Vol XXXV. 



APRIL J, 1907. 



No. 7. 



If Bro. Doolittle will pardon me for in- 

 terrupting the conversation I would suggest, 

 in addition to the good advice given on page 

 393, that if Mr. Jones has liottom- boards 2 

 inches deep he may shove under a frame of 

 sealed honey or a few sections. 



So TRAVEL gives bees vim and vigor for 

 increased gathering, p. 888. I wonder, now, 

 I wonder. How much more would a colony 

 gather if you gave it a wagon-ride and then 

 set it down in the same place again? and for 

 how long would the ride be effective? 



Mistletoe is finely shown in Fig. 2, page 

 402; but unless specially pointed out many 

 will fail to see it. Look directly over the 

 words " Fig. 2," and about an inch below 

 the top of the picture; do you see those three 

 bunches or clusters on the trees ? Well, that's 

 mistletoe. 



Hearty thanks, Huber, for confirmation. 

 p. 402, of my belief that my tin-covered ilead- 

 air-spaced hive-covers are lots cooler under 

 a hot sun than flat wooden covers. And by 

 how much cooler they are under a hot sun, 

 just so much warmer they are when the out- 

 side temperature is cold. 



Never before were there so many chances 

 to make a forti;ne by the investment of a 

 small sum of money as to-day, judging by 

 the many glowing ad's of mining and other 

 schemes. The curious part is, that they are 

 all so willing to divide their chances with 

 the dear public when they might just as well 

 keep them to themselves. 



E. G. Hand heats his bee-cellar by a small 

 electric heater, American Bee Journal, 191. 

 Where electricity is cheap enough why are 

 there not fine possibilities in this? [Electric 

 heat is very expensive. It would cost sev- 

 eral times more than any other source of 

 heat, and therefore we should not regard it 

 as feasible in a bee-cellar.— Ed.] 



"Bee-keepers need not expect any radi- 

 cal change or any rapid improvement in their 

 bees until the cause of the development of 

 the queen is learned, and until mating is 

 controlled ( M. ). " — American Bee-keejjer. 

 Rather a damper that, Bro M., so long as the 

 young queens insist on all outdoors for their 

 mating-ground; and pray tell us how knowl- 

 edge of the cause of development will help 

 us. 



Mr. House was highly commended at the 

 Brantford convention for saying that "If 

 honey were 'weeping,' if the temperature of 

 the room were raised to 100 or 110° and kept 

 there for three days, the honey could be I'e- 

 deemed," American Bee Journal, page 190. 

 The honey will be redeemed, but honey nev- 

 er weeps till it first fills the air-spaces under 

 the cappings, making the comb watery-look- 

 ing. Will the whiteness of the cappings be 

 restored? Certainly the original appearance 

 will not be restored where there has been ac- 

 tual weeping; but it will be sticky-looking 

 Miss Wilson's plan to overcome this is to 

 give the sections back to the bees until they 

 lick the surface dry —perhaps 15 minutes or 

 so — and this should be done before drying 

 the sections. 



Mr. Editor, you have it pretty square 

 about the commission business, p. 385. The 

 moral of it is that commission business is all 

 right if your man is honest, and all wrong if 

 he isn't. Make a square sale if you can; but 

 there are times when an honest commission 

 man comes in mighty handy. [You are cor- 

 rect. There are certain times when it would 

 be to the advantage of the commission man 



