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Vol. XXV. 



JAN. 15, 1897. 



No. 2. 



The honey-gem recipe given on page 883 

 has been tried on a small scale at our house. I 

 don't like it so well as the jumbles— too much 

 taste of molasses. 



In reply to your question, Mr. Editor, I don't 

 know of any objection to tall sections aside 

 from not fitting supers; but then, I'm not ac- 

 quainted with them. 



Buckwheat honey, as a food for bees, ac- 

 cording to Herr Thiedemann, in Central! dntt, 

 helps to prevent foul brood. I wonder if there 

 can be any thing in that 



J. B. Kellen, editor Luxemhurg Biencn- 

 zeitung. advises the use of pasteboard floors in 

 hives in winter. Handy to draw out to clean 

 the hive, without disturbance. 



The Lehigh Valley is a railroad after A. I. 

 Root's own heart. It not only prohibits the use 

 of intoxicating liquors by employees while on 

 duty, but tobacco also on passenger trains and 

 at stations, and smoking in or about the shops. 



Wood stays wouldn't stay in brood-combs 

 for R. M. Reynolds, p. 13. I reported exactly 

 the same experience. Friend Reynolds, please 

 tell us if you ever had any failure with stays 

 boiled in beeswax. With such I've had success 

 so far. But I use only one-fourth as much 

 wood as you. 



There is a connection or relation existing be- 

 tween honey and buckwheat that does not 

 occur to most people. The bees gather the 

 honey from the buckwheat blossom, and the 

 nectar is again returned to the buckwheat 

 when it is eaten in the form of cakes.— J'arm 

 Furrows, in Homestead. 



The annual output of honey in Europe is 

 given in Progres Apicole as 80,000 tons, worth 

 §11,000,000, with 15,000 tons of wax worth $0,600,- 

 000. Seems like a pretty big yield of wax, to 

 get one pound to about five of honey. [These 

 figures may be correct, but the amount of wax 



seems to be rather larger for this amount of 

 honey. See estimate of the annual product for 

 the United States at the close of this depart- 

 ment. — Ed. J 



Stop yelling about deep-cell foundation in 

 the way you do on page 6, Mr. Editor, then 

 stopping short just as we're ready for some 

 disclosure. It's aggravating. If you've got 

 scent of any thing worth while, tell. [Just 

 have (patient?), doctor. That is what a good 

 doctor has, is it not ? — Ed.] 



Honey vinegar in 14 weeks. Mr. T. W. 

 Cowan tells in British Bee Journal how he 

 makes it. Put in a cask 1}4 lbs. honey to ach 

 gallon of water; add vinous ferment or common 

 yeast; set in warm place; two months and 

 three weeks from first mixing, clarify with 

 isinglass, and in two weeks it's ready for mar- 

 ket. 



The British Bee Journal says that the idea 

 that Italians have longer tongues than blacks 

 is now considered a fable, careful measurements 

 showing no difference. [I suspect the British 

 Bee Journal is right — at least, I doubt whether 

 any living bee-keeper is any better able to 

 decide this question than its editor, Thos. Wm. 

 Cowan. — Ed.] 



Herr Guenther has found, in 50 years' ex- 

 perience, that queens fecundated late in the 

 season prove good layers, while those raised 

 and fecundated early seldom last long. [This 

 is a good point, if true. As long as there is a 

 probability of it, so much is to be gained or lost 

 that it would be a good idea for our American 

 bee-keepers to experiment, and decide the point 

 beyond a question or doubt.— Ed.] 



Pres. N. E. France, at the Wisconsin con- 

 vention, speaking of packages for extracted 

 honey, said, "Some people advocate waxing 

 the barrels to keep them from leaking; but my 

 father says wax the cooper until he can make a 

 barrel that won't leak."— ^mer. Bee Journal. 

 [Yes, I remember when I called on the Frances 

 the old gentleman was very emphatic in saying 

 that a barrel for honey did not need waxing. 

 Their honey-barrels are made in advance, and 



