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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 1 



was too much trouble to keep the sections 

 from tumbling- out. Took too much time. 

 There's a mix-up in the last sentence of the 

 footnote: " I see our artist has made your 

 frame hold six sections instead of four. 

 The former would not go in an ordinary 

 standard extractor." You can straighten 

 that up to suit yourself, Mr. Editor, but in 

 any case will not eight sections take about 

 the same room as an ordinary extracting- 

 frame? [We shall be glad to get your tes- 

 timony, doctor. Yes, it was my mistake. 

 The cut was all right, after all. — Ed.] 



Fastening foundation in brood frames 

 by the wedge-and-groove method works so 

 beautifully here that it seems to me if I 

 were you, Bro. Morehouse, I'd try baking 

 all the shrink out of the wedges in Colora- 

 do. P. 692. [A queer world this. There 

 are some people who do not make the wedge- 

 and-groove plan work, and they have not a 

 dry climate either; and there are still oth- 

 ers who will not have any thing else. Very 

 o^ten our subscribers wonder why we do 

 not make supplies to suit their particular 

 notions. One will say, "If you make such 

 an article so and so, it will be all right." 

 But that man's idea of the thing would be 

 all wrong with another. — P>d.] 



More and moke American methods of 

 bee-keeping are gaining recognition in 

 European countries. They pake fun at us 

 as given to faking, but all the same I no- 

 tice that it is becoming quite the fashion to 

 have items copied from American journals, 

 some of them at second and third hand. 

 V Apiculture , the oldest of the French bee- 

 journals, now in its 48th year, which for- 

 merly ignored American journals, now 

 quotes freely from them, and has secured 

 as a regular correspondent none other than 

 our good friend C. P. Dadant. The whirl- 

 igig of time brings strange revolutions. 

 Formerly U Apiculture fought bitterly the 

 teachings of the elder Dadant: now it seeks 

 the teachings of the son, [See article else- 

 where on this subject in this issue. — Ed] 



Friend A. I., I enjoyed reading your 

 Horne talk, p. 611, and heartily endorse all 



feel very sure it does. One meaning of 

 "adore" is "to render divine honors to," 

 and in that sense it does not fit at your 

 stage of life, nor at any other stage. An- 

 other meaning is to "feel or exhibit pro- 

 found regard or affection for;" and if it 

 doesn't fit in that sense, then I want to cut 

 j^our acquaintance. You needn't apologize 

 in person; a printed apology will answer. 

 [My dear old friend, I do not know but I 

 shall have to acknowledge to you that I 

 think just as you do; but it did not seem 

 quite proper that I should say it right out 

 before the great wide world. And another 

 thing, Christ Jesus should always come 

 first, even before the wives God has given 

 us. I feel sure j'ou will agree with me in 

 this.— A. I. R.] 



At one end of the line stand those who 

 say that it is best to leave superseding of 

 queens entirely to the bees; at the other 

 end stands that Rocky Mountain chap, say- 

 ing, "If a queen dares to live more than a 

 year, kill her." Of the two extremes I 

 think the first would be the safer in this 

 locality. But I'd rather stand in the mid- 

 dle of the line. Generally, the bees in this 

 region will supersede a queen as soon as 

 any superseding is needed. "Whenever a 

 queen is not doing good work, her head 

 should come off, whether she is more or 

 less than a year old. I wonder if there 

 isn't something about the climate that 

 makes queens play out quicker in Colorado. 

 I fancy Bro. Morehouse flinging back at 

 me something like this: "Generally, in this 

 region a queen does her best work in her 

 first year; and if you should take off her 

 head when she shows failure the following 

 spring j'ou'd interfere seriously with build- 

 ing up for the harvest." And I don't know 

 of any good reply to make. 



Mr. Ethics shut himself up, did some 

 hard thinking, and concluded that no bee- 

 keeper has any right of any sort to the 

 territory he occupies, page 595. If Mr. 

 Ethics will shut himself up again, and do 

 a little harder thinking, he may conclude 

 that he has taker a very superficial view 

 of the case. He thinks that the men who 

 own the land "have the same moral right 

 to keep bees for the production of honey 

 that they have to keep cows for the produc- 

 tion of butter and cheese." The man who 

 produces butter owns the feed he gives his 

 cows; if I should take any of that feed he 

 could have me punished for theft. Does he 

 own the nectar produced on his land? If I, 

 through my bees, should appropriate that 

 nectar, could he have me arrested for theft? 

 Years ago I was foolhardy enough to say 

 that there should be laws protecting a bee- 

 keeper in his rights to a given territory. 

 Prof. Cook was my strongest opponent, but 

 he said it might as well be understood first 

 as last that the man who owned the land 

 didn't own the nectar on it. You haven't 

 yet taken in the whole case, Mr. Ethics. 



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DEUTSCHE IMKER AUS BOHMEN. 



The present status of bee stings for the 

 cure of rheumatism, or at least the allevi- 

 ation of that terrible scourge of the hu- 

 man race, is receiving much attention in 

 Europe. The following in regard to the 

 matter appeared lately in the German pe- 

 riodical I am quoting, from the pen of Dr. 



