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Vol. XXVII. 



JUNE 15, 1899. 



No. 12. 



May 26, first white-clover blossom in this 

 locality. 



For cuts and bruises, propolis is recom- 

 mended as an efficient healing plaster in Prak- 

 tischer Wegweiser. Why not? And what will 

 stay better in place if you get the really sticky 

 kind? 



Rambler thinks (p. 432) that we have 

 more trouble with bogus honey than other 

 nations. If you could watch the German pa- 

 pers, friend Rambler, you'd think they have 

 troubles too, just as bad as ours. 



One good result of the hard winter in 

 this region, according to general belief, is the 

 destruction of potato-bugs. Last year they 

 were promptly on hand waiting for the pota- 

 toes to come up; and now with potatoes a foot 

 high not a bug is to be seen. 



G. RumlER insists in Bienen- Vater that 

 cold is the cause of diarrhea; that confinement 

 alone will not produce it, because bees do not 

 wait for a flight to discharge their feces, but 

 normally discharge them in a dry state in the 

 hive. It may be remembered that S. Corned 

 contended for the same view. 



Stenog says the ear detects the difference 

 between passed and past. Then the ear de- 

 tects what ought not to exist, for the diction- 

 ary gives the same pronunciation for each. 

 Answering your questions, Stenog, past is 

 shorter than passt; and if I had control I'd 

 write tod for locked. [Does emphasis of voice 

 never cut any figure, where cold print shows 

 none ? — ST.] 



Sometimes bees are slow to take a syrup of 

 pure sugar and water, but will greedily accept 

 it with a small part of honey. In the absence 

 of this, Le Rucher Beige advises flavoring the 

 sugar syrup with a few drops of essence of 

 cinnamon, anise, vanilla, or orange flowers. 

 [I never saw the time in our apiary when the 

 bees were slow to take up good pure sugar 

 syrup; but strongly flavored honey, like bass- 

 wood, for instance, is more apt to call out and 

 start robbing than sugar syrup. — Ed ] 



J. C. Davis says in American Bee Journal, 

 "A man living \% miles from me came yes- 

 terdav to get me to put 20 colonies or more in 

 his 80 acre apple-orchard for ten days, to fer- 

 tilize the bloom. He offered 15 cents a colo- 

 ny. I took 10 colonies, but do not like to risk 

 moving many now while they are gaining so 

 fast here." Fruit-gcowers are learning to rec- 

 ognize their friends. 



A French medical journal is quoted in 

 Revue Internationale as saying that honey 

 with bread and butter replaces perfectly cod- 

 liver oil. As carbon is the desideratum, it 

 looks reasonable that honey may answer as a 

 substitute without the disadvantage of turn- 

 ing the inside mechanism upside down. [I 

 wish I could believe there is a good deal in 

 this, and hope there is — Ed.] 



Has Rambler been smitten with that dark- 

 skinned maiden, that he dislikes to hear her 

 c died " squaw," while he has no compunc- 

 tions about calling her father an Indian ? — p. 

 433 Is a " squaw " any thing more or less 

 than a female Indian ? But I confess that, 

 when he speaks of " the lovely Indian maid- 

 en," I think of something a good deal nicer 

 than a squaw. Something wrong with both of 

 us as to our intellectual machinery, Rambler. 



" Cell-Raising has been going on right 

 along during this spell of cool weather we 

 have been having for the last eight or ten 

 days, apparently, without let or hindrance" — 

 page 437. Now tell us, Mr. Editor, whether 

 the queens are just as good as those raised in 

 warmer weather. [I hardly know. The cells 

 are not quite so long and shapely as those that 

 were built when weather is favorable. In an- 

 other issue I hope to show j'ou how they look. 

 —Ed.] 



Stenog made some statements on p. 386 so 

 dazzling in their audacity that I'm just recov- 

 ering from the dazed condition into which I 

 was thrown. " If one does not learn to spell 

 when he learns to rea'd he will never spell." 

 As I happen to know that Stenog votes the 

 Prohibition ticket, and that his daily life is 

 entirely consistent with his manner of voting, 

 I can form no possible theory by which so in- 

 telligent a man could have made such a state- 

 ment. The others I'll mention when I'm suf- 

 ficiently recovered. 



