1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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drink of water, but keeps a pan of fresh water near 

 the hives for them to drink. 



In commenting on this Mr. York makes the 

 following caustic reply which I most cordially 

 indorse : 



How any self-respecting newspaper can deliberately 

 publish such falsehoods as are contained in the clip- 

 ping above is more than we can under.stand. But ten 

 chances to one, should we undertake to show to the 

 editor of the New York Mail and Express that one of 

 his teporters had been writing what he (the reporter) 

 knew was ouly a bunch of lies, that editor would 

 only laugh and call it a fine joke. 



The avvful degeneracy of the modern daily newspa- 

 pers is something sad to contemplate. They care not 

 for truth or honor, nor the reputations of men or busi- 

 ness interests. We kn. w of nothing else that is .so 

 much needed, and of which there seems to be such a 

 limited supply, as honest men — absolutely honest and 

 incorrupt ble. 



That is all true. They live on sensational 

 carrion, and their managers as a class know 

 no more about rural matters than what they 

 can see as they go up and down their elevator- 

 shafts. If they were, under any circuni.stinces, 

 capable of corrt cling a mistake, the case 

 would be more hopeful; but "What I have 

 written, I have written," is their unchanging 

 law. They are now circulating the claim that 

 exportations to the Philippines and Cuba, in 

 the shape of liquors, have fallen from a great 

 figure to practically nothing since our occupan- 

 cy of those places, and the government figures 

 really make it seem true ; but the}' do not tell 

 the reader that " exportations " means only 

 what is sent there from countries outside of 

 this ; that is, what we send is not an exporta- 

 tion, as it goes to our own people. The plain 

 figure of what is sent from the United States 

 to Cuba and Manila is artfully concealed un- 

 der the word "importation." The latter is 

 about 1000 times greater than the average for 

 ten years preceding the Spanish war. 



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CANADIAN BEE JOURNAL. 

 The following notice regarding the spraying 

 of fruit-trees was published in connection with 

 the bulletin issued by the Ontario Department 

 of Apiculture, March, 1899 : 



Do not spray trees when in full bloom. 1. It is not 

 the light time to spray. 2. It may destroy insects that 

 are then fertilizing the blossoms. 3. It is destructive 

 to the bees. 4. It is forbidden by law. 



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BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 

 A correspondent received a visit from a mis- 

 sionary from China, and from him learned the 

 following : 



In China, when a bee-keeper either builds his house 

 him.self or gets it built, provision is made in his house 

 for the bees bj' providing cavities in the brikwork 

 forming the sides of the house. These recesses are 

 about 3 feet from the ground, and of about 2 feet by 1 

 foot internal dimensions, the open front being closed 

 afterw.Trd with a piece of wicker-work plastered over 

 with mud, save a tiny hole left as an entrance for the 

 bees to pass in and out of their strange abode. By 

 this arrangement John Chinaman is not troubled in 

 getting his hives overturned without his knowledge 

 by some stray cow whilst he is asleep, through the 

 garden gate being left ajir overnight ; neither is he 

 troubled with the rain wetting the quilts, etc., through 

 a leaky hive-roof. 



A fine view of the apiary of Mr. H. Rowell, 

 of Hook, Winchfield, Hants, is given. Mr. 

 R. sells about 1600 lbs. of honey a year, and 



that without advertising. He claims to have 

 an attractive article in the first place. His 

 wife glazes the sections. He sometimes sells 

 as much as $20 worth at shows. His little 

 daughter, Dolly, twelye years old, one of the 

 real queens of England, assists him, and can 

 hive swarms, transfer frames of bees, move a 

 stock from one hive to another, and put on 

 supers. Last August she assisted Mr. Bellairs, 

 secretary of the Hants B. K. A., at a lecture 

 in Basingstroke, by driving a colony of bees 

 from a skep into a hive. It was the first time 

 in the experience of Mr. B. when he was as- 

 sisted by one so young. 



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AUSTRALIAN BEE BULLETIN. 

 The bee-keepers of Australia are making an 

 effort to send a large quantity of honey to the 

 Brili.-^h troops in South Africa. Mr. H. L. 

 Jones has offered 500 lbs. The offer has been 

 gladly accepted by the military authorities. 

 Cape Town, Africa, is exactly west of Adelaide, 

 Aus., a distance of about 5760 miles. 



In speaking of American money, Mr. Har- 

 rison says : " How handy that decimal coinage 

 for reckoning up cash ! — 2500 lbs. of honey at 

 10 cents ; add a cipher — 25,000 ; point off two 

 naughts and add the dollar sign — $250.00 — and 

 there you are. Two hundred and fifty dollars 

 and no cents. Yes, we would be content with 

 the sum without any odd cents." All very 

 true ; but it's beyond the comprehension of 

 the average American, as yet, to see how 

 weights, lines, and areas, may be divided by 

 the decimal system in the same way a dollar 

 is. The chief difficulty in the way of its 

 adoption, as in reformed spelling, is the fact 

 that something else already occupies the 

 ground. In the case cited, it would he better 

 to cross off the right-hand figure of 2500 at 

 once, and that would show the number of dol- 

 lars. The same correspondent, in speaking of 

 honey from sugar cane, says, "The poorest 

 treacle was a king to it." 



CALIFORNIA ECH0E5I 



BY J.H.MARTIN. 



A solar wax-extractor with bottom heat is 

 not a new thing in California. Mr. E. H. 

 Schaeffle has devised and uses an extractor 

 that uses solar heat on the bottom through re- 

 flection. 



A sure way to stop robbing. To stop a mild 

 case, throw a handful of coarse grass before 

 the entrance ; for a more severe case, saturate 

 the grass with water ; for a very bad case, sat- 

 urate the grass with kerosene oil. 



James A. Boyd, of Traver, Tulare Co., has received 

 good returns from his -W-acre home the past year. He 

 has 11 acres in peaches, 7 of which are in Albertas and 

 Muirs and 4 in clings. From these 11 acres Mr. Boyd 

 sold 821)00 worth of dried peaches. From five acres of 

 vineyard he sold §1)77 worth of raisins. The remain- 

 der of the 40 acres, which is not occupied by farm 



