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1°° PERVt ar'^'X^'Hedina- Ohio 



Vol. XXVIII. 



MAR. i5, 1900 



No. 6. 



Iv. Stachelhausen, although an American, 

 is better known among German than Ameri- 

 can bee-journals. German is his mother 

 tongue, and he knows how to use it well. 



For erysipelas. Dr. Haywardt recom- 

 mends poultices of honej' renewed every 3 or 

 4 hours. It immediately relieves pain, and 

 brings convalescence in 3 or 4 days. — Prak- 

 tischer Wegweiser. 



In the window where I sit, in a little pot 

 is an English violet with 24 blossoms. It 

 doesn't make much show, but, oh how sweet ! 

 But a promise of show lies in 16 rosebuds in 

 the same window. 



The reciprocity treaty with France, 

 now pending, reduces the French tariff on 

 teeswax a third. That will please Americans 

 who have beeswax to sell, and displease those 

 who have foundation to buy. 



The question is sometimes asked, "Will 

 freezing kill foul brood?" Bacteria have 

 been subjected to a temperature 216 degrees 

 below the freezing-point, leaving them healthy 

 and happy. Heat, not cold, must be our de- 

 pendence. 



I'M INTERESTED in that Bingham cellar. 

 He says 2 lbs. dead bees swept out per month. 

 Now, does that mean on the cellar bottom, or 

 in the hives a ; well ? There might be only 2 

 lbs. on cellar floor, and ten times as many on 

 hive floors. 



That bottom-heat idea of Aikin's solar 

 extractor is bright. We might have smaller 

 extractors with a lamp for bottom heat. [Yes, 

 I have thought of the same thing. If bottom 

 heat is a good thing on a large scale, why not 

 also on a small one? — Ed.] 



That's no joke about smokers in Ger- 

 many that work automatically, sending a con- 

 tinuous stream of smoke. Next time I come 

 across a picture of one I'll send it to you. 

 But I doubt it's being so very desirable, as 

 lately nothing seems to be said about it. 



British bee keepers have also been dis- 

 cussing the matter of having some way of 

 gauging shades of color in extracted honey. 

 Strips of colored paper, a colored plate sent 

 out in British Bee Journal, colored glass, and 

 small bottles of honey, have been proposed. 



Mrs. Harrison says it's a mystery where 

 the Florida bees get pollen in winter. That's 

 a mystery not confined to Florida nor to win- 

 ter. I've seen bees bring pollen on a mild 

 day after every thing was frozen up, and I've 

 known them to store hone}' when I could not 

 make out the possible source. If Doolittle 

 had been here, he'd have found out. 



Friend A. I. Root, that Home talk, p. 181, 

 fairly takes my breath away. If all would 

 stand up as you have done, the party bosses 

 would soon learn that the Christian manhood 

 of the nation is a factor that must be reckoned 

 with Strange that so many good men have 

 for so long submitted to be " like dumb driv- 

 en cattle." Lately I was disgusted to hear a 

 minister in the pulpit instructing the Lord in 

 his prayer that McKinley was doing the very 

 best he knew how. Bah ! 



To start cuttings. — Nail a bottom on a 

 dovetail hive-body. Nail on a leg at each 

 corner ; fill half full of earth, and cover with 

 two panes of glass. Thai's } our greenhouse. 

 Set it by the window in winter ; in summer, 

 anywhere not in the broad glare of the sun. 

 Put in it your little dishes of wet sand with 

 cuttings in them, and watch them grow. 

 Florists will tell you to have bottom heat, and, 

 of course, that would be better; but I never 

 used bottom heat, and have rooted many a 

 cutting. 



" Natural^ swarming has a fascination 

 about it that no mode of artificial increase can 

 possibly have."— G. M. Doolittle, p. 176. I 

 don't in the least doubt that's true from your 

 standpoint, Bro. Doolittle Years ago the is- 

 suing of a swarm meant to you desired in- 

 crease, and a glamor was thrown over the 

 whole affair that will never fade away. With 

 me there's a fascination about artificial in- 

 crease; but there never was any about natural 

 swarming. The announcement of a swarm 

 fascinates me just about as the announcement 

 that the cows have broken into the garden. 



