumbers don't seem to amount to auv 

 thing, so far. this year. At least, they don't 

 do more than to supply what the bees use daily, 

 without allowing any surplus. If they can't 

 store any from 400 acres. I doubt whether they 

 would from more. 



The Puxic virgix queexs I received from 

 England were safely introduced. Then one of 

 them came up missing— probablv on her wed- 

 ding-flight. The other is laying nicely, and I 

 am waiting with interest to see what half-blood 

 Punics will be like. 



Cabbage, as generally cooked, needs the 

 stomach of an ostrich. Get your folks to try it 

 this way: Chop it up and boil; pour off the 

 water in which it was boiled, then dress with 

 cream, butter, pepper, and salt. Cooked thus, 

 a dyspeptic can make a whole meal of it. 



To raise hoxey successfully and prevent 

 swarming, we need, first, to prevent drone-rear- 

 ing: secondly, to prevent drone-rearing: third-, 

 to prevent drone-rearing. One frame full of 

 di-one comb will furnish all the drones that are 

 needed for a full apiary of 100 colonies.— Dadant 

 & Son. in Review. 



That dress reform has every appearance 

 now of becoming fashionable. Speed the day I 

 Think of the deai- women getting down from 

 fourteen articles of dress to four, and being 

 able to go the store and buy a suit readv made, 

 just like a man, instead of several half days 

 spent at a dressmaker's, standing up till they 

 faint away I 



HoKSE-SHOES cost you how much a year? 

 Well, they don't cost me much, and my horse's 

 feet are healthier for it. The hind "feet are 

 never shod, unless in icy winter times. Then a 

 full set all around, well steeled — plugged, they 

 call it; the rest of the year, barefoot all around. 



