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Vol. XXVIII. 



APR. 15, 1900. 



No. 8. 



You ARE RIGHT, Mr. Editor ; podoph}'llin 

 is used in the cure of bee-paralysis because it 

 is a purgative. It is obtained from the root of 

 May apple, or mandrake. 



Friend Aikin, are you not a little extreme, 

 p. 253? If "it is absurd to think of produc- 

 ing honey so that it must be sold by weight," 

 it is an absurdity of which many of us are 

 guilty ; for would it not be more absurd to sell 

 at the same price a section weighing 20 per 

 cent more than another ? 



Virgin queens are much harder to intro- 

 duce than laying queens, except virgin queens 

 just old enough to crawl out of the cell ; these 

 last are the easiest of all to introduce. [I 

 cheerfully accept your correction. When I 

 spoke of virgin queens I meant those that 

 were four or five days old. — Ec] 



A LADY asks how to start cuttings of roses. 

 Take a slip of young growth, say one with a 

 half-blown rose-bud at the end ; take off the 

 bud and cut into pieces two or three inches 

 long ; leave a leaf on each cutting ; stick it in 

 a saucer of sand kept constantly wet in a sun- 

 ny window, or in a propagating-bed covered 

 with glass. 



The temperance people of Aurora, 111., 

 have conceived a unique plan to shut out sa- 

 loons. They propose to raise $35,000 (the 

 amount of the licenses), to be turned into the 

 city treasury if saloons are voted out in the 

 spring of 1901. Of the $35,000, $10,000 are 

 now in sight, and the saloon men are doing 

 some thinking. 



Prof. Kirchner reports in Bienenpflege 

 that cross-fertilized fruits are larger and heav- 

 ier than self fertilized, although the difference 

 in fruit is not so much as the diflference in 

 seeds. Self-fertilized pears show an inclina- 

 tion to ripen later than cross-fertilized, but 

 this is not so marked in early sorts. In the 

 main. Prof. K. repeats what Mr. Crane said in 

 Gleanings, although the two accounts are 

 independent of each other. 



The daily eoss of bees in the cellar the 

 past winter was just four times as much in the 

 last 20 as in the first 100 days. [Right here I 

 think we have a decided advantage in outdoor 

 wintering. When there comes a nice warm 

 day the bees, overcharged with f^ces, can fly 

 out and relieve themselves, and return to the 

 hives. This, no doubt, saves a good many 

 bees. The loss from outdoor wintering is 

 greatest during the cold snaps when the mer- 

 cury plays around or below zero, accompanied 

 by a high wind. — Ed.] 



Inexperienced bee-keepers sometimes 

 propose shutting their bees in the hive in 

 spring, when flying out would be injurious, 

 such proceeding being frowned upon by the 

 veterans. Now, however, in Deutsche linker 

 aus Boehmen a temporary imprisonment of 

 bees in spring is reported as having been suc- 

 cessful with practical bee-keepers, a good-sized 

 antechamber being provided into which the 

 bees can go and the old ones die, the bees be- 

 ing furnished, if necessary, with water, and 

 perhaps pollen. 



A correspondent asks, " What is the best 

 hardy ever-blooming rose?" I don't know. 

 The three I named on p. 249 contain perhaps 

 the best one each of the three colors among 

 remontants. Strictly speaking they are not 

 ever-blooming. To get hardiness and succes- 

 sive blooms, try the polyanthas, say Clothilda 

 Soupert. There's a whole lot classed as har- 

 dy ever -blooming ; but when you come to try 

 them you will find either that they need care- 

 ful protection to coax them through the \vin- 

 ter, or that they will be weeks at a time with- 

 out a bloom. 



Stenog will, I think, agree with Editor 

 Hutchinson about compensation for destruc- 

 tion of foul-broody hives after he has studied 

 over it. The grip pension would not be paral- 

 lel. If I take the grip I'm entitled to no pen- 

 sion ; but if you kill me so other people will 

 not catch the grip from me, you ought to pay 

 my wife part of my value — if she thinks I 

 have any value. If you destroy my foul-broody 

 hives, it's mainly for the benefit of others, and 

 they ought to be willing to pay for the benefit. 

 They do in some other countries. [Quite 

 right. But I referred only to the bees and not 

 to the hives. — ST.] 



