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Vol. XXXIII. 



MAR. J, J 905. 



No. 5 



Glad to see deep entrances favored for 

 cellar wintering, page 173. Two inches is 

 a good depth. 



A DEAD QUEEN is reported in Schweiz. 

 Bztg., with a hole in its abdomen out of 

 which crept a two-inch parasitic thread- 

 worm. 



A STRONG COLONY gathers about 3 lbs. of 

 pollen in a day— enough to fill both sides of a 

 comb 8 in. square. —/^L Monatsblaetter. No 

 wonder combs become pollen-clogged when 

 no brood is reared. 



Outdoor Bees "drawn up into a mass 

 not much larger than a good-sized snowball, ' ' 

 page 172. Might be a trifle more definite. 

 Boys "in this locality " make snowballs two 

 feet through, besides some of other sizes. 



H. Margiol, in III. Monatsblaetter, says 

 that, when hauling bees to the buckwheat 

 fields, it is a bad plan to try to cool them by 

 spraying water on them ; the temporary cool- 

 ing is succeeded by greater heat from the 

 moist air. 



"The practice of sending honey to com- 

 mission men was severely condemned in sev- 

 eral of the meetings. ' ' Yet those same con- 

 demners may find times when they don't 

 know what else to do with their honey, and 

 will be glad to send it to some reliable com- 

 mission man. 



Top entrances are said, in Apiculteur, 

 to increase the yield of honey 20 per cent. 

 I can imagine that there might be some in- 

 crease over hives with the entrance at bot- 

 tom, and that too small for hot weather. 

 For years I've had piles four or five stories 

 high, an entrance to each story, and an en- 

 trance at back of cover. I can't say wheth- 

 er they stored more honey, but I can say 



that none of them ever swarmed. But it 

 doesn't work for comb honey. 



Cube sugar, running about 80 pieces to 

 the pound, is all ready to feed bees without 

 any melting or other preparation. Just drop 

 the cubes over or between the frames, and 

 there you are. So says M. Guyot in Bulle- 

 tin de la Societe des Agriculteurs de France. 

 Now, why is not cube sugar just the same 

 as granulated sugar made into candy? Costs 

 only half a cent more (by the quantity), and 

 would save some trouble. 



Speaking of ordering a lot more things 

 than one can eat, page 190, A. I. Root says: 

 ' ' Perhaps some who read these pages may 

 consider you and me penurious, and say we 

 make a fuss about trifles." Old friend, do 

 you know what makes most Americans go 

 on in that wasteful way ? Cowardice, pure 

 cowardice. They're afraid of being thought 

 stingy, and so they are wicked. And yet 

 the best specimen of broad-minded manhood 

 that ever lived said, ' ' Gather up the broken 

 pieces which remain over, that nothing be 

 lost. ' ' 



Midwinter flights have been condemned 

 chiefly, if not solely, because the bees were 

 uneasy afterward. I wonder if C. Daven- 

 port has not for the first time given us the 

 explanation, page 181— also the remedy: the 

 bees must be returned inside of 36 hours. 

 Here's my best bow, friend Davenport. [It 

 had never occurred to me that any one would 

 ever think of keeping bees out for such a 

 flight for more than one day. So far, Feb. 

 27, we have not had a good day ; but the 

 bees are more quiet this spring because the 

 cellar-doors have been open for some time 

 past. —Ed.] 



Candy. "Do not stir, as that makes it 

 mealy or grainy," p. 185. "Make it boil, 

 and stir it. . . we have much more moist- 

 ure in the stirred sugar candy, and we want 

 all the moisture we can possibly have. " — 

 ABC. Now "where are we at"? [But 

 the trouble with stirred or mealy candy is 

 that so much of it is wasted. The granules 

 separate and rattle down between the 

 frames on the bottom-board, and are carried 



