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Vol. XXVI. 



NOV. I, 1898. 



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No. 21. 



MoTH-BALi^s or naphthaline is reported in 

 L^Apiculteur as successful in driving ants out 

 of hives. 



On page 781 is an item stirring one all up 

 to expect low prices on basswoods, only to 

 find no prices at all given. 



Tomato-plants laid in hives will drive 

 ants away, according to a writer in Lei!>zigei' 

 Bztg. [I don't believe it.— Ed.] 



Propolis differs in different places as to 

 color, stickiness, etc ; and doesn't it differ in 

 color, etc., at different times in the same place ? 



If weak colonies are to be united, be sure 

 to unqueen the ones to be moved, a day or so 

 before uniting, then they'll stay much better 

 where put. 



Pure peppermint honey is very clear, hav- 

 ing at first a somewhat sourish taste upon the 

 tongue, and is fine to mix with clover or lin- 

 den honey, to which it lends its peculiar fla- 

 vor. — ^pzg. Bztg. 



Solid sections of honey may sometimes be 

 profitably used to feed by putting them under 

 the bottom-bars where there is a two-inch 

 space L/Ooks a little extravagant, but it's 

 better than starvation. 



Black bees, E. W. Brown says in A. B.J., 

 were the only ones that worked for him on 

 linden, his Italians continuing on white clo- 

 ver. That's hardly the general rule, is it ? 

 [I don't know. — Ed.] 



For cracked hoofs of horses, melt honey 

 and wax over a slow fire ; cleanse thoroughly 

 the hoof; apply the mixture along the cracks 

 and in the surrounding hair. Repeat a few 

 times, and hoof will be sound.— /J't' Bie. 



Don't let any one bamboozle you into the 

 idea that you can handle bees as well with 

 gloves. [Tut, tut, doctor. If you do not 

 look out, R. Iv. Taylor will " bamboozle " you 

 for using slang. — After I had written that 

 much I took a look at the dictionary, and, 

 sure enough, it is an authorized English word, 

 meaning "to deceive." — Ed.] 



The question still haunts me: " When the 

 queen does wrong by laying out of the center 

 of the cluster, although doing as nearly right 

 as circumstances will allow, and thus departs 

 from Nature's plan, whose plan is she follow- 

 ing?" [I don't know. — Ed.] 



Delightfully ingenious is that strainer 

 (isn't it a skimmer rather than a strainer?) 

 of F. E. Brown, page 763, middle of second 

 column. Better turn back and study it up if 

 you didn't notice it. [lam glad you called 

 attention to it, doctor. Perhaps I had better 

 have a picture of it. — Ed.] 



Ends of sleeves attached to gloves are 

 fastened to the shoulders, say you, Mr. Edit- 

 or, p. 7(59. If you had been a woman you 

 would have noticed that a strap fastened the 

 sleeves together at the back, and another 

 strap buttoned in front. [If Mrs. R. had been 

 describing the method of fastening the sleeves, 

 quite likely she would have been more ex- 

 act. — Ed.] 



Swarming was thus prevented by a corres- 

 pondent of Revue Internatiotiale : He closed 

 for 18 days the regular entrance, making an 

 entrance to the super. The six colonies thus 

 treated didn't swarm, but filled their supers, 

 while the rest of the apiary swarmed. [I can 

 not see why this change of entrance wouM 

 stop swarming; and is it not possible that the 

 honey in the supers would ripen more slowly 

 because of the proximitv of the opening ? — 

 Ed.] 



Whitewash for hives is strongly recom- 

 mended in Revue Ecleciique. Nothing has 

 been said about it for some time in this coun- 

 try. Is it still used, and is it liked? [Years 

 ago we used whitewash for hives; and while 

 they looked nice the covering did not add to 

 the durability of the wood. Durability is of 

 prime importance, and looks, secondary. But 

 whitewash would be almost as good as some 

 of the cheap liquid paints that are now on the 

 market. — Ed.] 



Some 700 persons were present at the late 

 convention of German bee-keepers at Salzburg. 

 Did I hear some one say something about the 

 Germans being a slow people ? I read once of 

 a bee convention which 500 were going to 

 attend in this country, but I never heard of 

 one that so many had attended. [If you will 



