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Vol. XIX. 



DECEMBER 15, 1891. 



No. 24, 



^r/pyjr Straws 



FROM DR. C. C. MIUUER. 



I'm not so vpry rich, but I have more than I 

 want— of the grip. 



That pictuke on page 937 is a libel. The 

 real thing is a beauty. 



Not what a man has, but what he doesn't 

 want, makes him rich. 



The Colorado State society is to have an 

 annual "honey day." What's a "honey day"? 



At Colorado State convention, Mr. Collins 

 was reported as losing 35 colonies by yellow- 

 jackets. 



This year there seem to be plenty ready to 

 buy honey outright. In years of plenty they 

 want it on commission. 



Vaseline is recommended in B. B. J. to drive 

 robbers away by painting on the cracks where 

 the robbers are trying to force entrance. 



The importance of a space of about two 

 inches under the bottom -bars for winter is more 

 and more believed in, whether for in cellar or 

 out. 



Dr. Mason told us at Chicago that each State 

 would have only about ten square feet for its 

 apiarian exhibit at the World's Pair. Rather 

 cramped quarters. 



White Chilean clover, mentioned on page 

 917, is Melllotiis allxi. as I know from another 

 article I saw in a Southern paper from the pen 

 of the same writer. 



Order supplies noiv. The discount is as 

 good as 8 to 16 per cent interest per annum on 

 the money, to say nothing of the comfort and 

 convenience of having every thing ahead of 

 time. 



I wanted to go to Albany ever so much- 

 wanted to see a number of those good friends 

 in the East, whom I've never met, but I got 

 the grip — I mean the grip got me-^and 1 had to 

 stay at home. 



Enough thermometers to hang one in each 

 room might help to keep peace in the family. 

 One says, "This room is too cold;'' another 

 says, "It's too hot;" and one of Root's 1.5-cent 

 thermometers would be a good umpire to settle 

 the case. 



A. N. Draper tells in last Gleanings about 

 being up all night hauling bees. When he has 

 had a little more more e.xperience he'll give up 

 that nonsense, and use broad daylight. I want 

 light enough to make sure there are no leaks 

 before I start with a load. 



Heddon, in A. B. J., gives as cardinal points 

 in bee-keeping: "1. Select a good field, and 

 keep it all to yourself; 3. Get bees enough to 

 stock it." Now will Bro. H. please arise and 



tell us /ioir to keep the field all to one's self? 

 Getting bees enough has not succeeded: what 

 will? In the second place, will he tell us how 

 to find out how many bees are "enough to stock 

 it"? 



The Minnesota publication has changed its 

 name from "Tlic Bee Journal"'' to "The North- 

 western Bee Jourmil.'" That's right; now we 

 know which bee-journal is meant: but the sim- 

 ple name, ''the bee -journal," might mean 

 Gleanings or any other bee-journal. Succe.ss 

 to the A". W. B. J'.! 



S. CoRNEiL is a formidable opponent. He 

 was killed dead, metaphorically speaking, in 

 the foul-brood matter, but now he's up and at 

 it again in t\w A. B. J., with some arguments 

 that I am very anxious to see met. Friend Cor- 

 neil, the "decided improvement in my respira- 

 tion " has suffered a relapse. 



When Newman, of the A. B. J., changes his 

 mind he makes no bones of saying so. Formerly 

 he ai'gued that essays at a convention were es- 

 sential. Now he says, in the most unreserved 

 manner, "The Northwestern was a convention 

 without essays, and it was a charming success. 

 There was no want of subject-matter to discuss, 

 and no lack of enthusiasm. 



John Hewitt (A Hallamshire Bee-keeper), 

 in an article in A. B. J., is after Doolittle, Root, 

 and others, with a sharp stick, for saying old 

 virgin queens can not be safely introduced. He 

 uses the knock-down argument, that, for three 

 years, he has been selling virgin queens, safe 

 delivery and introduction guaranteed. He 

 sends out no queen under six days old. 



" We airways have better conventions when 

 there is a large attendance of ladies," p. 919. I 

 don't know that I ever heard it put just that 

 way; but. come to think of it, I'm sure it's so. 

 The presence of one or more good women in a 

 convention, even if not a feminine voice is heard, 

 seems to have a livening and purifying influence. 

 Oh, yes I let's have the women at conventions. 



Gambling has a pretty strong hold on this 

 nation. The Louisiana lottery openly debauches 

 its thousands, and in many insidious ways the 

 young are trained to become gamblers. The 

 latest comes from a religious newspaper. It 

 gives a rebus that any child of 13 might de- 

 cipher, and then offers prizes to the first 30 who 

 send in subscriptions with the correct solution. 

 The money is sent for the chance of being 

 among the first twenty, and that's the soul of 

 gambling. 



"In hauling bees home for the winter, 

 rather than take off the covers and put on the 

 wire-cloth screen tops, it is cheaper to select a 

 cool day (or else a moonlight night), when all 

 that is necessary at most is to put on only 

 entrance-screens." That's what you say, Mr. 

 Editor, on page 916. Now look here. It's not 

 necessary to select either a cool day or a light 



