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IP-^perYeai^^ \g) Medina Ohio 



Vol. XX. 



MARCH 15, 1892. 



No. 6. 



57'/?>?r Straws 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



I'm OFF THK FKXCK with both feet, standing 

 up straight for no bounty. 



A WAIT, conn's from Minnesota, that tout cal- 

 i'lpiilars arc destroying hasswood bloom. 



Mrs. Axtem, says in P. li. K. that "• it takos 

 i)rains to care for boes."' .lust listen to horl 



Mica in stoves will soon become dim if you 

 burn any thing but hard coal. No wood, paper, 

 or soft coal. 



Thk C. B. J. thinivs it high time something 

 were done about a bee-l<(-epcrs' convention at 

 the World's Fail'. 



Adui.tekatiox exists. I'lentyofit. No use 

 to blink the matter. Fight is "the word. No 

 make-believe tight, either. 



Rkmemukk that bees consume six times as 

 much honey in April as in December; and if 

 you don't look out some will starve. 



Editoi; Cooi'eu. of the Bev -keepers' Mtuja- 

 zine. is doing missionary work, trying to get 

 people to plant tlower-seeds. Success to him. 



The Ont.^rk) J}ee-keepers' Association sends 

 free to each member this year a copy of the 

 C B. ./., th(^ same being a good paper. 



Aktifici.m, hoxev is made in (iermanyso 

 good that scieuli lie men say it can't be d<'tected. 

 Hut the bee-men say it tastes like burnt sugar. 



Am.ev has 32 colonies in the hous<>-apiary, 

 with the view of g(!tting them strong earlier in 

 the season. In May Api. he'll tell how it works. 



(roosEREKiiiKs. as houey-plauts. are recom- 

 mended to be planted in fence-corners. evei-y- 

 where. eveu in waste places, by F. Huck. in 

 />ei/f.sr/(c [inker. 



Coi,oH.\i)() beats Michigan. L. Brock, at 

 Colorado State convention, said it cost \% cents 

 per pound to produce comb honey. Now. wh(j 

 ■can do it for I'.j '? 



Mhs. Mii.ton Cone {Apl.) says a flock (jf J'e- 

 kin ducks allowed the range of their apiary al- 

 most depopulated the hives; but she raised 700 

 <;hickens all right. 



I SAW a hook about patents, on Ernest's desk. 

 Has he so far departed from the way in whicli 

 he was brought up as to be contemplating the 

 getting-out of a patent? .May be he intends to 

 patent sealed covers. 



J. U. \\.K\A. denies the soft impeachment that 

 he advocat(v-i a ^s bee-space. I thought it seem- 

 ed a pretty tight squeeze; but there it was. in 

 cold print, on page 784. C. B. .1. Did the ('. B. J. 

 printei- man monkey with those ligures ? 



I didn't I5ELIEVE (I. K. Hubbard was hard- 

 hearted enough to keej) that boy standing al- 

 ways working at his section press. The picture 

 now shows him sitting down. 



U. Guiu.KH iRevieiv) thinks it probable that, 

 the older the larva, the older the nnrse-bee that 

 feeds it, a larva of one or two days being fed by 

 a nurse not more than live days old; a nurse 

 nine days old preparing a suitable diet for 

 larVfV of four or live days. 



The PiJociKEssivE Bek-keepeh gets a raking 

 from one of its patrons for using type so large 

 that it •• is first- reader type, tit only for children 

 to read." Yes; but, friend Urban, you don't 

 know what a comfort to spectacled eyes is that 

 same large type, so beautifully printed on nice 

 paper. 



Fd GIVE quite a littl(^ to have friends Doolil- 

 tle and Taylor shut in a room together to argue 

 out the cost of honey— kept there till they 

 agreed— and they would agree if they had time 

 enough— and then have a phonograph report 

 the whole thing. We'd get some valuable 

 l)oints. 



The C. B. ./. calls the N. A. B. K. A. a stock 

 company, and doubts "if a meeting of stock- 

 holders will be as interesting as a convention of 

 members.'' Say; if Fve been fooled into this 

 thing, and we're not to have a convention of 

 members any more, Fm going to get out and 

 join the O. B. K. A.— if tliey'll let me. 



Outdoor wintering was a success with the; 

 foiu' colonies I packed in the winter of 18t)0. I 

 left out 12 last winter to try in winter cases. 

 Failing to get cas(!s in time, I concluded to leave 

 the 12 out without protection. I wanted to find 

 out how th(;y would winter in that condition. 

 I found out. .lust 100 per cent of them died 

 dead. 



The name N. A. B. K. A. has too much al- 

 phabet in it. R. McKnight, in C. B. J., short- 

 ens it to N. a. I{. a. That's sensible, especially 

 as '■ Jiee-keepers " is really only one word, and 

 there is no initial K. Wouldn't it be sufficient- 

 ly distinctive to call it. for short, '"North 

 American Association.'' and use the initials 

 • N. A. A."? 



QuiGEEY had bees in hives with flat covers. 

 "After a light snow," he says' " the snow had 

 melt(!d over the cluster on all of them, showing 

 just where they had clnstc^red, while the snow 

 on the covers of empty hives had not begun to 

 melt. Don't you think from the above that 

 some heat (>scapes through a ,"< hoard '.'" Y(>s. 

 and it shows that packing ocer the lioard would 

 be an imijrovement. 



" I IT.WE business relations with some 7;i so- 

 cieties, and hav(! become iiersonally acquainted 

 with more than 'VH)0 bee-keepers. Among the 

 ;{000 I do not know of one drinker." So said Mr. 



