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But if the real make-up of the Egyptian 

 were something likt— 



Germau 1 



Yellow X 3 



then the reconstruction might work well 

 enough. 



Ernest's chat and series of pictures at C 

 C. Miller's — how different an air it carries 

 from the way such a thing would have been 

 set out a few decades ago. How pathetic- 

 ally and relentlessly true the kodak can be 

 sometimes ! tell all the truth and more than 

 the truth. Hardly probable that the good 

 Dr. is such a semi-Methuselah as he appears 

 in that series of pictures. Gleanings, 90G. 



To assure himself that Italian queens 

 would not be affected by the royal jelly given 

 them by the hybrid nurses which he wished 

 to use, Mr. Doolittle has experimented in the 

 reverse direction also— made the yellows st 

 of nurses feed pure black queens. No visi- 

 ble resul s whatever appeared; and he is in- 

 clined to challenge skeptics to keep still, 

 else bring some proof. Gleanings,'d\Q. Got 

 not any to "bliug." AU'ee same keep'ee 

 sneaking notion there 's something in him. 

 How singular that that sum of all excellen- 

 ces the Italian bee should be so poor a nurse 

 that the breeders, to a great extent, want to 

 use something else ! 



The same article notes that the develop- 

 ment of young queens can be retarded to a 

 much greater extent than it can be hastened. 

 Half a day is about the utmost that the most 

 favorable circumstances can hurry them up ; 

 while very cold weather, or that general 

 lethargy that takes possession of the hive 

 late in the fall may delay them as much as 

 four days. And the earliest moment to be- 

 gin rearing queens iu spring is when the 

 sealed drone brood are beginning to change, 

 as to their eyes, from white to purple. 



It is well known that virgin queens behave 

 very differently from fertile queens. In 

 Gleanings, 830. EUery Krum (whoever he 

 may be) reports seeing a virgin queen assist 

 a young worker in emerging to life from the 

 cell. Quite curious. 



First flight of bees at six days old. Doolit- 

 tle, Gleanings, 839. 



It seems the five-banded stock began about 

 24 years ago, H. A. King and J. M. Brooks 

 breeding. G. M. Loolittle drew from both, 

 and imparted to L. L. Hearn. In later years 

 the two latter have been pushing forward the 

 thing, and exchanging with each other. 

 Gleanings, 840. 



Say, that Florida plan of H, W. Mitchell's, 

 given in Gleanings, 860, is splendid when 

 there is honey flow enough to make it run. 

 Three story hive — take out only the frames of 

 the upper story for extracting — fill with 

 empty frames — lift the second story and put 

 the third under, till next time round, when 

 the same thing is done again. 



Just at what point in the honey record we 

 shall stop off, and refuse to believe any fur- 

 ther, is a nice matter. Some, perhaps, stop 

 off at 100 lbs., many more at 500, and most 

 of us before arriving at Mt. Thousand. The 

 record at present (providing you don't stop 

 off before arriving there) is T.W lbs. each for 

 an apiary of 63 colonies ; 48,000 lbs. in all. 

 Holder is H. Peterson, Wattle Flat, New 

 South Wales, Australia. Holds single col- 

 ony record also at 1,200 lbs. And one of the 

 bothers of it is that the discarded "long 

 idea" method struts under these flaunting 

 figures. Gleanings, 866. Wonder how a 

 ship would sail in honey ? Guess the wind 

 might blow as hard as it chose, and still the 



waves would not rise very high But the 



record might rise so high as to dash the 

 ship all to pieces. But though we fail to 

 have faith suflicient for 1,200 lbs. in one year, 

 most of us could go 100 lbs. in one month. 

 Then if there were 12 such months in one 

 year it would fetch it. 



In Gleanings, 871, it is claimed for oil of 

 sassafras that bees do not dislike it ; while 

 ants, and most worms and insects hold it in 

 abomination, and leave its vicinity quickly. 

 The bark of the root can be used to some ex- 

 tent. Important if true. 



Dr. Howard is going to pitch into that bee 

 disease which is now desolating the South 

 and California at such a rate. May he find 

 some weapon with which it can be " held 

 up." 



" Its very insignificance in the North makes it 

 insidious and danKerous for the South. Why ? 

 Tlie northern (lueen breeder, 1 am afraid, does 

 not always realize liow dangerous a mild case of 

 palsied or swelled bees may be when the queen 

 of said bees is sent to the South. Ernest Root, 

 (ileanings, 872. 



Another idea. John S. Callbreath sug- 

 gests in Gleanings, 875, that the principal 

 value of foundation may be that it furnishes 

 every bee with standing room to work, in 

 times of special haste, when otherwise they 

 would have to wait for a few, comparatively, 

 to get a septum started. Quite possible, and 

 worth testing. 



Germans air their apicultural dignity by 

 claiming that their Dr. Dzierzon invented 



