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No. 3 



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A CORRESPONDENT wants a recipe for curing 

 pork Willi honey. Who knows how ? 



Editor York says that, as nearly as he can 

 discover, there were 1,200,000 pounds of honey 

 put on the Chicago market last year. 



The Progressive Bee-heeper now flings at its 

 mast-head the name of G. M. Doolittle as one 

 of its editors. If that isn't progressive, I don't 

 know what is. 



That's a shabby trick played on the read- 

 ers of Gleanings by Walter S. Ponder, p. 67. 

 He says, "See that wink?" and as long as I 

 watched that girl she never winked once. 



The Roval Agricultural show, to be held 

 at Manchester next June, is beginning to stir 

 British bee-keepers. A large number of prizes 

 are offered to bee-keepers, ranging from $1.2.5 

 to $75.00. 



It's all bight to encourage the invention of 

 new hives and new appliances, but at the same 

 time it's a kindness to say to every oeginner 

 who has kept bees only one season, " Don't in- 

 vent a hive just yet." 



This WINTER is a bad one for me in one re- 

 spect. I have 10 colonies wintering outdoors as 

 an experiment, and the winter is so mild up to 

 the middle of January that hardly any colony 

 would be fool enough to die on its summer stand. 



Editor Theodor Weippl, after quite a dis- 

 cussion in Bienen-Vater as to the standing of 

 the swallow, gives his verdict against it as an 

 enemy of bees. On cloudy, rainy days its fre- 

 quent visits to the hives mean death to some of 

 the workers. 



HONEY-AND TAR COUGH - CURE. Put into 



boiling water a shallow tin dish containing a 

 tablespoonful of tar. When the lar is hot, add 

 a pint of extracted honey, and stir well for half 

 an hour, adding to it a level teaspoonful of 

 pulverized borax. Keep in a bottle well corked. 

 Dose, a teaspoonful every 1, 3, or 3 hours, ac- 



cording to severity of cough.— Dr. Peiro, in 

 American Bee Journal. 



P. ScHACHiNGER estimates i^hat, when a col- 

 ony of 20,000 bees stores a pound of honey a day, 

 a colony of 40,000 will store 4 pounds. Twice 

 as many bees, four times as much honey. [I 

 believe that most of our American bee-keepers 

 would consider this as a fair ratio.— Ed.] 



Very decidedly a package of honey to re- 

 lail at a dime is a good thing, provided we can 

 get the bees to store as much honey in such 

 light sections. For some time I've been advo- 

 cating a section so light that it will be impos- 

 sible for a dishonest grocer to sell it for a full 

 pound. [See answer to another Straw on this 

 subject.— Ed.] 



Editor Vogel says the bee -larva is fed 12 

 times in 24 hours, or once every 2 hours. If 

 there is never any superfluous food in a worker- 

 cell, it seems a pretty safe deduction that 

 worker brood can not be kept away from the 

 bees longer than 3 hours without injury. In- 

 deed, a much shorter time might hurt; for the 

 2 hours of some of the little chaps might be up 

 just about the time of removal from the hive. 



The San Antonio Express reports that "ex- 

 periments made with smallpox patients in 

 Oaxaca, Mexico, show that, by administering 

 honey diluted in water to smallpox patients, the 

 pustules of the worst variety disappear, and 

 the fever is immediately diminished." If that 

 isn't a newspaper yarn it's worth knowing. [I 

 saw this item, but jumped to the conclusion 

 that it was a newspaper yarn, without any 

 real foundation. If any of our subscribers can 

 enlighten us, I should be glad to have them do 

 so.— Ed.] 



The American Bee Journal starts out with 

 the new year by turning over a new leaf in the 

 way of reform. When "ed" has the sound of 

 "t"in the past tense and participle, "t" is 

 printed. Progressive also talks about dipt and 

 uncUpt queens. Any movement to help our 

 abominable spelling ought to be hailed with 

 delight; but at first a good many will not be 

 " shockt." [Yes, it certainly Is a move in the 

 able to meet the new spelling without being 



