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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Wavelets of News. 



Educators of the People. 



The weekly, bi-monthly, and monthly 

 bee-publications are doing more to edu- 

 cate the people in advanced and scientific 

 bee-culture than all the essays and text- 

 books that have been written, as they 

 reach the masses and a class that never 

 buy books — agents hunt them up, and 

 the short article, the everyday experi- 

 ence of practical bee-keepers upon dif- 

 ferent subjects, suit their fancy, seems 

 to strike their taste, and leads to inves- 

 tigation, experiment, and adoption. — 

 California Bce-Keeper. 



Wax-Scales on the Bottom-Board. 



Wax-scales are found, plenty of them, 

 wasted on the bottom-board, when a 

 swarm is hived in an empty hive without 

 foundation or comb. Few or no wax- 

 scales are found on the bottom-board of 

 a colony run for extracted-honey, if they 

 have abundance of empty combs. The 

 case should be exactly reversed, if bees 

 secrete wax whether needed or not. — De. 

 C. C. MiiXER, in Gleanings. 



Winter Results and Spring Prospects. 



So far as we are able to learn from our 

 correspondents, we think fully B5 per 

 cent, of the bees put into winter quar- 

 ters in this vicinity have died, up to 

 date, and all danger is not past ^t. 

 Fruit trees are just beginning to bloom, 

 and by May 1, will be in full bloom with 

 favorable weather. Then, in some 

 localities, there will be a drouth of honey 

 until clover ; while in other localities 

 the flow will be uninterrupted unless on 

 account of unfavorable weather. Bees 

 must be closely watched for some time 

 yet, to see that they have plenty of 

 stores. — Nebraska Bee-Keeper. 



Experiments in Apiculture. 



Bulletin No. 9, issued at the Rhode 

 Island Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 is on our desk. 



Mr. Cushman gives his experiments 

 " in the use of artificial heat to promote 

 brood-rearing." Bottles of hot water 

 were placed at the sides of the hive, a 

 double-wall hive being used. We are 

 now experimenting in that, same line, 

 but we use no hot water. We have 



placed a lamp in a box under a hive. So 

 far it works well. The temperature is 

 kept at about 80° in the hive, and the 

 bees are spread over all the combs. On 

 the morning of April 6, the temperature 

 outside the hive was 22^ — pretty cold ; 

 inside the hive, SS^^. 



The results of these experiments will 

 be given later on. — Apiculturist. 



Trade-Mark for Honey. 



Let every tub stand on its own bottom. 

 I want my own trade-mark. If the 

 name of E. France & Son pasted on a 

 package of honey is not a sufificient 

 guarantee of a first-class .article, I do 

 not want to ride into market on some 

 other name, and I do not want some 

 other fellow using our reputation. — E. 

 France, in Oleanings. 



Seasonable Sayings. 



When two or more prime swarms come 

 out and cluster together, and are 

 allowed to hang awhile, the queens will 

 usually all be balled, and drop to the 

 ground with their balls of bees, when 

 the queens can be secured and returned 

 to their hives by caging, or without if 

 you can tell where each one comes from. 



If you would like to know where a 

 swarm comes from, take away the 

 queen and sprinkle the bees with flour, 

 then smoke them off, and you can soon 

 see where to return your queen. 



If you wish to avoid the openings 

 betweens the sections made by the T- 

 tins, holding the sections apart, turn 

 your tins over, put a saw cut through 

 the rest made for the tin to lie on, then 

 with a follower and wedge you can press 

 the sections up tightly, saving much 

 time for the bees (as to fill these cracks 

 between the sections w^ill be their first 

 work on them), and save you much time 

 scraping sections. — John Andrews, in 

 the American Bee-Keeper. 



Spraying Apple Trees. 



At least seven insects, all very destruc- 

 tive in Michigan and adjacent States, 

 are destroyed by a single spraying of 

 poison — the codling-moth larva, canker- 

 worm, linden span worm, tent-caterpillar, 

 and three species of leaf rollers. This 

 remedy is now very commonly used, and 

 soon every orchardist will spray, as 

 surely as he cultivates and harvests. 



A mixture not stronger than one pound 

 of london purple or paris green to 200 



