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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Sept. 14, 1899. 



Illation must have taken place tbat very 

 afternoon. 



On Aug. 4 we lookt again, and found a 

 good many eggs in two of the frames, and 

 to-day the hive is full of brood and many 

 young bees hatching. 



The general opinion among bee-keepers 

 is, tbat if a virgin queen does not meet a 

 drone within 21 days, she is no good. I 

 wonder what those bee-lights think of this 

 case — a virgin queen caged for seven weeks, 

 and still all right. 



I never had a case like it, and never read 

 of one in the American Bee Journal in my 

 17 years of bee-keeping. 



Bernard W. Hatck. 



Adams Co., 111., Aug. 30. 



Why We Blush. 



Editor York:—! have been a subscriber 

 to the American Bee Journal for nearly a 

 year. I will express my appreciation for 

 your efforts to produce such a sprightly 

 paper, deserving of the support of every 

 one interested in bees. The many articles 

 by veterans in apiculture are especially in- 

 teresting and instructive to amateurs like 

 myself. 



Altho I am almost past the prime of life. 

 and too old to learn many new tricks, I 

 wish you all possible success with the green 

 wood, i. e., young generation, to simplify 

 the orthography of the English language. 

 Never mind ridicule — that is the fate of re- 

 formers in every branch of human thought 

 and effort. 



I want to shake the hand of Mr. Doolittle 

 for the bold and manly stand he takes in 

 his recent article on the price of honey. 

 He is a man who looks below the surface. 

 If the people of his district want to do 

 themselves proud, they should send him 

 where such men are badly needed — to Con- 

 gress. F. G. Smith. 



Sonoma Co., Calif. 



"The Nectar in Flowep-Cups." 



Regarding that cogitation on page 487. in 

 regard to my position on the different 

 rjualities of nectar in the same flower-cup, 

 1 wish permission to remark that I wrote so 

 briefly that I did not have space to say that 

 lime and silica are sparingly soluble in 

 water, the latter the more sparingly ; that, 

 as the subterranean waters flow along thru 

 the veins and fissures, they contain certain 

 properties, as CO2 for lime, for example, 

 which make the minerals more soluble, so 

 that they are carried in greater quantities 

 to the surface in sulnliim : tbat the water 

 there parts with these conditions, and loses 

 its solvent power, when most of the parti- 

 -cles of mineral change to being merely in 

 SHnpe!i!<iu>i. and are deposited according to 

 rapidity of flow of the water and rapility 

 of rate of loss of solvent conditions. But 

 still I have not room to enlarge upon it. 



And now 1 will confess to our good friend 

 Cogitalor. that 1 do not 1,-now that "two 

 contiguous nectar-glands secrete nectar of 

 exactly the same thinness." But I conti- 

 dently hdiive that there is no material dif- 

 ference; and I don't believe that Cogitator 

 knows that there is any difference. More- 

 over, if a ribbonlike film of nectar xlio'ihl 

 dry down at one end. as he suggests, it 

 would be the «;)/»/■ end of it that would dry 

 first, being nearer the air; and. if yester- 

 day's sfcretion should thicken before to- 

 day's secretions are being poured out. it 

 would show that bees were not overstockt, 

 or the nectar would not have remained un- 

 fathered; and, besides, from theestablisht 

 tendency of such things toward solution, 

 what would hinder the thin nectar just 

 poured out from dissolving and absorbing 

 the other ? or. what would binder the 

 morning dews from doing so ? And why 

 would this nectar dried down in the flower 

 be any better as to quality than the same 

 dried down in the hive ! 



I fancy this is rather a fanciful theory; 

 and that is why I called attention to what 

 seemed to me the weak points in the argu- 

 ment in its favor. It might be well for the 

 next article in defense of it to specify how 

 many and what species of flowers positively 



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have nectaries that allow honey-bees to sip 

 the upper part of the nectar but not the 

 lower portion; and just which of these 

 species do not give their distinctive flavor 

 or aroma to the honey by means of a vola- 

 tile oil tbat is more apt to rise to the top 

 than to settle to the bottom. It might be 

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 ing honey destroys its flavor, and to say 

 why this is if not because the flavor is 

 lighter and more volatile that the sweeten- 

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 dimensions and depths of the drops of nec- 

 tar in the various flowers. I write with 

 only the kindest of feelings, tbo I think 

 that this theory is undoubtedly erroneous 

 in every respect. A. Norton. 



Monterey Co., Calif. 



Season Too Wet and Cold. 



The season has been too wet and too cold 

 at night for bees. Flowers have been 

 plenty all summer. Alsike is in bloom and 

 will be until frost: plenty of buckwheat, 

 fire-weed, golden-rod, etc. Bees work hard 

 when the weather is pleasant, but the nee- 

 tar is too thin. This has been the best day 

 for honey-gathering for some days. 



I started last fall with 22 colonies of hy- 

 brids, rather dark ; I lost one colony in the 

 winter, and one in the spring. I use 10- 

 frame chaff hives. The snow drifted over 

 them, but I left them there all winter. I 

 fed syrup to the bees in the spring and rye 

 ground for poUeu. I have increast to 40 

 colonies. I shall want to Italianize all of my 

 bees as soon as I can. Oklo Gleason. 



Newaygo Co.. Mich., Aug. 16. 



A Regular Growl. 



The fads for the modern bee-keeper are 

 getting too numerous; and if one took up 

 all the so-called improvements he might 

 sell large quantities of honey and still have 

 an empty purse. So many conveniences 

 are about equal to putting two handles on 

 a dipper — it is more work to operate them 

 than they are worth ; and changing shapes 

 and sizes of sections so often is perfectly 

 exasperating; then the separator must be 

 toggled over and over, wide and narrow, 

 short and long. 



There is no better general-purpose hive 

 than the old-fasbioned Langstroth. with its 

 opening side instead of a division-board, 

 the extracting-super holding the same size 

 frames as the brood-chamber, and 2 pound 

 section supers. 



The chaff hive may be very fine for win- 

 tering bees out-of doors, but it is altogether 

 too ponderous for a woman to handle. And 

 that gable roof t cover has a way of hitch- 

 ing at the corners that is a vexation to the 

 soul of at least one woman who is usually 

 in a hurry and don't want to be bothered. 

 Board blankets, too, are a nuisance unless 

 a cloth lining is used with them: for my 

 bees have a way of sticking them down so 

 tight that a knife or some prying tool must 

 be used to lift the cover, which usually 

 comes up with a jerk, and then there is 

 high tragedy for the next scene. 



Much as the plain sections and filled-out 

 combs are lauded, the sections that are 

 large enough to allow for the propolis 

 would please the average housewife best. 

 It is just as well if •■ the gravy " does not 

 make a vast spread till it is needed. "The 

 gravy!' what a name for a conserve; but 

 that's man-fashion. Mat Mai'lb. 



Manistee Co., Mich. 



Utah.— The Ut;ih Bee-Keepers' Association 

 win hold their stMni-,innual couventiou in the 

 City and Couuty iitiildiny. Salt Lake City, Oct. 

 5, at 10 o'clock a.m. A lull prof^ram in the in- 

 terest of the industry will be presented. All are 

 invited. Some prominent bee-keepers are ex- 

 pected to be present, and one or more meetings 

 mav be held at the State Fair. 



J. B. Fagg, Secretary. 



Illinois.— The annual meeting of the Northern 

 Illinois jfcJee-Keepers' Association will be held 

 at the Court House in Rockford, 111., on Tues- 

 day and Wednesday, Oct. 17 and 18, 1899. All 

 are cordially invited. B. Kknnedv, Sec. 



New Milford, 111. 



