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Vol. XXVII. 



MAY 15, 1899. 



No. 



10. 



Good queens can not be reared, according 

 to M. BelTot, in Revue Internationale, unless 

 the bees have a supply of, or can gather, fresh 

 pollen. 



I don't believe a word of that suggestion, 

 page 366, that " the use of tobacco is on the 

 increase among ministers of the gospel." Too 

 much intelligence among them, if there were 

 no other reason. [I agree with you. — Ed.] 



I'm waiting for the " ample proof " of that 

 new secretion S. P. Culley has discovered. 

 " What he says appears very reasonable " to 

 the editor, but not to me. But I reserve my 

 usual right to change my mind if the proof is 

 ' ' ample. ' ' 



Those "rays of dark" are something 

 new, aren't they? p. 355. If Tabby sees at 

 noon by rays of light, and at midnight by 

 " rays of dark," will there not be a point of 

 time between the two when the " rays of 

 dark" will neutralize the rays of light, and 

 Tabby will be stone blind ? [That is beyond 

 my depth. — Ed.] 



Rarely have bees wintered as well as the 

 past winter, says Revue: few dead bees, light 

 consumption of stores, no trace of dysentery. 

 Somewhat different in this country. [Accord- 

 ing to the Canadian Bee Journal, bees winter- 

 ed fairly well in Canada also — doubtless for 

 the reason that, it being colder there, greater 

 preparation had, as a matter of course, been 

 made. — Ed.] 



IT SEEMS a QUESTION whether plain sec- 

 tions are better filled than old-style. I arise 

 to say most positively and emphatically that 

 they are better filled. Put in the same super 

 old style and plain sections, both the same 

 width, ard if the plain don't outweigh the 

 other when filled, then I give up wrong. 

 [" Both the same width." Ah, yes ! There's 

 the Catch. No, no one will dispute 3 our prop- 

 osition. — Ed.] 



In view of the fact that so good an author- 

 ity as Mr. Cowan advises repeated boiling of 



affected honey, are we to understand that 

 Harry Howe is mistaken in saying that spores 

 will not vegetate in honey ? [See Mr. Cowan's 

 article elsewhere in this issue for answer to 

 } our question. But say, doctor, I had ex- 

 pected ere this to see you clear off the fence, 

 on my side of the line. Better scramble over 

 now while I keep Taylor off your coat-tails. — 

 Ed.] 



Harry S. Howe gives in American Bee 

 Journal a rather novel plan for stimulative 

 feeding. In early spring he sets at one side 

 of the apiary one or two hives with combs of 

 honey from the colonies that have died ; and 

 when he has thus used up all such honey, he 

 takes full combs from the colonies to put in 

 these hives, thus letting them store the honey 

 over and over. But say, Har^, if you do this 

 in fruit-bloom, don't the bees work on these 

 combs when they should be on the trees? 



If Critic Taylor does not follow his usual 

 practice of closing his eyes to the faults found 

 in Review, he will call attention to the repeat- 

 ed use of the split infinitive in April Review. 

 And will Mr. Taylor kindly inform us what 

 authority he has for saying he remembers of a. 

 thing? [Tut. tut, doctor. We were not to dis- 

 cuss infelicities of expression any more ; or at 

 least there seems to be a sort of tacit under- 

 standing to that effect. But principles and 

 methods are proper subjects of criticism in a 

 bee- journal. — Ed.] 



I said, p. 166, my bees had left drone comb 

 unfilled in sections, while worker comb was 

 filled. S. P. Culley says, p. 353, "Perhaps he 

 had little or no drone comb in the brood- 

 chamber, and the queen laid eggs in the sec- 

 tion of drone comb." Drone comb was scarce 

 in the brood-chamber, but the queen didn't lay 

 in the section. The foundation didn't entirely 

 fill the section, and what was lacking was fill- 

 ed out with drone comb, and that drone comb 

 was left with shallow cells without eggs or 

 honey, as if the bees would say, "These 

 drone cells are intended for eggs, and we'll 

 not put any thing in them till the queen lays 

 in them." 



Editor York and some 400 others started 

 to write " stopt " for "stopped," and that 

 sort of thing. Lately "thru " for " through " 

 and some other changes have appeared in the 



