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'AND HOME. 



Vol. XXV. 



fubiishedy tmeA iI^ooY Co. 

 $ii°PER^AR. '\@ Medina-Ohio- 



OCT. 15, 1897. 



No. 20. 



' I SEE ON PAGE 709 that the president read 

 one of R. L. Taylor's papers. That makes me 

 think more of IMcKinley than ever. 



It dof:sn't seem such a j^reat many years 

 since all our previous lighting-arrangements 

 had to be thrown away to make way for some- 

 thing to burn kerosene, and now comes that 

 new light mentioned on p. 713 to knock ker- 

 osene out. 



\V.A.NTED ! A plan to get a colony of bees 

 to empty the honey out of a super without al- 

 lowing bees of other colonies to touch it. 

 [While you are putting in your specifications, 

 doctor, plea.se add that those same bees must 

 put it in the brood-nest below. — Ed.] 



You s.\Y, Mr. Editor, that I haven't told 

 you whether I had a good honey year. I've 

 been so busy taking care of the crop I haven't 

 had time to tell you. But it's been a grand 

 season. Tell you more about it later. [Good ! 

 I feel like throwing up my hat. — Ed.] 



White Dutch clover is pretty much the 

 same thing as white clover, according to A. I. 

 Root, p. 706. Friend Root, may be you'd be 

 willing to oblige an old friend by dropping 

 out that "pretty much," or else telling the 

 difference between white and white Dutch. 

 [I do not believe "A. I. R." can. To my 

 eyes they look exactly alike. " Prett}' much, ' ' 

 I suppose, slipped in accidentally. — Ed.] 



Friend A. I. Root, you touched on one of 

 the crying evils of the' day, p. 715. Tipping 

 is a kind of stealing that takes the manhoocl 

 out of the recipient, but after all isn't the 

 fault with the tipper ? If all had the back- 

 bone you had, and stood out again.st it, the 

 practice would soon be stopped. But one is 

 all broken up over deciding what's the right 

 thing to do on a Pullman sleeper, when one 

 knows the poor porter will starve if one doesn't 

 tip him. 



Use for propolis. A California writer in 

 American Bee Journal says he saves up clean 

 propolis, and always has a ball of it on hand. 

 When about to hive a swarm, he rubs the in- 



side of the hive vigorously with the propolis 

 for a minute immediately before hiving the 

 bees, and has not lost a swarm for many years. 

 [It is possible that propolis may give a hive 

 somewhat of a homelike smell; but I should 

 reallv expect moonshine to have just as much 

 effect.— Ed.] 



Why are freaks with eyes of different 

 colors found only among drones, and not 

 among queens and workers? [We know that 

 the males in the bird kingdom are usually- 

 more highly colored and in oth?r ways hand- 

 somer than the females. In tha case of the 

 birds we would suppose that the high colors 

 w-ere intended to attract the attention of their 

 more somber-colored sisters; but it would be 

 a pretty big stretch of fancy to make a like 

 comparison in the case of drones and queens. 

 I give it up. — Ed.] 



S.\Y, Ernest, wouldn't you like to see the 

 finest show of horses ever gotten together? 

 That's what's expected to be at Chicago at 

 the time of the Nortliwestern bee convention. 

 Now, what more can I say to coax you to be 

 on hand Nov. 10, 11 ? Plenty of beefsteak too. 

 [You will have to trot out something better 

 than horses to get me to come. I used to be 

 quite a horse-crank; but the bicycle has com- 

 pletely supplanted the horse in my affection. 

 Beefsteak — well, yes. That is appetizing. 

 Well, what else have you to attract a Buckeye 

 chap just like me? — Ed.] 



"Bee Crank " says, in Southland Queen, 

 that he saves money by using extra-thin foun- 

 dation in brood-frames. Fasten the founda- 

 tion in frames, hang two or three frames in 

 rather light colonies that are building comb, 

 and as soon as they draw out the foundation 

 it is safe to hive swarms on. [I .should not be 

 surpri.sed if Bee Crank were right; but the 

 handling of those frames, putting them into 

 and taking them out of light colonies for the 

 sake of getting the bees to fasten and stiffen 

 the foundation, would be a great deal of extra 

 work; and if time is worth any thing, brood 

 foundation at a slight additional cost would 

 be cheaper in the end. — Ed.] 



" PERH.A.PS if an experiment station could 

 take hold of it, something might be done." — 

 Editor, p. 6g^. You're with Prof. Cook in 

 thinking no one but some scientific fellow can 

 breed for improveinent. Did the experiment 



