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Vol. XXVIII. 



OCT. 15, 1900. 



No. 20. 



J. M. CuTTS pinched the head off a queen, 

 apparently because she flew when he tried to 

 get her, p. 775. Cutting ofF a wing would 

 have stopped her flying, without the loss of a 

 queen. 



If you have the exceedingly unaristocratic 

 habit of sugaring your porridge, try a little 

 honey on it instead of the sugar some morn- 

 ing. You will find it a great improvement 

 on sugar. ^Martha's Management, in Chicago 

 Record. 



You S.\Y, Mr. Editor, you would have bro- 

 ken up that nucleus that kept using up virgin 

 queens, p. 762. Very likely that would have 

 been wise, and I was urged to do so ; but my 

 Dutch was up, and I said that nucleus should 

 raise a queen if it took all summer, and it did 

 take all summer. 



It's begging the question for Chalon Fowls 

 to assume that candied honey can not make a 

 fine display as well as the clear liquid. It's all 

 a matter of taste and association. Here are 

 two displays in bottles — one clear as crystal, 

 the other dark brown. If one is told that one 

 is honey and the other soft soap, he admires 

 the clear display. But if told the two are 

 kerosene and maple syrup, which does he 

 admire? But I'm willing to compromise with 

 Bro. Fowls, and let him sell in liquid form if 

 he'll let me sell in the candied state. 



Prof. Gillette's experiments showed that, 

 with the best foundation, bees built comb as 

 light as natural worker comb ; also that nat- 

 ural worker comb was lighter than natural 

 drone comb. Without foundation, bees build 

 largely drone comb in sections. Taking these 

 three facts together, it is hard to get away 

 from the conclusion that, with best founda- 

 tion, there is less gob than where all is entire- 

 ly natural. [Just so ; and Prof. Gillette's ex- 

 periments coincide almost exactly with our 

 own ; and you will remember that we (Mr. 

 Weed and I ) advanced this proposition some 

 two years ago. — Ed.] 



Mr. Editor, you call C. H. Pierce's plan of 

 moving bees, p. 772, "a new plan," which is 

 hardly correct, except the cellaring. The plan 

 has been given before, and is all right. Som- 

 erford's nucleus plan is on the same principle. 

 I've made fair success by simply moving bees 

 in the evening and letting them stay shut up 

 till they became very uneasy about getting out 

 nest morning. Mr. Pierce's cellaring is good 

 for the wind-up. [Perhaps you are right ; but 

 I do not remember where a plan similar to Mr. 

 Pierce's was described in Gleanings.— Ed.] 



A FOREIGNER once remarked to me what 

 a strange thing it seemed to him to see this 

 nation of free and independent people such 

 abject slaves, bound hand and foot by the ties 

 of poHtical party, the most intelligent submit- 

 ting to the lash of the bosses. But the bonds 

 have been strained a little too tight, and are 

 beginning to break, when a plain law like the 

 canteen law is nullified. Thousands of men 

 who may not speak out as plainly as A. I. 

 Root, on page 779, will yet speak with some 

 emphasis their disapproval at the ballot-box. 



The fooijsh notion that bees can not 

 sting one while he holds his breath has start- 

 ed the rounds again. The trouble is that 

 almost any error vsnll be copied ; but when 

 contradicted as an error, the papers that gave 

 it currency will not take the trouble to give 

 the contradiction. To this day one sees Chap- 

 man's honey-plant lauded in this or that pa- 

 per ; but the statement that it is of no practi- 

 cal value seldom follows in later issues. [The 

 article on the Chapman honey -plant has been 

 stricken from the latest edition of the ABC 

 book, now in the press. What was said about 

 the plant was all true, and the truth makes 

 the readers anxious to try it in spite of the 

 statement that its cultivation will not warrant 

 the investment. — Ed.] 



Propoeis may yet come to be in great de- 

 mand, if a report in Leipzigcr Bztg. is to be 

 trusted. A quantity of propolisin was sent to 

 the English army in South Africa, and wounds 

 treated therewith healed promptly without 

 suppuration, whereas the same kind of wounds 

 were very troublesome previously, making 

 many amputations necessary. When the sup- 

 ply of propolisin was exhausted, the serious 



