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Vol. XX. 



NOV. 1, 1892. 



No. 21. 



57'/?y4r Straws 



FROM DR. C. C. MIUUER. 



I'm sokky for Bittcnhfiider's loss. He's a 

 roal nice fellow. 



VVii.i. AX ESf APK make quicker work in day 

 time or at night? 



Gkaping honey is a coming topic for discus- 

 i^ion in Britisli Bcc Journal. 



Commission mkx. this year, are sending out. 

 offering to buy honey. That tells its own story. 



(>. B. Bakkows says he doesn't know of any 

 use for a valve in a smoker. They're better in 

 theory than in practice. 



And now the Americnn Bee Jonrnal has 



stray 



I don't 

 going 

 But 



gone to calling names— calls me a 

 strawer." Et tu. Brute? 



Harp coax, is in botli of my cellars. 

 propose to repeat the experiment of 

 tlirough another winter without fire, 

 wish i had a warm<'r cellar. 



Henhv Alley sounds a warning against in- 

 troducing (jueens that produce five - banded 

 bees. He says, "As surely as you do it, your 

 apiaries will be ruined, and you will soon give 

 up keeping.bees. in disgust." 



"The old reliable ■' Avu:riv<in Bee Jour- 

 nul has washed its face, combed its hair, and 

 put on a spick and span new holiday suit which 

 it means to wear 52 times in the year. It's 

 really gotten up in delightful manner. 



NoN- smokers, in the last graduating class in 

 Amherst College, have gained in weight 24 per 

 cent, over the smokers: in height, 37 per cent; 

 in chest girth, 42 per cent; and in lung capac- 

 ity. 8j',;i, cubic incnes. — Medical Newfi. 



(riRDLi.N(v grapevines makes them bear young- 

 er, makes larger fruit, but are you sure it makes 

 -■■finer" fruit, friend (Jreen "(p. 770)? Girdled 

 grapes that I have seen were finer in appear- 

 ance, but decidedly inffrior in quality. 



Huc-ouGiL even the worst cases, says Medical 

 and Siinjical .Tonriail. can be cured by a tea- 

 spoonful of pulverized sugar wet with an equal 

 quantity of wine vinegar, taken at one dose. I 

 suppose honey vinegar would do just as well. 



Some fruits, apples, berries, etc., whilst of 

 tine quality, are such poor bearers that they 

 are not worth raising. Isn't it so with lindcuis? 

 and if we're to cultivat< them, may we not just 

 as w(!ll have the best? I've noticed a big dif- 

 ference in their productiveness. 



E. F. <iuiGLEY says the cause of swarming is 

 nature. Well, if that's all I guess we can man- 

 age it. It's nature to laise lots of drones, but 

 we stop that by cutting out drone comb. Xow 



tell us, Bro. Quigley. " what in nater'' is the 

 particular thing that makes the swarming, and 

 we'll fix 'euL 



Augite stove-mat, page 784. No wonder it 

 won't burn with such a name as that. But my 

 wife says it's just the thing she needs; so send 

 your wagon around with one, friend Root. If 

 the wagon's too busy, send a boy, or a man- 

 Uncle Sam, for instance. 



Prof. Cook, in a stirring article in American 

 Bee Jouniaf, is very positive that some of the 

 $750,000 annually appropriated for agricultural 

 research should be used directly in the interest 

 of bee-keepers. But bee-keepers are too mod- 

 est to clamor for their rights. 



Bee-escapes don't always work alike. We 

 read how nice it is to put them on at night and 

 find the bees all down by morning, but I put 

 one over a strong colony, and the bees were not 

 all below the escape till the end of a week. 

 That was in the first part of October. 



Those raspberries that are ever-bearing. 

 Don't pin too much faith on them. I've had 

 them. They'll give a nice crop once in a while 

 (they always bear on the new shoots), but 

 again they'll do nothing for a long time— alto- 

 gether too cranky. I'll be surprised, friend 

 Root, if you give them ground room three years 

 from now. 



I've been laid up with a lame back. To 

 turn over in bed was exquisite torture. I've 

 enjoyed it— enjoyed the thought that so little 

 of my life I've been unable to get around, and 

 the thought that I have such kind friends when 

 I can't take care of myself. I might have for- 

 gotten it but for this little spell. I'm nearly 

 myself again. 



The new celeky culture. You know what 

 it is. No banking up 'to bleach. Well, you 

 ought to see my bed. Got the plants from Me- 

 dina. Of cour.s(>, the plants were more or less 

 green when I got them, but in two weeks there 

 wasn't a green spot on the bed— nor a white 

 spot either. Grasshopi)ers cleaned it to the 

 ground. -Saved ^me lots of watering and ma- 

 nuring. 



TitAr KLAP-.iAcK ACT. |). 768, "is a dangerous 

 affair. If Bro. Wilder misses: thaf^flap-jack as 

 it comes down he'll make a desperate effort to 

 recovei' it; his jaws will come together with a 

 snap, and his tongu(! will be a good deal short- 

 er. Pull down your trousers legs, comb your 

 hair, and look u[) a wife, Bro. Wilder, to turn 

 your flap-jacks in the orthodox way. If for 

 nothing else, do it as an example Jor Rambler. 



Does freezinc; hurt comb honey? Generally 

 speaking, yes, very decidedly— cracks, granu- 

 lates, leaks— in fact, frozen comb honey is gen- 

 erally ruined as a first-class article. But not 

 always. I knew two cases, one in Illinois, one 



