614 



l)K. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



E. M. Gibson, page 580, my experience 

 with whole bottom-bars in connection witli 

 splints is probably much less than yours, 

 and it maybe safer to go by your experience 

 and use the split bottom-bars. 



Basswood honey in many regions ap- 

 pears almost black! — Deutsche Bzcht., 145. 

 [Is it not possible that the basswood honey, 

 instead of being almost black, was mixed 

 with an almost black honey from some oth- 

 er source.' We doubt if any pure basswood 

 honey is ever almost black; it is, in fact, al- 

 most the whitest honey that is produced. — 

 Ed.] 



The disgrace of the nation by Secretary 

 Wilson may be a good thing if it rouses the 

 people to the horrible fact, as stated in The 

 Epworth Herald, that since the days of 

 Blaine it has been the settled policy of the 

 government to aid the liquor interests. [If 

 what you sav is true, it is not always going 

 to be the settled policy of the government 

 to aid the liquor business. — Ed.] 



Glad to see A. I. Root lift his voice 

 against the terrible divorce scourge. A heavy 

 blow at the thing has been struck lately by 

 an Illinois judge, ruling that, when a tem- 

 porary residence is gained in another State 

 just for the purpose of getting a divorce, 

 that divorce doesn't count in Illinois. What 

 we need is laws and rulings, not to loosen, 

 but to make tighter the bonds of matrimony. 



A. I. Root, although a bit late, let me 

 congratulate you on your 50-year trudge 

 alongside so good a woman. Well may you 

 say to her in Browning's words: 



Grow old along with me! 



The best is yet to be. 



The last of life, for which the first was made. 



Our times are in his hand 



Who saith, '" A whole I planned: 



Youth shows but half: trust God: 



See all, nor be afraid!" 



A. I. Root goes without supper, and eats 

 apples. For the present I'm going without 

 breakfast and filling up on ripe pears. [The 

 fact is, several good apples will make a good 

 suppe-, a good dinner, or a good breakfast. 

 The same is true of pears. President Taft 

 is said to eat only apples for his lunch at 

 noon. The other day a young man told us 

 he had been without work, and had been 

 walking twenty miles a day hunting for a 

 job, and all he had had to eat for three whole 

 days was apples that he picked up in going 

 through the orchards. He did not look as 

 if he was starving either, by a long way. 

 Say, doctor, are you poking fun at A. I. R. 

 or at yourself? If so, you should have label- 

 ed this Straw as a joke. — Ed.] 



Hive odor, according to N. Ludwig, 

 Leipz. Bztg., 131, goes further than is gen- 

 erally supposed. Give bees a frame of hon- 

 ey from another colony, and directly there 

 is excitement, the bees pitch upon the hon- 

 ey, and likely play at the entrance, although 



they may already have plenty of honey in 

 the hive. From a frame of hatching brood 

 brush all the bees, wait till a number of 

 young bees have hatched, and then put 

 them on the brood-frames of other colonies. 

 The strangers will be seized by the wings 

 and dragged to the entrance. I wonder now. 

 [We never saw young bees — at least bees 

 just hatched — receive any more hostile at- 

 tention than mild toleration. In other 

 words, very young bees are received the 

 same as bees just hatched from the hive, ac- 

 cording to our experience, anywhere and 

 any time. We believe in colony odor and 

 in queen odor; but Mr. Ludwig is apparent- 

 ly overworking colony odor. — Ed.] 



Dr. Wiley may well thank his enemies 

 for their frantic efforts to oust him from of- 

 fice. Nothing could have shown him so 

 plainly the hosts of friends he has made all 

 over the country by his brave fight for the 

 interests of the people as against the inter- 

 ests of The Interests. [Had it not been for 

 the people, I)r. Wiley would have been 

 shelved in disgrace. We notice by the 

 morning papers that ]McCabe has been dis- 

 missed, and Dunlap given an indefinite 

 leave of absence. It is about time the Rem- 

 sen Board were given its walking papers al- 

 so. It was created, apparently, for the pur- 

 pose of setting aside Dr. Wiley's important 

 decisions, or, rather, decisions that affected 

 big interests. At all events, the big corpora- 

 tions have got off easy and the little fellows, 

 without influence or money either, have 

 been made to meet the requirements of the 

 law. We hojie that Dr. Wiley will now be 

 able to make some of the big fellows under- 

 stand that they too must obey the same law 

 that should be no respecter of persons. — 

 Ed.] 



Editor York, according to American 

 Advance, has been interested in the liquor 

 business — in a way. A liquor-manufactur- 

 ing concern sent him a nice little advertis- 

 ing contract, which was promptly returned, 

 with the reply, "Not for all the world would 

 we ad^ ertise whisky. Better get into some 

 honest business quick." The intimation 

 that making whisky is not an honest busi- 

 ness was taken in high dudgeon. "We let 

 you know that we expect a prompt letter of 

 apology from you, in which we expect you 

 to state plainly you did not mean a word of 

 what you said." And unless the apology 

 was received in six days (by Aug. 16) some- 

 thing might be expected to happen. The 

 reply was not an apology. Quite the con- 

 trary. Aug. 16 passed without any earth- 

 quake, and George is still out of jail. [Good 

 for Bro. York! There is probably not enough 

 liquor money in this whole country to make 

 him say that the liquor business is an hon- 

 est one. Too many publishers are influenc- 

 ed by the big stick of "advertising." See 

 what Collier's has to say about this. — Ed.] 



