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Vol. XXVII 



JULY i, 1899. 



No. 



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Rambler SUGGESTS (p. 469) that it was the 

 odor of the dinner that brought to the ground 

 those bees I batted at the out-apiary. Hadn't 

 thought of that. Might be. Sort of intoxi- 

 cated with the delightful odor of strawberries, 

 and fell in a faint — or a feint. 



A. I. ROOT enumerates (p. 477) the various 

 pockets in which he keeps clean handkerchief, 

 dirty handkerchief, toothpick, etc., but for- 

 gets to say that he keeps his nightcap in his 

 overcoat pocket, and always puts it in my 

 overcoat pocket when we sleep together. 



The director of the School of Horticulture 

 at Villorde, France, placed a colony of bees at 

 the disposal of his peach-trees, under glass, at 

 the time of blooming in February. The crop, 

 previously scant, was now unreasonably heavy. 

 — Le Prog res Apicole. [So on it goes. The 

 proof piles up. — Ed.] 



To urge bees into supers, and to prevent 

 swarming, a French bee-keeper closes the 

 regular entrance and gives the bees for 18 

 days an entrance through the super. Six col- 

 onies thus treated filled their supers, while 

 the rest of the apiary preferred to swarm. 

 Editor Bertrand thinks the plan worth trying. 

 [So think I. Suppose, doctor, you try it. — 

 Ed.] 



June 19. Oceans of white clover, but not a 

 drop of honey in supers yet. [Too early yet 

 for your locality, or at least I hope so. Else- 

 where you speak of the lateness of your straw- 

 berry season as compared with ours; but at 

 this writing I am beginning to fear, from re- 

 ports that have come in, that clover is not go- 

 ing to amount to very much, notwithstanding 

 the splendid show in many localities. — Ed.] 



I have BEES in two of the Draper barns. 

 The first queen didn't take kindly to the deep 

 frames, and for several days wouldn't touch 

 one of them — just stayed on the shallow frame 

 of brood I gave. But there was no flood of 

 honey. [We have several of the Draper barns 

 in use, but they are so very large that our 



eight-frame colonies will do well if they even 

 fill the brood nests this season, to say nothing 

 about filling the supers. — Ed.] 



The testimony of one man who saw Smith 

 commit murder outweighs the testimony of 

 ten men who didn't see him. Messrs. Taylor, 

 Hutchinson, and Brice say they can't raise 

 good queens by taking away the queen. W. 

 W. Somerford (p. 465) says he has raised 

 them. The only thing for T., H., and B. is to 

 impeach the character of the witness. Does 

 W. W. S. know enough to tell what a good 

 queen is ? 



Mrs. Barber, I'm by no means a "big 

 man," and you needn't be afraid to talk back 

 to me. But my bees are not like yours in one 

 thing — they don't fill the bait section and 

 leave the others untouched "usually." If 

 there is almost no honey coming, they'll do as 

 you say; but if honey is coming they'll go 

 right on with the other sections. But if you 

 want that amount of extracted honey, then 

 the shallow super is the best thing to put on 

 first. 



Strawberries were mostly picked at Me- 

 dina June 13, and were selling by the half- 

 bushel at 4 cts. a quart (p. 481). At Marengo 

 the picking has only fairly commenced, June 

 20, and strawberries sell at 10 cts. a quart by 

 the case. Sometimes it's better to be late 

 than early. Three or four weeks ago we had 

 strawberries from the South at 5 cts. a quart. 

 [This shows that our locality must be consid- 

 erably ahead of yours in its seasons, and it 

 only goes to show that, while we may be half 

 through with our honey-flow, yours, perhaps, 

 may have only just begun. — Ed.] 



I don't quite SEE any thing in the testi- 

 mony of B. F. Onderdonk, 464, to show that 

 one should produce both comb and extracted. 

 If I could get the prices he does for extracted, 

 I don't believe I'd fool with comb. [Are you 

 sure, doctor, you could not get his price for 

 extracted if you produced a twelve-pound-to- 

 gallon fancy article? If you try the Dan 

 White plan I am not sure but you would be 

 quite an extracted-honey fiend. In these days 

 of adulteration, consumers, if they know the 

 producer, and know that the goods come di- 

 rect from that producer, will pay fancy prices 



