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Vol. XXV. 



JUNE 15, 1897. 



No. 12, 



Yellow sweet clover blooms about two 

 weeks before white sweet clover, according to 

 J. L. Gandy, in A. B. J. 



Gargle for sore throat.— Salicylic acid and 

 borax, one-half drachm each; honey, one 

 ounce; water, eight ounces. 



To TAKE GREASE out of cloth.— Take S parts 

 alcohol, G parts honey. 5 parts soap, 5 parts wa- 

 ter. Wet the cloth with this solution and rub 

 lively. Keep the mixture well corked.— J/ode 

 Franeai.se. 



While it's tkite that stoves may have done 

 more harm than good in ben-cellars, it needn't 

 be so. You can do mischief with almost any 

 good thing by using it wrongly. But an oil- 

 stove isn't a good thing. 



"Inside furniture "is all right for what 

 the hive contains before bees have ever occu- 

 pied it, but I think what E. Wilkin wants is a 

 term to include bees. comb, and brood. ["What 

 does R. Wilkin want another term for?— Eb.] 



"Would you use sections with foundation 

 put in thern two years ago?" is asked in yl. B.J. 

 Of the 23 repliers, only three say no. Several 

 advise warming in^sun befor e using. I wonder 

 if they won't be warmed by the bees suffi- 

 ciently. 



In the statement, quoted p. 423, that " the 

 nectar gathered by the bee is a secretion in 

 which we may expect to find the essential vir- 

 tues of the plant from which it is obtained," I 

 wonder if imagination has not been allowed 

 considerable play. 



Another drawback to the plan of fastening 

 queens in hives that A. Getaz might have add- 

 ed, p. 413, is that sometimes, after they have 

 swarmed times enough, several swarms will 

 settle on a tree together, and sulk all day. I 

 think they'll do it without a queen. 



An editorial in A. B. J. shows a strong 

 leaning on the part of the editor toward the 

 view that every beginner in bee-keeping 

 should have a text- book. If I couldn't have 

 both a bee- book and a bee- journal I'd get the 

 book first, and then pawn my watch for a jour- 

 nal. 



"Don't try to go too fast into bee-keeping. 

 Better grow into it," says Editor York. Sound 

 advice. [That is true; but many a man does 

 not believe it in actual practice; or if he does, 

 he shut his eyes and jumps— all the more reason 

 why such folks should be made to open their 

 eyes.— Ed. 



Prof. Cook thinks the old_ Union ought to 

 make a big fight against adulteration in Cali- 

 fornia. He says, in A. B. J., "The Union has 

 got to do thi.s, or something akin to it, or 

 else it will be dissolved and possibly merged 

 into the other organization." [Prof. Cook is 

 right.— Ed.] 



For years I've kept my bees in two cellars. 

 I thought they had better air than in one. But 

 it's less trouble to haye all in one cellar, so last 

 winter I put all together; wintered splendidly, 

 and had fire only once, just for five days. I 

 think G. C. Greiner is right in wanting a cool 

 cellar filled up. [A good point. Those who 

 cellar their bees next year would do well to 

 bear it in mind.— Ed.] 



Doolittle, p. 414, has given an unusually 

 full collection of plans for managing after- 

 swarms, and he might have added two others. 

 Except for the trouble, there's no better way 

 than the old box-hive plan of returning the 

 swarm as often as it issues. One of the best 

 plans is to hive the swarm on the old stand; 

 set the parent colony beside it, then set the 

 parent on the new stand a week later. 



A COMMON OPINION scems to be that, when 

 you take away a queen, the bees in their eager- 

 ness to replace her make use of larvae so old 

 that a good queen can not result. I'm skeptic- 

 al. In hundreds of cases that I have observed, 

 the queen rarely emerges before the eleventh 



