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Vol. XXVII. 



FEB. 15, 1899. 



No. 4. 



How's THE GRIP your way ? 

 Perhaps one mistake in the honey leaflets 

 is priming the price on them so customers can 

 see how Hitle they cost. 



Eight foul-brood inspectors in Colorado 

 inspected 4885 colonies; found 233 diseased, 

 and destroyed 31. — Amer. Bee Journal. 



I might sell friend Atherton (p. 96) some 

 wide frames cheap, but he's never done me 

 any harm, and I wouldn't advise him to take 

 them. 



Prof. Cook argues in favor of the belief 

 that all honey dew is of insect origin, but I 

 think I've read just as strong arguments on 

 the other side in foreign journals. 



Fruit blossoms covered with netting to 

 keep out the bees remained one to seven days 

 longer than those uncovered; apparently wait- 

 ing to be fertilized. — Bienen- 1 r ater. 



I don't know enough to know whether 

 Adrian Getaz' logic is all sound, p. 89, but I 

 do know that if I could have all colonies 

 strong the last of April I'd risk the useless 

 consuming they'd do. 



H. S. Price says in American Bee Journal, 

 that from a fruit-farm he got only $16 instead 

 of $1600 because too rainy for bees to fertilize 

 the biossoms. Others without bees got noth- 

 ing [See Pickings. — Ed.] 



It is pleasant to know that Deutsche II- 

 lustrierte Bienenzeitung \ formrely so ably con- 

 ducted by the lamented Gravenhorst, is to con- 

 tinue under the editorship of his son Hugo, 

 assisted by his sister Franciska. 



An eight-frame hive is not as safe as a 

 ten-frame for one who pays little attention to 

 his bees; but it's big enough for any one who 

 is allowed to use two stories. I'm sure a ten- 

 frame is sometimes too small for me. 



In reply to friend Pettit, p. 95, I may say 

 that I've always had separators % inch below 

 tops of sections, and used insets manufactu- 

 rers happened to make, and have not been 

 troubled with bees building in the space thus 



made. 



The foul brood law of Colorado is some- 

 what ra lical. If I undtrstai d it, as given in 

 . Xmerican Bee Journal , wl en a man has foul 

 brood, and 20 of his neighbors know of it, 

 himself and his 20 neighbt rs will each be lia- 

 ble to a fine of $5 and costs. 



"Pickings," the new department in 

 Gleanings, is a child of promise. I don't 

 dare to say otherwise. " Stenog " is the man 

 who untangles my punctuation, ard keeps an 

 eye on my English; and if I vex him he 

 might print my stuff just as I send it. 



Herr Schkoeder, in Centralblatt, says 

 mead can be made free of alcohol. If a 

 wholesome, popular drink could be prepared 

 from honey, it would make quite an outlet. 

 Now will some of our good German friends 

 tell us just how it is made ?— wenn es Ihnen 

 gefaellig ist. 



A chhfky chap is Pres. Aikin, of Colorado. 

 At their convention he talked about the Mate 

 association being second not even to the I^a- 

 tional. Well. I don't blame him. What oth- 

 er State association h?s 154 numbers? Pres. 

 Aikin and Sec'y Rauchfuts are both hustlers 

 "and fine fellows. 



Dr. Mason says, in Amer. Bee Journal, 

 that his bees breed in cellar — believes they're 

 stronger now than in November. Critic Taylor 

 says his can't be depended on to lay Inter than 

 Sept. 10, and they average only h% months in 

 the year. Can't these two brethren make 

 some l<ind of compromise? How would it do 

 for them to swap queens? 



According to the first edition of the Stand- 

 ard dictionary, the honey contained in a sec- 

 tion box may be called a section. A number 

 pitched into me insisting that it was not so 

 used outside of Marengo, and I asked the 

 publishers to expunge that definition. Now 

 comes S. T. Pettit, p. 95. and says it's right. 

 I might have let the definition stand, adding 

 in brackets, "Local; Belmont, Marengo." 



That guess of the editor, p. 77, that "in 

 the majority of cases it is chunks of propo- 

 lis " that blacken combs will hardly do. Don't 

 queenless bees deal in propolis? J. E. Crane 

 says, p. 44, that bnxd-combs in a queenless 

 colony were pure whi e after four months. 

 Tha* c uld be better explained on the theory 

 in one of the foreign journals (I forget which), 



