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" Honoy is not at its best until it has remained 

 in tlie t)ives long enough to become travel- 

 stained." A. B. J.. 470. 



I notice tiiat some sections stored early 

 come off looliing nice in October. Wish all 

 good bees would learn this tidy art. 



Hfillo I We have here the bee words of two 

 moro languages, Algonquin and Iroquois. 

 In the latter tongue if I should feed you 

 some sugar-honey it would be Otsiketa- 

 tsinakontakwane-otsiketa. Think you would 

 survive ? A. B. J., 473. 



Query 892 wants to know what an inventor 

 shall invent for our craft. Non-swarmers, 

 controlled mating, tool to pull dummies and 

 things, better hive-covers, veils and smok- 

 ers, and an uncapping machine that will 

 work on crooked coinb — seems to be the 

 mind of the crowd. Who knows but some 

 form of the sand blast (^ using very coarse 

 saud) could be made to fill the latter bill ? 

 Cappings broken into bits would release the 

 honey without being removed, and the Mc- 

 Intyre form of strainer would manage the 

 debris without trouble I think. All loose 

 sand in the honey would quickly settle out. 



Now hear Muth, the honey dealer, as to the 

 markets. 



" A fruit-canner buys a few barrels of honey 

 every fall for makius pickels. A few pork-pack- 

 ers and a few brewers bay occasionally 25 to 5U 

 barrels of honey. If barley should ever again 

 bring $ .50 a bushel, brewers would buy the bulk 

 of ilie honey crop of America and (.'una. Pork 

 men having used honey, acknowledged, in eveiy 

 instai;ce, the superior (luality of their meat. 

 But 1 cannot account for the reason why honey 

 18 not in more general use among them.'' A. B. 

 J., 163. 



One tobacco man takes about nine barrels 

 a week, and one baker nearly as much. He 

 lost one good customer for honey dew 

 (printing rollers) by sending him good hon- 

 ey when there was no honey dew on hand. 

 That was adulterated, and no use o' talking. 



But after all Jenuie Atchley seems to give 

 the most interesting single article. She 

 warns our B. Taylor that she has had his lit- 

 tle racket for ten years, and that it won't 

 work, a double swarm with two queens being 

 the result. But curiously it does educate 

 queens to tolerate each other, so that she 

 works more or less colonies every year with 

 two laying queens without any partition. 

 The two that survived of the four she sent in 

 one cage to the Roots, went to housekeeping' 

 kindly together when they got back. And a 

 quadruple colony, with three perforated par- 

 titions is getting to be a favorite queen-rear- 

 ing wrinkle with Willie. 'Pears like some- 



thing profitable would sometime sprout on 

 from all these wonderf^il things. A woman 

 who could credit Mr. Dadant with suggest- 

 ing the idea to her ( when there was so little 

 to be credited) would hardly wish to rob Mr. 

 Taylor of any part of his due. 



According to Doolittle (Gleanings, 702) 

 giving a laying queen to a colony that has 

 just swarmed keeps them with swarming and 

 breeding on the brain, so that they store lit- 

 tle ; when they might have stored (50 pounds 

 if let alone. 



Friend Smith, of Lometa, Texas, has had 

 three cases this summer where a young 

 queen had (apparently) a second fertiliza- 

 tion. Gleanings, 704. 



Dr. Miller, while observing, like the rest 

 of us, the usual tendency of virgin queens to 

 fight, has seen a case where two virgins 

 touched each other several times without a 

 sign of hostilities. Gleanings, 705. The 

 language in which he tells us this is somewhat 

 nervous. Don't think, dear Dr. that the 

 great bee-keeping family is going to doubt 

 your testimony in a plain case, just because 

 you have been harried a bit of late. We have 

 to eat a grain of salt with startling reports 

 when they come from beginners, or unknown 

 persons, but not with yours. 



Edwin Erance says he would have been 

 better off had he thrown his twenty queen - 

 less colonies away last spring. Even those 

 that had queens had not vim enough to steal, 

 or even to clean up the combs of dead col- 

 o lies when set invitingly open. Like others, 

 he notices that the pollen from early spring 

 fiowers is about the only thing that puts life 

 into dwindling bees. Gleanings, 744. 



Doolittle's guess at the composition of 

 food for baby bees is, two parts honey, four 

 parts p^llen, and one part water. This is 

 not fed raw of course, but well churned first 

 in the laboratory of the nurse bees. Glean- 

 ings, 772. Seems to me it is not only churned 

 but filtered. And what's the difference be- 

 tween nutriment filtered through live animal 

 tissues and a secretion ? 



France is sure that on his ground he can 

 get more than twice as much extracted hon- 

 ey as comb. Having gone the rounds of 

 smoker fuels he settles on mixed straw and 

 tobacco stems. Gleanings, 775. 



Gleanings, 173, begins a beautiful series 



of camera views of foreign bee manipulation 



and hives. W. B. Carr, one of the editors of 



the British Bee Journal, appears as operator. 



Richards, Lucas Co., Ohio, Oct. 24, '93. 



