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Vol. XXVI. 



JULY 15, 1898. 



No. 14 



The oueen-excluder was the invention of 

 a German tailor, Hahnemann, still living in 

 South America. 



For hot-weather drink, Mrs. Collins 

 recommends cherry phosphate sweetened with 

 honey. It can always be on hand, even when 

 lemons can not, and a set of thrashers gave 

 coffee the go-by for this drink. 



W. H. Pridgen says in his catalog that, in 

 introducing a queen, instead of allowing her 

 escort bees to remain with her it is an im- 

 provement to replace them with very young 

 bees from the colony to which s!ie is to be 

 introduced. 



A remark of Rambler, page 504, suggests 

 that only adepts can move bees in California 

 without loss. About how many colonies in a 

 hundred are lost in ordinary California mov- 



ing 



? I think no loss of this kind is counted 



on in the North. 



Gottfried Rumi.er thinks he has thor- 

 oughly established the fact that the debris on 

 the floor-board of the hive in winter consists 

 largely of the bees' excrements, and that the 

 normal, healthy bee always, and as often as 

 occasion requires, discharges its feces in dry 

 and solid form. — Bieiien-l'ater. 



M. DevauchellE says that not only does 

 the queen diminisi her Inying in the fall, Vjut 

 the workers themselves cease caring for the 

 brood. In August or September one finds 

 eggs and sealed brood, but no unsealed brood, 

 and that for fifteen or twenty days. But he 

 says heavy feeding in the fall will continue 

 the laying. 



" If I WERE in your position I should not 

 know but that some time I might wish to run 

 for extracted honey exclusively, or very large- 

 ly, at least. Then how about those metal 

 spacers on the uncapping-knife? " (Foot- 

 note, p. 502). .That's a good bit like advising 

 me to trade off my trim little roadsters for a 

 pair of Clydes because some time I might 

 want to draw a heavy load. But the spacing- 

 nails don't interfere such a great deal, after 



all. When uncapping you have to look out 

 only for two nails at the upper end — none on 

 the other end. 



" Instead of the queen laying her eggs on 

 the outside of the cluster, she lays them in the 

 center of the brood-nest, where they should 

 be." That "where they should be" raises 

 the question whether Nature's plan of enlarg- 

 ing the brood-nest in spring is all wrong. 

 [Whom are you quoting, doctor? I dare not 

 say that I wrote nothing of that sort. If I 

 did, 1 do not subscribe to it now. — Ed.] 



The large wax-moth is generally suppos- 

 ed to be the only one that does much mischief. 

 R. Kaempf says that, after years of observa- 

 tion, he is sure the small kind [Galleria 

 alvearia) is much more destructive. It lives 

 mainly on the cappings of brood. [Our api- 

 ary is made up .so thoroughly of Italians that 

 the wax-moth of either kind is no more feared 

 than so many flies. From our experience I 

 can not tell which is the more destructive. — 

 Ed.] 



A valuable book for beginners would be 

 one containing all the plans and inventions 

 that have been tried and given up in the past 

 — save lots of disappointments. But it would 

 make a big volume. [Yes, it would be a good 

 thing; but the demand for them would be 

 small. The average bee man does not begin 

 to suspect how we poor publishers are pestered 

 with drawings and models of old things that 

 have been invented over and over again, and 

 as often discarded. But the most unpleasant 

 feature about the whole business is that they 

 will go ahead and patent them without asking 

 the opinion of some practical bee-keeper. — 

 Ed.] 



Cold water is better fresh, every one 

 knows; but not every one seems to know that 

 hot water is very much better fresh. Whether 

 for drinking clear or in coffee or in any other 

 hot drink, it is much better when first brought 

 to a boil, or as hot as wanted, than when it 

 has stood and stewed till all the gases are 

 gone, leaving it flat and unpalatable. [You 

 are just right, doctor. I wish more of our 

 sick and ailing people would study more into 

 the merits of the hot-water treatment. A good 

 many believe it is a good thing, but drink it 

 at mealtime, or within half an hour of it, mak- 

 ing an indigestible slop of the food. It should 



