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VoL XXXIII. 



JULY 15, J 905. 



No 14 



First white clover I saw in bloom this 

 year was May 27. First sweet clover June 

 i9, two days later than J. A. Green reports. 



A MEATY ARTICLE that of Stachelhausen, 

 page 710, and I wish he'd write less for Ger- 

 man papers and more for papers on this side. 

 Easier for me to read the U. S. language. 



T. W. Morton asks, " Isn't it a fact that 

 robbers know that a colony is queenless by 

 the absence of the scent of the queen? " I 

 don't know, but it looks a good bit that 

 way. 



Charles F. Lashier winters in a frost- 

 proof building run entirely by ventilators. 

 Does he ventilate warm air into the build- 

 ing, or how does he keep the temperature 

 up to 44 degrees? 



Lots of time been lost by my bees, since 

 clover opened, by cold and wet weather; but 

 in spite of it they've made good progress, 

 some colonies having four supers on, if Her- 

 shiser will forgive such presumption. 



"Don't put on your sections until the 

 bees whiten the top edges of the comb," 

 page 720. That may be all right with you, 

 friend Carey, but here it would hasten 

 swarming to an objectionable extent. At 

 least I have always thought so. 



M. W. Shepherd wants to know "why 

 the majority are bait sections ' ' in Mr. Town- 

 send's article, p. 594. Didn't the printer 

 take liberties with the copy, and didn't Mr. 

 Townsend write ' ' the majority use bait sec- 

 tions" ? [The printing is according to copy, 

 doctor, but your suggestion seems good. — 

 Ed.] 



Beg pardon, Mr. Editor, but I don't be- 

 lieve bees would build cleats of fences into 

 adjoining comb unless there were less than 

 i inch between the two, page 728. [While 



bees will make a groove in the comb direct- 

 ly opposite the post in the fence, there will 

 be quite liable to be comb attachments. 

 Moreover, a comb with four upright grooves 

 in it will be a mean thing to uncap for ex- 

 tracting. So, all things considered, the fence 

 ought to be a ''one-sided " affair. —Ed.] 



E. H. HoRNE asks how far his two apia- 

 ries should be apart, p. 725. Probably three 

 miles or more. His plan of keeping drone- 

 guards on would be all right, only with the 

 large number of swarms that would be sure 

 to be out at a time in an apiary of consider- 

 able size, with each colony coming out as he 

 says every day for several days, there would 

 be some unpleasant demoralization, swarms 

 returning to the wrong hives, leaving their 

 old homes badly depleted. 



My colony with the Dibbem trap has 

 swarmed, and I supposed I could leave the 

 queen in the trap a few days, but she has 

 gone back into the hive. Quite a number of 

 bees were with her in the trap, and I sup- 

 pose the bunch favored her going down 

 through the cone escape. [The case is very 

 unusual of a queen going back through the 

 cone. Generally, I think it is better to re- 

 move the trap with a queen as soon as the 

 swarm has gone forth. —Ed.] 



Editor York and wife are here to spend 

 the glorious Fourth, he to play with me, and 

 both to eat strawberries that never traveled 

 on the cars, and cream that came from a 

 cow. [So you imply there is some cream 

 that never came from a cow. The dairy- 

 men had better get after you the same as 

 you are after the purveyors of the comb- 

 honey canard. But, " all 'e samee," I should 

 have liked to have had some of that cream, 

 and some of those strawberries that were 

 fresh from the vines. — Ed.] 



G. W. Meredith has gotten up a hive- 

 tool that deserves consideration from the 

 fact that one end terminates in a hook for 

 lifting a dummy— an important consideration 

 for those who use dummies. [An important 

 requisite of any hive-tool is a hook some- 

 where about it. The Root Co. is seriously 

 considering the matter of putting out a 

 drop-forge tool for next season. We would 

 have done it long ago, but no two bee-keep- 



