905. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



149 



A REVIEW. 



Wheu selecting material for this is- 

 ue, the following anonymous letter 

 as found upon the copy hook. We 

 dink, however, that our readers will 

 ecognize the ear-marks. — Editor. 

 So ye had to get that Rhode Island 

 liller to help ye out did ye? What, 

 e ye gettin old or lazy? Ye never 

 '^as lazy and I don't see as ye are 

 etting allfired old, so I spose I must 

 rant ye did it for the best. I'll see 

 ow ye trot together for awhile afore 

 express my opinion of the team. Now, 

 3e here, I want to talk to ye about 

 16 June paper. Taking to poetry 

 )me and its a good idee when the 

 jlections is good. 



Sixty years among the bees is a 

 irty long time. Wonder what «ome 

 f 'em as has been boasting about 

 alf that number of years will uo 

 ow? 



So Bro. Hall takes seriously our 

 iffy on the merits of Ontario honey, 

 e is old enough to know we uns 

 itter than that. How«umever it is 

 >od honey and after this puff look 

 it for the carloads of honey labeled 

 ^ade in Ontario." 



The Hanegan-Jacobs method of 

 lipment looks like a good thing and 

 "tliey «ay it is, that goes. 



The Agricultural Department's pro- 

 )sed study of honey and pollen ca- 

 lcifies of new plants sounds good, 

 elp it along. 



Progressiveness, eh! Miller's pro- 

 essiveness! It'll stir some of the 

 )ys, see if it don't. 

 French's story of his brick-tojp 

 )iary run for comb honey sounds 

 ther laborious. Eighty days of work 

 I one hundred and twenty-'five col- 

 ies will stagger some of we uns. 

 Just read Greiner's "Good Scheme" 

 :ain. Lot of good meat there. 

 Bro. Andre says he used to lose 

 lonies that were weak in the spring, 

 id stopped it by putting in new 

 rings. 



Friction of the Factions in England 

 d Ireland don't seem as unseemly 

 Watson as it seemed in the Irish 

 !e Journal. Reckon if the seams 

 IS ripped all might join and fashion 

 aew garment. 

 Tariff revision of honey, is it? Well 

 me out of the discussion for I 

 ve no desire to get twixt the Re- 

 uonists and the Stand Patters. 



Mr. Raudin is quoted as feeding 

 himi) sugar to his bees. Phew! If 

 Miller gets after him I see his fin- 

 ish. 



The Bee-Keeping World is mighty 

 good, and thorn headings of the dif- 

 ferent paragraphs are prime fun. 



Editorial pages. Say which is 

 who's? Wish I knew. No, I don"t 

 neither. It's more sport guessing, and 

 they are lots of fun anyway. Um, 

 how spicy! Quite a scheme, that of 

 slipping in apt quotations. Watch the 

 rest adopt it. 



Well, I must flit. Ahhh. 



PROF. SLADEN'S BOOK. 



There lies upon our desk a neat lit- 

 tle book entitled "Queen Rearing in 

 England" by F. W. Sladen, F. E. S., 

 proprietor of the Ripple Court Apiai-y, 

 near Dover, England, and published in 

 London in 1905. It opens with a col- 

 ored frontispiece showing a "Golden 

 Italian Queen" and an "Extra Golden 

 Worker Bee." They are produced on 

 a scale one and a half times natural 

 size, and make a very pretty beginning. 

 The work embraces Queen-rearing in 

 Nature; Modem Queen-rearing; Nuclei 

 and Fertilization of Queens; How to 

 Save Queens Reared under the Swarm- 

 ing Impulse; Drones and Drone-rear- 

 ing; Introduction of Queens and Send- 

 ing Queens by Post; Races of Bees, 

 Breeding for Improvement; A Scent 

 Producing Organ in the Abdomen of 

 the Worker-bee; The Honey Bees of 

 India; and Enemies of the Honey Bee 

 in South Africa. 



In the parts devoted to queen-rear- 

 ing, introducing, nuclei, etc., there is 

 nothing new; it being but a description 

 of the cell cup and caging systems 

 well known here. 



The chapters on the Scent Producing 

 Organ, The Honey Bees of India, and 

 Enemies of Bees in South Africa, are, 

 however, quite interesting. The so- 

 called scent organ is the little white 

 stripe which the worker shows be- 

 tween the fifth and sixth segments 

 of the abdomen, visible under certain 

 conditions. Many bee-keepers may 

 have noticed it without suspecting 

 that the little white spot had any spe- 

 cial function. To the casual observer 

 it looks as if the bee iu her excite- 

 ment had extended the abdominal 

 rings too far and that the joint of 

 one had slipped out. 



Of the Honey Bees of India there are 



