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Vol. XXVIII. 



MAY I, 1900. 



No. 



Frank Benton is quoted in Australian 

 Bee Bulletin as saying that the product of 

 Apis dorsata most desired is not honey but 

 wax, and that the Philippines export annually 

 10 to 20 tons of wax. 



A. Alfonsus, Vienna, is making a new 

 foundation. Instead of being smooth, the 

 edges of the walls are notched and waving in 

 imitation of nature. As with the Given, bees 

 accept this more readily. 



Edwin Bevins wants to know if the agui- 

 naldo-tree mentioned by Harry Howe resem- 

 bles in any or many respects the Philippine 

 product that has been worrying Uncle Sam. 

 Friend Bevins, I don't know. 



"Honey after candying, being warmed to 

 liquefy, will not candy again," s&ys Australian 

 Bee Bulletiti. But it will this side the globe, 

 although sometimes keeping it in a hot place 

 /or a long time prevents candying. 



Answering Mrs. Bennett, p. 310, roaches 

 troubled my bees while I used quilts which 

 gave them a shelter where bees could not get 

 at them ; but with plain board covers and no 

 place a bee can not follow a roach, not a roach 

 can be found. 



Oh ! CAN IT BE that " flies are flies because 



they fly " ? 

 Oh ! can it be that "fleas are fleas because 



they flee " ? 

 Oh ! can it be that " bees are bees because 



they be"? — A. E. W., in American Bee 

 Journal. 



. After reading Dr. Howard's article, p. 

 298, one is tempted to ask, "Can we get any 

 more for our honey by learning to say, ' Bacil- 

 lusicrobic-uiilii-arthro-endosp07-ous'? " How- 

 ever that may be, it's a good deal more com- 

 fortable to ])e somewhat informed in advance 

 about such things, instead of being thrown 

 into a panic when something seems to go 

 wrong in a hive. Thanks, doctor, for your 

 very instructive article. 



A WORD of caution may not be amiss about 

 pelargoniums. Friend Root says, p. 321, they 

 are persistent bloomers. The fact is, that 

 most varieties are annual bloomers, a perfect 

 mass of Moom for two or three months, be- 

 ginning March or April, then flowerless the 

 rest of the year. Lady Washington gerani- 

 um is the common name popularly applied 

 to all pelargoniums. 



C. H. Clayton has evidently been doing 

 some thinking ; but when he says, p. 296, ' ' No 

 combination will ever be able to maintain ab- 

 normal prices," one wonders whether he for- 

 gets the Standard Oil Co. [But the Standard 

 Oil Co. does not have things all its own way, 

 notwithstanding it probably does have more 

 influence than any other agency or concern in 

 advancing prices. — Ed.] 



Do greasy sections and very ripe heavy 

 honey invariably go together? Friend Whit- 

 ney thinks they do, p. 310. I think it has been 

 rather the other way in my observation. 

 [Here is a case where there is some evident 

 confusion. Mr. Whitney is probably speak- 

 ing about one kind of greasy section and you 

 another. In an editorial elsewhere I have at- 

 tempted to describe the various kinds of dis- 

 colored sections.— Ed.] 



Uncle Lisha seems to half hint, p. 306, 

 that all breeders but bee-breeders had been 

 working to improve their stock. Bless your 

 heart. Uncle L., you're behind the times. 

 Talk about your improved sheep, hog, or cows ! 

 Just trot out a single one of them that has 

 been bred up to the beautiful golden color we 

 have in our bees. And here you are, grum- 

 bling as if tons of honey instead of beauty 

 was the thing to work for ! 



After thirty years of no-license, the ar- 

 gument that liquor would be used anyhow, 

 and we might as well have the license money 

 in Marengo, prevailed. It took less than two 

 years to prove what an awful mistake that was 

 (I use the word aivful advisedly), and this 

 week each of the three wards went no-license. 

 I've had a feeling of disgrace on me for the 

 past two years, and now I'm very happy. 

 Thanks, Ernest, for the help you were willing 

 to give us when here. [See editorial else- 

 where. — Ed.] 



