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Vol. XIX. 



NOVEMBER 1, 1891. 



No. 21. 



ST/iAr Straws 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



Had to fekd this fall. 



Finished haui-ing home bees from out-api- 

 aries October 12. 



Did youk crop bring enough money to take, 

 you to Albany ? 



Geo. E. Hilton says he believes in handling 

 hives atid fvdines less; "but if either must be 

 handled, let it be the frames." 



The British Bee Journal is not often caught 

 napping; but two pages in the number for Oct. 

 1 ai-e tilled from (tI.eanings and credited to 

 Review. 



Granulated honey, mixed in small quanti- 

 ty with liquid honey, will hasten granulation. 

 This in reply to the question on page 81.5. What 

 additional help can be given? 



Eight-frame hives may be best for comb 

 honey — I don't know. iUit the man who uses 

 them in this region must be willing to feed, if 

 necessary, every fall and spring. 



Uncapping cells to get bees to empty honey 

 is not as good as Cheshire's plan of striking a 

 few times on the cappings with a wire hair- 

 brush. The latter is quicker and easier. 



"The drone is sealed 1<5 days, and is impo- 

 tent until 12 or 14 days old; he must, therefore, 

 be sealed about 7 days before the egg to produce 

 the queen was laid if he is to be in time for ser- 

 vice." — Cheshire. 



Your Funics in Medina, you say, look just 

 like ordinary black bees. Well, mine didn't^ 

 that is, the workers that came with the queens 

 from England. They were black — decidedly 

 blacker than common blacks. 



Say. Ernest, is there any more weight on the 

 two horizontal wires in my way of wiring than 

 if you had two horizontal wires without any 

 perpendicular wires? Still, they're stretched 

 tighter and might break easier. 



liEES don't gnaw through duck or oil cloth, 

 according to Prof. Cook and the ^4. B. J. Some- 

 how holes get in duck or oil cloth, if placed 

 over my bees, and it would be hard to convince 

 me that the bees don't gnaw the holes. 



Ventilation in hauling bees is rightly in- 

 sisted upon as very important. But let me 

 whisper in your ear that I haul my bees every 

 fall and spring with no otlier ventilation than 

 the usual entrance covered with wire cloth. 



At Chicago we always have good conven- 

 tions, and we expect this year to have the ed- 

 itors of A. B. J., Review, and Gleanings. So 

 we ought to have an extra good convention. 

 Xov. 19 and 20, at Commercial Hotel, 9 a. >l 

 Excursion rates. Come. 



Tei-l Rambler we are sorry I said any thing 

 about his ine's and Fs. It never entered our 

 head, Rariiblei-. that you'd make such a fuss 

 about a thing of so little importance, and I give 

 you our full permission to mix your pronouns to 

 suit thyself. 



Say, you. Prof. Cook, do you think it's nice 

 of you to keep the people of Colfax away from 

 Albany Dec. 8, and to coax A. I. Root along 

 with you? Never mind; we'll have Ernest 

 there, and I always could have more fun with 

 one of my own age. 



Doubling up colonies for the honey harvest 

 results in gain, but only up to a certain point, 

 according to Cheshire. He says, "Careful ex- 

 periments seem to indicate that, after 12 lbs. of 

 bees have been heaped together, the loss is 

 greater than the advantage." 



Anent golden Cakniolans, J. A. Green, in 

 A. B. J., wants to know, if they are pure, and 

 it is- the natural tendency of Carniolans to turn 

 yellow, why they don"t follow out that natural 

 tendency in their native land. Don't ask im- 

 pertinent questions. Jimmie. 



At Oswego, 111., I saw a swarm -catcher used 

 by Mrs. Morrison. It is simply a lai'ge wire- 

 cloth cage, 3x2x2 feet, open only on the under 

 side. When a swarm starts out from a hive, 

 and you don't want it to mix up with any thing 

 else, just cover up hive and all, and there you 

 are. 



In reply to W. L. Smith (page 821), I can not 

 now say positively as to the character of queens 

 raised in a hive with the old queen caged, but I 

 have always been under the impression that 

 they were as good, and in some cases better, 

 than if the old queen were taken away alto- 

 gether. 



Friend Root (page 819) advises against feed- 

 ing meal when natural pollen comes. Don't 

 worry; the bees'll not take it then. But I'm not 

 so sure of the wisdom of advising against it 

 when there's old bee-breaa in the combs. 

 Doesn't it stii' up the bei^s to breed more when 

 they get sonn^ substitute from the outside f 



Father Langstroth (page 80(i) is ready to 

 give to C. J. Robinson all the credit he deserves. 

 I wish Mr. Robinson were magnanimous enough 

 to return the compliment, instead of laboring 

 through columns of the American Bee-keeper 

 trying to belittle Mr. Langstroth, and to show 

 that the credit so generally given him is not 

 deserved. 



Doolittle's advice on page 804. about bait 

 sections, is excellent, and I'd be sure that they 

 are thoroughly cleaned out in the fall, by set- 

 ting them outdoors and having the finishing 

 touches put on by bees from all the hives, 

 only taking the pn^caution to allow passage for 

 one bee at a time. Often bees will fail to clean 

 the sections thoroughly if put in a super over a 

 hive. 



