Vol. XXXV. 



JAN. U J 907. 



No. I 



You SAY Sehenk publishes a Brazilian l)ee- 

 paper. He was at tlie big convention iu Ger- 

 many, and 1 think he told them there he had 

 sold out. [The last issue of his paper had 

 his name at the head of the editorial page. — 

 W. K. M.] 



How WOULD it do to have baby nuclei in 

 a fertilizing-tent? Then they could be sup- 

 plied with food and do all their Hying in- 

 side. [That would l)e just the place to put 

 them if the general scheme would work with 

 large colonies. — Ed.] 



Is NOT one reason why mosquito-netting 

 is preferable to wire cloth for a fertilizing- 

 tent because the bees can see mosquito-netting 

 better? Wouldn't wire cloth be better if 

 painted white? [There is something in this. 

 If so, why not go a little further and use 

 cheese-cloth instead of the mosquito-bar? If 

 this be a fact, why woi;ld not a dome-shaped 

 building without windows be suitable? — Ed.] 



You HAVE the better of me as to British 

 prices for honey, ^Ir. Editor, p. 1550. Glad 

 of it. Glad, too, that you, aided and abetted 

 by W. K. Morrison, are doing some good 

 work in helping to give an upward slant to 

 prices in this country. Very certainly they 

 have not gone up in proportion with prices 

 of other commodities in general. I'm ex- 

 pecting them to. 



"Eighteen books in the Bible refer to hon- 

 ey," page 15G4. Didn't some of them escape 

 you, Stenog? I find the word "honey" in 

 22 of the books. In 4 of these 22 books also 



occurs "honey-comb," meaning honey; and 

 "honey-comb" is also found in Luke. "Hon- 

 ey" occurs in the Authorized Version 52 

 times, and "honey-comb" 9 times. But in 

 the American Revision "honey-comb" is 

 stricken out of Luke. 



Some one ought to wake up in this coun- 

 try and get up a set of l>ee-keeper's souve- 

 nir postals. We're away behind Europeans. 

 G. W. York has gotten up one that's very 

 funny, and tine in its place; but the French 

 have a number of different kinds, besides ad- 

 vertising envelopes. We're behind. [The 

 Root Co., as soon as it is settled in its new 

 printing-house, will doubtless make some at- 

 tempt in this direction. — Ed.] 



Heakty thanks to W. K. Morrison for call- 

 ing attention to an error of mine in saying 

 that excessive use of sugar leads to Bright's 

 disease. Of course, it should be diabetes. 

 There is no excuse for such a flagrant blun- 

 der. [But, doctor, you do not tell the rest 

 of it. It was Prof. Cook who originally gave 

 out the statement in one of his articles. He 

 probably would be equally glad to have the 

 correction made just the same. The two dis- 

 eases are somewhat similar, and might tem- 

 porarily become confounded in one's mind 

 while writing.— Ed.] 



The Irish Bee Jon?-nal ^protests against the 

 word "quahking" as not a correct descrip- 

 tion of the sound made by a virgin in her 

 cell- thinks "piping" the right term, wheth- 

 er the queen is in or out of the cell. Well, 

 it's handy, anyhow, to have a separate word 

 for each, Bro. Digges, and "(luahking" has 

 some rights Ijy way of usage for the past 

 half-century without previous protest. Per- 

 haps my good brother will pardon me for 

 saying that, to my ear, the sound made by a 

 virgin in a cell is more like "quahk" (rhym- 

 ing with "walk ") than it is like "pipe." 



Aleen Latham, in American Bee-keeper, 

 commends fused calcium chloride — costs 

 $L50 for 10 lbs., $10.00 for 100 lbs. — to dry 



