1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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then, if the cluster is protected, is not the bee- 

 space conundrum solved ? — Ed.] 





ci/^OM OU/l N£IGHBO/iS FIELDS. ^^ 



Now in clouds the leaves are falling 



Silently and slow- 

 Fitting types of human frailty 



And of honors here below. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



The prominent feature of the Old Reliable 

 just now is the report of the late Chicago con- 

 vention. This is doubtless the best report of 

 the best convention the bee-keepers of this 

 country ever had. This report alone is worth 

 all the paper costs for a year. 

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They've been having grasshoppers in Utah 

 in such numbers as make the plague of hop- 

 pers in Egypt easy to be believed. Mr. Love- 

 sey says : 



So far as looks were concerned, you couldn't tell an 

 alfalfa-field from a barnyard, or an apple-trfee from a 

 plum tree ; and some days, just before sundown, the 

 grasshoppers would gather up to roost on the bee- 

 hives sj thick that you could scarcely tell a white hive 

 from a black one ; and while they bit and killed a few 

 bees, they did leave the hives ; but I felt mean enough 

 to wish tiiem all in the lake or some other good place. 



There is another old adage, that things are never so 

 bad but they might be worse, sp one morning I went 

 out to the bees, and I don't know which feeling pre- 

 dominated, discouragement or disgust ; and what 

 should I find but those blessed gulls from off the is- 

 lands in the Salt I,ake, devouring the "hoppers" by 

 the wholesale? 



Mr. L. Kreutzinger, a prominent bee-keeper 

 living near Chicago, gave a honey harvest on 

 the 15th of September. About "200 people 

 from the city took part. Among the visitors 

 were Mr. Toshiro Fujita, consul of the Japan- 

 ese empire, with his chancellor, Mr. T. Furiat- 

 su ; Mr. Baron A. A. von Schlippenbach, Im- 

 perial Russian consul ; Dr. Walther Weber, 

 consul of the Imperial German Government ; 

 and about 12 teachers from the public schools. 

 Such things can not fail to do much good in 

 introducing progressive apiculture into Eu- 

 rope, and popularizing it here at home. 



Policeman Smith found a honey-bee's store- 

 house in the middle of an old tree that blew 

 down in Rogers Park, Chicago. His long ab- 

 sence caused a search to be made for him, 

 when he was found seated near the fallen tree, 

 ladling honey from the stump, and putting it 

 into his mouth. Policemen are sometimes 

 found in worse business than that. 

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Concerning the right to a certain place to 

 keep bees, as against the right of an}' other 

 man. Dr. Miller says : "A man who has for 

 25 years kept in a given locality an apiary suf- 

 ficiently large to stock the territory, has a bet- 

 ter right to that territory than any new comer." 

 He well says, that is the position of the en- 

 tire fraternity. 



There are very few, I hope, who will not en- 

 ter fully into the feeling that animated Mr. C. 

 P. Dadant when he again stepped foot on the 

 shores of his native land, France, and once 

 more entered the city he once called home. 

 His own words are interesting : 

 I It is now o7 years since we landed in America, and 

 we are more attached to our adopted country than to 

 the land of our birth ; but a visit to the scenes of one's 

 childhood has an irresihtible attraction. I went to see 

 the city where I was horn— Langres — on top of a high 

 cliff, a walled fortress, such as does not exist in Amer- 

 ica ; and when I reached it I found myself much in 

 the position of Rip Van Winkle after his 20 years' 

 sleep, with the difference that the time was o7 years, 

 and that I had been wideawake a good portion of that 

 time. But, one generation has passed, and I find the 

 sons where the fathers used to be. Friends of 25 are 

 now 62. It is old age instead of youth. ; 



;british|bee journal. 



A correspondent inquires as to the^nature of 

 propolisin, the substance referred to by Dr. 

 Miller in Straws. The editor says : 



We are hoping to have some further information re- 

 garding the substance referred to and so named by its 

 " inventor " from our esteemed contributor, Mr. R. 

 Hamlyn-Harris. Meantime we are not very clear as 

 regards the analogy between " propolisin" and the 

 propolis of the bee-hive. 



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In giving an account of apiarian exhibits, 

 Mr. E. H. Taylor says the hives exhibited by 

 The A. I. Root Co. are not, in his opinion, 

 adapted to the cold winters of England. In 

 view of the perfect success attained here in 

 wintering, and where, too, we have arctic win- 

 ters for four months, the remark seems like a 

 joke, especially as the climate of England is 

 what we call moderate at all times. Mr. Tay- 

 lor says Great Britain was about the only na- 

 tion not represented at Paris among the bee- 

 keepers. The exhibition as a whole seems to 

 have been a great success. Mr. Taylor pays a 

 high tribute to the thoroughness with which 

 the bee-keepers of the continent of Europe 

 study bee-keeping. 



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IMPROVEMENT OF RED CLOVER AND BEES. 



What has been Done by Seedsmen and Fruit- 

 growers in the Development of Xew Varie- 

 ties; the Time Factor ; why Short- 

 er Corolla-tubes are More with- 

 in our Reach than 

 Longer Tongues. 



BY S. P. CUI^IvEY. 



Red clover with short corolla tubes, bees 

 with very long tongues, and bees improved as 

 to industry, energy, capping,, nonswarming, 

 etc., are things de.'-irable of attainment ; but 

 how long will it take to accomplish given re- 

 sults? is an important question. 



" Uncle Lisha " writes many very plausible 

 and interesting things about what has been 

 done by selection ; but he has not yet discuss- 



