164 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



August, 



sary. He must allow for au old bee- 

 keeper of TO beiug over-sensitive as 

 to his knowledge of apiculture. He, 

 no doultt, has a more gentle strain of 

 Cyprians. 1 have one colony of a dif- 

 ferent sti-ain from the imported ones; 

 though quite nervous can be handled 

 without much trouble, as instanced a 

 few days ago when I removed ten 

 surplus combs of honey without a 

 sting, when the others punished me 

 an hour afterward severely. 



1 have two diflferent strains of Car- 

 niolans, one very gentle, the other 

 quite vicious; so we must work by 

 selection for the most gentle. It has 

 been a g»"eat jdeasure to read the ar- 

 ticles of Mr. Miller and he can be a.s- 

 sured of my best wishes. 

 Yours truly, 



O. M. Blanton. 



pects have been, and are splendid, but 

 it rains about half of the time. I had, 

 spring count, 58 colonies, all in best 

 hives, etc., and have thus far in- 

 creased to 120, and will increase more 

 if possible. 



Fraternally yours, 



Leo F. Hanegan. 



New York, N. Y.. July 10, 1904. 

 Editor Bee-Keeper : 



Puzzle on page 143: Offensive smell 

 imparted l)y the brush which came in 

 contact with the bees. , 



Yours truly, 



Thos. Mocce. 



Williamsfield, 111.. July 14, 1004. 

 Editor Bee-Keeper: 



Spring has been very backward so 

 that bees were slow in building up 

 but honey flow was good. Basswood 

 very good, white clover very good, 

 but lasted only a few weeks and is 

 practically all gone at this date. Sweet 

 clover is doing well but is too scarce 

 to give much surplus. 



At present I have increased from 

 34 to 66 but bought two swarms. We 

 Avill not get more than one-third aj< 

 much honey iter colony as last year, 

 judging from present indications 



Summer has been very dry so corn 

 is pretty clean from smartweed. The 

 last few days we have had very 

 heavy thunder storms and heavy rain 

 fall, which may help fall flow some. 

 Some colonies have completed two su- 

 pers, best colony has nearly completed 

 fourth super. Poorest colony just be- 

 ginning in super. Four colonies lost 

 their queens in April and refused to 

 rear (pieen from brood and were final- 

 ly given ripe queen cell and reared 

 queens but are far behind the rest. 

 I guess it would have paid me to have 

 doubled them up. 



Yours truly. 



J. E. Johnson. 



Many of our correspondents and 

 foreign exchange.s are inclined to con- 

 fuse the names of the Amei'ican Bee- 

 Keeper and the American Bee Journal. 

 The two are entirely septirate publica- 

 tions, having no connection whatever, 

 and are issued from offices more than a. 

 thousand miles apart. We quite fre- 

 quently receive letters addressed to the 

 American Bee Journal, while foreign 

 exchanges not infrequently make use 

 of matter ai)pearing in our columns 

 and credit our weekly contemporary 

 therewith. 



Nomenclature.^I wonder shall we 

 ever get done with the use of '"bar 

 frame" and "hybrid" in bee papers. 

 One might as well talk of a vegeta- 

 ble cabbage as of a "bar frame", and 

 as for "hybrid," why should the prod- 

 uct of an Iri.sh drone and an Ital- 

 ian queen be a hybrid any more than 

 the child of a French father and a 

 German mother? (We give it up. Ask 

 us another. Huxley says that hybrid 

 is " the product of different species, 

 with sterility preventing perpetuation 

 for over one or two generations." 

 "Hybrid," as denoting a cross, is 

 more common than accurate. How 

 would "mongrel" suit you? — Ed.)— 

 Irish Bee Journal. 



Glenwood. Wis.. 

 Dear Friend Hill: 

 Bees in this locality 



all that might be wished for. Pros 



American "Courtesy." — ^C. P. Da- 

 dant, it appeal's, has issued an invi- 

 tation for a delegation of British bee- 

 keepers to a convention at St. Louis. 

 He has not thought it necessnry to in- 



July 1.", 1004. vite Irish bee-keepers. :Mr. Padant is 

 Vice-President of the National B. K. 



are not doing A. of the Fnited States. He ou£:ht to 

 know better.— Irish Bee Journal. 



