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Vol. XXVL 



NOV. 15, 1898. 



No. 22. 



Put this down as a rule, that it's worse 

 than waste time to level down sections any 

 more than to remove the soiled edges. 



An apoi.ogy is due from Hasty to Mrs. Bee 

 for saying that " Mr." Bee knows " his " own 

 business best in seeking nectar in the right 

 place. — Reviezv, 306. 



The oivDER bees are, the smaller loads of 

 pollen they carry. A Belgian journal says 

 this is because the hairs on their legs are rub- 

 bed off as they grow older. 



Thosk experiments of Fr. Greiner, p. 794, 

 are very interesting. Now let him determine 

 whether a queen takes 15 or 1 6 days from the 

 laying of the egg in a strong colony. 



R. L. Taylor thinks bees gather more pol- 

 len in the morning because, in many varieties, 

 as in corn, "the pollen is either gathered by 

 the bees or falls away to do its proper work 

 early in the day, so the bees have none to 

 gather later." 



I don't see the entire appropriateness of 

 Mr. Taylor's wicker chair in the matter of 

 ventilating supers, but I'm entirely with him 

 in believing that a gap in a separator doesn't 

 help ventilation which is up and down, not 

 .sidewise. — [I differ from you both. — Ed.] 



Editor Hutchinson has spoken of the 

 natural comb in sections being "friable," and 

 now, Review, 318, he speaks of its "brittle 

 character." Surely, that can hardly be a 

 matter of "locality." I never sawany friable 

 or brittle comb unless it was very old and dry, 

 or else very cold. 



Critic Taylor quotes a Straw on page 645, 

 and says I overlook that Doolittle says Nature's 

 plan is to put the first eggs in the center. 

 Bro. Taylor, I think you're the overlooker. 

 Ivook at p. 513 and 624 again; and if I under- 

 stand the English language Doolittle says it's 

 Nature's plan to lay all the eggs in the center, 

 " where they should be." 



S. A. Roberts is right, p. 802. I'd " feel a 

 lot happier " if I could winter outdoors. But, 



friend Roberts, whenever I try it I lose five 

 times as many colonies as in the cellar. Per- 

 haps you have a more sheltered location. [It 

 is just the other way here, doctor — so much 

 for locality ; and yet I am not sure but if I 

 were in Marengo I should winter just as we 

 do here in Medina. — Ed.] 



The two things bee-keepers are most anx- 

 ious about are : 



1. How to get a crop of honey. 



2. How to get rid of it. 



[If there were nothing further to learn by 

 way of solution of these two questions, there 

 would be no use for bee journals or bee-books. 

 —Ed.] 



In Europe, bee-journals don't keep up to 

 date as close as on this side. Reports of the 

 big German convention are strung through 

 the journals for many months. In October 

 L'Apiciilleur, a leading French journal, the 

 dates of the 14 letters from correspondents 

 run from Feb. 2 to Aug. 29, the average date 

 of all being July 25. 



Geographical distances may account 

 for the greater numbers that attend German 

 conventions, but you can't account in that 

 wa}' for the thousands of members that don't 

 attend. [It only emphasizes the fact that we 

 can, if we take the right course, increase the 

 membership of the U. S. B. K. U. to a size 

 equal to that of any German association. — Ed.] 



Some time ago mention was made of plaiin 

 sections being used by Morrison or some one 

 else, without separators. As yet I think we 

 have not been told how they were spaced 

 apart. I'm curious to know. [As yet no 

 communication has come in from Mr. Morri- 

 .son regarding the manner in which he would 

 separate the plain sections. If he sees this I 

 trust he will enlighten us.— Ed.] 



The Reviezv has been getting "views" as 

 to the Department of Criticism. The consen- 

 sus of opinion is that the department fills " a 

 long-felt want," and is doing a grand work. 

 Wonder if that's another illustration of the 

 fact that successes are reported more freely 

 than failures, and that replies to such calls 

 will bring responses only from those favorably 

 inclined. [Notwithstanding I know the past 

 season has been one of general failure, so far 

 as honey is concerned, we have had more 



