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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



December 8, 



good volume of smoke, doesn't blow any In the entrance, but 

 blows under the cover as soon as raised, and keeps blowing 

 over and between franaes all the while he is putting the cover 

 aside and loosening the super. Then he quickly sets the super 

 on a wheelbarrow, covering with a robber-cloth. The whole 

 operation is done in two minutes If the con^bs are all sealed, 

 longer if the cells are unsealed. The combs are taken on the 

 wheelbarrow to the honey-house, and the bees remaining on 

 them fly to the escape window, a few young ones being brusht 

 on some extraoting-combs. 



Experience on too Small or Large a Scale. — Editor 

 Hutchinson has advised trying new things only on a small 

 scale. Dadant and Heddon object that you can't tell much by 

 too small experiments. Editor H. says there are two sides to 

 the question, and gives the sensible rule : " It Is not advisa- 

 ble to adopt a new plan or Invention, about which there is any 

 doubt, upon a larger scale than that upon which you can 

 afford to meet with failure. — Bee-Keepers' Review. 



Southern Honey.— The editor of the American Bee- 

 Keeper enters a protest against some statements made at the 

 Omaha convention relative to Southern honey. E. R. Root 

 said : " Southern honey has a strong flavor which is liked by 

 some." Mr. Hill thinks the«lder Root was nearer the mark 

 when he said, " Most localities yield both good and poor honey." 

 Mr. Whitcomb Is askt for proof of his assertion that a warm 

 climate produces honey of Inferior quality, and a colder cli- 

 mate honey of much better flavor. C. F. Muth is quoted as 

 including In the three choicest varieties of American honey, 

 two that are Southern. 



Much Depends on How a Thing is Said.— The editor of 

 the Bee-Keepers' Review says there are different ways of tell- 

 ing what one knows. " Knowledge, of the accuracy of which 

 one is absolutely positive, if imparted with an air of superior- 

 ity, often arouses resentment Instead of gratitude. To be able 

 to point out the ignorance or fallacious Ideas of a friend with 

 such tact that he seems to have discovered them himself ; to 

 start In his mind a train of reasoning that will lead him to a 

 correct conclusion ; to thus bring out the best that is in him, 

 is an accomplishment worthy of great effort. One can be pos- 

 itive and outspoken, and yet courteous." True words, and 

 well said. 



Full Sheets of Foundation in Sections were discust In 

 the Canadian convention. Messrs. Best and Post thought full 

 sheets secured twice as much honey as small starters. Mr. 

 Sparling and Mr. Holtermann thought not so much as double. 



and Mr. McEvoy thought three times as much. Messrs. HaU 

 and Hoshall had tried. In the same super, sections filled with 

 foundation and sections with a narrow strip. The former 

 were solidly sealed while the latter were half full of comb with 

 no sealing at all. Messrs. Holtermann and Newton argued a 

 better price for the better appearance of sections as full of 

 foundation as possible without bulging. — Canadian Bee 

 Journal. 



Are Separators Indispensable ? — H. R. Boardman In his 

 travels through Michigan, as he relates in the Bee-Keepers' 

 Review, was surprised to find that so many progressive, prac- 

 tical men had dispenst with separators. He thinks thought- 

 ful and careful apiarists may dispense with them, but the edi- 

 tor thinks It is more a matter of locality. Separators are 

 needed where the flow Is slow, or comes on slowly. In Mich- 

 igan the flow from clover or linden comes suddenly, the bees 

 commence on all sections, all grow alike and are like so many 

 bricks. But he would use separators In a place where many 

 bulged combs would be built without them. 



From the Egg to the Bee. — Fr. Greiner reports some ob- 

 servations In Gleanings. He watcht through a glass wall, a 

 colony with four frames In very hot weather, and at no time 

 in their history did the larviB die stretcht out straight — always 

 curled up. Part of the worker larvaa were sealed In 8 days 

 and 1-i hours, all within nine days. The shortest time from 

 the egg to the perfect worker was 20 days and 2 hours. AH 

 emerged from the markt cells In less than 21 days, except one 

 which he lost track of. In drone cells the capping occurred 

 In 10 days. The bees gnawed off the waxy surface of the 

 dronecapplngs to some extent, somewhat as they do with 

 queen-cells. The shortest time for the drone was 24 dayS' 

 and 16 hours, the longest time just 25 days. 



To Requeen Cheaply. — Delos Wood does it thus (Glean- 

 ings) : One of his best colonies he sets apart for queen-cells. 

 To another he gives a large amount of drone-comb. Stimu- 

 lates the one to be used for cells and gets a strong swarm from. 

 It. This swarm is put in an empty single-story hive, and as 

 soon as the queen has a circle of eggs and brood in several 

 combs, the queen is taken away. The edges of the combs are 

 cut away, thus removing the eggs, and having jiist-hatching 

 eggs at the edges. Cells are built by wholesale, and of the 

 best quality, the queens emerging at the same time. Many 

 fine cells can also be saved from the old colony that swarmed. 

 He never gets good queens by giving eggs. By the time the 

 larviie hatch out of the eggs the bees have lost their vim for 

 brood-rearing. 



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Does Any Color Irritate Bees ? 



Query S6.— 1. Is It true that bees are less 

 likely to stinp one with white clothing than 

 with black ? 



2. Or. ate bees In any way irritated by any 

 particular color /-Ohio. 



W. G. Larrabee— 1. Yes. 



Eugene Secor — 1. I think so. 



Prof. A. J. Cook— 1. I think so. 



Dr. A. B. Mason— 1. 1 believe It is. 



P. H. Elwood— 1. Yes. 2. Yes, dark 

 colors. 



Emerson T. Abbott — 1. I do not know. 

 2. I doubt It. 



Dr. C. C. Miller — 1. Yes. 2. The 

 lighter the better. 



G. M. Doollttle— Anything black and 

 woolly and fuzzy seems to call forth the 

 Ire of bees beyond anything else. A 



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