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Vol. XXV. 



HAR. I, 1897. 



No. 5. 



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Earache. "A drop or two of warm honey 

 will alleviate the pain," saj's Farm Furrows, in 

 Homestead. 



I WISH friend Aikin would tell us more about 

 the quality of sweet clover if he has some he's 

 sure of. He calls it semi-white. What I have 

 seen is, I think, as white as white clover. 



If GOVERNMENT should be induced to tackle 

 Apis dorsatd, I say double the appropriation 

 and first try it fully on its own ground before 

 risking by its introduction the danger of having 

 on our hands another English sparrow. 



Honey-cured HAMS. K. H. Rhodes has them, 

 and says they are superb. Into a barrel ".; full 

 of hams under brine he pours a gallon of best 

 alfalfa honey, and after six weeks takes out and 

 smokes. Nothing hard to do in that, surely. 



Alfai.fa honey is bad about granulating, 

 says R. C. Aikin, p. 11.5. Isn't it possible that it 

 maybe different in different localities, just as it 

 is amber in some places, although generally 

 white Its very mild flavor will always recom- 

 mend it with many. 



" When there are different Jii7ids and fields 

 of bloom at the same time, bees of different col- 

 onies will be working in different fields." — R. C. 

 Aikin. p. 116. In corroboration I may say that, 

 one year, two colonies stored white honey for 

 me when all others in same apiary stored dark. 



When riding any distance on a very cold 

 day, do not fail to have plenty of wraps for the 

 knees. If convenient, place a lantern under the 

 robe, and see that it has air enough so that it 

 will not go out. You will be surprised to know 

 the amount of heat a lantern will give.— ilome- 

 stead. 



The Revue Internationale copies the article 

 of F. Greiner, in Gleanings, as to the age when 

 bees may commence field work, and remarks, 

 " While very young bees may become field work- 



ers for lack of older ones, and while old bees may 

 build combs and feed brood in the absence of 

 young bees, yet the bee-keeper does ill not to 

 take into account the natural law of the proper 

 division of labor." 



R. C. Aikin had good work in a good season 

 with only two separators in a super, but it 

 wouldn't work other years. He says. "The past 

 20 years T have been through all sorts of sea- 

 sons, from one that did not give winter stores to 

 an average of 227 pounds per colony, and I know 

 that strong colonies and full-separatored supers 

 are the things for good section honey.— Pro- 

 gresslve. 



The opinion prevailed at the late Chicago 

 convention that, when a beekeeper gets 22c 

 for comb, he can produce extracted of same 

 grade for 10, 11, or 12)^ cents. Doolittle rips 

 that to pieces in A. B. J. by saying he can get 

 only one-quarter more extracted than combo/ 

 same grade; for to be of same grade it must be 

 all sealed, so he must have 17.6 cents for the 

 extracted. 



"A Reader" springs the question in Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal whether with Apis dorsata we 

 should not be helpless against production of 

 drones with worker and drone-cells all the same 

 size. He says, " We have just been priding our- 

 selves that we had overcome that drone busi- 

 ness by the use of full sheets of foundation. 

 Now we don't want to fall clear downstairs af- 

 ter climbing so high.'-' 



SoMNAjrBULiST says in Progressive, "Had 

 you noticed that Dr. Miller unwarily but open- 

 ly declared that 'all his experience lay in a 

 jug?' Here's a job for A. I. R." Sommy keeps 

 clear of the law by not saying that something 

 stronger than vinegar was in the jug; but you 

 can see the spirit in him, no matter what may 

 have been in ihe jug. I don'tget that jug to sour 

 very rapidly, but I've soured on you, Sommy. 



Mr. Editor, you seem to have the impression 

 that the nails I use for end-spacing are driven 

 diagonally. I hardly see how an exact job can 

 be made in that way. If you look close you'll 

 see that they are driven in perpendicularly 



