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cause 'twould be "inconvenient' 

 have 'em happen. 



As the devil can quote Scripture, I 

 wonder how it w^uld seem if I should 

 say to the boys "Avoid the appearance 

 of evil." 



W. .Z thinks that the criticism of the 

 sugar habit is straining for effect. 

 Gosh all hemlocks, what in thunder do 

 I want of effect? To intimate that the 

 crop of a sugar feeder is increased is 

 plub proper until he all can prove 

 there ain't any sugar in it. Perhaps 

 the sugarees can tell we uns how it 

 happens that honey from their yards 

 is so often flat and insipid. That's the 

 word, insipid. Nice word. Perhaps 

 they will elucidate the because why 

 the onexpected caller so often 'finds 

 feeders full of syrup "accidentally"' 

 left on during the harvest. 



Fust thing Brers. Root and Hutch- 

 inson will be wonderin' how they 

 came to play catspaw for the sugarees. 

 Too bad, Harry. Just suggest to the 

 childer that if they must feed that 

 they save honey to do it with and 

 then the Korn Glucose Syrup fellers 

 can't say plausable tilings about we 

 uns. 



Don't they? Huh! Go ask your 

 grocer and he'll tell you "the childilke 

 and bland l?ee boys feM sugar to get 

 those nice white combs, and that sugar 

 makes the whitest w^ax, for their books 

 say so." 



I didn't wander over the old earth 

 for sixty odd years with my eyes and 

 ears shut. No! Not by the great horn- 

 spoon I didn't. 



Geewhillikins, but W. Z. is in for 

 more trouble and he and Freddy Muth 

 will feel as if they had been pulled 

 from a bargain couuter after A. I. R. 

 gets through with them. :Muth tells 

 how^ he dressed Peebles show window 

 on Saturdav night so 'twould pull the 

 "push" all day SUNDAY (wus than 

 Monday papers that are printed on 

 Sunday). Sinful Peebles, wicked 

 wicked Muth, not to draw the cur- 

 tains on Sunday, and naughty, 

 naughty W. Z. to publish all about the 

 glorious profit it yielded. Hot A. I. R. 

 will singe 'em all right. Such fire- 

 works. Phist-boom-ah, I smell 'em 

 burning. 



Where's my sheet? Oh ho! Them 

 is stage properties used to attract your 

 attention but now we're in touch I've 

 dropped into my more comfortable rig. 

 Smoke? Ha, ha, of course I do. 

 Ah-h-h. 



BEE-KEEPER. November, 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



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Gleaned by Mr. Getaz from L'Apiculteur and La 

 Revue Electrique. 



PUBLIC EXPERIMENTS. 



THE EUROPEAN societies of agri- 

 culture and apiculture are in the 

 habit of experimenting ob 

 whatever subjects may be deemed 

 worthy of investigation. This is done 

 by distributing to the members tbt 

 necessary seeds, or other things, re- 

 questing them to experiment on cer 

 tain lines and report. It is not com 

 pulsory to take part. When the re 

 ports are in, the results are published 

 in the official paper of the society 

 Right here, I may mention that ever: 

 society has an official journal, dis 

 tributed gratis to the members, an< 

 in which all the reports of the societ; 

 are published. That does not necessari 

 ly mean that the society goes into th 

 publication business. Usually arrangt 

 ments are made with some of th 

 standard papers. For instance, th 

 Apiculteur is txie official organ of th 

 International Congress of Apiculteui 

 and of eight apicultural societies. 



If I go at length into these details i 

 is because I think our American be 

 keeper societies might follow such 

 course with great advantage in man 

 cases. 



RELATING TO SWARMS. 



Among the subjects of study of oi 

 of the French societies was the que 

 tion of swarming. A series of que 

 tions was sent, in 1902, to the mer 

 bers, with request to observe and r 

 port. Here are some of the points a 

 certained : 



1. The swarming season in so far i 

 primary swarms are concerned, begli 

 (average dates) May 28th and em 

 June 30th. The extreme dates for tl 

 beginning have been so far May I? 

 and June 13t^; for the ending, Ju) 

 6th and July 4th. 



2. The relative number of swam 

 during the swarming season Is abo 

 one-fifth in May, one-half between t) 

 1st and 1'^^^^ of June, one-fourth b 

 tween June 11 and June 20, one-ten 

 after June 2ath. 



3. The earliest coming out of 

 swarm was 8:5 a. m., and the late 

 4 p. m. These are extreme limits. Tl 

 average number were as follows: Fi 

 per cent, before 10 a. m., twenty-t^ 

 per cent, between 10 and 12, iifty-s 

 per cent, between 12 and 2 p. m., fl 



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