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Vol. XXVI. 



DEC. I, 1898. 



No. 23 



Ed. JOLtEY calls white clover a biennial, in 

 American Bee-keeper. It's a perennial " in 

 this locality." 



Editor York saw barrels of honey emp- 

 tied that weighed 28 pounds before filled and 

 40 pounds after emptied. No wonder he ad- 

 vises tin. [See editorial elsewhere. — Ed.] 



A BEGINNER, reading p. 843, might under- 

 stand that he can have all-worker comb built 

 with shallow starters of foundation. In this 

 locality, especially in the frames after the 

 first five, he'd get a good deal more drone 

 comb than would be to his profit. 



"There is no use in trying to improve 

 soured honey," says Fr. Greiner, page 829. 

 True, if it's all soured ; but in many cases 

 part is soured and part granulated. Turn a 

 crock of such honey on its side, and in a few 

 days the liquid sour part will be drained oflF 

 for vinegar, and the solid part can be melted 

 up into fair honey. 



Sorry that letter of Doolittle's (p. 849) got 

 into a place where the printer's rules made it 

 in small print. It ought to be coarser print, 

 and leaded. That's a wonderful record. If I 

 figure straight, he got more than 600 sealed 

 cells from that one colony, the queen laying 

 all the while. If I didn't know Doolittle so 

 well, I'd think he was romancing. 



It is sufficient to observe a colony in full 

 activity in harvest, either in day time when 

 ihe thousands of workers are going and com- 

 ing, or in the evening when the fanners are at 

 work, to convince one that a large entrance is 

 indispensable. — M. Bertrand, ^dL\\.ox Revue In- 

 ternationale. [This ought to have been print- 

 ed in capitals. It is true, every word of it. — 

 Ed.] 



Rev. T. J. L. Mayer says, in British Bee 

 Journal, " I think your chance with Apis dor- 

 sata is nil. I had seven hives, hived and fed 

 all winter, and in the spring the little brutes 

 decamped by 20 and 30 a day until each queen, 

 in turn, got disgusted and left the hive." 

 [Here, indeed, is a valuable fact. May be I 



am wrong, but it seems to me Apis dorsata 

 should be tried in their own climate, and that 

 pretty thoroughly, before we can go to great 

 expense in bringing them to this country. — 

 Ed.] 



Dr. E. Gallup says, in American Bee 

 Journal, that he gave a queen 24 Gallup 

 frames, "and she occupied the whole 24 fully, 

 with brood and eggs, in short order." Bro. 

 Doolittle, how do you reconcile that with 

 your statement (Gleanings, 801), that 9 

 Gallup frames "entertain the best queen to 

 her fullest capacity as to egg-laying " ? Didn't 

 Gallup's queen need nearly three times as 

 much ? 



" As THE EYE of the physician judges of 

 internal conditions by external symptoms, so 

 the practiced eye of the bee-keeper can easily 

 determine the condition of a colony without 

 removing a comb." — W.Z.Hutchinson in 

 Country Gentleman. If a physician had any 

 way by which he could remove a diseased in- 

 ternal organ and get it safely back in place, 

 rest assured he woiddn't depend entirely on 

 external symptoms. 



Propolis, says E. Agassiz, in Revue Int., 

 can be used in the manufacture of fireworks 

 in place of gum-lac. The pulverization of 

 gum-lac is a difficult thing, while propolis is 

 easily powdered when cold. [Propolis for 

 fireworks ! and notwithstanding the stuff is 

 ever present it is never where we want it ! I 

 wonder just how much it would cost the av- 

 erage bee-keeper to gather up 100 lbs. of it, 

 even in cold weather. I doubt if there is any 

 who would take the job at S5.00 per lb. — Ed.] 



"Apartment" and "department" are 

 words that continue to get mixed up in the 

 bee-journals. Doesn't " apartment " refer to 

 space and " department " to kind ? The linen 

 and the woolen departments of a store may be 

 in the same apartment, and one of these de- 

 partments may occupy two apartments. 

 When a queen goes up into a super, she goes 

 into another apartment. [Yes, I have noticed 

 the confusion in the u.se of the words " apart- 

 ment " and " department " in one of our con- 

 temporaries. — Ed. ] 



E. E. Hasty here, and Valentin Wuest in 

 Germany, have tried raising kinds of clover 

 from which honey-bees could get big yields^ 



