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Vol XXXIL 



TUNE J 5, 1904. 



No. \2 



At the risk of being called a careless 

 observer by Bro. Doolittle, I must say that 

 I have had satisfactory results w^ith leath- 

 er-colored Italians as comb-honey produc- 

 ers. 



That man Murray is trying to get me 

 into trouble by sending what he calls a 

 straw with thorns on it, asking the follow- 

 ing: "When blackberries are red why are 

 they green?" I don't know; but are black- 

 berries ever red? If a berry is either green 

 or red, how can it be a dlackherry? 



A. I. Root tells us, p. 558, that when the 

 balls of earth of three or more plants are 

 squeezed together there is no trouble in sep- 

 arating them when they reach their desti- 

 nation. Beg pardon, old friend; but I have 

 had so much trouble in that way that I'd 

 give more to have each plant wrapped sep- 

 arately. 



At last we are told for the first time 

 that phacelia is of some value in this coun- 

 try for fodder, p. 553; but we are also told 

 that it is hardly worth while where alfalfa 

 flourishes. Now can Mr. Luhdorff kindly 

 tell us any thing about the nectar on an 

 acre of phacelia as compared with an acre 

 of alfalfa? 



"Columbia" foundation, which Stenog 

 mentions, page 533, seems to be the same as 

 that of which J. Y. Detwiler, if I am not 

 mistaken, sent out samples many years 

 ago. Possibly they've discovered some lit- 

 tle kink in Germany by which it can be 

 made a success. The name of the man who 

 puts it on the market, Otto Schultz, is a 

 pretty good guarantee as to its value. 



That queen that laid eggs on the side of 

 the cell, p. 551, reminds me that once I had 



an imported queen that did so when I first 

 got her, but after a few days she laid all 

 right. [Yes, we have had other examples 

 of a similar character. Sometimes it is 

 difficult to get a customer who has paid 

 $6.00 for a queen to be satisfied until he 

 can see what she will do. He wants an- 

 other one right away. — Ed.] 



Excluders are almost a necessity for 

 comb-honey colonies with contracted brood- 

 nest, says the editor, p. 552. Perhaps they 

 are just as much a necessity with full 

 brood-n(st if small starters are used in 

 sections with little or no drone comb in the 

 brood- nest. In that case the bees will build 

 drone comb in the sections, and the queen 

 will go up to lay there. With full brood- 

 nest, and sections filled with foundation, I 

 don't find excluders necessary. [I accept 

 the correction. — Ed.] 



I SEE by the dailies that the postoffice de- 

 partment is soon to establish a censorship 

 over newspaper advertisements, and papers 

 with objectionable advertising are to be ex- 

 cluded from the mails. When that goes 

 into operation, don't you think the mails 

 will be light for a time? [This is a splen- 

 did move. Gleanings has nothing to fear 

 from objectionable matter in its advertising 

 pages. The ultimate effect of this act on 

 the part of the government may be to give 

 the honest advertiser a better chance to do 

 something. — Ed.] 



G. M. Doolittle, page 534, advises that 

 the honey producer shall breed queens from 

 the right mother, and pay no attention to 

 the drones that meet them, because the 

 crossing will give vigor. Suppose I get a 

 choice queen from Bro. Doolittle, and breed 

 from her ; and suppose the j'oung queens 

 have a chance to meet drones only from col- 

 onies that last year distinguished them- 

 selves as the best honey-gatherers: don't 

 you believe I'll get better results than if 

 those queens meet drones from the poorest 

 honey-gatherers? 



I AM surprised to find, p. 532, a Straw 

 about Rietsche wax-presses that is incom- 

 plete, not saying at all what I intended to 



