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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



with bees, which were sucking out all 

 their sweetness, and removed them to 

 the stove oven. 



All that the bees get from fruit does 

 not more than pay them for performing 

 the marriage rite to the flowers. Why- 

 begrudge them a small pittance ? — Mrs. 

 L. Haerison, in the Prairie Farmer. 



Agricultural Experiments. 



The lack of suitable men has not been 

 the only drawback to the work of the 

 younger stations. Two clauses in the act 

 passed by congress allowing only $3,000 of 

 the first and $750 of each succeeding ap- 

 propriation to be used for buildings, and 

 requiring that from the very first at least 

 four bulletins a year be issued, while ulti- 

 mately it may prove of advantage to them, 

 has certainly tended at first to bring them 

 no praise. It was supposed that the states 

 would furnish buildings, but unfortunately 

 some of them furnished either inadequate 

 ones or none at all, and in one or two in- 

 stances even the annual appropriation 

 which the state had previously given to the 

 agricutural college was abolished. 



The fact that quarterly bulletins were 

 required by law, whether the station had 

 valuable matter on hand or not, coupled 

 with the fact that in many instances men 

 wholly new to the business had to write 

 them, tended at first to distribute more or 

 less matter of questionable value. As the 

 bulletins have general circulation among 

 the class for which they are intended only 

 in the state in which they were issued, 

 many states necessarily sent out some com- 

 pilations on the same topics which, to all 

 practical purposes, were duplicates of each 

 other. Bulletins, too, had to be written in 

 popular style, in order that they might be 

 understood by men whose education, in too 

 many instances, had been limited to the 

 winter district school. 



If it be also remembered tha'fc these new- 

 ly formed stations have been organized 

 scarcely three years, and have not been in 

 working order for that length of time; that 

 they are going through the same trials as 

 the older stations have had; that they have 

 to break down the prejudices of many 

 farmers, as the older stations have largely 

 done; and that they were popularly ex- 

 pected to show in a few months results 

 equal to those which even the Grerman ex- 

 periment stations have conquered only 

 after years of strict application, with the 

 aid of the best scientists of that scientific 

 nation — it cannot be wondered at that 

 these newborn stations have in several in- 

 stances fallen short of what was exnected of 

 them. — Professor Charles L. Parsons in 

 Popular Science Monthly. 



Sign of Robbing-. 



Early in the morning, or late in the 

 evening, as you walk through the yard, 

 if you find a hive that has a lot of cap- 

 pings, or little fine bits of comb about 

 the entrance, watch it, and as soon as 

 the bees commence to fly, see if robbers 

 are not operating there. — Canadian Bee 

 Journal. 



Honey-Dew for Winter Stores. 



Mr. Heddon, in the Missouri Bee- 

 Keeper, says he thinks we have no 

 reason whatever to fear any disastrous 

 results from wintering our bees on stores 

 of honey-dew. He relates an instance 

 of where Dr. Southard, of Kalamazoo, 

 once fed honey-dew to 5 colonies until 

 they had no other stores for Winter, yet 

 they wintered perfectly. — Review. 



Sugar Syrup for Winter Stores. 



I settled this matter satisfactorily to 

 myself the first season I kept bees. One 

 of my neighbors was going to "brimstone" 

 some second and third swarms so as to 

 get the honey, or "take them up" as it 

 was called, and I obtained permission to 

 drum out the bees and put them into one 

 of my hives. 



I put four into one, giving them empty 

 frames and about 30 pounds of syrup, 

 and they came out in the Spring better 

 than those that had honey stores. Since 

 then I have frequently fed syrup for 

 wintering bees, and found it to answer 

 as well as the best honey. 



Now that sugar has become so cheap, 

 it would pay those that have the time to 

 devote to it, to extract pretty closely at 

 the end of the honey season and feed 

 syrup. Be sure to use the best sugar, to 

 give it in sufficient quantities, and to 

 clean out the combs that are to be used 

 for extracting in the Spring, so that 

 none be left to mix with the honey. — 

 Rev. J. Carswell, in the Canadian Bee 

 Journal. 



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 They may be used to advantage at Fairs 

 over Bee and Honey Exhibits. Samples 

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