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THE BEEXEEPERS' REVIEW. 



See also A. B. J., 77, where Dr. Howard, 

 of Fort Worth, Texas, clinches the matter by 

 finding with his microscope live bacilli in 

 foul broody honey, and proceeding to raise 

 colonies of bacilli from them. 



Also the facts concerning the cure of foul 

 brood given by friend Taylor on page 38 

 seem to be remarkable, and quite impor- 

 tant in their character ; and every one so un- 

 fortunate as to have that sort of medical 

 practice on hand ought to remember them — 

 unless perchance some one can isprove the 

 alleged facts. Put bees in an uninfected 

 hive, on good foundation (only that and 

 nothing more) and let them alone, and they 

 will come out right every time. But if you 

 feed them and fuss with them they will 

 usually have to have n new set of frames and 

 foundation, the first showing more or less 

 diseased cells. How important little things 

 are when a body has a big and difficult con- 

 tract on hand. 



C. B. Replogle, on page 9 of Gleanings, 

 gives us a case where a queen lived ?ix years 

 lacking about a month. I knew in my bones 

 that Virgil's seven years for a queen's life 

 would get support sooner or later. Fertili- 

 zation late in the fall, and no eggs laid till 

 next spring, is claimed as the cause of this 

 extra longevity. The claim is not devoid of 

 plausibility, and is important if true. 



I was much interested in the article on 

 apiculture in Chili {Gleanings, page 15.) All 

 pure Italians, because only such were car- 

 ried there, and no bee-moths or foul brood. 

 These advantages together with a California- 

 like honey flow, ought to make the Chilian 

 bee man happy. 



On page 16 of Gleanings we have from the 

 German valuable precise observations of the 

 flights of queens. American recorded obser- 

 vations seem to be strangely scarce and 

 desultory. The gist of this series of obser- 

 vations is that queens usually fly many times 

 (one of these ten times) with seldom success 

 till the third trip or later. Time of absence 

 ranged from 10 to 35 minutes. One queen 

 flew when 22 days old, and one at two days 

 olJ. Fertilization on two different trips is 

 claimed for one of them. Different sets of 

 observations are likely to vary widely in 

 some of these items I take it — especially in 

 response to the relative abundance and virile 

 condition of drones. 



And the Smith named Jake contributes the fact 

 That although nice honey by frost is cracked 



It will stand all the zeros you please intact, 

 If througli summer it'sui^ in the garret packed. 

 (Kur-ract.J 



The Canadian on page 147 gives a new 

 way of disinfecting hives. Brush the inte- 

 rior with kerosene and btirn it over. This 

 method may prove quite valuable in those 

 cases where boiling is not available. Evi- 

 dently careless hands could bungle it, and 

 cause a new colony to be infected. The idea 

 is credited to M, M. Baldridge. 



In convention assembled the Canadians 

 note that if drone comb is put above an ex- 

 cluder the bees will hold it empty for brood. 

 But this can be cured by allowing a reason- 

 able amount of drone comb below. And 

 dark store comb they say darkens the honey 

 somewhat — in fact any one can fee that it 

 darkens clear water. Canadian, page 153. 



In the following friend Holterman bears 

 on heavy ; but I guess it's all right, and no 

 more than is deserved. 



" To talk about ripening honey after taking it 

 from the hive is unpractical, visionary ; and to 

 take honey unripe, and advocate such a practice, 

 only leads to having it placed upon the market 

 unripe and stopping its consumption." Cana- 

 dian, 154. 



" Never kick a hive of bees when you are down ; 

 wait until you are up and can run away." The 

 Stinger, A. B. J., 57. 



J. H. Andre, of Lockwood, N. Y., (A. B. 

 J., .59) got a bee out of his ear by turning the 

 smoker on full blast. Good general. 



Jennie Atchley replies to those individuals 

 who never saw a queen that was worth any- 

 thing after a trip through the mails, that one 

 of her very best came by mail from Italy, 

 and served three years thereafter. A. B. 

 J., 44. 



And here's a new dei^arture in wintering. 

 Two Iowa folks, Mr. Merritt and Frank Cov- 

 erdale, report five colonies between them 

 nicely wintered screened in up stairs near 

 hot stove pipes. Let's try 'em in the oven. 



A. B. J. 89. 



" Last year perfectly preserved honey from the 

 fifteenth century was founcl in the buried cellar 

 of a city liall in Dresden." A. B. J., 81. 



Pretty good proof that honey can be kept ; 

 but still only a few of us will put down our 

 unsold crop for the tolks of the twenty-third 

 century. 



"The best wintered lot of bees in these parts 

 was in 43 hives, each of which had an inch auger 

 hole in the end, half way between the entrance 

 and the upper edge." Cornoil in A. B. J ., 150. 



This was a way of fixing things largely 

 in vogue years ago, but is on the decline of 

 late apparently. But perhaps the bees have 

 suffered for lack of these same holes not- 

 withstanding. Most of us never " catch on" 



