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Honey vinegar, according to an analj"^- 

 sis reported in Le Progres Apicole, contain- 

 ed 19 per cent more acetic acid than vinegar 

 from apple cider, and only 42 per cent as 

 much alcohol. 



The British B. K. Ass'n has a scheme 

 of insurance whereby a member by paying 

 one penny per colony can be secured to the 

 extent of $150 against damage done by his 

 bees to third parties. 



The Centralverein fuer IMaehre^i com- 

 plains that, out of the 11,000 bee-keepers of 

 that region, only 2000 belong to the associa- 

 tion. I doubt if two- elevenths of the bee-keep- 

 ers in this country belong to the National. 



Frame-tongs of different patterns have 

 been in use in Germany for years, but nev- 

 er seem to have been popular in this coun- 

 try. But they are not needed for top-open- 

 ing hives as they are for the side-opening 

 hives used in Germany. 



I THINK we may as well dismiss the un- 

 comfortable fear that Bacillus alvei is iden- 

 tical with Bacillus iiiesentericus. Not a 

 single bacteriologist, to my knowledge, has 

 come to the support of Dr. Lambotte, and 

 several have disputed his affirmation. 



You ANTI-SALOON fellows in Ohio must 

 be nearly bareheaded nowadays — hats all 

 worn out with tossing in the air. [Our 

 hats are on good and tight. We are not 

 saying much, but are doing a good deal of 

 thinking. See Homes in this issue. — Ed.] 



Prevention of swarms — Pincot's plan 

 in Apiculteur: At the beginning of harvest, 

 reduce each colony to four frames of brood, 

 taking away the ripest brood. He 

 says that, with this treatment, his bees 

 do not swarm. I'm afraid it wouldn't work 

 in all localities. 



" A CH[LDiSH notion " is what Reiden- 

 b ich calls the idea that formic acid is put 

 into honey by the stings of the bees. In a 

 brochure he says the acid is being contin- 

 uously developed in brood-combs, exhaling 

 as vapor from the empty cells vacated ^by 

 the emerging young bees. 



Nearly takes one's breath away to find 

 in a German bee- journal a protest against 

 tobacco earnest enough to satisfy the heart 

 of A. I. Root. The editor of Imkerschule 

 says: " Tobacco- smoke injures bee-keeper 

 and bees." Another man says: "Tobacco 

 is poison, and neither does it belong in the 

 mouth of the bee-keeper nor should its 

 smoke be blown on the bees." 



"Can a locality be overstocked with 

 bees?" The answer in Leipz. Bztg. is 

 that, in most localities, an unlimited number 

 would prosper. I don't know how it is with 

 bees brought up in the German language; 

 but a few thousand colonies of our bees 

 would clean up all the nectar in the richest 

 locality, and not have enough for their own 

 use. [The language of our German cotem- 

 porary is pretty strong. — Ed.] 



Ruberoid is a new material for hive cov- 

 ers, now talked about in the German bee- 

 journals. It is claimed to be inodorous, 

 permanently elastic, not affected by heat or 

 cold, a great non-conductor, and indestruc- 

 tible. Costs 20 cts. a square yard. [I have 

 heard of this material before. If there is 

 actual rubber in it, there will be a deteri- 

 oration in time. It is sold in this country, 

 but at what price I do not know. Methinks 

 it is a Yankee invention. — Ed.] 



W. O. Victor, page 388, gives 8200 young 

 bees emerging in about two days. That 

 makes about 4000 eggs laid in a day. A 

 certain editor once tried to make me believe 

 that I couldn't argue the size of a colony 

 from the amount of eggs laid, because a 

 good part of the eggs didn't hatch. I'd 

 like to sit down by that same editor and 

 read about Victor's 4000 eggs a day, and 

 then ask him, " Do you think all those 4000 

 eggs hatched? " [Look here, doctor. You 

 have backed me into a hole before, and I 

 acknowledged myself cornered. Why do 



