THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



113 



On page 245 A. B. J., Dr. Miller tells of a 

 colony that swarmed out because he gave 

 them a full set of drone combs. I wonder if 

 a like result would always follow. 



Manum fights robbers with peppermint 

 water. Gleanings, page S\. 



Baldensperger (Gleanhiys, page 88) had 

 ten virgin queens all fail to be fertilized with 

 ten colonies about a mile distant. Proving 

 too much is often all the same as not prov- 

 ing anything. Few can believe that queens 

 could not go a half mile and meet drones 

 coming a half mile in the other direction. 

 Honey flow bad, I reckon ; drones mostly 

 killed, and survivors so badly used as to have 

 no enterprise. Friend B's experience with 

 drone playgrounds in the Holy Land is that 

 they are never more than a half mile away, 

 and sometimes in sight as one stands in the 



apiary. Page 121. 



Three days steady jarring was sufficient to 

 candy Mr. Hutchinson's show honey at the 

 Detroit Exposition. Gleanings, page 87. 



Ernest Root tasted himself sick in the in- 

 terests of science over mixtures of honey and 

 glucose. (Page 102.) Presume that was 

 one cause of the illness. There is a dififer- 

 ence, however, between prolonged tastings, 

 with rinsings of the mouth and try it again, 



and merely eating some of the article and 

 done with it. The stomach that would stand 

 the latter well enough might be unable to 



bear the former. The rules arrived at for 

 detecting mixtures seem valuable. Practice 



on known glucose till its exact flavor fully 

 soaks into you. Then hold the suspected 



sample on the tongue thirty or forty seconds; 



and if glucose is there you'll hear from it. 



Having to call in the doctor next day might 



be considered a slight drawback. 

 So Huber, keen as he was, did not find out 



that queenless bees always built drone comb. 



Langstroth in Gleanings, page 116. 



And German Gravenhorst confronts all 



our wise Yankee bee authorities, and dares 



to say " not overcrowded with bees" as one 



of the prime conditions of the best honey 



gathering. Stray Straw, Feb. 1.5. How 



doctors do disagree ! Dr. Miller, couldn't 



you prove somehow that both parties are 



wrong ? 



" With a temperature of less than 60° brood is 

 liable to be chilled in handling."— G. M. Doolit- 



TLE. 



We don't often catch Doolittle in a practi- 

 cal error. If not an error this is important, 

 and somebody ought to be more careful. 



Baldensperger after these years comes 

 back upon us like a new broom. His tables 

 of a colony's gathering and consumption of 

 honey, though of foreign bees in a foreign 

 land, are a valuable addition to our scanty 

 stock. The rapid eating when a batch of 

 brood was being reared, and the almost no 

 eating at all for a week (presumably when 

 brood rearing had a rest) seem nicely illus- 

 trated. Also his itemized table of the actual 

 cost of honey has few like it to compare 

 with. He got 12,000 pounds at a cost of four 

 cents a pound and sold for eight cents. This 

 was at Joppa in the Holy Land. Gleanings, 

 page 120. 



The A. B. J. comes out with a new depart- 

 ment. German investigation and accuracy 

 is to be heard by the pen of a German In 

 German land, H. Reepen, of Jugenheim. 

 His get-to-business air is suited to make a 

 very good impression on us slip-shod Amer- 

 icans. 



RiOHABDS, Lucas Co., 0., March 8, 1898. 



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