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Vol. XXVIII. 



SEPT. I, 1900. 



No. 17. 



Cotton waste that you find along the rail- 

 road track is sometimes too rich in grease, and 

 puts out the fire. Mix with it some plain cot- 

 ton rags, and it will be all right. 



In Le Proxies Apicole is given as an outfit 

 indispensable for a beginner, movable-frame 

 hive completely furnished with foundation, 

 veil, smoker, brush, and uncapping-knife. 



That G. S. CrEGO, who stands up for May- 

 wood as a temperance town, p. 664, may be 

 pretty safely counted on as all right, for to 

 my certain knowledge he raises some of the 

 finest roses I ever saw. 



A. I. Root has discovered afresh that, the 

 more one lives outdoors, the healthier one 

 -will be. He's making progress. Time was 

 when he would smoke bees into the hive when 

 they insisted en hanging on the outside. 



One pound of wax to 28 pounds of honey 

 is about the right thing to set down for sec- 

 tion honey, isn't it? That's according to 

 Prof. Gillette's figures for comb 1.37 inches 

 thick, which is the thickness in sections 1% 

 "wide, with separators. 



Formerly I thought that a colony that did 

 not swarm stored more than others simply be- 

 cause of not swarming. I am gradually set- 

 tling into the belief that, when you find a col- 

 ony not given to swarming, you find unusually 

 good harvesters, and vice versa. 



Hurrah for Hyde's squirt-gun feeder ! Be 

 sure to tell us how it works at Medina. [I 

 should like to tell you, but I can't. I have 

 been away from home, and just returned ; but 

 before another issue I hope we shall have 

 some definite practical knowledge of it.— Ed.] 



Herr Theodor Weippl, who for ten years 

 "has so ably edited the excellent German bee- 

 journal, Bienen-W^ter, has resigned his posi- 

 tion, leaving the editorship temporarily in the 

 hands of the committee, with Herr Josef 

 Schmuck as responsible editor. 



Outdoors /^ a great place, friend A. I. Root. 

 And if we only had the time to appreciate it, 

 we needn't go 'way up into Canada to find it. 

 I can go right out on our back porch and en- 

 joy a more comfortable place than any I found 

 at Saratoga, and just as much outdoors to the 

 acre as anywhere in Canada. 



Your head's level on the prize business, 

 Bro. A. I. Root. I wish all Sunday-school 

 workers could read page 658. Prof. H. M. 

 Hamill, the world's leader in Sunday-school 

 normal work, says: "Do not give prizes, 

 which put wrong motives before the few who 

 win them, and discourage the many who fail." 



High praise is given to dwarf Essex rape 

 as a forage plant, p. 666. Now can any one 

 tell us about its value as a honey-plant ? In 

 Europe, rape is a very important honey-plant ; 

 and bee-keepers haul their bees to the rape 

 fields sometimes, to get the benefit of the nec- 

 tar. Is rape of special value for bees in this 

 country ? and is the dwarf Essex as good as 

 any other for honey ? 



Uncle Lisha, what's the use of stirring up 

 our sympathy for Tim Fasset's sobbing boy 

 with his failure to spell dough correctly ? 

 There's no help for it. During the next three 

 months rivers — well, hogsheads at least — of 

 tears will be shed over our barbarous spelling, 

 by that boy and his kind, just because Stenog 

 and some others with sense enough on other 

 subjects are clean daft on spelling. 



An Austrian, Ignace Kirchweger, has pat- 

 ented an apparatus which introduces a queen 

 mechanically. Two cylindrical cages have 

 openings which do not coincide until the one 

 with the queen has made a complete revolu- 

 tion in 12 to 24 hours, run by clockwork. 

 [The present Benton cage is about as nearly 

 automatic as any thing can be. Why anybody 

 should want to get up a complicated cage, run 

 by clockwork, I can not see. See editorials. 

 —Ed.] 



Sulphur is " the only practical known rem- 

 edy " for wax-worms, says Doolittle, p. 653. 

 How about bisulphide of carbon? Another 

 thing : If you find flour like places on your 

 comb honey, the next thing is to sulphur it, 

 and one sulphuring will suffice if no fresh 



