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Vol. XXV. 



FEB. 15, 1897. 



iNo. 4 



Try honey in your hot drinks. Costs more, 

 but it's more wholesome. I use it in coffee. 



I don't know whether I can fully answer F. 

 Greiner's question why bees gnaw the cappings 

 of sections in one case and not in another; but 

 I know one thing that probably he knows, that 

 blood makes a big diflFerence. Black bees are 

 ever so much worse than Italians. 



W. K. Morrison is one of the men who have 

 faith in Apis dorsata; but he believes in com- 

 mon sense, and says, in American Bee Journal, 

 "Many will agree with Dr. Miller when he 

 suggests that those who go after new races try 

 them on their own ground, for it is common 

 sense." 



For permanency of honey sales, give more 

 attention to consumption of honey by children. 

 It's said you can't make honey a staple — people 

 tire of it. I doubt if that's true as applied to 

 children. Let them have it constantly ad 

 libUum from childhood, and they never seem 

 to tire of it— at least some of them. 



T. P. Andrews says I've omitted from the 

 list of defunct bee- journals The Bee-lieepers' 

 Journal, published by H. A. King & Co.. from 

 about 1870 to 1873, when the Bee-keepers' Maga- 

 zine took its place. Practically it was only a 

 change in name, but it should add about three 

 years to the life-lease of the Magazine. 



That BIG CAVE of bees with tons of honey 

 has again been discovered, with a stream of 

 bees like a tar rope two feet in diameter. This 

 time it's in the mountains of Pennsylvania, 

 and the only way to get at it is to blow up the 

 mountain side with dynamite. The truthful 

 narrator in the present case is the Philadelphia 

 Times. 



If F. L. Thomps6n will look far enough back 

 on his tiles, I think he'll find that I told the 

 very thing he asks for, on p. 81. I've sent hon- 

 ey in a trunk to his State, done up in a paper 



just like sugar. Simply turn the crock or bar- 

 rel of honey on its side and let it drain days 

 enough. But it won't work with all kinds of 

 honey. 



Friend Getaz, I'm not so sure that your 

 theory, p. 89, that old queens encourage paral- 

 ysis, is correct. I'm a honey-producer, and 

 have had lots of old queens and many cases of 

 paralysis, but it never amounted to any thing 

 except in one case. Did you ever hear of its 

 being bad in the North? Ifs you southern 

 fellows that catch it. 



If half the effort that has been expended 

 in securing additional yellow bands had been 

 made to secure longer tongues, it is possible 

 that we might be now selling crops of red-clover 

 honey. [I am glad to see that the craze for 

 yellow bands has very perceptibly declined. 

 Perhaps we can now begin to turn our thoughts 

 toward securing bees for business.— Ed.] 



Honey-caramels may be the thing, friend 

 Thompson, that you are groping after on p. 82. 

 Thoy cost less than capsules, and are not so 

 suggestive of medicine. [Dr. Miller sent us a 

 sample of honey-caramels that were just deli- 

 cious I believe the recipe originated in his own 

 family; at all events, it is given in the honey- 

 leaflet now for sale, and mentioned in another 

 column.— Ed.] 



Tall sections require more foundation to 

 fill them, says C. Davenport, p. 85. With the 

 same thickness of comb, I don't see why an ob- 

 long section should take any more foundation 

 than a square one of the same weight. [With 

 the same thickness of comb, no more foun- 

 dation would be required; but the tall sections 

 contemplate thinner combs, and, of course, that 

 would mean more foundation.— Ed.] 



If buckwheat honey has twice as much 

 formic acid as clover, then foul brood ought 

 not to be so bad with buckwheat. Wonder if 

 there's any difference in fact. [If formic acid 

 is soing to do any thing toward curing or keep- 

 ing down foul brood, there will, perhaps, be less 

 of that disease where there are large quantities 

 of buckwheat honey produced. But why should 



