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Vol. XXV. 



JAN. I, 1897. 



No. 



Isn't five dollars a pretty high price to 

 figure for a swarm of bees without any hive, as 

 H. S. Jones reckons on page 892 ? 



L. A. AspiNWALL measured many queen- cells 

 at the time the egg was laid in them, and in 

 every instance he found the measurement across 

 the mouth of the cell was the same as that of a 

 worker-cell. — Review. 



Seventy to eighty per cknt as much comb 

 as extracted is what A. ¥. Erown says he can 

 produce, and he has produced both kinds by the 

 ton. He thinks more comb honey should be 

 produced in the South.— American Bee Jour- 

 nal. 



American Bee Journal reports the case of 

 a young lady whose hands are poisoned by pro- 

 polis when scraping sections. Scraping sections 

 produces on my wife something like hay fever. 



Elias Fox, p. 890, says a swarm with a clip- 

 ped queen will invariably return to the old 

 hive " unless they are joined by another swarm 

 that lias a queen." He might add, as another ex- 

 ception, that they may enter any hive to which 

 a swarm has returned but a short time before. 



Hasty says it's to please the dealer that sec- 

 tions less than one pound are worked for, and 

 he thinks the dealer will refuse to be pleased 

 the moment the point is reached where nobody 

 will admit they are pounds. Correct. [Per- 

 haps partly; but the dear bee-keeper has some- 

 thing to do in the matter. See my answer to 

 another Straw on this subject. — Ed.] 



I agree with Elias Fox, p. 889, that " Nature 

 has forbidden " the bees to make holes in 

 grapes, the only question being how. I think, 

 by making it a physical impossibility; he, that 

 they are abstainers on moral grounds, if I un- 

 derstand him. It's a small matter anyhow. 

 We agree on the main question, that bees don t 

 make holes in grapes, and that's not a small 

 matter. 



The Northwestern Christian Advocate inter- 

 viewed officials of 19 leading railroads as to 

 drinking-employees. In every case, drinking 

 while on duty is absolutely prohibited; and 

 with the majority of roads it is clearly intimat- 

 ed that employees who wish to retain their posi- 

 tions, must refrain from the use of intoxicants 

 when off duty as well. 



E. E. Hasty, in Review, comes to the sup- 

 port of A. I. Root, and says, "And we'll settle 

 on the banks of the pleasant O-hi-o," is the 

 authentic version. Say. what business have 

 you Ohio fellows to know how we eastern peo- 

 ple sang about going west to Ohio '? But it may 

 be that when the emigrants from Pennsylvania 

 reached Ohio they couldn't express their feel- 

 ings without interpolating " pleasant." 



A. B. Anthony thinks 17 days for develop- 

 ment of a queen 35 years ago was all right, but 

 that it has been reduced to 15 now, because, 

 when the old queen leaves with a swarm, the 

 one that matures first kills the rest, so the 

 early-maturing trait has been perpetuated and 

 Intensified. But, friend A., if two days have 

 been cut off in 35 years, it must have taken 

 about 35 days for a queen to hatch in the time 

 of Columbus, and I leave you to figure what it 

 must have been in the time of Samson. 



Somnambulist — the one and only— says In 

 Progressive that he has private customers not 

 only as far as Texas and Idaho, but as far 

 north as Chicago and as far east as Ohio, and, 

 with a twinkle of defiance, he says something 

 about "next door to the Home of the Honey- 

 bee." Say, Bro. Root, can't we some way com- 

 bine forces and down that fellow Sommy before 

 he establishes regular agencies at Marengo and 

 Medina? [If he has done it already, we'll estab- 

 lish an agency at his door, to get even. But, 

 where, oh where ! Is Naptown and where is 

 Dreamland?— Ed.] 



From out the none too full ranks of our lady 

 bee-writers passed away, Nov. 21, Mrs. A. L. 

 Hallenbeck. Judged by her writings, she was 

 a woman of beautiful spirit. [Mrs. A. L. Hal- 

 lenbeck's picture appears in the group of bee- 

 keepers as they assembled at Lincoln— see No. 



