148 



THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



the second story at a time when the hon- 

 ey gathered is dark and comes in moderate 

 quantity, and replace it Ijy supers only 

 when the more abundant flow of white 

 honey comes, preferring to turn the dark 

 honey into bees. These bees are to gath- 

 er the white honey which follows. ' ' This 

 last remark is rather startling. It seems 

 to strike Mr. Getaz so, too, for he adds '' If 

 the honey flow is short I should think it 

 better to put on supers at once than to 

 rear bees that would be too late to help 

 during the honey flow." This remark 

 may also be taken as a commentary upon 

 his position as pointed out in the preced- 

 ing paragraph. Then the honey flow is al- 

 ways too short, and the surplus dark hon- 

 ey before the white honey flow, is, I may 

 say, always mythical, so infrequent are the 

 exceptions. But the chief point is, why 

 does Mr. Root wish to put on a second 

 story? I had conceived a diff^erent no- 

 tion of it from that expressed by Mr. G. 



WHAT KIND OF BEES ARE THE 

 ADEL BEES ? 



In the American Bee Journal, 150, in 

 reply to a question about the yellow band- 

 ed Adel bees, Dr. MUler says " If I am 

 not mistaken it is a strain of Italian bees 

 to which that name is given just as you 

 might take a colony of Italian bees and 

 give them a particular name." Doesn't 

 Mr. All^- claim that they are a strain of 

 Carniolan bees ? 



OUEENS I..\YING OUT OF SEASON. 



Dr. Miller, referring to Dr. Mason's 

 report that his bees breed in the cellar, 

 and to my statement that queens cannot 

 be depended on to lay later than Sept. 10, 

 and that they average only 51^ months of 

 laying in the year, wonders if Dr. Mason 

 and myself cannot make some kind of a 

 compromise, and suggests swapping 

 queens. No; I thank you. I prefer 

 things in their season. 



PROPOIJS AND TRAVEL-STAIN. 



Dr. Miller says: "That guess of the ed- 

 itor that 'in the majority of cases it is 

 chunks of propolis' that blacken combs 

 will hardly do. Don't queen less bees 



deal in pr9polis ? J. E.Crane says that 

 brood-combs in a queenless colony were 

 pure white after four months. That 

 could be better explained on the theory 

 of one of the foreign journals that the 

 dark color is caused by the first dejections 

 of the young bees. " Gleanings, 121. I 

 think the doctor's guess will hardly do 

 either. There are other facts to be taken 

 into account. Although queenless col- 

 onies may possibly "deal in propolis" to 

 some extent, if such bees bulls comb, fill 

 it with honey, and cap it, they are likely 

 by that time to be so reduced in numbers, 

 that they scarcely visit much of the new 

 comb at all; much less are they able to 

 gather propolis and smear it upon such 

 comb. Besides, the cappings of honey 

 in supers often become discolored where 

 young bees are not found in time to color 

 it with their "first dejections." 



DANGER OF TOO HIGH TEMPERATURE IN 

 A BEE-CELLAR. 



The doctor, in Gleanings 165, says: "If 

 my bees had d)'sentery in the cellar, I'd 

 run up the temperature for a fe^v hours to 

 60 or 80 degrees. I don't know, but I 

 //?/;//t it helps." I have never had the 

 temperature in a cellar with bees up so 

 high as 60 degrees, but I have had it high 

 enough to lead me to believe that I should 

 be liable to have a "circus" if it rose to 

 60 degrees, to say nothing of the higher 

 temperature. So I think the doctor's 

 advice might prove dangerous for a 

 novice, unless he were in a position to 

 apply the brakes upon the appearance of 

 the very first signs of an outbreak. 



Quoting my remark about jumbling 

 language by Dadant and himself the 

 "Boiler" says (American Bee Journal, 

 170) "That is a slight intimation that 

 there is no difference after all in the views 

 of the two men. Will Mr. Taylor look 

 at the Review 55 where Mr. Dadant says, 

 'Queens to us in early spring are the 

 most expensive part of a colony' and try 

 your hand at reconciling that with editor 

 Hutchinson's statement that thej' are the 

 /^rt.y/ expensive part of a colony." Cer- 

 tainly, Mr. Boiler, I interpret Mr. Dadant 



