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Vol. XXV. 



JULY I. i8{)7 



No. 13 



When nights are so hot one can't sleep, 

 bees seem to get in their best work. 



What size should starters be in sections? is 

 asked in American Bee Journal. Three of the 

 21 repliers want small starters, the rest full 

 sheets. 



I'm rather gi.ad friend Thompson's figures 

 , as to economy of making one's own foundation 

 are countered on page 446. I'd rather not 

 believe it's cheaper to make my own founda- 

 tion. Don't want the bother and worry of it. 



Never before, I think, were railroad rates 

 so low to a big bee convention as to the Buffalo 

 convention, Aug. 24—26. As attendance is gen- 

 erally in proportion to cheapness of travel, this 

 ought to be the biggest convention we have 

 ever had. 



F. L. Thompson is right, page 445, in think- 

 ing you can'tdrain the liquid partfrom all kinds 

 of granulated honey. It's only that with 

 coarse grains, and T. F. Bingham thinks it can 

 be done in no case with properly ripened honey. 

 Possibly that's true. 



June 9, No. 156 was unqueened. June 15 it 

 had an egg in a queen-cell. Where did that 

 egg come from? Had it remained there 6 days 

 without hatching? or was it the product of an 

 aspiring worker? I incline to the latter view — 

 have had several such cases. 



When you had such a tough time with that 

 swarm, Ernest, p. 4.58, didn't it meander along 

 your backbone that it might have been better to 

 have had the queen clipped? [Yes, if we were 

 not selling queens right along we would clip 

 all our queens after they were laying. See 

 editorials; also Doolittle's article.— Ed. J 



N. E. France, the Wisconsin Foul-brood In- 

 spector, writes American Bee Journal, " I find 

 many Wisconsin bee-keepers who did not know 



their bees were diseased, and nearly every case 

 is where they do not take a bee-paper." May 

 be one section of a foul-brood law ought to 

 compel every bee keeper to take a bee-journal. 



It is possible that the Monnier treatment 

 for paralysis, page 447, had nothing to do with 

 the cure. It is also possible that it had every 

 thing to do with it, and it is so easily tried that 

 many ought to report as to its efficacy within 

 the next two months. Won't some of you par- 

 alytics, for the general good, try it, and prompt- 

 ly report success or failure ? 



In reply to your question, p. 441, Mr. Editor, 

 R. Wilkin wants a term that in one word com- 

 prehends the hive with its contents— bees, 

 combs, and all. What word have we now for 

 that? [There is no term covering such an 

 idea. Perhaps " stock " would come the near- 

 est to it. This term is sometimes used in the 

 sense above described, and sometimes applying 

 in a sense to the bees only. — Ed.] 



The few lindens to be found here are doing 

 better than your Medina trees. Most of them 

 are loaded with blossom-buds. [I hope your 

 basswoods may more fairly represent those over 

 the country generally. It would be worth much, 

 if we could know the probable prospects from 

 basswood over the country. If no bloom is to 

 be expected, then this will have a tendency to 

 stiffen prices a little on white clover. — Ed.] 



It looks .strange to see supers nearly filled 

 with honey, and no sealed honey in the brood- 

 frames; but that's common this year. Strong 

 colonies and a sudden flow of great abundance. 

 [We do not find that condition here at Medina. 

 I suspect the reason is, that our home apiary is 

 overstocked. We are this week starting an out- 

 apiary to give some relief to the home yard. 

 Later.— Yard is located. Bees at the out-yard 

 are doing better than at the home yard.— Ed.] 



An unusual feature of swarming this year 

 is the very little preparation made in advance. 

 The old rule, that the swarm issues when the 

 first cell is sealed, is utterly ignored, and in 

 most cases queen-cells have only eggs. It may 



