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Vol. XXVI. 



AUG. 15, 1898. 



No. 16 



Critic Taylor seems to think I'm wasting 

 time and energy on " bait sections." Lots of 

 good company in that direction, Bro. Taylor. 



The editor of the Auiericaii Bee Journal 

 does his full share to help the honey market. 

 I've just had the pleasure of a two-days' visit 

 from him, and I think he ate honey at every 

 meal. 



"Taking the United Stati s through, 

 50 lbs. per year to a colony, on an average, 

 among the bee-keeping specialists, is about 

 what they secure," says Doolittle, page o,S3. 

 Does that mean comb or extracted ? If comb, 

 it's a good bit too high for this " locality." 



You ARE RIGHT, Mr. Editor, p. 674, in as- 

 suming that the larva R. Wilkin talks about 

 with its big feast was ' ' nothing more nor less 

 than the milk with a common worker grub." 

 The only point I wanted to call attention to 

 was that, as the grub was only a day and a 

 half old, its food was the same as the royal 

 jelly. 



HoNEV SEASON a dead failure ■ here. That 

 knocked endwise all experimenting with plain 

 sections, drawn foundation, and other things. 

 [Too bad, doctor. I really wish you could 

 try these things. Can't you scrape up a hon- 

 ey-flow in the fall? Let's see. Last year 

 you made $5.00 a day from your bees — your- 

 self and assistant. I suppose this year of to- 

 tal failure would split this rate square in two. 

 —Ed.] 



Reidenbach, according to Nardlinger 

 B~tg., has, since ISflS, practiced transferring 

 eggs into queen-cell cups, using as a tool a 

 needle somewhat curved at the point. But is 

 there anj^ advantage in using eggs ? A larva 

 can as easily be transferred, and will mature 

 sooner. Until it is three days old it ought to 

 be perfectly good for a royal larva, there be- 

 ing no diiTerence between the food of its first 

 three days and the royal jelly. 



R. L. Taylor, the Revieiv critic, doesn't 

 like the way the editor of GlEANINGS talks 



when in playful mood. A good many like it. 

 I rather like to say " sass " and some oth- 

 er things playfully, but I wouldn't go so far 

 as to use the word "don't" as Mr. Taylor 

 does when he says "It don't lose its sweet- 

 ness" {Review, 210). [I do not know but it 

 is wicked, but somehow I can not help think- 

 ing of the glass house and the stone-pile. 

 Bro. Taylor will have to be very careful how 

 he uses the Queen's Enjjish hereafter. — Ed.] 



C. J. H. Gravenhorst, the much-esteemed 

 editor of Deutsche lllusirierle Bienenzeitung, 

 has been very sick since the beginning of the 

 year, and is still confined to his bed. Al- 

 though past his threescore years and ten, he is 

 a man of remarkable vigor, and it is to be 

 hoperl that he may be yet spared long years 

 for the benefit of bee culture in Germany and 

 throughout the world. [Friend Gravenhorst, 

 despite his age, seems to me to be one of the 

 mo-;t progres-ive bee-keepers in German}'. All 

 that he has written on the subject of bees, so 

 far as I know, seems to sparkle from the foun- 

 tain of eternal youth. — Ed.] 



Your observation as to bees first taking 

 food into the chyle-stomach before filling the 

 honey-sac, you think does not agree with that 

 of Reidenbach, Mr. Editor, p. 574. Begging 

 your pardon, I think you are in entire agree- 

 ment. He killed the bees "as soon as they 

 had taten ff //V//f." Their first care was to 

 take what ihey wanted into their chyle-stom- 

 achs for their own use, and as soon as that 

 small quantity was supplied they'd go to fill- 

 ing their honey-sacs. You "killed scores of 

 the bees just as they came from the berries''' 

 and of course by that time they had taken all 

 they needed for themselves, and a surplus be- 

 sides. See? [Yep! — Ed] 



I'm delighted to see that the editor is be- 

 ginning to consider how a glossometer can be 

 cheaply made. Once he gets started on that 

 Une, he'll not stop till we have a good service- 

 able affair at a low price. I'd like to have at 

 least a dozen in use at once. Why can't Mr. 

 Rankin tell us what he uses, and how many 

 he has had in use ? [While I can not feel very 

 enthusiastic over a glossometer, yet if the doc- 

 tor will prod hard enough we will see what 

 we can do. But, say (the doctor need not lis- 

 ten now), he has sent a diagram and a scheme 



