AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



231 



Our Club Rates are: ^1.90 for two 



copies (to the same or different post-oflBces); and 

 for THREE or more copies, 90 cents each. 



EDITOR. 



VoLIIYIIL All£,'20,l891, No, 8. 



Editorial Buzzings. 



Do ISot Risk the so-called honey- 

 dew as Winter stores for your bees. In 

 all probability it will be no better than 

 grape juice and the like, and the natural 

 result will be bee-diarrhea. 



Bees Have Cla^^s by which they 

 can stick to a board upside down, explains 

 Dr. Miller in Gleanings, but if it is glass 

 the claws will not hold, and then an 

 oily secretion of the foot allows them to 

 stick. Wet the glass and the oily foot 

 will not stick, and down comes your bee. 



Prof, A, J# Cook says that he 

 should expect no detriment from eating 

 poisonous animals like centipedes. Even 

 the venom of the rattlesnake or copper- 

 head is harmless if taken into the 

 stomach, though deadly if injected 

 directly into the blood. 



A Castle in Bees'wax. — Among 

 the entries at the Detroit Exposition this 

 year, says the MicJiigan Fainier, is a 

 castle, or cathedral, 82x8 feet in dimen- 

 sions, with a tower 18 feet high, with a 

 clock. The entire building will be con- 

 structed of beeswax and honey. This 

 singular and very handsome structure 

 will be one of the great attractions of 

 the bee and honey department. 



We fully intended to be present and 

 see the structure, but we have an 

 engagement in New Jersey at the same 

 time, and must denyourself the pleasure 

 of meeting the friends and seeing the 

 sights at the Detroit Exposition. 



Paris Green, says a correspondent 

 in the Wisconsin Farmer, is not only a 

 dangerous poison to handle, but it is also 

 injurious to the soil. Those who persist 

 in using it upon the trees while in bloom, 

 may yet find that it is like a two-edged 

 sword, which cuts both ways. 



T. A. Rig:s:s, Brighton, Colorado, 

 has one of the largest apiaries in that 

 State — numbering 150 colonies. During 

 July his bees averaged nearly 1,000 

 pounds of comb-honey per week. Some 

 colonies exceeded 1,000 pounds. He is 

 a happy man, and smiles while many 

 others are dejected. Colorado is coming 

 up, as a honey-producing State. 



'W. I-rUniniel, Wisner, Nebr., has 

 sent us a flower and desires to know 

 what is its name. "It is a species of 

 milkweed," says Prof. C. M. Weed, 

 probably Asclepias cornuti. ' 



A **Bee-Escape" is, in England, 

 denominated a "super-clearer;" and a 

 "hive bottom" is there called a "floor- 

 board." An "alighting board" is there 

 named a " flight-board ;" and "apiarian 

 supplies" are called "bee-appliances and 

 bee-furniture." Why should there be 

 such a difference in these names by an 

 English-speaking race ? 



