THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



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that if I were fairly tried by a jury cf my 

 peers I would be found guilty — not of the 

 crime charged, but of the pposite one — 

 passing over things in Gleanings and A, B. 

 J. that would have been promptly noticed 

 had they come up in the younger journals. 

 Men are mostly alike in certain things, one 

 of which is that when a fellow has a bran new 

 thought, which he thinks will set all the fra- 

 ternity a-talking, he will not send it to what 

 he consideres a minor journal. So the com- 

 plaint really lies not against me but against 

 the timbers of the universe. 



But friend C's complaint is a marvel of in- 

 correct statement. He chalks me up with a 

 regular habit of spending six columns re- 

 viewing Gleanings, Any one who will take 

 the pains to glance at recent Views can see 

 that in December a little less than one col- 

 umn was devoted to Gleanings. Same in 

 November. And in October there was but a 

 little more than one column. And if I can 

 put two whole numbers of ' Gleanings into 

 one column, so that my readers have no 

 need to take Gleanings, I must be the most 

 wonderful writer in the whole world. Say, 

 W. Z., hadn't you better be advancing the 

 pay a little ? to fifty dollars a page, or some 

 such little matter ? 



NEBRASKA BEE-KEEPER. 



To this paper I am doubtless owing an 

 apology cf some sort. Till recently I do not 

 remember as I ever saw a copy — knew there 

 was such a journal, but possessed the idea 

 somehow that it was in the last stages of 

 dying ofif, when silence is the best thing all 

 around. Well, it don't appear to be dying 

 ofif at present, and has just entered its fifth 

 year. Your pardon, four-year-old N. B. K. ! 

 Still I won't make my apology very abject ; 

 'cause if you had been crying very bitterly 

 about my omission you might have sent a 

 sample copy. The paper seems quite largely 

 editorial — and L. D. Stilson appears to be 

 the man. His advice is, sell half your honey 

 at a good price, and give the rest away, 

 rather than sell the whole at half rates. 

 (Page 139.) And he is the apostle of "keep- 

 ing everlastingly at it " even if half the bee 

 magnates do ignore him. Questions are is- 

 sued in one number and answered in the 

 next. Why the queens of a pure Italian api- 

 ary so often mismate is au important ques- 

 tion recently up. And the faults ? Well, I'll 

 just let them go through my fingers this time. 

 And here are some of the valuable sentences, 



the first being in reply to the question just 

 alluded to. 



" lu June '92 I was surprised to find a hundred 

 drones at every hive in the yard. Many of the 

 hives I positively know were free from drones 

 only that morning, which had been pleasant; 

 but about noon a heavy south wind suddenly 

 came up. and soon this swarm of drones ceme 

 from the same direction, black as jet, and the 

 nearest apiary of black bees in range of the wind 

 is over four miles away." Page 2. 



" We claim that bees cannot be successfully 

 wintered in a moist or damp atmosphere." 

 Page 4. 



" Isn't it better to have good plans and have 

 them sometimes miscarry, than to have no plans 

 and always in a muddle ?" 



According to Nebraska lore a "kat" is 

 nearly as good as a " cat," if it represents a 

 good mouser. 



Nebraska bees prepared for Christmas by 

 cleaning house, just as ours further east did. 



And here is S. T. Crandall's report of one 

 colony — 50 lbs sections, 300 lbs extracted, 

 and 6 new colonies made by division. All 

 sold at an actual total of $52.50. Publishing 

 this sort of thing used to be condemned as 

 wicked ; but sinners have been so scarce 

 lately that we can actually afford 'em a free 

 ad. 



The General round Up. 



Rambler in Gleanings, page 14, gives voice 

 to one of the most solemn thoughts the fra- 

 ternity can encounter. Is there no other 

 practical way to beat off glucose, and culti- 

 vate the public taste for honey than to offer 

 genuine extracted at two cents ? Have we 

 many localities that can do that ? Who of 

 us can sell 10 tons of honey to: $460, buy the 

 supplies with part of it, and accept what is 

 left for wages ? Hist ! Are there wild boars 

 in the woods ? or is it the brethren in the 

 back counties snapping their teeth ? 



" If you like sweet apples you will like sweet 

 apple honey better :" (from' the bruised fruit.) 

 Mrs. Hallenbeck in Am. Bee Journal. 



The bee-keeper who wants to know how to 

 put in his time in the winter should read W. 

 Z. Hutchinson's Z}i page article on the sub- 

 ject in the Progressive — not even skipping 

 the following — 



" Of course, not very large wages can be made 

 at it, but cutting btove wood is_ something that 

 can be worked to advantage in the winter." 

 (Pagei;^.) 



Shoo ! Does stove-wood have to be cut by 

 somebody before it can be burned ? Like as 

 not, like as not, a bee-keeper might do " that 

 are " with pleasure and profit. 



Doolittle fights for his "contented hum " 

 like one of the heroes defending ancient 

 Troy. Like Hector in the gate he stood after 



