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Vol. XX. 



OCT. 1, 1892. 



No. 19. 



STRjir Straws 



FROM DR. C. C. MILLER. 



FoK ENTRANCE FEEDING. \V. D. Soper's feeder 

 is a simple and nice arrangement. Quite bright. 



FiiiEND Root, if you and your family will 

 make a trip to Marengo we'll find stabling for 

 tlii^ bicyeles. 



PuiCKs OF HONEY are slowly climbing— a sure 

 indication that the markets are not Hooded 

 with that commodity. 



If GT.fCosE can be delected for a certainty in 

 adulterated honey, sadness will take hold of the 

 hearts of the adulteratoi's. 



The fight is on 1 and ifs to the death. Pitch 

 in. Prof. Cook, and keep a-pitchin'-in till adul- 

 teration gives its last kick. 



• Vindictive little sinners" is what Em- 

 ma calls our Punics, or. rather, half-breed 

 l^uiiics. But they seem to be making good work. 



It wii.i. he cheaper and better to enlarge the 

 Held of the good old Bee-keepers' Union than 

 to get up any new machinery to tight adultera- 

 tion. 



One cent a glass, A. B. J. says, will get 

 you. at the World's Fair, mineral water piped 

 directly from the famous Waukesha. Wis., 

 springs. 



Dog-fights are hardly the proper thing for 

 an editor. Ernest; but if you must indulge your 

 taste in that direction I advise you to get 

 knickerbockers of sheet iron. 



Your Honev Column, friend Root, is not got- 

 ten up this year in as interesting a manner as 

 usual. Somehow you always fail to make it 

 very spicy, years that I have no crop. 



Ctet golden- yellow bees as much as you 

 like. Bro. Root, to suit the popular demand: 

 but be sure to furnish me a queen of the dark, 

 leathery sort every year oi- so. I can bleach 

 them out faster than I like. 



If keeping expenses down is the way to get 

 rich, a f'-w seasons like the present will make 

 me a millionaire. Pve no shipping-cases to buy. 

 and no sections to get ready for next season. 

 Oh. yes! I'm keeping down expenses. 



Fou.NDATioN with complete cells is something 

 over which some of the foreign bee-journals 

 are (juite enthusiastic. Bees accept it and use 

 it quite readily; but so far, queens'will not lay 

 in it. They are sanguine that it may come into 

 general and profitable use. 



Apis doksata will not be brought to this 

 coinitry by the government, W. C. Frazier 

 thinks, as soon as it might be by private enter- 

 prise, and asks in A. B. J. how many will take 



shares of &) each in a stock company with 

 $5000 capital in order to get tiie big bees here. 



That "' silver lining " to the cloud has at 

 last come to me in the shape of an unusual fall 

 flow, and hope— that eternal springer— softlv 

 whispers in my ear, "Next year may give voit 

 a bright sky clear through, with no clouds" to 

 be lined."' 



This summer, for the first time in my life I 

 saw a laying worker which I recognized as one 

 — saw it in the act. There was nothing unusual 

 in its appearance — just a nice, respectable- 

 looking worker that you would never dream of 

 being engaged in such disreputable business. 



Just to think that Prof. Cook should turn 

 out to be a thief! And to steal from a dead 

 man at that! On page (198 he has taken from 

 Sancho Panza his benediction on the man who 

 invented sleep, and given it to Saxe. But I 

 can't believe the professor's heart is at all 

 wrong. His head has been turned by turning 

 that bicycle. 



I am profoundly thankful to be able to 

 say that I don't need to do any feeding for win- 

 ter. On the contrary, I have been obliged to 

 take full combs from a number of colonies so 

 that the queen might not be utterly crowded 

 out. There's always something— yes, always 

 plenty to be thankful for. if we're "at all in a 

 thankful mood. 



What freakish things laying workers are! 

 Lately I gave a sealed queen-cell to a colony 

 afflicted with the miserable pests, and the lay- 

 ing stopped before the cell hatched. Per contra, 

 laying workers commenced work in another 

 colony while a number of queen-cells of its own 

 raising were steadily going on to completion, 

 stopping when a queen hatched. 



Ilow MUCH hetter your own discoveries are 

 than what you learn from others' Not long ago 

 I discovered that, when using planer shavings 

 in a smoker, time and vexation were avoided by 

 having a few bench shavings to start the fire, 

 and ever since that I have taken solid comfort 

 in the improvenu^nt. Yet I now recall that I 

 had read of the same thing years ago, and never 

 thought worth while to try it. 



Hairpins are turned to all sorts of service by 

 the gentler sex; and now comes J. E. Pritchard, 

 in A. B. ./., and tells liovv to use them to hold 

 transferred combs: Pierce the side and bottom 

 bars with a small awl at intervals of three or 

 four incues. with two holes i',^ of an inch 

 apart, and thrust cheap hairpins through 

 the holes astride the septum, pulling out the 

 pins when the i^ees have fastened the combs. 



Goldenkod. according to some, is a fine 

 honey-plant; according to others, no good. 

 Possibly Mrs. Harrison gives the explanation 

 in Prairie Farmer, where she says: "Where 



