THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



51 



How the boys do get together, banditti 

 like, and subject one idol after another to a 

 storm of unexpected clubs ! Of late it is the 

 bee escape that is catching it. One senator 

 after another speaks out to our surprise and 

 tells how little he cares for it. 



"I doubt the economy of painting ; for wouldn't 

 the amount of painting needed in 25 years cost 

 more than a new liive body ? But I suppose I 

 made a mistake in not having the covers paint- 

 ed." C. ('. Miller in Gleanings, XXI , 883. 



How's this for Australian report ? 



" One apiary of 17 colonies produced 7,000 

 pounds of honey, and increased to 90. Glean- 

 ings, XXI.. 885. 



A California friend, E. H. Schaeffle, con- 

 trives to turn the sun's rays on both top and 

 bottom of the solar extractor, and so dis- 

 enses with the dangerous lamp for caking 

 the wax solid. I incline to think this an im- 

 portant invention — possibly needing some 

 additional licking into rhape. See Glean- 

 ings, 920. 



Powdered sulphur well sprinkled over bees 

 and combs cures bee-paralysis when salt 

 fails. So says Joseph Monuier. Gleanings, 

 XXI., 942. 



Friend Cornell, playing at several queens 

 in a hive, lost every queen from about 20 

 nuclei ; and then was so boyish that he 

 wouldn't play any more. Gleanings, XXI., 

 931. 



"I see the report that mountain honey is rich- 

 er than valley honey. My appetite seems to in- 

 dicate the reverse, for the higher in tiie moun- 

 tains I find it the more I can eat, to the extent 

 of nearly making a meal of it." C. W. Dayton in 

 Gleanings, XXI., 930. 



Tut, tut ! Richness and fulsomeness are 

 not the same thing. I'm going to hang on 

 to the notion that way up honey is the best. 



And here is a nearly conclusive decision 



of a quite important question. 



" After a careful watch for over a score of 

 years I have_ failed to find a single bee having 

 any honey in its honey-sac while at work gather- 

 ing pollen from corn tassels." Doolittle in 

 Gleanings, XXI., 916. 



And on page 922, Gleanings XXI., the ever 



fascinating, and ever unsettled question 



comes up again — inheritance of qualities by 



food, or magnetism, or contact, or some- 

 thing or other besides parentage. Well, dis- 

 coveries are for those who are not satisfied 

 with what thy already know. 



In last Gleanings (page 44) we have a sub- 

 ject opened in such a way, as seems to assvre 

 us that a new era, long halting and recalci- 

 trant, will get here by and by. It's all about 

 what the good bees actually do in fertilizing 

 flowers.— Find the truth first, and proclaim 

 it afterward. Our preaching on this text 

 heretofore has worn such high heels, and 

 given itself so much of the air of the bantam 

 rooster, that sensible outsiders could hard'y 

 help being suspicious that we were merely 

 talking in our own interest of things we knew 

 very little about. And our general history 

 has not been such as to greatly encourage 

 impartial investigators — except such as are 

 usually willing to play short stop to dead 

 goslings and stale turnips from all direc- 

 tions. Yes, let the matter so well opened go 

 on. Let those who have, or think they have, 

 evidence that fertilization takes place nearly 

 as well without bees as with, bring it right 

 forward ; and let no one call names. Then 

 let bee folks make more experiments. Prof. 

 Cook's are good as far as they go ; but we 

 want more. Especially we want some flow- 

 ers covered with gauze and bees admitted 

 too, that we may know just how much the 

 deadening of the air counts for. Between 

 the Rural New ' orker and Ernest and Dr. 

 Miller they have done us a good turn. In 

 the end thereof we may not know so much 

 as we do now, but some of what we know 

 will be so. 



And Mr. Doolittle's answer to the begin- 

 ner who wanted to be told just how he could 

 know how his bees in cellar were wintering 

 well, ( Gleanings, 20. ) I do not feel like con- 

 densing that. I'll just request our editor 

 that we may have tlie whole of it either in 

 this or a forthcoming number. 



RiOHABDS, Lucas Co., Ohio, Jan, 29, '94. 



WAflTED . 



Corr)b apd Extracted Hoijey 



and BEESWAX. 



Purcbz^se^I outright z^n^ bigb^st priccpai^I. No consi^inrpents. 

 Corrwpon^Iencc solicited. Tbc WA\. PEMW BARGAIN HOUSE, 



2-94-12t ffo. 605 A\ZirHct St., Pbilz^tl^Ipbia, Pa. 



