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Vol. XX. 



APRIL 1, 1892. 



No. 7. 



Stray Straws 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



Kkkp savket, no niattor how warm the dis- 

 cussion. 



Metai. combs again. This lime tiicy are in- 

 vented in (Germany. 



Emma says tliat l)oolittle"s as near right as 

 any. if he /.s ail alone. Emma's a girl of pretty 

 good judgment. 



Good nature seems to be one of the promi- 

 nent features that characterize the discussions 

 of bee-keepers nowadays. 



Do BEES SLEEP? The CentraUbUitt thinks 

 they have no need of sleep, at least not in sum- 

 mer. I wouldn't be a bee. 



The winter has not been very severe in 

 Northern Illinois. Hasn't gone down as low as 

 some winters by nearly :.'()°. 



The standaru frame of the British (14x83^ 

 inches) has lli) square inches of surface; the 

 French, 186; and the Simplicity, 161 square 

 inches. 



February was warm enough so I kept cellar 

 door open day and night for a week. But the 

 middle of March shows S to 13° above zero, 

 morning after morning. 



Cost of hoxev is hardly worth more discus- 

 sion. So long as tlu; matter is viewed from 

 distinctly separate standpoints, there never can 

 be any agreement. 



I dii>x"t want the .senior editor to get back 

 north before danger of spring dwindling was 

 over. Still, it seems good to have his signature 

 A. I. R.e'I throughout Gleanings. 



"We ARE KAPiDLV coming to the conclusion 

 that bees need more ventilation in the cellar 

 than many suppose."— Foot-no<e on jxiqe 'JO.'l. 

 All right, conn- on. I've been there for years. 



Did the windmill spin faster 



At sight of its master? 



Did the cabbage forth shoot 



When it saw A. I. Root? 

 A CORRESPONDENT of B. B. J. came near los- 

 ing his life by means of an oil-stove without 

 having the smoke carriid off. No wonder those 

 who have tried oil-stoves to heat winter repos- 

 itories are down on artificial heat. 



Winter heatixc;, which caused such a hent- 

 ed discussioti in Germany, is settled down to 

 the conclusion that, in the hands of Pastor 

 Weygandt. it is a success, but he does not claim 

 it as a thing for general use everywhere. For 

 the majority, it is thought to cost more than it 

 comes to. This doesn't refer to keeping cellars 

 warm in winter. 



"The swarmi.ng fever is not present, we 

 know, except as developed by extcirnal causes," 

 says J. H. Larraiiee, p. 194. No, we don't know 

 — well, that is, what do you mean by external 

 causes ? 



Don't BE fooled by one or two warm days 

 into bringing your i)ees out of the cellar too 

 soon. Let'em roar in the cellar if they want 

 to. Just open all up at night and give them a 

 good airing. 



Phacelia Tanacetifolia, the California 

 honey-plant, according to two writers in UApi- 

 culteur, is not only a valuable honey-plant in 

 France, but an excellent forage-plant. Bro. 

 Larrabee, there's a field for experiment. 



That trip up Wilson's J*eak makes thrilling 

 reading; but don't you think any man not in 

 the best of rei)air who should undertake such a 

 trip would be a good deal of a f — er— er don't 

 you think he oughtn't to undertake so much? 



It does seem that we ought to come to some 

 sort of agreement about grading before the sub- 

 ject is dropped. Some one may yet strike a 

 lead that will help us out, and an hour or so in 

 a convention will hardly settle it satisfactorily 

 unless there is more previous discussion. 



Old bees, according to Cantor Beck, in Lpz. 

 Bztfj., winter as well as young ones. He united 

 a lot of old bees and gave them a queen, and 

 they lived as well as others, being the third 

 colony, among ."50, ready to swarm the next sea- 

 son. But wasn't this an unusual experience? 



Incorporation, It seems, is not the thing ob- 

 jected to by the O. B. A. It's only that there 

 wasn't more of it. R. McKnight says, in C. B. 

 J., " We never had any objection to oih- breth- 

 ren across the border incorporating." But he 

 thinks it ought to have been done by act of Con- 

 gress. 



The congress op Paris agreed upon three 

 frames as standard— a high frame 30x40 centi- 

 meters; a l(»n frame 40x;iO, and a square frame 

 .35X.3."). The hujli is for mountainous or cold re- 

 gions; the low for hot, and the snunre for me- 

 dium climates. The square frame is about 13^ 

 inches square. 



Larrabee proposes to start at the root of 

 things by controlling fertilization in order to 

 control qualities in i)ees. Control of fertiliza- 

 tion s(;ems hopeless; but its importance war- 

 rants mucli trial. But please, Bro. Larrabee, 

 don't refer to N. W. McLain's experiments as 

 any thing reliable. 



The boahd of Lady Managers of the World's 

 Fair hav(! appointed ten ladies as a committee 

 on "Bees and Bee Culture." They are Mes- 

 dames Olmstead, Doolittle, Howes, Cantrill, 

 Shepard, Conzins, Hartpence, McCandless, Rue, 

 Bartlett. Nice ladies, without doubt, and very 

 properly behaved; but somehow I don't remem- 



