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Vol. XXXI. 



MAY U J 903. 



No. 9. 



m/DnCCMiLER. 



Bee-master Dathe asserts in Central- 

 hlatt that diarrhea is almost alwaj^s the re- 

 sult of need of water; no fear of diarrhea if 

 bees have the necessary water in the fall. 

 I wonder if that can be possible. 



Arthur C. Miller is stirring- up the an- 

 imals again. This time it's humidity — he 

 insists in A7h. Bee-keeper that moisture is 

 of exceeding importance in queen-rearing. 

 "Who said it wasn't?"' Aye, but who said 

 it was? 



W. J. Davis offers, in Am. Bee Journal, 

 to mail 20 or 30 "umbilical cords" for a 

 stamp to paj' postage. I wouldn't waste a 

 fjood stamp in that way; they would be too 

 much dried on the journey to be properly at- 

 tached to the 3'oung queens. 



"Put yourself in his place." That 

 resolution, p. 322, shows that York State 

 bee-keepers want themselves known as the 

 producers of honey. So do I. So do we all. 

 Hut if I were bu3'ing and selling", I'd want 

 my name known as the man from whom 

 grocers could alwaj's count on getting good 

 honej-, whether comb or extracted. "Put 

 yourself in his place." 



I don't believe there is any case on rec- 

 ord in which it was clearly proven that the 

 killing of one bee caused a cessation of the 

 laying-worker business. And I think there 

 never was an analysis made without show- 

 ing that a large proportion of the bees in a 

 laying-worker colony contained eggs. [I 

 believe j'ou to be in error; and if I can get 

 the time I will try to show you the record 

 or records. — Ed.] 



The common bee does not exist in Col- 

 orado — only Italians, and a very few Car- 

 niolans. So says C. P. Dad ant, in Revue 

 Internationale. [I do not remember seeing 



any blacks in Colorado. I think our friends 

 will be wise if thej"^ never import them. 

 But, vay, oh Tay\ there are plenty of them 

 in California. The California yards are 

 noted for their cross bees, because of the 

 hj'brids and blacks; at least I never saw 

 their equal for stinging unless it was the 

 Coggshall bees in New York, which were 

 also hybrid. — Ed.] 



W. Z. Hutchinson, editor and foul-brood 

 inspector, while on a tour of inspection has 

 his editorial office in the cars, and says, 

 " I write as well on the train as any- 

 where." After seeing his handwriting a 

 good many times, I can easily believe that 

 the jiggling of the cars would make no 

 difference in it. But the jiggle all works 

 out in the printing, however, and a lot of 

 sense remains in it. [W. Z. H. is a good 

 editorial writer; and the more of W. Z. 

 there is in the Revieiu, the better I like it. 

 He is a good reviewer and a good editorial 

 sifter. — Ed.] 



The Youth's Companion has commenced 

 a serial story about some young bee-keep- 

 ers' migratory performances. It opens up 

 in an interesting manner, and I happen to 

 know that the interest keeps up throughout 

 the eight numbers. [I have neither seen 

 nor read the story; but members of my fam- 

 ily, and others with whom I have talked, 

 speak in high praise of it. Such articles 

 do much to educate the general public to 

 the uses of honey — how it is produced, etc. 

 If we can get the consuming class to know 

 that extracted honey is honey out of the 

 comb, we shall have accomplished much for 

 the industry. — Ed.] 



A. C. Miller says in Review that he is 

 beginning to believe that bees winter well 

 in chaff hives in spite of the packing rather 

 than on account of it. He prefers black 

 tarred paper tied about a common hive. 

 [Our friend Mr. Miller will have to change 

 his opinion, I am thinking, after he has 

 tested the paper as carefully as we have. 

 I once had the idea that paper tied around 

 a common hive would winter bees as well 

 as a chaff-packed hive. We fixed up a 

 number of hives in that manner, setting a 



