THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



141 



tissues. And the cold tissues of reptiles 

 seem to be uuresponsive, so that there is no 

 spasm or inflammation, consequently no 

 pain. 



Doolittle improves the excellent wet grass 

 method of keeping out robbers by putting 

 a little dry grass underneath, and plenty of 

 wet grass on top. Gleanings, 192. This I 

 suppose is to enable the bees from within to 

 get back when they force themselves out an 

 inch or so. Some are likely to perish if the 

 whole mass is very wet. 



According to M. W. Shepherd (Gleanings 

 22.'),) when an old maid is rescued too late 

 in life her children are cross and disagreea- 

 ble. Don't more than half believe it, do 

 you ? 



Better read the whole article of Dr. Beall 

 on syrup by percolation. ( Gleanings, 22i'>.) 

 No granulation or souring, and specific 

 gravity of 1.3.% as against 1.317 for the best 

 that can be done with heat. 



A Stingy round- up 



In the Aineriean Bee-Keeper for March 

 Doolittle leads off with an important method 

 of increase, and postponement of swarming 

 — the best he has found in his case, and very 

 likely the best for many similar locations. 

 " Similar " means only one harvest, that one 

 pretty early, and its date easy to predict. 

 Don't make artificial colonies too early, else 

 you may have a carnival of swarming Justin 

 time to spoil your harvest. Ten days before 

 the harvest begins is the time to fix things. 

 The method makes three colonies and a 

 nucleus from two colonies and a nucleus, 

 thus : The new No. 1 receives all the 

 bees of the original No. 1, but empty 

 combs, all the original combs being carried 

 away. The nucleus just gets one of these 

 combs in exchange for a comb with queen 

 and bees on it. The original No. 2 is just 

 carried away bodily, and becomes No. 3— 

 losing all its flying bees of course, but get- 

 ting (). K. for business during the ten days. 

 And thus the new No. 2, on the same stand 

 as the original No. 2, has the combs and 

 brood of No. 1, queen and body guard from 

 the nucleus, and the location and flying bees 

 of the original No. 2 — and they get ready for 

 business in the ten days. And Doolittle's 

 approval is equal to that of any experiment 

 station yet on the globe. 



Demaree has experimented on reducing 

 raw nectar in the combs, by heat and a cur- 

 rent of air. Am. Bee-Keeper, 35. 



John F. Gates gives a method of opera- 

 tions, in ^*)i. Bee-Keeper 37, which is a curi- 

 ous hybrid between old times and new. And 

 if that new method of starting a swarm at 

 will (as Eugenia routed Rambler) if that's 

 going to work, the Gates method may have 

 a great run. Here we have it. Keep all 

 your old stock in large, first rate box hives ; 

 and expect nothing of them but swarms. 

 Hive the swarm on the old stand in small 

 empty frame hives, excluder on top, and get 

 lots of surplus. In the fall kill old queen (if 

 desired) and clap the two hives atop each 

 other, that they may unite at leisure. In the 

 spring extract the frames, render the combs, 

 and have things ready for the same round 

 again — and the goose hangs high, singing 

 what a wise goose am I. Gates ventilates 

 these box hives for winter with a vengeance 

 — top, bottom and front — but perhaps he's 

 all right ; I'm rapidly getting broad minded 

 on that subject. 



Charles C Hardy (Am. Bee-Keeper, 39) 

 says Doolittle's bees murmur in the cellar 

 because they smell mice. H'm, h'm. 



I hardly felt like laughing at that balance 

 sheet of /S'uccess (republished in Gleanings, 

 334.) Too pathetic. Friend Sage, you might 

 have been excused from that. Or does 

 bravado help some souls to bear hard 

 pinches, even if the rest of the world does 

 laugh ? 



RiOHABDS, Lucas Co., Ohio, April 21, '94. 



ADVERTISEMENTS 



nin niflnnilllT on foundation and sec- 



BIG DISuOUNT grA-.j!;'s,''SST« 



cts. No. 1 sections, $3.75 

 per M. Eveything cheap ; price list free. 

 4-9-l-6t E. H. TRUMPER, Bankers, Midi. 



AUGHTERS of one of Doolittle's best, 

 5 - banded breeders mated to selected 

 drones from -Jennie Atchley's 5 - banded 

 strain, untested, 75 cts ; 6 for $4.25. 

 5-94-tf L. H. ROBEY. Worthington, W. Va. 



P. S. — Queens ready May 25th, 



Golden Queens 



From Tennessee, as good as the best, Untested, 

 $1.00; tested, $1.50; selected tested, $2.50; extra 

 selected, $4.00 ; three-banded, tested, for $1.00. 

 STEWART BROS., 

 5.94.3tr Sparta, Tenn. 



Please mention the Reuiew. 



