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Ram bier thiuks Californians used clamped 

 gangs of dipping boards before the English 

 did. Gleanings 644. Our country saved 

 again. 



■' A frame properly filled with comb, without 

 any wires in it, is as good for all practical pur- 

 poses, including shipping bees across the con 

 tinent: as is the one having wire in it." Doolit- 

 tle in Gleanings, .547, 



A good thing to remember, and save the 

 dimes. Only I suppose it must be admitted 

 that very recently built combs are safer 

 against breakage if wired. 



One of Mr. Dool ttle's valuable and some- 

 what new wrinkles is to make the shade 

 boards shed water by the use of tin ; then if 

 the roof proper is not absolutely invulner- 

 able (most roofs are not) then there are two 

 d'i'fences against the wet. (jleanings, .")09. 



It would 89em that in some localities eggs 

 are frequently found in supers from which 

 the queen is excluded. In Gleanings, 507. 

 Willie Atchley thinks this is always the work 

 of fertile workers. There is a fine chance 

 for the bee-man to get fooled when the bees 

 attempt to raise a queen from such eggs, as 

 they sometimes do. 



" I have seen eggs so evenly deposited by lay- 

 ing workers that their work could not bo de- 

 tected till the larvae were seali-d." 



Also Willie's notes (I think he is the fir.st 

 to publish this) that the young drone, when 

 the old maids are trying to make a woman 

 of him, sometimes crawls away from the 

 royal jelly, and they humor him by length- 

 ening the cell until it is ridiculously long. 



The German Gravenhorst notices that 

 when hungry bees are carried by wagon into 

 a full harvest of buckwheat honey an over- 

 dose of it kills them in great numbers. 

 Gleanings, 494. Another proof of the some- 

 what evident fact that fresh l)uckwheat hon- 

 ey is slightly poisonous — in fact a trace of 

 poison seems to attach to all parts of the 

 buckwheat ijlant. Little i)igs that sleep in 

 damp buckwheat straw are killed by it, it is 

 said. And little boys that eat the cakes 

 every morning for too long a time get the 

 scratches. 



Dr. Murdock, of Florida, thinks he has 

 had success in feeding royal jelly to young 

 drones (without killing them, as such diet 

 usuallj does) and this he considers the key 

 note in breeding the extra-large bees for 

 which he is becoming famous. Gleanings, 

 .500. With time and patience we shall see 

 what we shall see. 



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