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Vol. XX. 



JULY 15, 1892. 



No. 14. 



Strav Straws 



FROM DR. C. C. MIULER. 



Strawberkies are composed largely of water 

 this year. 



That ■•silver-lixing" to the clouds seems 

 badly water-soaked as yet. 



Two WHOLE DAYS without rain — well, at 

 least only a little shower on one of them. 



FEEniNG has kept the size of ray apiaries a 

 good bit larger than if I had left them to them- 

 selves. 



Mrs. AxTEi.r, always had a kind heart. 8he 

 gives me no little comfort by reporting a great- 

 er loss than I've had. 



Chas. Dadant, in Revue, gives a black eye 

 to De Layens" theory that there's profit in let- 

 ting bees make wax. 



Pi'RE BEESWAX and clean unsalted butter 

 make an excellent substitute for creams and 

 balms. — Ladies'' Horne Journal. 



JfLY 4. I remember, was the close of the 

 honey harvest one year. This year July 4 is 

 before thi! beginning— if there is to be any be- 

 ginning. 



YoiR HEAi>"s LEVEL, Mr. Editor. We musn't 

 think of going to Washington at any time when 

 there isn't something else going on to bring 

 down railroad rates. 



Nect.vr .\ni) pollen. I have always thought, 

 went pretty much togeihcr; but nowadays I 

 find bees bringing in big loads of pollen, and 

 their honey-sacs empty. 



Emma's using one of the improved Binghams, 

 and it's g(K)d; no burnt lingers when you want 

 to load up, and no need of coals dropping out 

 from turning upside down. 



Florists are not like bee-keepers. You can't 

 subscribe for the Amr.rlcnn Florist without 

 some proof that you are already a florist. But 

 b(-e-keepers will "coax you to enter their ranks. 



I worried somewhat because it seemed im- 

 possible to get colonies strong enough in time 

 for the harvest. Now I'vi- got most of th(!m in 

 good shape, and I'm trying hard not to worry 

 because the harvest doesn't come as soon as the 

 bees are ready. 



Bee culture has more public encourage- 

 ment in England than here. The BritUih Bee 

 .Journal shows some -S.TOOO appropriated by the 

 government to provide free teaching in practic- 

 al bee culturi'. How about slow Johnny Bull 

 now. you bragging Yankees? 



For chapped hands or any sort of rough- 

 n(\«s. sage tea or oatmeal gruel, sweetened with 

 honey, is good.— Ladt-cs' Home Jour mil. 



That man McIntyke- I feel jealous of him 

 if he's going to win away Prof. Cook's affec- 

 tions from me. But then, if Mclntyre is as nice 

 as his picture looks, I can't blame the professor. 



More and more it is becoming true that 

 women of real refinement and taste dress plain- 

 ly. \'ou can often pick out the wives of mil- 

 lionaires by their plain dress. A loud dress on 

 a woman generally advertises the fact that she 

 is dressing beyond her means. 



How that picture on page 50:3 takes me 

 back to old times! The Murrays were two 

 very lovable brothers— '• Rob," as we always 

 called him, so modest and quiet that you'd 

 hardly know he was around, and James over- 

 flowing with fun— fun that was always kind. 



Comb-building, Doolittle says in Stockman, 

 is supposed to be done by exact measurement. 

 The antenna of the worker are used full length 

 to measure the diameter of drone-cells; and 

 when it wants to measure for a worker-cell it 

 doubles up the end-joint of the antennae like a 

 jack-knife. 



Do you want company and comfort in your 

 misery? Well, here I am this 5th of July with 

 130 colonies (if some of them didn't die last 

 night) left out of 389. some of them mere nuclei, 

 and not a bee working in supers, and some hives 

 with not a drop of honey to be seen in the 

 brood-combs. But it might be worse. 



A LITTLE economy I saw this morning 

 amused and rather pleased me. A white cake 

 about a foot long had a gash cut across the 

 middle, and in the gash a wall of w»'iting- paper 

 erected. Then one half the cake was frosted 

 with chocolate, and the other with plain frost- 

 ing. Two kinds of cake, you see, with only one 

 baking. 



Clover pollen is coming in, when it comes 

 in at all, in larger pellets than I ever saw be- 

 fore; for, usually, clover pollen comes in in 

 small pellet A. Possibly this is the explanation: 

 Ordinarily bees working on clover get filled up 

 with nectar before they liave tiine to get much 

 pollen; but when getting little or no nectar 

 they have time to get full loads of pollen. 



Dictating to a stenographer all right the 

 first time trying is spoken of by th(! editor as 

 quite a feat on the part of father Langstroth. 

 So it was. If any of you think it's an easy thing 

 to do without being first hardened to it, just try 

 sitting down and talking to an imaginary au- 

 dience with no one to hear you, and a pretty 

 girl overhearing all you say. and see if you 

 don't feel kind o' confused like. 



