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Vol. XIX. 



SEPTEMBER 15, 1891. 



No. 18. 



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FROM DR. 



C. MILLER. 



Are yon going to Albany? 



Departed this life — the Bee World. 



The blood of a boo is not rod, bnt colorless. 



Carniolaxs make \vork(M- cells of larger size 

 than those made by black bees. 



Editor Newman has been laboring with one 

 of his correspondents to make him believe a 

 colony is a colony and not a swarm. 



How I WISH I knew all about beesi But if 

 there were no more hard nuts to crack, bee- 

 keeping would lose some of its brightest charms. 



Honey-dew honey should not be sold as 

 good honey, if sold at all. Can't you feed it 

 next spring, and get it all used in brood-rear- 

 ing? 



An Automatic Smoker has been invented by 

 the French apiculturist, M. de Layens, which 

 is said to give good satisfaction. Costs 14 

 francs. 



Extracting sections that are partly filled 

 is a fussy sort of job. Is it not better to feed to 

 the bees, and then extract, if necessary, from 

 the brood-combs? 



Beeswax rendered with sulphuric acid has 

 " absolutely no odor." Then I shouldn't like it 

 so well. I do like the odor of good foundation, 

 and it's possitjle the bees do. 



I AM with friend Larrabee in 'his opposition 

 to slits for comb-guides in top and end bars. 

 Should the many who don't use them be obliged 

 to sutter then, in order to accommodate the few 

 who do use them? 



J. H. Larrabee asks if I'm afraid of %■ top- 

 bars sagging. Somewhat; but I find more 

 burr-combs ovei- top-bars %■ thick than over X. 

 So I'm doubtful about ^ preventing burr- 

 combs. 



Of Punic bees, Gleanings says: "It is ad- 

 mitted that they are bad propolizers." "A Hal- 

 lamshire bee-keeper" (the introducer) says in 

 the Jour iKil (jf Horticulture that they are not 

 bad, but good propolizeis, for they fill cracks or 

 chinks with an enormous quantity of propolis, 

 but do not put it on their combs. 



Another cure for laying workers. From 

 F. H. & E. H. Dewey, in A.merican Bee-Keeper. 

 Put the infected colony in a ventilated box 

 without combs for 4 or .") hours, in the shade or 

 in the cellar: then drop in a caged queen, pref- 

 erably a laying one, and in about two hours 

 more pour the bees before a hive devoid of all 

 brood, releasing the queen to run in with the 

 b(>es. 



Gleanings says that sheets made of wax 

 rendered with sulphuric acid have "absolutely 

 no taste after chewing pieces of them for half 

 an hour." I should think not. Almost any 

 thing would have all the taste chewed out of it 

 before the half-hour was up. 



A. I. Root, in a private talk, once raised the 

 question of using excluder zinc between the 

 top-bars. Now that thick top-bars seem to be 

 taking the place of honev-boards. and yet 

 queen-excluders are used for extracted honey, 

 might it not be a good plan to combine in some 

 way top-bars and excluders? 



Your Wife doesn't like to let vou have bees- 

 wax in her pans and kettles. It's a big job for 

 her to clean them up. Well, clean them up 

 yourself. Set them over the fire till the wax 

 melts: then, without any water or anv thing 

 else, wipe out all the wax with old newspapers, 

 perhaps finishing up with dry rags. 



Eli Sheppekd. in Home and Farm, says 

 melilot is highly valued in Hale county, Ala., 

 as a fertilizer, bringing - vouth and renewed 

 fi-eshness to the most worn piece of lime land." 

 " It makes a nourishing and finelv perfumed 

 hay. When fed to cows it imparts to the prod- 

 ucts of the dairy a delicate and pleasant flavor." 



The editor of the American Bee-Keeper 

 says: "We believe it is generally understood 

 that Italian bees do not work to anv extent in 

 buckwheat, while common bees and hybrids 

 usually get a good harvest from it.'' Is this 

 coriect? I had supposed that Italians would 

 work as well as blacks on buckwheat, if nothing 

 better was to be had. 



Allen Pringle. in C. B. J., is down on the 

 doctors, and quotes quite an imposing array of 

 doctors themselves, eminent ones too. to prove 

 that the world would be better off without doc- 

 tors or drugs. Very likely; but if friend Prin- 

 gle gets really sick, see if he doesn't send for the 

 doctor. It's born in people to want to be doped 

 and dosed. 



Introducing Queens. Here's a plan given 

 by H. Spuhler. in Revue Interuationale. Sev- 

 eral hours after the removal of the old queen, 

 put the new one in a little cylinder made of 

 foundation. It is closed at both ends, and fur- 

 nished with little holes pierced with a needle. 

 After daubing it with honey, put it in the mid- 

 dle of the brood-nest. The bees do the rest. 



Friend Jones, of the C. B. J., thinks if a 

 young queen be slyly dropped into the top of a 

 hive about dark she would supersede the old 

 queen. I tried superseding quite a number 

 last year by having a young queen hatch out in 

 a cell -protector. They hatch out all right, and 

 would be found peacefully traversing the 

 combs; but before it was time for them to lay. 

 every last one disappeared. If I had removed 



