JUNE 1. 1914 



Dr. C. C. Miller 



ITEAY 



Speaking of lining up against the saloon, 

 the question is asked, p. 400, " Will the old 

 parties dare line up"?" Good question. 

 Here's another : " Will Christian men dare 

 line up against the old parties if the old 

 parties don't line up against the saloon?" 



A House-Greiner difference of opinion 

 as to " early-raised queens " occurs on page 

 387. Queens reared by my bees before clover 

 bloom have nearly always proved a disap- 

 pointment; but since dandelions have be- 

 come so abundant there have been more suc- 

 cesses. Just possibly the Greiner bees may 

 liave a better chance for early rearing than 

 the House bees. 



Opposers of woman suffrage have ob- 

 jected that, if women had the vote, they 

 would vote just the same as the men. Illi- 

 nois women refuted that fallacy April 7. 

 Their vote closed a lot of saloons that the 

 male vote would have left open, and made 

 dry some of the larger cities such as Elgin. 

 [Late reports show that women's votes 

 made it possible to put out something over 

 a thousand saloons in Illinois. Speed the 

 day when the women in all the States can 

 vote. — Ed.] 



M. F. Markle tells me that Jews are 

 great honey-users. They make a specialty 

 of certain cakes or cookies made with honey 

 because of their keeping qualities. In gen- 

 eral they prefer candied honey for table 

 use. [The Jews are certainly very fond of 

 honey. They dispose of large quantities of 

 honey granulated in the comb, while other 

 peoples regard it with suspicion and will 

 not touch it. The Jews have taught us 

 thrift and finance, and perhaps they can 

 teach us something about eating granulated 

 comb honey. It is really fine eating. — Ed.] 



The Country Gentleman, p. 838, has a 

 full page on fighting insect enemies, in 

 which the sole reference to bees is in this 

 sentence: "Do not spray trees or plants 

 while in blossom, because of endangering 

 the lives of visiting bees." But that single 

 sentence is magnified many times by a sub- 

 head : " Have a Care for the Bees." This 

 goes to show that intelligent horticultural 

 editors are awake to the im^Dortance of 

 bees; and a plea from one of them is worth 

 more than a plea from all the bee-editors on 

 the continent. [Our fruit journals and agri- 

 cultural pajDers are now very strong against 

 spraying trees while in bloom. As we have 

 before mentioned in these columns, the 

 fruit-groweis are waking up to the impor- 

 tance of having bees pollinate their trees; 



and they are letting the fact be known by 

 asking local beekeepers to put bees on their 

 places. — Ed.] 



F. Greiner, you're dead right in that 

 good article, p. 386, that there is no better 

 time to rear queens than swarming time, a 

 time selected by Nature. But isn't super- 

 seding time just as natural? Please remem- 

 ber that in the natural course every queen 

 is superseded, and that by the bees. With 

 me, at least (and I suspect other bees are 

 like mine) that superseding practically al- 

 ways takes i^lace after swarming time is all 

 over. [In tins connection we venture the 

 statement that an experienced queen-breeder 

 who understands the art of feeding — that is, 

 of stimulating — can rear just as good queens 

 out of season as during the swarming or 

 supersedure impulse. Said an experienced 

 queen-breeder wdio has raised thousands and 

 thousands of queens, " I prefer to have no 

 honey coming in ; then I have all the condi- 

 tions under my control ; and knowing those 

 conditions I produce the best of queens." 

 And we believe he is right. But the average 

 queens raised by the average person will 

 not be equal to those raised under natural 

 imjDulses. — Ed.] 



FoLLOw^iNG the announcement of the Chi- 

 cago Eecord-Herald of its ban on liquor 

 advertisements, columns have been occupied 

 with endorsement and rejoicing from men, 

 women, and organizations of all sorts. On 

 the other side appears a defense of the 

 liquor business, occupying a column and a 

 half, by the president of the leading high- 

 class ( ?) liquor firm of Chicago. The great- 

 er part of it is occupied with a plea for 

 compensation from government in case the 

 business is closed up — clear proof that the 

 closing up is expected; and when those high 

 in the councils of the liquor power expect 

 the end it cannot be so very far away. [If 

 some of the temperance people would take 

 pains to write a courteous letter to the 

 editor of the daily that comes to their home, 

 protesting against the liquor advertisements, 

 and calling attention to the papers that have 

 already dropped them, it would have a tell- 

 ing effect. It is because Christian people 

 and temperance folks generally do not take 

 advantage of the power that lies in their 

 hands that these liquor advertisements con- 

 tinue. If an editor receives a dozen letters 

 a week from his temperance subscribers, 

 and if he has 100,000 names on his list he 

 would begin to think something would hap- 

 pen if he did not eliminate the offending 

 advertising. — Ed.] 



