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a safe distance which was a loss to the 

 owner of the roundabout, so he sent word 

 to a neighboring bee-keeper to come and 

 destroy them. In lieu of that he took a 

 hive, smoker and tools, and proceeded to 

 remove them. First taking the horse 

 off the iron rod and then his tail out, 

 which left a hole about an inch in 

 diameter, over which he placed a hive ; 

 then plugging up the hole in his back 

 injected smoke into the hole on the under 

 side and thus drove the bees out into the 

 hive, which took about fifteen minutes. 

 Then he made the tail-hole large enough 

 to put one's arm through, and took out 

 the comb. The inside of the horse was 

 found to be quite full, though in shape- 

 less mass caused by the horse going 

 round. The bees did well afterward, 

 apparently none the worse for having 

 lived in a "horse." — British Bee Joumial. 



Yellow (?) Carniolans. 



Some of the discussion upon the so- 

 called "yellow Carniolans" reminds one 

 quite forcibly of the bee journalism that 

 has come and gone. 



There is no doubt that yellow bees can 

 be found in Carniola, but it has been 

 explained how they came there, that they 

 have intermixed with the yellow bees of 

 Italy. The point is right here. Carnio- 

 lans are adark variety while Italians are 

 yellow. To secure bees from just inside 

 the border of Italy, bees that had received 

 a dash of dark blood from an adjoining 

 country, then breed out the yellow blood 

 and sell the result as black Italians, 

 would be exactly in line with what is 

 being done with the Carniolans. That 

 the bees sold as " yellow Carniolans " are 

 good bees no one has expressed a doubt, 

 that their immediate ancestors came to 

 this country from Carniola may be 

 equally true, but to call them typical 

 Carniolans would be as absurd as to call 

 an octoroon a typical African. — Review. 



Detection of Parafline in Beeswax. 



A few grammes of the substance in 

 fine air-dried shavings are gradually 

 heated in a small porcelain capsule until 

 fumes begin to rise. A half-liter wide- 

 mouthed bottle is then inverted upon the 

 capsule, and when filled with white 

 vapors is closed and set aside until the 

 fumes have condensed upon its walls. 

 The sublimate is then dissolved in 3 c. c. 

 of chloroform, the chloroform evaporated 

 in a test tube, and the residue boiled 

 with 4 c. c. of soda solution. If paraf- 

 fine was present, it will, after cooling. 



be found floating on the clear solution. 

 A drop of the chloroform solution may 

 also be evaporated on a slip of glass and 

 examined microscopically. 



The fumes from pure beeswax are not 

 so white as from paraffine, and are only 

 obtained at a higher temperature (300^ 

 — 320^). The sublimate gives a colored 

 solution with chloroform and a colored 

 and turbid solution with soda. The res- 

 idue from the chloroform solution is a 

 dull film ; paraffine, on the contrary, 

 gives separate grains in a clear field. — 

 Scientific American. 



Honey-Dew Plentiful. 



While walking down street the other 

 morning, we noticed damp looking spots 

 on the sidewalk, and remarked at the 

 time that it looked like the droppings of 

 the aphide, or plant louse. The spots 

 were under a thrifty, second-growth 

 basswood tree, planted about eight years 

 ago, the trunk eight or ten inches in 

 diameter, with a large fine top. 



We looked up among the leaves for 

 some time to find the insects that were 

 discharging the sweet substance, and at 

 last, on the under side of a limb, we 

 noticed a large number of insects clus- 

 tered together, and covering the limb for 

 a foot or more. They were so near the 

 color of the basswood bark that it was 

 difficult to see them. Taking a sheet of 

 paper out of our pocket and holding it 

 underneath the limb, we had before long 

 a number of small drops on the paper. 

 It was easy to see where the sweet sub- 

 stance was coming from, that was not 

 only attracting the flies in large numbers, 

 but also bees and wasps. 



After examining this tree, we went to. 

 another, some distance away, and there 

 found that more of the same liquid had 

 dropped on the sidewalk in various 

 places. The grass under the tree was 

 quite sticky, and flies seemed to be doing 

 a land office business, around these par- 

 ticular spots. 



We have not had time to examine the 

 trees in the woods, but feel satisfied that 

 honey-dew is likely to be quite plentiful ; 

 and right here, let us say, in every 

 locality as soon as the basswood flow is 

 over, if you are extracting, take out all 

 the honey that you intend to remove 

 before it gets mixed with honey-dew. 



In localities where Canadian thistles 

 abound, no doubt large yields will be 

 obtained from them, and the bees will be 

 little inclined to work on honey-dew so 

 long as the honey harvest is good from 

 thistles or other flowers : but be exceed- 



