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Vol. XXXII. 



JULY I, 1904. 



No. 13 



Shallow extracting- combs are blamed 

 for making- bees swarm, in Mr. Doolittle's 

 conversation, page 586. But don't the Da- 

 dan ts use such combs, and are they not no- 

 torious for the small amount of swarming 

 they have? 



Wonderful uniformity has been at- 

 tained in making foundation. I kept accu- 

 rate count of three 25 pound boxes of thin 

 super foundation, and they filled respec- 

 tively the following numbers of sections: 

 2716, 2744, 2736. 



Friend Greiner, instead of using gum 

 arable as you describe, page 598, you might 

 try dextrin, with a few drops of carbolic 

 acid to keep it from souring. Gum arable 

 costs more than three times as much as dex- 

 trin, and seems no better. 



Bottom starters in sections should be 

 y% of an inch. If too small it is difficult, if 

 not impossible, to put them in with a Daisy 

 foundation -fastener, and the bees are more 

 likely to dig them down. If too large they 

 are more likely to topple over. 



Cool days in June have prevailed here 

 as well as at Medina, and I've been thank- 

 ful for it. It has held back the clover with- 

 out hindering the building-up of colonies 

 depleted by the dreadful spring dwindling. 

 [We are still having cool days, and an 

 abundance of clover is out. We are getting 

 to be a little fearful, however, that this cool 

 weather may hang on long enough so that 

 the clover will finally go out of bloom. — 

 Ed.] 



The Review has an exquisite picture 

 of orange blossoms, and an article about 

 them by W. S. Hart, both of them loaned 

 to the Review by Editor H. E. Hill before 

 their appearance in the American Bee-keep- 

 er. I always knew Harry was a nice fel- 



low, and that act is confirmatory evidence 

 of the fine spirit that is in him. [I wish to 

 indorse both opinions expressed — that the 

 picture of the orange-blossoms in the Review 

 is "exquisite." and that Harry Hill is a 

 " nice fellow." — Ed.] 



" Told you so," Mr. Editor. Said I ex- 

 pected you to use a set of wires in cutting 

 candy bricks, p. 323, and was told ''three 

 or four wires could not be used." Now 

 you've grown so much that you can use 

 " four or five wires, " p. 589. [When I said 

 we could not use more than one wire I had 

 reference to the plan that we were then con- 

 sidering—namely, that of pulling a wire or 

 wires through the mass by hand ; but now 

 that we have a beautifully constructed ma- 

 chine that works with precision, we have 

 new conditions, making possible the use of 

 more than one wire. — Ed.] 



S. T. Pettit excites admiration by the 

 careful way in which he goes to work to 

 prove that more brace-combs are built be- 

 tween thick than thin top-bars, p. 595. But 

 if % gives more brace combs than }% — and 

 ^s seems to be as thin as he thinks practic- 

 able — there is still the real advantage in 

 favor of the thicker bar that the greater 

 distance of sections from the brood-combs 

 makes the bees carry fewer bits of comb 

 from the brood- chamber to darken the cap 

 pings of the sections. [You will find this 

 discussion continued further by Mr. Pettit 

 and myself in this issue. — Ed.] 



" The case mentioned is probably one of 

 paralysis and not of dysentery. If the for- 

 mer, it will have been cured by this time; 

 if the latter, spraying powdered sulphur on 

 the bees at night . . . would probably 

 do much to effect a cure," page 605. Lest 

 some beginner should get all tangled up in 

 that, I will say that the order of the words 

 "paralysis" and "dysentery" should be 

 reversed. It's dysentery that gets well of 

 itself when bees have a flight, and paraly- 

 sis is the thing that sulphur cures. 

 [Thanks for the correction, doctor. The 

 types were badly reversed. — Ed.] 



Tons of honey called " Orange-blos- 

 som Honey " is shipped each year from Flor- 

 ida, and it appears that it is a fraud on 



