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Vol. XXVII. 



JUNE i, 1899. 



No. n. 



Delos Wood, p. 399, may be all right to 

 add extra story above in California — too cold 

 here. 



Mr. LjTTOoy seems to jingle the shekels a 

 long time over a sale (see p. 396). Sept. 20, 

 1894, he was jingling the same jingle in Am. 

 Bee Journal. 



Adrian Getaz thinks I'm a little wild in 

 figuring on the amount of Manum's feeding, 

 for in his " locality " sugar was worth at that 

 time 10 to 15, instead of 5 cents. 



The desirability of a uniform svstem of 

 grading is only exceeded by the difficulty of 

 its attainment. [But I believe we are getting 

 closer to it, as the picture scheme is going to 

 solve the difficulty. — Ed.] 



" The plot thickens ! " Onions drive sit- 

 ting hens off the nest in Medina In Maren- 

 go, hens stayed on and chickens came out all 

 right with onions in the nests the last two 

 weeks of sitting. Matter of "locality"? 



In Germany a good deal is made of giving 

 bees water in winter. I've tried several times 

 to give my bees water in cellar, but they 

 wouldn't touch it. Dr. Mason says his take it 

 greedily. Wonder what makes the difference. 



" Black clothing and the aversion with 

 which it is regarded by the bees receives fur- 

 ther consideration in Gleanings; and it does 

 seem as though the testimony given in proof 

 of this aversion is incontrovertible," says Ed- 

 itor Hutchinson. [Please ask R. L. Taylor to 

 paste this paragraph in his hat. — Ed.] 



Do BEES consume more stores when they 

 have honey-dew? Some of mine starved with 

 what I supposed were sufficient stores. [A 

 few years ago, I believe, it was agreed that the 

 bees would consume less good stores than of 

 poor. Has there been any thing to change 

 that opinion ? I do not remember. — Ed.] 



About half the colonies I put in cel'arlast 

 fall are now dead. Honey-dew. Besides, I 



waited for them to have another flight after 

 Nov. 4, and then took them in Nov. 24 with- 

 out the flight. [A loss of 50 per cent ' My, 

 oh my ! and yet I fear that many another has 

 lost as many, but from motives of pride they 

 say nothing about it. — Ed.] 



HERE I am, up on the fence again, looking 

 for the best place to alight on the boiling-foul- 

 broody-honey field. [I believe, doctor, you 

 are waiting for me to shove you off, or, rather 

 pull you off, on my side. But, haven't I pull- 

 ed ? Come, now, is there any good reason 

 why you should stay on the fence any longer ? 

 —Ed.] 



On my return from Illinois Sunday-school 

 convention I sat with editor York and his effi- 

 cient helpers around his festive board, or, rath- 

 er, at one side of the board, for the board was 

 up against the wall in the printing-office, and 

 the noon-day lunch tasted all the better be- 

 cause the fair hands that prepared it had been 

 setting type just before. 



You're right, Mr. Editor, that alternat- 

 ing sections in a super will not always produce 

 decisive results. There's also trouble in hav- 

 ing one side of a super filled with one kind of 

 foundation and the other side filled with an- 

 other, for sometimes there's a marked differ- 

 ence in the working on two sides resulting 

 from a difference in the brood-combs below. 

 I think I'll try both ways. 



The U. S. pure-food investigation is stir- 

 ring things up lively at Chicago. Senators 

 Mason and Harris and Prof. Wiley had Editor 

 York on the stand for the greater part of one 

 session, and he was well loaded with solid facts 

 that were corroborated by H. F. Moore and 

 Mrs. Stowe. The testimony will be printed 

 in full in the report to Congress, and it will 

 be nothing strange if some laws are enacted 

 that will not make the way any smoother for 

 adulterators. [The Pure-food Investigating 

 Committee got hold of the right men; indeed, 

 it could have hardly secured better ones. 

 Let the good work go on. — -Ed.] 



" ' He, She, or it.' Which shall we call 

 the worker bee ? The choice is certainly be- 

 tween 'she' and 'it.' There are some argu- 

 ments for both, but it seems to me that 'it ' 



