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EDITOR. 



VoLXIVIII, July 9, 1891, No. 2, 



Editorial Buzzings. 



The Bees were gathering- in their early stores 

 From willoAvs by the brookside, and I watched 

 Them flying to their hives, with laden thighs, 

 All covered with the gold of pollen-dust. 



Doolittle^S Queen-Rearing is the 

 greatest hit of the decade in bee-keeping. 

 So says A. N. Draper, Upper Alton, Ills. 



N. D. l?irest'S queen-cell protector 

 and cage are illustrated and described 

 in friend Gravenhorst's Bienenzeituncj 

 •for June. 



Tlie Honey Almanac is the 



result of a suggestion sent to us some 

 12 years ago by E. Drane, Eminence, 

 Ky. To be sure it was not acted upon 

 at once, but it is now an established 

 fact. He wants credit for the idea, and 

 we cheerfully accord it to him. 



A Xew Scale-Insect from 



California, injurious to fruit trees, is 

 described in the last number of Insect 

 Life, by D. W. Coquillett, who furnishes 

 a list of trees attacked by it. Notes on 

 the habits and early stages of an Aus- 

 tralian moth, written by the late Henry 

 Edwards, affords a singular instance of 

 change of habit. Twenty years and 

 more ago it was only known as occurring 

 on a species of acacia, called black 

 wattle, but it must now be included 

 among the insects most injurious to 

 fruit trees in Australia. 



r,a Orippe had Mr. C. J. Robinson 

 in its power last Spring. Its endurance 

 is something wonderful. Some time 

 since Mr. R. wrote us the following : 



I am just recovering from an accute 

 attack of la grippe. O, heavens, what a 

 disease ! If it takes liold in earnest, it 

 demoralizes all the anatomy of the 

 human structure, and shakes out the 

 corporeal frame of bones. Why not 

 execute murderers with la grippe f 



C. J. Robinson. 



The 'Word "over" should be 

 omitted in the fourth line of the third 

 paragraph of our reply to Mr. Cornell, 

 on page 804. It is a typographical 

 error, for wax cannot be heated in water 

 (except under pressure) to more than 

 212°, and in Mr. Dadant's statement, 

 which we quoted, the word " over " did 

 not occur. It was an ove7'sight in not 

 noticing it In the proof. 



Syrian Queens.— One of our 

 Missouri subscribers writes that an 

 advertisement of Syrian queens in the 

 Bee Journai. would doubtless secure 

 some orders from his locality. This is 

 merely a hint for breeders of Syrian 

 queens. 



Mot Weather is the rule in the 

 Eastern States, as well as in California. 

 In the latter, the thermometer registered 

 from 100- to 116° in the shade for 

 several days last week. 



