THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



271 



A grand tangle of four prime swarms in 

 one day put 178 little larvae into as many 

 queen cups they had made. 



"A hive that has 20 lbs. of honey in it on the 

 first day of April will, as a rule, give double the 

 beee at the commencement of the clover harvest 

 that one will which has only five lbs." Page 5U. 



"One bee load of nectar from the basswood, 

 in a dry warm time, is equal to three from white 

 clover, or iive_ from the teasel " [So little 

 water.] Page iiO. 



Cutting foundation. 



" One day when I was in a great hurry I drew 

 the knife through the foundation as quickly as 

 possible, when, lo and behold ! the whole stick- 

 ing matter was solved," Page 296. 



TAKEN TO THE BARN. 



I'm sorry to see how editor Alley gives way 

 to his besetting fault in the August Apicul- 

 turist. Several offenses, of which this is the 

 worst. 



" The Canadian Bee Journal has been burned 

 out. Since that paper published a batch of lies 

 concerning the editor of the Api. we have no 

 special interest in it." 



My boy, Christianity centuries ago shut 

 down on this sort of thing ; and that ought 

 to have been sufficient, but somehow it was 

 not. Of late years Civilization has taken up 

 the job which Christianity seemed unable to 

 complete. She actually bears down hard on 

 those who give the word "lie," even if the 

 charge is in a measure true. She ruminates 

 on general principles that black lies of the 

 worst degree are not common ; but twisting 

 the truth, and ignoring the truth, is so fear- 

 fully common that usually there is lots of it 

 on both sides when two editors quarrel. As 

 a rule you can't get her to look deeper than 

 these general principles : and she feels mis- 

 erably bored to hear editors call each other 

 liars under such circumstances. And this 

 further offense — dancing an Indian war 

 dance over your adversary the minute a great 

 calamity overtakes him — she loathes that 

 particular offense. And she's safe to wreck 

 the prosperity of any paper or editor who 

 persists any great length of time in keeping 

 that far in the Dark Ages. There, my son, I 

 hope I shall never have to take you to the 

 stable again. 



The General Round Up 



Dr. Miller had a young queen pipe while 

 he was holding her cell in his fingers. With 

 the sound he felt a surprisingly strong Jar. 

 Of course if the spunky little lady could jar 

 so big a man she could jar the whole hive 

 when in it ; and now our best evidence that 

 bees can hear has gone glimmering. What 

 scamps investigators are I 



Friend Miller also finds that sheep crowd 

 hives out of place as bad as cows, and worse 

 than horses. Rabbits then ? My"animile" . 

 is the hoe ; but he crowds me out of place 

 too much. 



Just notice how the workers at the bee 

 escape are drifting in company toward an 

 intermittent e's,c».\)e, one that first frightens 

 the bees, and then lets them loose in a flock 

 outside the hive, within smelling distance of 

 the entrance. Don't all say "My inven- 

 tion " at once, boys. Friend Handel hon- 

 estly reports that his cost- nothing paper es- 

 cape fails badly when there are crowds of 

 drones and young bees. 



The experience of improved agriculture 

 driving out bees has recently been repeated 

 in no less classic a place than Bethlehem, the 

 birth place of the Lord. See Baldensper- 

 ger's article. Gleaninys 632. 



S. F. Trego in queen breeding helps out 

 the work of his select mother by having the 

 cells started with hybrid larvae, and then 

 picking them out and putting in pure ones. 

 Gleanings .528. 



Muth says the night temperature must be 

 above 5.5^ else white clover will not yield. 



J. D. Fooshe judges the time when, and 

 the quality how good, of his bees destined to 

 raise queens by the plaintive moan they send 

 up when the hive is opened. When they sob 

 out " We've no mother at all, and not a baby 

 in the house," then they can be trusted. 



Thousands of pounds of foundation, in 

 which mineral wax is one ingredient are sold 

 in Germany. So says H. Reepen. A. B. J. 

 206. There appears to be no attempt at con- 

 cealment, and a general what-you-going-to- 

 do-about-it feelin. . 



Alberti, a German editor, cut off a branch, 

 thoroughly clearing it of honey dew and in- 

 sects, and made it exude more honey dew 

 while in his room. I suppose he would say 

 to our doubters, " Vhot kinds mit insect hon- 

 ey ish dot ?" 



If ants bother you read Dayton (A. B. J. 

 112) and be cheerful again — and thankful 

 you are not in California. 



•Jennie Atchley has found the best place, 

 and is going there. 



And anon Reepen pokes fun at our Doolit- 

 tle because he has to kill bees to see what 

 they carry. (We do kind o' like to see 

 Damascus blade cross Damascus blade. ) As 

 for himself, the tiny drop a bee can be made 

 to disgorge is sufficient not only to taste but 

 to remember. Then he catches bees at the 



