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either. And it may transpire that 100 col- 

 onies may get just aboat as much per stand 

 in one of these runs as 40 will. This state of 

 things seems to be the usual situation in my 

 field. 



The General Round Up 



Carlyle named one of his books a queer 



name which signified, The Tailor Retailored. 



In like veiu Alley in last Apiculturist might 



entitle his sauciest article, The Miller 



Ground Over. Awful for the miller. And 



as for the rest of us, we can fairly hear the 



grim editor humming softly to himself — 



" Ye living men come view the ground 

 Where you must shortly lie." 



Our excellent friend Miller will think it 

 pours mostly instead of raining, as the Pro- 

 gressive calls for a rest on pulled queens, and 

 "EUery Krum," who supplies the "Fax" 

 for Gleanings, sings : 



" When a queen is ready to gnaw from the cell, 

 A.ntl gettin' quite ripe, sometimes it is well 

 To help her climb out ; but then 1 have seen 

 A waste in the haste of pullin, too green." 



A.B.J, has a new department, "Stray 

 Stings." As is becoming for stings, it is 

 quite sharp. Poetical also ; and none but 

 hardened old chaps, and spectators, can see 

 the poetry of getting stung. 



Almost equal to Topsy at confessing a 



fault is the Enterprise. Being belated with 



the Angust number it comes out floating the 



following " poem " at mast head : 



" He never did a thing on time ; 

 For him all others had to wait. 

 Promptness he took to be a crime, 

 And even his drink was choco-LATE." 



Books teach that drones from a pure moth- 

 er are not affected by her mating. To test 

 this, two yellow sister queens of five-banded 

 stock were taken. One was mated to a 

 black drone, and the other was made to lay 

 without mating at all. The virgin mother's 

 drones were all alike, and very yellow, just 

 as drones of five-banded stock should be. 

 Those from the mismated queen were about 

 all styles and colors except black. Now this 

 might happen by accident ; but it looks sus- 

 picions. 



Whose experiment is the above ? Willie 

 Atchley's— and he is going to conduct a 

 queen-rearing department in the Enterprise 

 — the youngest in the world no doubt to 

 have such a charge. But if a boy mows 

 more grass than any man in the world why 

 shouldn't he write about mowing ? 



" 1 will try to tell what little 1 have learned so 

 yon may understand it without any grammar." 

 Page 59. 



Bravo, Willie ! We won't grumble a bit, 

 so long as yon give us facts, and carefully 

 conducted experiments. Good thing if half 

 the writers in the world could be deprived of 

 grammar — and forced to put in some infor- 

 mation to fill up the vacancy, else wind up. 



Friend Lovesy writes " from the inside " a 

 letter on Mormon social afifairs which is very 

 interesting, A. B. J., 369. 



If editor York keeps on he'll photograph 

 the whole of us drawn up "300,000 strong." 

 Eight Australians last time. 



Prospect for two more babies for Uncle 

 Sam's post office department to strangle. 



Mrs. Atchley talks business on the winter- 

 ing problem. Send her a car load of bees 

 and she will paddle their canoe all winter 

 for 50 cents per colony and send them back 

 in the spring. .4. B. J., 304. If the right 

 railroad official could be moved to foster this 

 infant for a few years it would grow to be a 

 big man perhaps. 



■■ In our wanderings among bee-keepers we 

 find that shade boards are rarely used." Ernest 

 Root. Gleanings 633. 



Dr. Miller caught a laying worker at her 

 nefarious trick. The worker cell she had 

 backed into pushed the wings up about her 

 head in a very uncomfortable looking way. 

 And that seems to be the reason why laying 

 workers almost always choose drone cells. 

 Gleanings 627. 



And now Ernest finds that the Boardman 

 solar beats the chemical processes of the wax 

 room in getting wax out of dirty refuse. 

 Gleanings 687. Not quite level yet. Horse 

 eats cow's "orts," and cow eats horse's 

 "orts." Just so, I suspect, the solar does 

 well on chemical refuse, and the chemicals 

 do well on solar refuse. 



And A. I. finds that in this summer's 

 drouth many things won't grow when yon 

 do water them. Same way here — have a 

 mind of their own, and are convinced that 

 our watering is a mere sell. 



Guess Dr. Miller makes a center shot when 

 he reminds us that unfindable cells are usually 

 the forced work of qneenless bees. Glean- 

 ings 673. 



Punic drones from two colonies scatter 

 through the whole apiary at Dr. Miller's. 

 This is a very valuable proof of what has 

 been quite generally assumed. And the oc- 

 casional crossing of bees at long distances is 

 not caused by queens flying long distances, 

 but by drones going moderate distances to 

 a playground, and going home with new 



