THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



October 



acteristics and natural history). 



3. Growth and development of the 

 larvae. 



4. The cells: kinds, etc. 



5. The swarm. 



6. The Bee-yard 



7. The hive. 



8. Management. 



9. (a) Taking the honey, 

 (b). Rendering the wax. 



10. Uniting swarms. 



11. Queen breeding. 



12. Methods of transportation by 

 water and rail. 



13. Diseases and enemies. 



14. Bees do no harm to plants. 



While this Eastern work shows no- 

 thing strikingly new, it does indicate 

 that Japan is alert and attempting to 

 keep abreast with the West. If she 

 keeps on in this direction, we may well 



leave it there; but they do not. Thej 

 carry it into the upper story as sooi 

 as the queen needs more room below 

 This is easily ascertained by fiUinj 

 the hive with buckwheat honey in ear- 

 ly spring and watch results. When thf 

 clover honey comes there will b( 

 found buckwheat honey in the sec 

 tions — sometimes full sections of it 

 This is particularly true where bar 

 sections are used. That Mr. Boardmar 

 and Gleanings (which, by the way 

 dishes up a lot of trash) deny it, doe; 

 not make it so. It makes me thinl 

 of a relative of my wife's. He was i 

 Seventh Day Adventist and those peo 

 pie at that time considered pork-eatinj 

 and beer drinking a sin. This man'i 

 main crops were pork and barley 

 When asked why he raised those tw( 

 crops when it was sinful to eat porl 





SOME JAPANESE BEE APPLIANCES. 



expe-ct to soon hear of important 

 apiaries in the East; we may expect 

 to look there for advanced ideas. 

 Worcester, Mass., Sept. 2, 1905. 



THEORY VS. PRACTICE. 



By Dr. W. R. Claussen. 



pDITOR Bee-Keeper: It was with 

 ■^^ gratification I read Mr. A. C. Mil- 

 ler's article on sugar feeding in the 

 September issue of American Bee- 

 Keeper. One great trouble with a 

 good deal of our literature is that the 

 editors try to be scientific and pay too 

 little attention to the practical work- 

 ings of the hive. 



The packing of the brood nest with 

 sugar syrup looks, from a theoretical 

 standpoint, correct enough and would 

 be all right provided the bees would 



and drink beer, he answered: "Mos 

 of the pork raised is converted int( 

 wagon grease and other lubricant: 

 and the probability is mine will nev 

 e/ be used for food." The barley tha 

 was left over from fattening the hog; 

 was shipped to Milwaukee, but it wa; 

 probably not used to make "the bee: 

 that made Milwaukee famous." S( 

 with Gleanings. The supposition i: 

 that what syrup is put into the brooc 

 chamber will be used for food for thf 

 young and only the real article storec 

 for human use. 



Last spring I was in one apiary 

 where sugar syrup is left in troughs 

 all through the spring (thanks tc 

 Gleanings' teaching.) I protested with 

 the man; the answer I got was that 

 it did not incite robbing and that they 

 would not touch it when honey came 

 in. Both statements are true; but that 



