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AMERICAN BEE JCuRNAL. 



April 13, 1899. 



the^' make for the safe keeping' of their treasures. They 

 not only frequently glance in the direction of their stored 

 valuables, but inadvertentl)' clasp their hands over them 

 for greater assurance, thus revealing their secret to such as 

 might annoy them. This constant fear greatly mars the 

 pleasures of traveling. The only class likely to come to 

 grief is the ignorant and vainglorious, anxious to display 

 their ' Smart Aleck '-ism to all who seem to cater to their 

 conceit. These fools — they are generally from 18 to 24 — 

 deserve the punishment they so glaringly invite. 



" The better way is to modestlj' attend to one's legiti- 

 mate business, and conclude that our fellow travelers are as 

 reasonable, civil and as honest as ourselves. This principle 

 will secure for us due respect and avoid disappointments. 



"Dr. Peiro." 



To Secure the Whitest Sections, Mr. Shaver, of Canada, 

 allows no sections to be sealed over old brood-combs. Colo- 

 nies with old combs are allowed to build combs in sections 

 and fill them, but. as the capping process is begun, the 

 super is transferred to a colony of the current year. — Bee- 

 Keepers' Review. 



Keeping Bees Qood=Natured is considered by T. F. 

 Bingham, in the Bee-Keepers' Review, and the moral of his 

 discourse is that if we would get along in towns without 

 having complaints from neighbors as to cross bees, we 

 should keep a cloud of smoke in the apiary when working 

 with them. A good bit in that. It is also quite possible 

 that Mr. Bingham had in mind that if more care were taken 

 in this respect there would be more Bingham .smokers in 

 use, and there was nothing wicked in the thought if he did 

 think so. 



The Secret of Successful Honey=Production, according 

 to Messrs. Aikin and Doolittle. in the Progressive Bee- 

 Keeper, lies i;; so manipulating colonies as to have the max- 

 imum number of bees on hand ready for the harvest, and 

 those bees without any desire to swarm. To prevent 

 swarming. Doolittle saj-s cage the queen for 10 days just 

 before harvest, then cut out ali queen-cells, cag'e the queen, 

 or one just commencing- to la}- in her place, in a cage with 

 a stopper of candy that will take the bees about two days to 

 eat thru, and swarming is done for six weeks, and for 

 the whole season unless the honey-flow is long drawn out. 



Latest Development in Weed Foundation. — A series 

 of illustrations in Gleanings show thicknesses of walls and 

 bases in natural comb and in different kinds of foundation, 

 running from five to 13 feet to the pound. It seems to be a 

 question that has not been fully settled in the minds of all 

 whether it is better to have extra wax in the base or in the 

 incipient side-walls, or whether the bees would thin either 

 or both. The latest eft'ort of Mr. Weed is to produce foun- 

 dation with a very thin base, with a side-wall not very deep 



but containing considerable wax. The experiments of 

 Hon. R. L. Taylor showed a thinner base in Given founda- 

 tion than in others, notwithstanding the fact that rolls 

 would make a more regular and a nicer-looking article. 

 Editor Root says that " experiments show that we can stick 

 as much wax as we like in the walls, for it will be thinned 

 down ; but we must be careful about getting too much in 

 the bases : for while the bees i>iay thin it there, they rarely 

 do ; and the excess of wax. therefore, in the bases is simply 

 so much waste product, and who pays for it ? The bee- 

 keeper, and not the supply-dealer." At present the new- 

 product is made with plates, in sheets large enough to fill a 

 section, the thickness being- about Jij-inch. 



Spraying Fruit=Trees. — J. W. Rouse says that spraying- 

 trees when in bloom shows ignorance on the part of the 

 sprayers. The time to spray depends on the object of the 

 spraying. For fungus, before bloom. For codling-moth, 

 after the bloom has fallen, as the moth does not deposit her 

 eggs until the fruit is set. For information as to spraying, 

 send to Cornell University, Ithaca. N. Y., for Bulletin No. 

 101 (The Spraying of Trees), also Bulletin No. 86 (Spraying- 

 of Orchards), both being sent free, as also Farmers' Bulle- 

 tin No. 7, sent out by U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. The best of all is the Spray Calendar, 

 issued in 1895 by Cornell University Agricultural Station. 

 — Gleanings. 



Bee-Keeping No Sinecure in Cuba. — A. W. Osburn's 

 son warns adventurers not to be too rash in rushing into a 

 strange country to make a fortune. Money, big money, 

 can be made at bee-keeping in Cuba, but it takes work, big- 

 work. To produce a crop of honey requires 365 days' work 

 in the year. " The tropical sun shines and the flowers 

 bloom the year round." Beginning with March, for an 

 apiary of 500 or 600 colonies, 125 or 150 queens must be 

 reared, got to laying, and colonies must be built up. By 

 May swarming is in full blast, no time for a nap between 

 swarms, and for four months the wax-worm furnisljes 

 much employment. Then when the harvest begins to come 

 in, when the 500 or 600 colonies get limbered up and bring- 

 in 2,500 or 3,000 pounds in a day, " you have to step around 

 as if you had coals of fire in your shoe.'' The thought of 

 taking in $125 a day occasionally, is hinted at as no slight 

 offset. — Gleanings. 



Boiling FouUBroody Honey. J. H. Martin comes in 

 as a pacificator in Gleanings, with the belief that those who 

 hold such diverse views as to the time of boiling necessary 

 to kill foul-brood spores may all be right. He thinks the 

 boiling acts in strata, the lower stratum boiling first, and 

 so on to the top. A small amount will be boiling- thruout in 

 a short time, but not so a larger quantity. He advises, 

 " boil a g-allon in a large boiler 10 minutes, 20 gallons an 

 hour, 50 gallons three hours." Prof. Hodg-e, in the same 

 journal, calls attention to the much greater difficulty of de- 

 str6ying the vitality of sport's, advising at least 15 minutes 

 boiling with thoro stirring on three successive daj^s. The 

 expectation is that b}' the time of the third boiling all the 

 spores may have vegetated, and as bacilli 15 minutes will 

 be enough to kill them. T. W. Cowan says : " The spores 

 also possess the power of enduring adverse influences of 

 various kinds without injury' to their vitality, so far as 

 germinating is concerned, even if subjected to influences 

 fatal to bacilli themselves. The latter are destroyed at the 

 temperature of boiling water, while the spore apparentlj' 

 suffers no damag-e at that temperature." 



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Alf.alfa Clover 60c 1.20 2.75 5.00 



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