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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



J^ovemler 3, 



Badly Discouraged.— L'Abeille et sa Culture relates that 

 the season has been so discouraging that some bee-keepers are 

 destroying their bees rather than to feed them. One man 

 having 29 colonies saved two of them that were good and took 

 up the rest. From the 27 murdered colonies he obtained 47 

 pounds of honey, all told ! $1.60 per colony invested for feed 

 would have taken them through to another year with a chance 

 of double that amount In one harvest. 



Facing Comb Honey.—" Friend Doolittle thinks some of 

 us, when we throw bricks at his honey-facing doctrines, do not 

 take space enough in saying that he neither advises nor prac- 

 tices facing cases with sectionsof higherquality than the body 

 of the case. Thought I made that clear enough at the outset ; 

 but, as a comrade desires It, I will cheerfully say so some more. 

 Mr. Doolittle is an honest man, and acts accordingly — only in 

 this particular case he doesn't ta(fc accordingly. And having 

 tried our best to reconstruct him In that one particular, we 

 have to give reconstruction up in despair. Mind you, nothing 

 herein contained shall admit, in the least degree, that the man 

 who faces honey with higher grades has done other than a 

 wicked act, as well as an unwise act." — E. E. Hasty, In Bee- 

 Keepers' Review. 



Large vs. Small Hive-Entrances — Dr. Miller continues 

 the controversy on this subject in Gleanings, G. M. Doolittle 

 replying in the same number. The Doctor made tests with a 

 thermometer to find out whether the heat was greater in the 

 hive with a large or small entrance, but with no definite re- 

 sult, excepting to disprove the assertion of Mr. Doolittle that 

 it was cooler in the hive than out, in a hot day. 



Challenged to prove his assertion that bees can ventilate 

 best with an entrance not more than X Inch deep, Mr. Doo- 

 little replies : " I don't know that I can prove any such thing, 

 consequently I am not going to try; but from the hours I have 



lain beside hives with swinging bottom-boards and those with 

 large entrances, and seen the lack of ' fanners ' at work, un- 

 less those fanners were away up in the hive, I have formed 

 the opinion that the fanners could do more effectual work at 

 the li inch entrance than they could where they had all out- 

 doors to send a ' current of air through.' " 



The two men fall to come to any agreement as to what is 

 Nature's plan for the queen to follow in laying eggs. Dr. Mil- 

 ler says : " It's Nature's plan to lay the first eggs of the sea- 

 son in the center, and It's just as much her plan to lay the 

 next further out, and then further still as the brood-nest In- 

 creases in size." But Mr. Doolittle Insists that Nature tells 

 the queen to lay her eggs in the center, " and when it comes 

 about, by an expansion of the brood, that just the right thing 

 cannot be done, then do just as nearly right as circumstances 

 will allow." 



Northern Michigan has been much spoken of as an El 

 Dorado for bee-keepers. Byron Walker has been there for six 

 years, and in the Bee-Keepers' Review he gives the advanta- 

 ges and disadvantages of that region, premising that the ad- 

 vantages have been set forth heretofore in rather glowing 

 colors. He left Southern Michigan because altho he got good 

 crops the character of the honey in his particular locality was 

 such that % of his colonies were lost in wintering. Oue ad- 

 vantage In the North is the great variety of flora, extending 

 in the most favorable locations and seasons from early in May 

 till late in September. Wild red-raspberry exists In large 

 areas, yielding with certainty for three weeks a fine amber 

 honey. Basswood, not so reliable, has yielded two out of six 

 seasons. Willow-herb gives a superb white honey the chief 

 part of a month. In best locations it yields three out of six 

 seasons. Last season It failed in most locations. A fair yield 

 from fall flowers three seasons out of six. 



A disadvantage is that the best locations near towns and 

 schools are taken up. To get much from willow-herb, the 

 forests must be burned every two or three years, a thing that 

 cannot be depended on, and when the fires do come they're 

 likely to destroy the raspberry. Roads are sandy, stony, and 

 hilly to get around to out-yards. He has 500 colonies In nine 

 different yards, mostly in care of men who have a share, but 

 conscientious, competent men are hard to find. Cool nights 

 and cold winds are a drawback. 



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