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Vol. XXVI. 



JAN. I, 1898. 



No. 



A WRITER in British Bee Journal objects 

 to calling a virgin qneen a princess ; says it is 

 a misnomer, and although credited to England 

 is seldom used there. 



R. C. AiKiN is an interesting and instruct- 

 ive v.'riter about bees, and I'll be glad when 

 he gets through with irrigation, rivers, alkali, 

 and things, and gets down to bee-talk. 



" Mr. SuppIvY-dealer, shuffle ofif the inset 

 section," is the advice of vSomnambulist, in 

 Progressive, after considering the no-bee-way 

 section. [That is just what The A. I. Root 

 Co. is doing just as fast as it can. — Ed.] 



Speaking of pumpkins, A. I. Root says, 

 p. 89.1, " I have, during the past two or three 

 months, paid o cts. apiece for every load that 

 I have seen brought into our town." They're 

 higher here. $1.00 to %;2. 00 a load is the low- 

 est. 



R. C. AiKiN has commenced in Progressive 

 what promises to be a serial autobiography, so 

 far as his apistical experience and experiments 

 go. It ought to be interesting, for, whatever 

 else R. C. may do or not do, he's not given to 

 staying in r.uts. 



About 12 kilograms (20.4 lbs.) is what 

 Th. Weippl, editor Vienna Bienen- 1 'ater, con- 

 siders a proper allowance of winter stores for 

 a colony from Oct. 1 to May 1. It may get 

 through with less, but this will so hinder de- 

 velopment that the saving will cost heavily in 

 the next crop. 



Seeing the picture of the junior Cogg- 

 shall, p. 880, reminds me. At Buffalo I no- 

 ticed his father introduced the boy to stran- 

 gers just as if he had been a man. I liked W. 

 I/, before, but I liked him a good deal better 

 after that. I don't believe boys were made 

 merely to be snubbed. 



Forty acres of buckwheat three miles 

 away from W. Z. Hutchinson bloomed two or 

 three weeks early, and his bees stored very 

 slowly. Then buckwheat close by bloomed, 

 and combs were filled with a rush. He thinks 

 distance made the difference. But buckwheat 



doesn't always yield, W. Z., and will it jdeld 

 ahead of its usual season ? 



Hutchinson put his bees in cellar Nov. 22. 

 My 295 were put in on that and the two fol- 

 lowing days. Michigan and Illinois weather 

 not so far apart. I had zero weather within a 

 week. Hutchinson brought home two colo- 

 nies from two miles out in the country, and 

 put them in cellar without a fly. If those two 

 come through as well as the rest, I'm no good 

 guesser. 



I'm sorry to see you hint, Bro. A. I., p. 

 898, that family worship and blessing at table 

 are going out of fashion. Some old fashions 

 are hard to improve. Here's an old Scotch 

 grace that's good: 



Some hae meat and cinna eat, 

 And some hae naiie and want it: 



But we hae meat and we can eat. 

 And sae the Lord be thankit. 



No-BEE-WAY sections Can be made by 

 using the usual inset section with plain sepa- 

 rator, says S. Brautigam, in Progressive. 

 Make a kerf j'p or ^\ deep, say ],i inch from 

 the edge on the outside of the section, then 

 split off with a knife when the section is filled. 

 Would do, but would take extra time just 

 when one is most hurried, and wouldn't be a 

 very smooth job. 



W. F. Marks makes a good nomination, p. 

 89;-!; but, Bro. Marks, why didn't you nomi- 

 nate before? The ballots were cast before 

 your nomination saw the light. Now, if you'll 

 start the thing next October, and nominate 

 an entirely new set of directors, I'll help you 

 all I can. [It was a little late, it is true; but 

 Gleanings was out before my ballot was 

 cast, and I hoped it might catch most of the 

 other members. — Ed.] 



Many seem to get Weed process and drawn 

 foundation mixed. The British Bee Journal 

 speaks of bee-keepers being much interested 

 in " the new drawn-out ' Weed ' foundation." 

 If I understand correctly, the Weed process 

 means the manner of sheeting, and after 

 sheeted it may be made into drawn foundation 

 or not. Drawn foundation is that with deep 

 cells, whether the Weed process of sheeting 

 has been used or not. 1 s that straight ? [You 

 are orthodox, doctor, on this print, even if 

 you are not on the question of selling sections 

 for less than a pound in weight. — Ed.] 



