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Vol. XXVII. 



FEB. i, 1899. 



.iibiishedy theA-I^ooY Co. 

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No. 3. 



" Queensound " is a word proposed by L. 

 Kreutzinger to signify that a colony is all right 

 as to having a good laying queen. 



Sacks of burlap or other material are ad- 

 vised by Editor York in preference to boxes, 

 for shipping beeswax. Saves freight. [Good 

 suggestion ! — Ed.] 



" Live bees are sometimes shipped on ice, 

 so as to keep them dormant during the jour- 

 ney," says a clipping sent me. Some report- 

 ers are well equipped as to imagination. 



A question for discussion at a coming bee 

 convention in Canada is, "Is it desirable to 

 keep down swarming? " Now, how far down 

 doe^ that mean ? down to one, or down to three 

 swarms per colony ? 



J. A. Stone, the genial secretary of the 

 Illinois Association, is optimistic in American 

 Bee Journal regarding plain sections. Outside 

 sections in super are filled sooner, ship better, 

 because better filled out to the wood. 



How TO GET rid of honey, Editor Hill says, 

 is not a matter of so much concern down his 

 way as to get a good price for it. But down 

 our way, friend Hill, getting a good price is 

 only part of the "how " to get rid of it. 



If those who say Apis dorsata can not 

 be domesticated are right in saying it can not 

 live in this country, then its introduction can 

 hardly do any harm. I never believed it could 

 live in the North, but thought it might in the 

 South. 



Quoting what Messrs. Taylor and Macken- 

 zie liave said about boiling foul-broody honey, 

 Le Rucher Beige says : In presence of such 

 contradictory affirmations which can not be 

 verified till next season, we recommend boil- 

 ing the honey during the maximum time. 



D. W. Heise and Editor Holtermann seem 

 likely to get into a quarrel as to whether the 

 use of beeswax instead of paraffine, in cover- 

 ing tumblers of jelly, as mentioned in a Straw, 

 would create an increased demand for bees- 

 wax. Don't, brethren. The only idea in the 



Straw was that many a housewife could use 

 beeswax who had no paraffine on hand. 



Two bee journals, quoting F. G. Quirin, 

 Gleanings, 845, direct that honey in glass, 

 to be liquefied, should be set in the oven of a 

 cook-stove. Some one will try that and have 

 the glass burst and the honey flood the oven. 

 Brethren, why don't you tell your readers that 

 Mr. Quirin has the glass vessels in a shipping- 

 case? 



Editor York has gotten up a very neat 

 little Honey Almanac, containing the honey- 

 leaflet so well known, honey-recipes, and ta- 

 bles interspersed giving the correct times for a 

 properly regulated sun and moon to rise and 

 set, with other useful information. [Ah ! I 

 see. Bro. York has anticipated me — just gone 

 and got up a handsome honey-leaflet. See 

 editorial elsewhere. — Ed.] 



J. E. Crane's article, p. 42, is entirely cor- 

 rect, but it only shifts the question one step 

 further back — is the black carried up from the 

 brood-nest into the super caused by travel- 

 stain, or what is it ? [I do not believe we can 

 tell where the black does come from — perhaps 

 sometimes from out of the hives ; but I sup- 

 pose that, in the majority of cases, it is chunks 

 of propolis. — Ed.] 



Lately it has become quite the fashion to 

 have departments in bee-journals giving items 

 from journals in different languages. L. 

 Joachim is doing excellent work condensing 

 from American bee-journals in that growing 

 French journal Le Rucher Beige, and M. Le- 

 ger from the German ; as also L. P. Pirson, in 

 Revue Eclectique. W. Fitzky has a valuable 

 department in the German Centralblatt, but 

 confines himself to his own language. 



BEST hive for beginners being asked for 

 in American Bee Journal, more of the veter- 

 ans agree upon JO -frame Langstroth than 

 upon any other. [It is a fact that the call for 

 the 10 - frame is somewhat on the increase, 

 as our orders from season to season attest. 

 We may talk about the eight-frame being big 

 enough ; but to insist that it is large enough 

 for all localities, all conditions, and all bee- 

 keepers, is foolish, to say the least. — Ed.] 



Isn't that smoke business a little mixed, 

 p. 49 ? C. Davenport says pure smoke is bet- 

 ter than smoke mixed with hot air. So it is ; 



