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Vol. XXXII. 



JAN. \5, 1904. 



No. 2 





JM&^Dr .C. CMiLLER. 



Hakry Lathkop says, p. 21, "Farmers 

 as a class will not buy honey." Isn't that 

 a matter of " locality," Harry? 



Murray's tag-and-block are all right, p. 

 31; but the more important question is what 

 to have durable with plain figures, at not 

 more than one or two cents a tag. 



Why is it that in Cuba the honey harvest 

 is in winter instead of summer? [Say, you 

 did not label this as a joke. As I am in the 

 dark as to whether it is or not, I will let 

 you answer it. — Ed.] 



Apis mellifica is given in the Standard 

 dictionary as a variant of mellifera, and is 

 as yet in more common use, although it may 

 go out of use if, as I think. Prof. Cook is 

 following a higher authority in using mel- 

 lifera. Will Prof. Cook please tell us how 

 that is? 



W. W. Brockunier, p. 30, found three 

 clipped queens on the ground with a ball of 

 bees, and a fourth one with the swarm on 

 the ground. About what I would expect 

 with my bees if they could not easily get 

 back into the hive, and were left long 

 enough. 



It might be just as well to tell the be- 

 ginner that the artist has taken liberties 

 with that gob of jelly in the jelly-spoon, p. 

 19, and swelled it up quite a bit. [Yes, 

 you are right. It is not always possible 

 for an artist to catch on to all the fine 

 points in bee- work. — Ed.] 



A RKOUEST is made at the close of p. 30 

 for me to read the preceding item. I'm 

 glad of that as a text to say a few words, 

 especially to beginners. There is no need 

 to make any such request, for I never dare 

 to leave any thing in a bee- journal unread. 



If I should skip a single item, even if writ- 

 ten by the greenest recruit, I might skip 

 something I do not already know. 



Allow me to say to C. J. Pearse, p. 31, 

 that, after some experience with horses, 

 cows, sheep, and pigs in a bee-j'ard, I have 

 had most trouble with sheep pushing hives 

 off their stands. Hives are too low for 

 horses or cows to rub against, and sheep 

 are probably greater rubbers than pigs. 



A. R. Harrington, replying to your 

 question, p. 30, that the editor missed, I 

 think j-ou will find that bees start out 

 earlier in the morning in the sun than in 

 the shade, and fly later in the evening in 

 the sun than in the shade. I've noticed it 

 in bees hauled home and placed north of 

 the shop. 



Formalin, or formaldehyde, raised fond 

 hopes as to curing foul brood with drugs. 

 Reports of failure have made those hopes 

 grow dim. A report from Prof. F. C. Har- 

 rison makes them brighten again. He says 

 in Canadian Bee Journal X.ha.\.he. knows that 

 spores of B. alvei have been destroyed in 

 cells filled with honey; and he thinks the 

 failures may be due to too little strength of 

 the drug, too open boxes, or too short time. 



" Better than honey for less money " is 

 the claim made for certain corn syrup, so 

 fine that, when " placed where the bee may 

 have access to it, he forsakes the roses and 

 the clover," as he finds the manufactured 

 article more to /zw tnste. Editor York calls 

 it " he-bee molasses." He ought to be pros- 

 ecuted for libeling the bee and the molasses. 

 I invested 10 cents in the stuff, and one 

 taste was enough. That persistently lin- 

 gering after-taste said in capitals, "glu- 

 cose." Too bad that there's no way of 

 stopping people from lying in advertise- 

 ments. 



Mr. Editor, on p. 18 you have missed the 

 man who had the largest take of all the 

 members of the National ; likely because his 

 take is divided into two columns. M. H. 

 Mendleson took 112,000 pounds of honey, 

 22,000 of it comb. If 1 pound of comb be 

 equivalent to 1>2 of extracted, then his crop, 



