Tubhshedy t>ieT\i1^ooY Co. 

 FERVtAR "X® "Medina-Ohio- 



Vol. XXVI. 



APR. 15, 1898. 



No. 8. 



Refined sugar is not so good as honey for 

 spring feeding, says J. B. Hall, Catiadian Bee 

 Journal^ and West India sugar is better than 

 either. Now, what's West India sugar? 



Don't spring any more new things on us, 

 Mr. Editor, till we have time to recover 

 breath ; 18-foot foundation ! Whew ! When 

 will you have 9-ft. brood foundation ? [In 

 about a month, perhaps. — Ed.] 



An item of prime importance with me in 

 carrying out bees I don't find mentioned by 

 Doolittle, p. 262. It is to have the cellar wide 

 open all night before carrying. Then no 

 smoke is needed, and it isn't necessary to fas- 

 ten bees in hives. 



That's a good idea of Doolittle's, p. 2(53, 

 to have a plank covered with wet cloth to 

 stop a deep entrance when carrying out bees. 

 I used to use a wet rag for stopping a shallow 

 entrance, but never thought of a board to help 

 in the deeper entrance. 



Kii^ung off oi.d bees in the fall was rec- 

 ommended at Ontario convention by Jacob 

 Alpaugh, and indorsed by J. B. Hall. They 

 think an extra number of bees in winter need 

 extra honey, and the dying of the old bees 

 through the winter helps kill young bees. 



H. D. Burr ell's article, p. 259, makes me 

 think selling honey is easier than I supposed. 

 I've always supposed him a good bee-keeper, 

 but never a salesman. He's one of the quiet 

 kind, so deficient in "cheek" that you can 

 almost see his back teeth through his face. 



Hutchinson must sit up nights to find 

 such appropriate couplets for his headings, 

 and to arrange his advertising pages. The 

 latter are the prettiest — well, I think I'd bet- 

 ter not start another quarrel with the Medina 

 printers till they get cooled down a little over 

 that spelling business. 



To offset your flinging W. F. Marks with 

 his section-holder at me, p. 268, I may men- 

 tion I've just had a letter from J. L. Anderson, 

 a bee-keeper of 35 years' experience, wh» has 

 raised tons of honey, and he says, "I have 



used section- holders and T supers, but I made 

 kindling-wood of the former, and use the 

 latter." 



The premium, if generous, is the chief 

 thing to work for in exhibiting honey at fairs, 

 says J. H. Martin in Review, and the editor 

 says he's right. One Weed show, as given in 

 Gleanings, is worth ten exhibits at fairs — so 

 much hurly-burly at fairs, and so much hurry 

 in sight-seeing that little permanent impres- 

 sion is made. 



Prof. LeuckarT, whom the older readers 

 will remember as the able German scientist 

 who helped to establish the Dzierzon theory, 

 died in January, aged 74. [It seems to me we 

 Americans should give him more than a pass- 

 ing notice. Who will furnish his biography 

 and his photo ? Perhaps friend Gravenhorst, 

 of the Bienenzeitiing, can do it, — Ed.] 



Editor Abbott sharply jerks up a writer 

 in St. Ivouis Republic for saying, among other 

 things, that extracted honey granulates and 

 becomes like sugar in cold weather, and then 

 gives the other fellow a chance to jerk him by 

 saying, "There is just as much difference 

 between granulated honey and sugar as there 

 is between liquid honey and sugar." [Ha, 

 ha ! good joke on Abbott. — Ed.] 



Wm. Stolley reports in Busy Bee that his 

 bees have been trapped and killed by the 

 bushel at a beet-sugar factory, and asks if the 

 Union can help him out. There's probably 

 no help for him with present laws ; but if 

 proper efforts were made, laws might be se- 

 cured obliging such bee- traps to screen out 

 the bees. Bee-keepers, however, are very shy 

 about asking any legal protection. 



"Three men, or even one man and two 

 smart boys, can easily go over an apiary of 

 200 colonies before breakfast, and ascertain 

 just which hives need honey, and exactly how 

 many frames each should be contracted to," 

 says the editor of American Bee-keeper. Say, 

 I. S. Tilt, that's worse than my scraping 1200 

 sections in a day. Now you have a tilt with 

 Hill, and lay him low in some hollow. 



Apis dorsaTa is cuddled just a little by 

 American Bee-keeper. It's none of my fu- 

 neral, for I don't believe the big Indian bee 

 would live as far north as Illinois; but I think 

 just as I've always thought, that it will be 

 easier to find out whether they can be domes- 



