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Vol XXXIII. 



APR. J, J 905. 



No 7 



Because of the difficulty of finding sale 

 for it, he Rucher Beige advises against the 

 production of section honey in Belgium. 

 Besides, bees sometimes swarm rather than 

 to work in sections. 



The most trying times for cellared bees 

 is when damp muggy weather comes with a 

 rise of temperature. Seems ever so much 

 worse than bright sunshine with same tem- 

 perature. [Right you are, — Ed.] 



The prospect seems to be good for a big 

 crop all over; but with honey a drug on the 

 market, and a lot more dumped upon it, 

 where shall we be at ? [I expect to see the 

 honey market materially toned up. — Ed.] 



Walter S. Pouder gives some good 

 things to think about, p. 301; but I think if 

 he were on the Board of Directors for a few 

 years he'd hardly want one for each State. 

 In my judgment a mistake was made when 

 the number was increased to 12. 



Take two men, A and B, alike in every 

 respect except that A is well nourished and 

 B is poorly nourished. Both succumb to 

 cold at the same moment. If taken in time, 

 both may be revived. At the last moment, 

 when it is possible to resuscitate him, the 

 proper means are used to restore A, and he 

 lives. The same means are used at the 

 same moment to restore B, but he dies. He 

 would have lived if he had been as well fed 

 as A. We don't say he starved to death; 

 we say he froze to death. Why not talk 

 the same way about bees? 



"There is only one cellar in a hundred 

 that will hold such uniformity of tempera- 



ture, irrespective of conditions outside," as 

 Doolittle's, p. 292. Better make it one in 

 three or four hundred. [Yes, and I am not 

 sure but we might make it one in a thousand. 

 One could not, therefore, follow Doolittle 

 safely on this point unless he could have ex- 

 actly his conditions in every respect. We 

 have two outyard cellars, and can not begin 

 to get the results with these that we can 

 with the one under the machine-shop, where 

 the great bulk of our bees are wintered.— 

 Ed.] 



Further experience makes me less 

 afraid to have bees fly with snow on the 

 ground, provided it be not fresh and soft. 

 March 16 I took out 20 colonies for a flight, 

 thermometer 55, ground covered with snow, 

 and scarcely a bee was to be found on the 

 snow; but quite a few were found where 

 water stood on the road in the afternoon. 

 [At one time it would be perfectly safe to 

 let bees fly out with snow on the ground, 

 and at other times it would result in a heavy 

 loss of bees. As explained in a previous is- 

 sue one can not rely wholly on the thermom- 

 eter.— Ed.] 



" I think we all agree . . . that win- 

 ter flights are probably unnecessary in cold 

 localities when the temperature of the cel- 

 lar can be maintained at a uniform point, 

 and where it does not warm up much if any 

 until it is about time to put the bees out 

 permanently." Beg pardon. I think that 

 a whole lot of us do not agree. Those are 

 the localities where confinement is long and 

 flights much needed. Besides, not one in 

 fifty can hold uniform temperature. But, 

 although we may think the flight needed, we 

 are in doubt as to its advisability because 

 uncertain as to its after-effects. [See foot- 

 note to another Straw on this subject. — Ed.] 



" One at a time is the law of the loose or 

 the staple-spaced frame," says Geo. W. 

 Phillipps, p. 2^9. True for the loose, but I 

 don't understand why it should be for the 

 staple-spaced. I know I can take out just 

 as many nail-spaced frames at a time as 



