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Vol. XXV. 



SEPT. 15, 1897. 



No. 18. 



A BY-I.AW of the Central Texas Association 

 reads, "All white persons interested in apicul- 

 ture are eligible to membership in this Associ- 

 ation." 



P'ouR APIARIES are reported in Aiiiericaii 

 Bee Journal by Prof. Cook, aggregating 1535 

 colonies, and yielding 90 tons — an average of 

 117 lbs. a colony. 



Sweet-clover ointment. "A handful of 

 sweet-clover leaA-es fried in about half a tea- 

 cupful of fresh lard or hen's oil." — ■I\Irs. Laiii- 

 l>ri^;ger, in Amcriean Ilee Journal. 



Apis dorsata was discussed at Buffalo, and 

 I didn't have a chance to say a word against 

 it — was temporarily in the chair. Wonder if 

 that was a put-up job between Pres. York and 

 the dorsata men. [See editorials. — Ed.] 



The social part of the Buffalo convention 

 was probably better than any of its predeces- 

 sors. It was worth going a long way to meet 

 some of the men that were there. Some grand 

 good men are in the ranks of bee-keepers. 

 [Just so. — Ed.] 



An unprecedextkdlv heavy honey-flow is 

 given, p. (iofi, as a possible reason for excessive 

 swarming. Wouldn't it be better to substi- 

 tute " long " for "heavy " ? We are general- 

 ly told that bees swarm more in a moderate 

 than in a heavy flow. [In answer to your 

 question I would say " I don't know." — Ed.] 



F. L. Thompson, p. t)29, wants me put out 

 because I don't want the bother and worry of 

 making my own foundation. Now see here, 

 F. L., just you have that little scheme carried 

 out, and the first thing you know some other 

 fellow %\-ill want you put out because you 

 don't want the bother of making your own 

 sections. 



Returned swarms, we are told on p. 636, 

 " will swarm as often as you hive them, and 

 as long as the honey season continues." That 

 may do for a rough statement, and even for 

 an exact statement, providing the season 

 closes about two weeks after the first swarm, 

 for in two or three weeks the last young queen 



will have emerged and the swarming will be 

 over. [I meant the statement in question to 

 apply in a general way. I accept your emend- 

 ation. — Ed.] 



Earl C. Walker, p. ()'25, says that, in 

 transferring, there should not be a tight fit 

 between hive and driving-box. That agrees 

 with views held across the water, and foreign 

 journals have had pictures of transferring in 

 which the driving-box rested on the hive at 

 an angle of nearly 45°, so the queen could be 

 seen when she went up. 



Prof. Cook, p. 622, says he voted against 

 amalgamation, not because he was opposed to 

 it, but because he thought the change should 

 not be forced upon those opposed to it. If 

 others did the same way, it can easily be 

 understood that amalgamation would fail with 

 a large majority in its favor. But, saj^ pro- 

 fessor, how about forcing upon us who did 

 want the change, something we didn't want? 



Prevention of afteic-svvarms, H. W. Savage 

 says he accomplishes {American Bee Journal') 

 by hiving swarm on old stand, putting supers 

 over excluder, then setting old hive on top. 

 "The afternoon of the second day, the old 

 colony will become so depleted of bees ( if the 

 weather has been favorable) that they will 

 give up swarming any more, and will begin 

 to carry out drone brood. Then carry them 

 to a new stand." 



French bee-keepers are in the throes of 

 a discussion as to uniformitv in size of frames. 

 A frame 30 by 40 centimeters (lljg by 15^ 

 inches is likely to win; but that's inside mea- 

 sure, and it is wisely argued that there can be 

 no exact uniformity without a settled outside 

 measure. That would be something like 16.3 

 by 12.3 in., making a capacity about 28 per 

 cent larger than the Langstroth-Simplicity. 

 The British standard, 14 by 8}^, is about % as 

 large as the Simplicity. [The French are be- 

 lievers in large frames. They follow Dadant, 

 you know. — Ed.] 



Prof. Cook has been sampling with others 

 some sage honey, "and all with one accord 

 have pronounced it the best honey they have 

 ever eaten." — American Bee Journal. Addi- 

 tional proof that locality rules taste. Sage is 

 best to the Californian, clover to the Northern- 

 er, eucalyptus to the Australian. And it 



