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Vol. XXVIII. 



FEB. i5, 1900. 



No. 4. 



Chicago, Aug. 28, 29, 30. That's where 

 and when the big convention will be. 



If you should happen to be in Paris Sept. 

 10, 11, or 12, don't forget to drop in at the 

 World's Congress of bee-keepers that will be 

 in session at that time. 



Honey extracted from combs in which gen- 

 erations of bees have been reared will granu- 

 late much sooner than that from new combs. 

 So says Elsass-Lothringischer Bienen-Zuech- 

 ter. 



Dr. Dubini, when in Greece, visited Mt. 

 Hymettus purposely to sample on the spot the 

 famed Hymettus honey. He found it pretty 

 poor stuff. The honey - plants are perhaps 

 quite different from those of antiquity. — Ini- 

 kerschiile. 



It costs to exhibit at the Paris Exposition. 

 Die Bienenpflege inquired what it would cost 

 for books, and was told an exhibitor would 

 pay $2.00 for each volume after .five volumes, 

 but $10.00 for the first five, and $10.00 if he 

 had only a single book. 



The number of big bee-keepers (Grossim- 

 ker) in Switzerland, according to the Luxem. 

 Bzig., is 1028. Of these, 535 have more than 

 25 colonies each ; 333, more than .35; 105, more 

 than 50 ; 24, more than 75 ; 18, more than 100; 

 and 8, more than 150 ; the very biggest hav- 

 ing 251 colonies. 



Speaking of phonetic spelling, Editor 

 Hutchinson says: "Asking readers to vote 

 upon a subject, after the editor has expressed 

 his opinion, is not a very sure way of learn- 

 ing the wishes of the majority." After see- 

 ing last Gleanings, he will probably retr — er 

 — that is — say something further about it. 



Prof. Gaston Bonnier put a cushion 23/ 

 inches thick, packed with oat chaff, over a 

 colony, and measured the volume of air that 

 passed up through the cushion. When the 

 difference between the outside air and the air 



in the hive was 16°, 353 quarts of air passed 

 through in an hour ; when 28°, 545 qts.; when 

 37°, 701 qts.; when 45°, 865 qts. The current 

 was about twice as strong without the cushion. 



That article of J. E. Crane, p. 79, would 

 add thousands upon thousands of dollars to 

 the wealth of the country if it could be 

 thoroughly understood by all fruit-growers. 

 I knew in a rough way something of the facts 

 he gives, but never so fully and clearly. In 

 time the truth will percolate through the fruit 

 ranks. 



A French journal says Mr. Richardson 

 in California in 1897 got 65,000 tons of honey 

 from 1000 colonies ! That's 130,000 pounds 

 per colony. A story doesn't lose by travel. 

 [The mistake above probably occurred from 

 the word tofis being made to follow the nu- 

 merals. If, therefore, the 130,000 lbs. per colo- 

 ny be divided by 2000, we shall probably get 

 very close to the actual figures. — Ed.] 



There seems to be a prevailing opinion 

 that in buckwheat regions people like buck- 

 wheat honey because they get used to it. 

 There's much in tljat ; but it will be probably 

 found that everywhere there are buckwheat 

 tastes, only it isn't known so well where buck- 

 wheat is little grown. Buckwheat honey is 

 little known here, but I've known several 

 with a strong preference for buckwheat honey. 



You've seen a cell entirely filled with hon- 

 ey, but you never saw one filled with pollen, 

 did you;' A. Astor {Revue Int.) says it's be- 

 cause the bee must have room to stick its legs 

 in the cell to kick off the pollen. Incidental- 

 ly, I suppose it's a good thing to have space 

 for a covering of honey to preserve the pollen. 

 [This is an interesting observation ; but inci- 

 dentally I can not help noting that the doctor 

 has learned to talk like the rest of us. You 

 will remember that he insisted that a worker- 

 bee should be designated by the feminine pro- 

 noun. But note how nicely he falls in line 

 when he speaks about how the worker sticks 

 its legs into the cell. — Ed.] 



The Leipziger Bienenzeitiing reports that 

 some foundation made of pure wax ten years 

 old was very brittle. A few drops of linseed 

 oil were mixed with the melted wax, and then 



