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Vol. XXV. 



APR. 15, 1897. 



No. 8 



r The subsoil plow that costs least money of 

 any I know about is sweet clover. 



I WONDER if a thin section is not likely to be 

 raore uniform in weight than a thick one. 

 [Yes, sir!— Ed.] 



J. M. Hicks says that, 40 years ago, there 

 were in Indiana .50 colonies of bees for every 

 one now.— American Bee Journal. 



J. E. Fowler says, page 241, he intends to 

 cut starters full size of the", section, and fasten 

 top and bottom. Better try it first on a small 

 scale, friend Fowler, for I think they'll buckle 

 badly, and the thinner the worse. [Yes, in- 

 deed.— Ed.] 



A 1%IN. SECTION weighs how much? 16 oz., 

 when well filled, p. 231; lliojoz. ten pages later. 

 The next man will give a different weight, and 

 Aikin and Moll will give a different weight 

 another year. □ You mav as well give up first as 

 last that there is no uniform loeightofor a sec- 

 tion of a given size. 



"Some of the very people who at one time 

 condemned footnotes to articles by the editor 

 are now asking for them. . . . There will be 

 more footnotes in future." — Canadian Bee 

 Journal, Editorial. [I am sure our readers 

 would almost unanimously vote for the foot- 

 notes. If for any reason, through a crowd of 

 work on the psirt of the editor, they are left off, 

 I hear from it.— Ed.] 



Foul brood. Col. Whipple reports as en- 

 tirely successful afoul-brood cure he found in 

 "Straws." Equal parts thoroughly mixed of 

 pure carbolic acid and common'pine tar; put 

 two tabiespoonfuls into a shallow tin box, with 

 perforated cover under the brood-frames, and 

 renew in three months if not cured.— Proceed- 

 ings Colorado State ConventionHn American 

 Bee Journal. [See answer toaC. Davenport.— 

 Ed.] 



Here's my postal on J- that sweet clover 

 question, page 255. I've seen lots of sweet 

 clover growing along the roadside where horses 

 and cattle were allowed to feed, and it contin- 

 ued in health, but was never permitted to grow 

 tall. And I've seen a few stalks in a pasture 

 that werejallowed to grow undisturbed, but I 

 think it might have been different if there had 

 been more of it so the stock would have learned 

 to eat it. • 



" A 43^x4)^ section in the flat is 17 inches 

 long," says R. C. Aikin, p. 232. I got caught on 

 that too. I know it figures 17, but it measures 

 -^ or >a less. Take your rule and see. [That is 

 true; but I suspect that the majority of people 

 do not know that there is this difference. It 

 has to be less than 17 inches, or the section 

 would be a trifle more than 43^ when folded. 

 The reason is, the fold at the V Is not a sharp 

 right angle.— Ed.] 



Your figures on page 232 must be amended, 

 friend Aikin. You've taken off H in. for thick- 

 ness of wood, but you must take off also Ja in. 

 from thickness of honey for two bee-spaces. " A 

 3Kx5xl% has just a trifle more capacity in 

 cubic inches than a i^xiH^'^K," but it will hold 

 about }h in. less honey, if I4 in. is the bee-space. 

 A 4x4x2 section contains just twice as many 

 cubic inches as one 4x4x1, but^it will contain 

 just three times as much honey. 



R. C. Aikin is perhaps nearer right than the 

 editor in thinking there's lots of cheating with 

 light- weight sections; but he's wrong in think- 

 ing I produce only full weights. Of late I 

 rather favor their being so light that the custom- 

 er can't be fooled into thinking they weigh a 

 pound each. [I am not going to say any thing 

 more about light-weight sections; for somehow 

 the more I say about them the more I am mis- 

 understood. I suspect that, if we could get to- 

 gether and " argufy" for a while, we should find 

 that we are pretty much all of a mind.— Ed.] 



Doolittle, in American Bee Journal, is 

 rather down on outside diagnosis. He quotes 

 one of the outside-diagnosers who talks of 

 going out every day during early spring, in cold 



