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Vol. XXV. 



JUNE I, 1897. 



No. II 



The Pacific Bee Journal reports good pros- 

 pects in California. Glad of it. Some nice peo- 

 ple there. 



Bokhara clover probably is not so called 

 because the seed is hulled, but because it comes 

 from Bokhara, in Asia. 



Bottom boarus painted with heated coal- 

 tar 27 years ago are good yet, says C. P. Dadant, 

 in American Bee Journal. 



Replying, Mr. Editor, to your remark, page 

 361, the extra-thin foundation that didn't suit 

 me was several years ago, ^0 of course it was 

 old process. 



Editor York thinks there is a possibility 

 that, in the near future, bee-keepers might do 

 well to co-operate with the American Fruit- 

 growers' Union in effecting sales of honey. 



Took first honey of the season May 8. 

 Didn't extract— just shook three combs, getting 

 two pounds of thin dandelion honey— light, 

 with a very pronounced flavor; liked by some, 

 disliked by others. 



R. C. AiKiN is heterodox when he says of 

 hive-escapps, " They will not do the work rap- 

 idly enough;" but some others of us can't wait 

 for them at out-apiaries, and don't like to offer 

 a premium to thieves by leaving them on over 

 night." 



Trees barked by rabbits can be saved, says 

 Fred Grundy, in Epitoniist, by splitting open 

 a drain-tile, wiring the two parts together 

 around the tree, then filling up the space with 

 earth. Why not prevent the gnawing in the 

 same way ? 



Le Progres Apicole says the British Bee- 

 keeper's Guide Book has reached its thirty 

 thousandth copy, and that no other apicultu- 

 ral work has reached so large a circulation. 



Mais,mon cher Progres, Root's ABC has about 

 doubled that. 



The more stores a colony has in winter, the 

 le's it consumes; for honey is a splendid ther- 

 mic regulator, making the bees suffer less from 

 sudden changes of temperature, so consuming 

 less. — Dr. L. Latinne, in Progres Apicole. 

 [There may be something in this. — Ed.] 



C. C. Parsons, in American Bee Journal, 

 says that, after a trial of seven years, he has 

 never had a swarm desert its hive, no matter 

 what the shade or ventilation, if he put mto 

 the middle of the hive an empty comb, filling 

 out with frames of foundation or starters. 



What you say, p. 371, Mr. Editor, reminds 

 me. Years ago a citizen of Marengo called my 

 attention to some shade-trees four feet high In 

 his yard that he had just got from the nursery. 

 They were lindens, and he had cut down some 

 big basswoods to make room for them. Actual 

 f ac o ! 



Watering bees. Take a common stone 

 crock; cut a board }4 inch smaller than the 

 diameter of the crock, then bore several % holes 

 in it, and fill each hole with a wick. Put more 

 boards under it when water-soaked, so as to 

 keep it a little above water level.— Michael 

 Haas, in American Bee Journal. 



Hit 'em again, friend A. I. (p. 387). The idea 

 that a number of sensible people can not meet 

 socially of an evening without eating some- 

 thing unseasonably is an absurdity worthy of 

 the dark ages. But, sayl You just report to 

 us when you have a gathering of that kind at 

 your house without feeding them. Dassent! 



I'm not dieting now— I'm eating. I never 

 had so much fun in my life eating apples. 

 Three for breakfast, three for dinner. When I 

 don't eat three I eat four or five. Before the 

 beef diet, half an apple was too much for me, 

 [Yes, indeed; the beef diet, after one has been 

 on it for a year, puts him in much better condi- 

 tion to eat articles of food that formerly were 

 almost poisonous.— Ed.] 



