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Vol. XXVII. 



AUG. 15, 1899. 



No. 16. 



A short visit from a long man gave me a 

 very pleasant evening and morning. It was 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, wandering over the land 

 with his beloved camera. But he didn't 

 " earner " any thing here. Rainy. 



Coggshall is right. A hat-brim wide 

 enough to shade the veil is good. The most 

 trying time is after 6 p. m. At such times I 

 often have to raise my arm to shade my veil 

 before I can see eggs. With a broad brim, 

 tipping the head to one side would more easily 

 accomplish the same purpose. 



I'm GLAD, Bro. Doolittle, to hear you say, 

 p. 577, that you were not asking those ques- 

 tions in a censorious' way. But you seemed 

 to be making me a sinner above all others, 

 and piling on my shoulders the accumulated 

 guilt of the whole fraternity for the past 25 

 3'ears. And I'm waiting to have you tell us 

 why you waited till this late day to call atten- 

 tion to the error. Or have you always called 

 Italians maroon, and said they weren't yel- 

 low? 



The California echoer, p. 567, thinks my 

 intellectual machinery out of gear because I 

 don't see that squaiv is a more degrading term 

 than Indian. The gearing is all right, Rambler, 

 only it's adjusted for this locality, where we 

 don't have any Indians, and go by the diction- 

 ary, which makes squaiv the correct term to 

 apply to any Indian woman or girl. With 

 you, it is evidently applied only to the low- 

 down trash ; but I don't know what is your 

 corresponding term for a good and pure 

 Indian woman. 



Glad to SEE Rambler touch up that idea 

 of selling a short-weight section and having 

 the customer think he's getting a pound. One 

 great trouble is that we can't produce sections 

 that run the same weight ; and if we could get 

 them all just alike, the next season would 

 make them heavier or lighter. [Say, doctor, 

 I've a notion to take you to York State so that 

 you can have your eyes opened on the ten- 



cent-section matter Seeing is believing, you 

 know. A great scheme, that, to take you and 

 Rambler off together. — Ed.] 



That TEST of A. J. Wright, p. 574. for bees' 

 feet, is very bright, and I think the white 

 paper would show that the bees' feet have 

 been slandered. How should the feet be dirty 

 when they touch only the air and the flowers? 

 But Mr. Wright is away off when he attrib- 

 utes the dark color to the habits of us bee- 

 keepers. Isn't every thing just as black in a 

 nest in a bee-tree where no b j e-keeper has in- 

 terfered? If you sa) it's black because man 

 has not interfered to prevent the blackness, I 

 may ask, " If you should clean the bottom- 

 board every day would you prevent the dark- 

 ening of the brood combs? " 



I'VE A SUPER of tall sections that are beau- 

 tiful to behold, reared in a T super with 

 fences, and a rim to rai<-e the st per I'm just 

 a little bit afraid I may have to change to that 

 stjle, but I'm not going to gratify a certain 

 editor by telling him so. [It is a little sur- 

 prising how the plain se cti n and fence are 

 vindicating themselves in the opinion of un- 

 prejudiced persons. From the very start, 

 after I saw what the bees said of them, I knew 

 they would be able to more than hold their 

 own, and they are. But it is not £jood policy 

 to publish all the good reports, as such a pol- 

 icy would be construed as a desire on the part 

 of the manufacturer to boom his own wares. — 

 Ed.] 



You say, Mr. Editor, that I don't tell you 

 whether the season at Marengo is a failure. 

 Well, it's a strange season. A spurt in June 

 didn't last, and toward the lattt r part of the 

 month it looked as if feeding might be neces- 

 sary in the Wilson apiary Clover was abun- 

 dant, but the dead and-alive condition con- 

 tinued till about July 20, since which time 

 there has been some storing ; and at this date, 

 Aug. 8, clover seems just as good as ever. 

 The slow jield may continue, or it may stop 

 to-morrow. If it should stop now, there will 

 be in the home apiary 25 pounds or more to 

 the colony, much of it unfinished, and much 

 less in the Wilson apiary, which in other years 

 has always been the best. The little Hastings 

 apiary is working altogether for increase, but 

 seems to be gttting a gcod deal of honey. 



