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Vol. XIX. 



NOVEMBER 15, 1891. 



No. 22. 



STfi/ir Straws 



from dr. c. c. miller. 



Chicago convention Nov. 19, 20. 



A TWIN DOA^ETAiLED HIVE is mentioned in 

 B. B. J. 



If you WINTER in the cellar, try to get your 

 bees in dry. and before they are frozen. 



The WAX-EXTRACTOR that S. F. Trego (A. 

 B. J.) uses to melt old combs is .simply an ordi- 

 nary queen-nursery 18x18x10 inside. 



Several queens might be kept in one hive, 

 Henry Alley thinks, if the points of their stings 

 were clipped. Mightn't some of the workers 

 need clipping? 



Honey-water, from which to make good 

 strong vinegar, should be strong enough so that 

 an egg floating in it will just show itself at the 

 top. — Dadant in Review. 



•'When the tjees commence to drive the 

 drones out of the hive at the close of the early 

 honey-harvest, then cut out all the drone comb, 

 and the bees will replace it with worker comb."' 

 —H. Alley. 



A LAWSUIT occurred lately in England, in 

 which a bee-keeper sued another man on whose 

 premises a swarm alighted, and were burned 

 by the owner of the premises. The bee-keeper 

 beat. 



A report says that the D. A. Jones Co. has 

 gone into liquidation. Sony, but it may be a 

 blessing in disguise. The C. B.J. hasn't failed, 

 anyhow. The last number is an improvement 

 — more Jones in it. 



Beautiful fall weather, and it seems as if 

 bees might enjoy staying outdoors: but they 

 don't fly any, and the thermometer goes down 

 below 30° at night, so I suspect if they are to be 

 taken into the cellar, the sooner the better. 



Mrs. Harrison, in Pruirle Farmer, says that 

 the honey-bee is the only agent in securing per- 

 fect fertilization of apple-blossoms. That's an 

 important item, if true; and it doesn't come 

 from a person given to wild statements. I dare 

 you to give us the proof, Lucinda. 



The Review is raising the question whether 

 each number shall continue to discuss a special 

 topic, said topics having been pretty well 

 thrashed over. The Review has been so suc- 

 cessful in this line that it's a pity to have any 

 change made. 



Editor Hutchinson objects to a record -book 

 because it gets soiled, and becau-;e a pencil dan- 

 gles from it with a string. Now look here, 

 W. Z. Don't you get to b<:!ing a dude that can't 

 stand a little propolis. Of course, my book is 

 all daubed with glue from one end to the other, 

 and so are my hands; but I shan't give up us- 

 ing either on that account. 



Friend Root, you say, page 836, "If you do 

 not know how to put a pair of shears in nice 

 cutting order, you ought to be ashamed of your- 

 self." Well, 1 don't, know, and of course I'm 

 ashamed, but you ought to be ashamed that you 

 didn't tell how. when you were talking about it. 

 It's not too late now. 



The C. B. J. very properly disapproves the 

 suggestion of the B. B. J., that honey from foul- 

 broody hives may be used for household pur- 

 poses. "Supposing it is used on the table, and 

 the water that the dishes were washed in 

 thrown out in the yard, the bees might get it, 

 and carry it back to the hives." 



Dadant »t Son say in Review, that, to get all 

 the wax out of our old brood-combs, they 

 should be mashed up fine when cold and brittle, 

 and thoroughly soaked in water before melting. 

 The breaking prevents the wax from lodging 

 in the cells, and soaking full of water prevents 

 the melted wax from soaking into the debris. 

 That's bright. I move a vote of thanks to the 

 Frenchmen. 



" Fruit is not injured by bees, because 

 a bee has no biter, but only a slender proboscis 

 with which she sucks her food." That's an ar- 

 gument I've seen used several times, but I don't 

 believe it's wise to use such an argument, for 

 the simple reason that it's not true. Bees have 

 a " biter." as every bee-keeper knows who has 

 seen them gnawing quilts, and even pine wood 

 when the hive entrance is too small. 



Here's PROOF that bees injure fruit. G. W. 

 Camp says in Hanford Sentinel: " Mr. Oliver 

 Smith informed me that the bees carried off a 

 tray of raisins per day from his vineyard." He 

 did not say whether they brought back the 

 trays or not; but two of his neighbors told me 

 that they saw the road near his place covered 

 with bees carrying off his raisins. The bees 

 were walking on their hind legs, and each one 

 had a raisin between its fore claws. 



Syrup of granulated sugar shows more de- 

 termination to granulate with me this fall than 

 ever before, and others make the same com- 

 plaint. Heddon says, in Review, *' I find the 

 granulated sugar much different from what it 

 used to be once. Then the regulation amount 

 of acid would hold it every time; now hardly 

 any of the time." I wonder if we ought not to 

 have a special brand of sugar for bee-keepers, 

 something as the B. B. J. furnishes its patrons. 



Cutting tin is one of the things that, as a 

 bee-keeper, I often want to do, but sometimes 

 have done it with a hammer because I couldn't 

 wait to go to a tin-shop and didn't want to 

 spoil my wife's shears. I thought I could hardly 

 afford to pay a dollar or two for a pair of tin- 

 ners' snips: but since friend Root offers them 

 for a quarter I've ordered a pair, and will give 

 up cutting tin with a hammer. I wonder if 

 he couldn't sell $40 squaring shears for about a 

 dollar! 



