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Vol. XXVI. 



MAY lo, 1898. 



No. 



10. 



Curious how we sometimes get a thing in a 

 wrong light. Now there's Doolittle, whose 

 honesty I'd stake against any one of his oppo- 

 nents ; but he got the wrong perspective on 

 that veneering business, sure. 



Your mkasurement, Mr. Editor, agrees 

 with mine. I have never found less than % 

 inch space between two faces of comb honey, 

 or between a face and a separator. [Yes, I feel 

 quite sure % inch is correct. I am wondering 

 how Bro. Crane, who is usually so accurate, 

 was a little off here. — Ed.] 



Roughness in a section-cleaner is hardly 

 objectionable t/ if has speed enough. How 

 would something like a horseradish -grater sur- 

 face do? [A grater would be too rough, I am 

 thinking. Suppose, however, you take a piece 

 of tin and punch some holes in it, and then 

 try a section-box on it. — Ed ] 



In the case of a. I. Root vs. Sawdust Boy, 

 p. 362, the jury has rendered a verdict in favor 

 of S. B., and against A. I. R. The boy gave 

 truthful answer to the question asked, and 

 then obeyed the simple command of his chief. 

 The said A. I. R. is the one that ought to have 

 found out "consequences" before giving a 

 direct command. Said A. I. R. to pay all costs. 



"The larva is fed six d.\ys," says Doo- 

 little, p. 352. That used to be the time when 

 it took 17 or 18 days for a queen to mature. 

 Cowan says the queen or worker larva is fed 

 o days and the drone (3. See Guide Book, p. 

 10. Dadant's Langstroth, p 88, gives growth 

 of larva for queen, 5^ days; worker, 6; drone, 

 (j>^. Cheshire, Vol. 1, p. 20, says, " after about 

 four days' feeding ... no more food is sup- 

 plied." [I suspect that each one of them is 

 all right, for the reason that the time may vary 

 all the way from 5 to 6 days. — Ed.] 



B. F. Onderdonk says " West India sugar " 

 is the true cane sugar of commerce, called raw 

 sugar. "Is mixed with beet sugar, refined, 

 losing half its sweetness when it becomes gran- 

 ulated sugar. ' ' Now, I'm all stirred up to know 

 more. Is it the mixing with beet, or is it the 

 refining that loses the sweetness ? [We have 



had sent to us samples of cane sugar that werfe 

 known to be such, and simples of beet, and I 

 doubt whether anybody but a chemist could 

 tell the difference by the taste ; but some- 

 where I have seen it stated that one is as sweet 

 as the other — perhaps not, though. — Ed.] 



No impropriety in my sticking on " Ed." 

 whenever I like, says a footnote, page 335. 

 Good ! Just what I've been wanting this long 

 time. So, here goes : 



The T super is very much superior to what 

 is called a section-holder. — Ed. 



rnfinished sections should be leveled down 

 just enough to remove the soiled parts. Any 

 thing more than this is folly. — Ed. 



[A certain editor down in Ohio says Dr. 

 Miller is off on the T-super question, h\x\. all 

 right on the unfinished-section matter. — Ed. 

 in Ohio.] 



I'll tell you, Mr. Editor, why I don't 

 prove my "individual faith" in long tongues 

 by my individual works. Just because I can't 

 get you to get me a proper glossometer. 

 [Glo.ssometer ! why, doctor, you can have the 

 one that Martin made for us years ago. But 

 do you know of a good machine for measuring 

 bees' tongues? I suspect that as good a thing 

 as can be devised is simply a wire cloth set at 

 different distances from a surface of honey. 

 Let the bees reach through, then raise the 

 wire cloth to a point where they can just 

 reach it. Measure the distance, and you have 

 the length of the bees' tongues. What better 

 glossometer do you want? — Ed.] 



"Are you sure, doctor — real sure — that fire 

 is ab5olutely necessary in your cellar under 

 any circumstances?" asks the editor, p. 336. 

 I think I'm sure. I spent the winter of 1872-'3 

 in Cincinnati, leaving fifty colonies in the cel- 

 lar at Marengo without fire. I think 4 of the 

 50 survived, and I think there would have 

 been no such loss with fire. When the tem- 

 perature in cellar stays for weeks below 37° I 

 think fire necessary, and a benefit if below 44°. 

 I've hunled and hunted, but can't find about 

 Harry Lathrop's dugout. What was the tem- 

 perature, and for how long ? [May be you are 

 right ; but somehow, when the other fellows 

 get along without fire, at an equally low tem- 

 perature, I have a sort of feeling that you 

 could. With regard to Lathrop's dugout, I 

 would state that I read the manuscript, and 

 was under the impression that it was publish- 



