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Vol. XXVIII. 



NOV. 15, 1900. 



No. 22. 



The suggestion is given, p. 835, to take 

 hot honey and lemon juice, but what for? 

 gout or toothache ? [Probably for a cold. — 

 Stenog ] 



John S. Callbreath's advice, page 841, is 

 excellent as to rearing an abundance of the 

 right kind of drones ; but if I understand 

 aright he raises queens from " the best of the 

 swarm queens." Will not the chances for 

 non -swarming be greatly increased if he 

 raises queens from the best of the non-swarm- 

 ers? 



You say, Mr. Editor, that indoor wintering 

 is practicable if the variation is only four or 

 five degrees. I should say it was practicable 

 if the variation was only ten degrees, provid- 

 ing the average was 45°. [Perhaps you are 

 right ; but much better results are secured, I 

 believe, on the five-degree limit of variation. 

 —Ed] 



Have the printers been taking liberties 

 with Iv. Stachelhausen's manuscript, or do I 

 read crooked ? At bottom of page 840 he 

 says : " Some time the next day . . . the 

 lower story of the brood-chamber is removed, " 

 and I don't make out from what precedes 

 that more than one story for brood is present, 

 and surely he doesn't mean to leave the bees 

 with nothing but sections. [Perhaps Mr. S. 

 can explain. — Ed.] 



Those four men, p. 839, look as if stump- 

 ed to decide what ails that brood ; but from 

 the look of determination on Stevens' face 

 he'll come to some decision before returning 

 the frame to the hive. [If those fellows are 

 ever "stumped " it is not as to what ails the 

 brood, but how to cover all the territory in 

 New York. They are doing good work, and 

 bee keepers all over the ITnited States ought 

 to pat them, metaphorically, on their backs. 

 —Ed] 



You say, Mr. Editor, p. 833, it messes up 

 your feeders too much to pour in dry sugar 

 and water, and the only way to avoid this 



messing-up is to mix the syrup thin in an ex- 

 tractor. We have an easier way, and I sus- 

 pect our feeders are left cleaner than yours. 

 Just pour in a little more water at the last. 

 [Perhaps you are right; but are you quite 

 sure that the syrup, when finely ripened in 

 the combs, or "inverted," as the chemists 

 say, will be as thoroughly done as if we were 

 to mix the syrup half and half thoroughly be- 

 forehand? — Ed.] 



That's a good article of Bro. Doolittle's, 

 p. 842, only there ought to be an addendum. 

 When the crop is so short at Skaneateles that 

 grocers are getting honey from New York, 

 then the figuring ought to be different. To 

 the New York price, 15 cts., must be added T>i 

 cts. for freight and hauUng, making 15 3^^'' cts. 

 that the grocer must pay for the honey that 

 he gets from New York, and he should not 

 expect to buy from the bee-keeper for less. 

 In other words, the Skaneateles bee-keeper 

 should sell in the home market for 3 cts. 

 more when the crop is short than when it is 

 long. 



Australians seem agreed that galvanized 

 iron does well to hold honey so long as honey 

 without air touches the surface ; but let the 

 surface be simply daubed with honey so the 

 air can get at it, and chemical action at once 

 takes place. [A short time ago the Austral- 

 ians seemed to be agreed that galvanized iron 

 was not fit for either extractors or cans, for 

 holding honey The verdict in this country 

 seems to be that for extractors it is safe, be- 

 cause the honey is supposed to remain in the 

 machine only long enough to run out. But I 

 believe myself that storage-cans of less than 

 one or two barrel capacity should be made of 

 tin. If larger, galvanized iron will be all 

 right.— Ed.] 



Whither are we drifting, when the purist, 

 Stenog, upholds the use of "hive " for " colo- 

 ny " by means of a metonyniic prop? It 

 seems to me, Stenog, that you are going a lit- 

 tle too far when you assert that " bee-keepers 

 generally speak of colonies of bees either as 

 'hives' or 'swarms.' " I don't believe "bee- 

 keepers generally" make that mistake one 

 time in five, and I don't believe that any bee- 

 keeper who is at all careful in the use of lan- 

 guage ever commits the error except as a slip. 



