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Vol. XXXII. 



NOV. 15, 1904. 



No. 22 



l^l^Dr .C. CMiLLER. 



You're right, Mr. Editor, p. 1011, at first 

 I used saltpetered rotten wood, but had for- 

 gotten it— it seems you hadn't. Rotten 

 wood is, pei'haps, better than rags; but rags 

 are easier to find in our family. 



Application has been made for a patent 

 on the Columbus foundation (with metal 

 base) on this side of the Atlantic, says 

 '■Jung-Klaus" in Deutsche Imker. Tell 

 Herr Schulz, friend Jung-Klaus, that the 

 thing is old in this country, and hardly pat- 

 entable. 



Please explain, friend Green, more 

 about that use of comb honey for candy, p. 

 1013. If the honey is heated— and generally 

 no candy is made without heating— wouldn't 

 the wax separate, leaving the honey the 

 same as extracted? Do you mean that the 

 honey and wax are mashed up together 

 some way, without heating ? 



Some of our foreign brethren seem to 

 think that Americans have comparatively 

 little to do with extracted honey. I wonder 

 how that is. I don't really know whether 

 more comb or extracted is produced. Per- 

 haps you can tell us something about it, Mr. 

 Editor; at least, you can tell us something 

 about the sale of extractors. 



W. GuENTHER says in Imker aus Boehmen 

 the best time to move bees a short distance 

 is not in early spring, but between Sept. 15 • 

 and Oct. 20. [Between Sept. 15 and Oct. 

 20 ! I should say that every thing depends 

 upon the locality to which this is intended to 

 apply. If it comes quite cold so that the 

 bees do not fly much between the days 

 named, then the bees may be moved. In 

 our locality the dates would have to be from, 

 say, Nov. 1 on. —Ed.] 



The price of the new foundation in Ger- 

 many is 6 pfennigs for 100 square centime- 

 ters."^ If I figux'e correctly, that's about 13 J 

 cents a square foot. At 55 cents a pound, 

 medium brood foundation costs about 8 cents 

 a square foot. That makes the new foun- 

 dation about 70 per cent more expensive. 

 In reahty the difference wouldn't be that 

 much, for I think prices are higher in Ger- 

 many than here. 



Quite amusing it is sometimes to see the 

 understanding— or misunderstanding — that 

 some of our good friends across the water 

 have of things originating this side. In 

 Bienen-Vater, p. 26 L, without a word of 

 comment from its able editor, Alois Alfon- 

 sus, appears an article by K. Muehlstein, 

 who occupies more than a page to prove 

 that a long-tongued queen must be a bad 

 queen, because a queen with a tongue ab- 

 normally developed must necessarily have 

 egg-producing organs that are not normally 

 developed! Freund Alfonsus, nicht die Ko- 

 niginnen, sondern die Arbeitsbienen, sind 

 langruesselig. 



M. Mercier says in Progres Apicole that 

 if from a colony the queen and all eggs and 

 unsealed brood be removed at the same time, 

 such colony will never develop laying work- 

 ers. From this he concludes that laying 

 workers are produced in this way: When a 

 queen is removed and all brood left, the 

 brood to be fed becomes less and less at a 

 rapid rate, and the nurses have an oversup- 

 ply of pap; so the last part of the brood gets 

 an extra dose, enough to make laying work- 

 ers of them. I wonder if his premises are 

 correct. Possibly W. H. Laws can tell us; 

 for if M. Mercier is correct, then there 

 should never be laying workers in baby nu- 

 clei without brood. 



In spite of what I have said, under the 

 conditions that you name, Mr. Editor, page 

 1013, having to make a choice for fall feed- 

 ing between sugar, and honey that I didn't 

 feel safe to use without boiling, I'd take 

 the sugar. Too ticklish a job to cook the 

 honey enough to be sure of killing all spores 

 without heating too much for good winter- 



