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Vol. XIX. 



OCTOBER 1, 1891. 



No. 19. 



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C. MILLER. 



Are you ready for winter? 



The North American meets at Albany. 

 Dec. 8-11. 



Doubling up colonies may be done more 

 easily now than later. 



I'm glad to see Hive-making, in tlie latest 

 A"B C, brought right up to date. 



"Princess"" is what our English cousins sa;y. 

 instead of '"virgin queen." Isn't princess a 

 better name? 



May a kind Providence attend Bro. A. I. 

 on his jotirney. and bring him back younger 

 and stronger, outside and inside. 



"Ten thousand bee-keepers in the U. 8. 

 having .500 colonies each,"" is going the rounds. 

 I challenge the pi'oof that half of that is true. 



Cough mixture. The Medical World gives 

 this: Cod-liver oil. 3 oz.: honey. 2 oz.: lemon 

 juice, 2 oz. One to two teaspoonfuls three times 

 a day. 



That man Quigley says I invented a feeder 

 and then let my own bees starve. But he's im- 

 proving tiie Missouri Bee-keeper so much that I 

 forgive him. 



If house- apiaries should come into general 

 use, "invalids and women "' would have to seek 

 something other tlian bee-keeping as an out- 

 door occupation. 



The Aplculturist is catching it from the B. 

 B. J., which thinks Hutchinson didn't come 

 down hard enough on the Apl. for being a " big 

 booming circular." 



From no compression to thumb-screws is a 

 pretty big jump. E. R. I'll not go to either ex- 

 treme at present, but be "mejum"" and give 

 wedges a fair trial. 



If horses or cows are smart enough to un- 

 latch a gate, just put on two latches and you've 

 got "em. They can't unlatch both at once, and 

 you can. — National Stockman. 



C. J. Robinson, in American Bee-keeper, 

 thinks I "assume" when I give Langstroth 

 credit for inventing a frame surrounded by a 

 bee-space except at the point of support. If I 

 assume in that, what a lot of " assumers " there 

 must be! 



Mrs. Jennie Atchley says, in Missouri Bee- 

 keeper, " Wlien a person thinks he or she can 

 tell what a queen is altogether by her looks, I 

 am here to tell you that such a person is simply 

 off his base." Your head's level, Jennie, no 

 matter how you put up your back hair. 



That incident (.n page 737, of the bees get- 

 ting out in hauling. I read with intense interest, 

 nearly holding my breath till I reached the out- 

 come. I've been there myself too often. 



"Handling hives more and frames less" 

 doesn't suit me. I'd rather spend an hour 

 handling frames than hives. The thing I'm 

 after is handling hives and frames less. Guess 

 that's what E. R. is struggling after too. 



Canadian bee-keepers should have a law 

 passed prohibiting D. A. Jones from working at 

 any thing else than bees. When he's held right 

 down to it, Bro. Jones is a good editor, as the 

 improvement in the C. B. J. shows. 



What ailed the summer, that the bees let 

 up so early on storing? Was it too cold? It 

 was a remarkably cool summer; but to make 

 up for it we have in the last half of September 

 the hottest kind of summer weather. 



The weather takes up so much room in the 

 BritisJi Bee Journal as to astonish an Amer- 

 ican reader. But then, American journals 

 would do the same thing if they had any thing 

 like the same kind of weather for the whole 

 counti'y. 



When driving, does your horse switch the 

 line under his tail? Just cross one line over 

 the other twice, and he'll not get the lines un- 

 der his tail very often; and when he does you'll 

 not pull him clear out of the road in getting 

 them out. 



Punic bees, while so highly praised by those 

 who sell them, have strong insinuations thrown 

 out against them by British bee-keepers, as 

 being in the line of humbugs. As vet. lean 

 only say that, in appearance, they are" decided- 

 ly different from all other bees I have seen. 



What made you haul home your bees from 

 the Shane yard so early, friend Root? They 

 surely could have something to browse on there 

 more than at home. I may be wrong, but I 

 have always left my bees in the out-apiaries 

 as late as possible— only so they had time for 

 one fly before going into winter quarters. 



Mrs. Harrison, in A. B. K., supposes "I 

 don't know" whether the six or eight barrels of 

 sugar I fed to my bees was a paying invest- 

 ment. Now, Mrs. Harrison, I think I do know 

 something once in a while, and that's just one 

 of the times when I do know. Without feeding, 

 a good many colonies would have died which 

 gave me a fair share of the 8000 or 9000 pounds 

 of surplus. 



The Britisli Bee Journal says: "If, say, a 

 third of the center combs, with brood, queen - 

 cells, and adhering bees, are removed bodily 

 from the parent hive, and replaced with foun- 

 dation directly a top swarm has cleared out. 

 the latter may be returned the same evening. 



