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Vol. XXXII. 



FEB, I, 1904. 



No. 3 



HuBER, page 72, raises a question that 

 makes me think he might be suited with 

 Arthur C. Miller's cover made of cheap 

 lumber combined with cloth, paint, and 

 paste. I believe it's a good cover. 



E. D. TowNSRND says in Review that, 

 when a man talks about increasing his 

 yield by stimulative feeding and spreading 

 brood, it shows his location is not properly 

 stocked. "Just add a few more co onies, 

 and the result will be the same." 



I THOUGHT I had reached the limit of 

 simplicity in my hive-stands. E. F. At- 

 water describes his in Review, and I must 

 confess he has gone beyond me, and, what's 

 more, I think his are better — just a plain 

 rim of 1X4 fencing, large enough for two 

 hives. 



A. I. Root takes up a page or so talking 

 about automobiles, and is evidently a little 

 disturbed because it may be thought out of 

 place in Gleanings. Don't you worry, 

 Bro. Root. Not one in a thousand of your 

 readers has an auto, but a whole lot of us 

 are looking forward to the time when they 

 will be so improved in performance, and so 

 lowered in price, that we can no longer af- 

 ford to keep horses. Give us all the en- 

 couragement you can. 



More than once I've seen the North 

 American spoken of as the largest organiz- 

 ed association of bee-keepers in the world. 

 I think more than one beats it. Only yester- 

 day I was reading in an Austrian journal 

 about their association nearing 8000. [Just 

 afterthat editorial had gone to press I recall- 

 ed to mind that there are organizations in Ger- 

 many that probably have a larger member- 

 ship; but somehow we do not hear about 

 their kicking up very much dust. — Ed.] 



Der Dhutsche Imker ATS Boehmen con- 

 tains the statement that there are in Ger- 

 many 20 manufactories of artificial honey, 

 and a single one of them sells three times 

 as much as the natural honey of all Ger- 

 many ! Is it as bad as that in this Yankee- 

 tricky country ? [It seems to me our esteem- 

 ed cotemporary must beexaggerating. Such 

 statements sound a good deal like the old 

 Wiley lie of years gone by. Certainly it is 

 not as bad in this land of Yankee trickery. 

 — Ed ] 



Madame Salleroi is the name of a ge- 

 ranium in common use for borders. I never 

 saw any flowers on it, but the foliage is 

 beautiful — green and white. Sometimes 

 there will be a branch whose leaves are all 

 pure white. Years ago I thought it would 

 be a nice thing to have a plant all white. 

 Attempts to root a white slip always ended 

 in failure. To make a sure thing of it, I 

 took an established plant with a strong 

 root, and broke away all branches with 

 any green, leaving the one branch that had 

 only white leaves. It died, root and branch. 

 The leaves couldn't support the root with- 

 out having in them that green thing talked 

 about on page 77 — chlorophyll. [See refer- 

 ence to "avocation" in footnote to the last 

 Straw in this issue. — Ed.] 



Dzierzon, notwithstanding his burden of 

 93 years, is keenly alive to what is going 

 on in the apicultural world. In the 

 January Bienen-Vater he seems to chuckle 

 over the black eye given to Gerstung's 

 theory, that food for larvae of different ages 

 is prepared by nurses of corresponding ages, 

 and that, as soon as a nurse- bee becomes a 

 fielder, it has no longer the ability to pre- 

 pare larval food. Word was given to all 

 the Swiss experiment stations by President 

 Kramer to establish colonies containing 

 field-bees only. These old bees nursed 

 brood, secreted wax, built combs, and be- 

 haved as in normal colonies. [Somehow I 

 have great respect for one who, at 93. seems 

 to be in possession of all the mental powers 

 that characterized him in his younger days; 

 for be it remembered that Dzierzon is the 

 Langstroth of Germany. — Ed.J 



