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Vol XXXL 



APR. J 5, J 903. 



No. 8. 



To HELP get wax out clean, it is advised 

 in Leipz. Bztg. to stir into the melted mass 

 some cut straw, then press. 



Buckwheat, says F. Greiner, in Amer- 

 ican Bee-keeper, yields abundantly on the 

 hilly portions, but very poorly on the flats. 



Takes me back a quarter of a century to 

 hear A. I. Root talking enthusiastically 

 again about bees. Keep it up, Bro. Root; 

 but kind o' careful like, so it'll last. 



Camphor will drive ants away from 

 hives. — ///. Monatsblaetter. [Might it not 

 also drive away the bees? What is offen- 

 sive to one would be likely to be offensive 

 to the other. — Ed.] 



R. F. HOLTERMANN says, page 285, "No 

 starter needs to be used with " Weed foun- 

 dation. What under the sun does he mean? 

 [I give it up. This may have been a mis- 

 print that I overlooked. — Ed.J 



The experience of C. F. Bender, p. 290, 

 confirms the view that, wherever bees have 

 an equal choice between old comb and 

 foundation or new comb, they always pre- 

 fer the old, whether for honey or brood. 



Si'KAKING of sleeping upstairs in Cuba, 

 p. 295, it is well known in the medical fra- 

 ternity that in malarial regions those sleep- 

 ing downstairs may be badly shaken with 

 the ague while those sleeping upstairs are 

 exempt. 



Sylviac, in Le Rucber Beige, says that 

 from observations in different parts of 

 France, and in Texas, he learns that dur- 

 ing harvest there is a nightly loss of one- 

 fourth of the daily income of a colony. 

 [France and Texas! That is a rather 

 queer combination for Frenchmen to talk 

 about. — Ed.] 



I've had bees crawl up my trousers leg, 

 and it's any thing but comfortable; but, 

 my! C. E" Woodward must have baggy 

 trowsers to allow a parrot to climb up his 

 trousers leg. Come to think of it, may be 

 the parrot climbed up outside. 



Friend Doolittle says, p. 278, pasture 

 alsike till two weeks before the time you 

 want it to bloom. Others say, mow it be- 

 fore blossoms are formed. 1 wonder which 

 is better. I suspect the pasturing might be 

 worked later than the mowing. 



Yes, Mr. Editor, I own up that I had 

 the wrong idea in my head when I said I 

 didn't see how you could easily get a group 

 of five hives into a straight row. I sup- 

 posed you meant a group like the S. E. 

 Miller group in the ABC book. I hardly 

 suppose you would advocate having a group 

 of five close together in a straight row. 



W. Fitzky, the industrious gleaner of 

 Centralblatt, mentioning Ferry's dog report- 

 ed in Gleanings, says they may have not 

 only long-tongued bees from this country, 

 but as the latest specialty " swarm-an- 

 nouncing American dogs. [Our German 

 correspondent might get prices on these 

 dogs in dozens and hundreds lots. He evi- 

 dently implies that they are quite numer- 

 ous. The Root Co. will buy up 100 or so 

 if they are obtainable. I have no doubt we 

 could obtain a good market for animals that 

 would watch bees and sound the alarm 

 when they swarm. — Ed.] 



R. C. AiKiN has succeeded in making me 

 swallow his "bologna sausage*' and then 

 " look pleasant, ■' but I can't swallow (with- 

 out gagging) his definition of " swarm " as 

 merely a "congregation of bees,'* p. 28b. 

 Strictly speaking, I doubt there ever being 

 any swarm without swarming, although by 

 courtesy the term may be applied to an 

 imitation. And I hardly see why he ob- 

 jects to the imitation being called " artifi- 

 cial," for the word "artificial" has, for 

 its first meaning, " produced by art rather 

 than by nature." But if he comes back at 

 me too hard, I'm ready to crawfish; for one 

 of the things I never expect to master is the 

 English language. 



