rHE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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about ; and this sort of thing counts for a 

 good deal — size, and pictures, and style, and 

 comicalities, and reviews, and side-shows, 

 may sometimes all of them together count 

 less, perhaps. 



THE GENERAL ROUND -UP, 



Of course I see tiie onslaught friends York 

 and B. Taylor have been making upon me 

 in the American Bee Journal of January IHh. 

 Perhaps I had best not talk back any this 

 time. Some things can better wait a few 

 weeks than not, especially when there's dan- 

 ger of a fellow's getting his dander up. 



According to a straw in (Cleanings 7(j3 the 

 bee louse does not get his living in the nib- 

 bling way his name would suggest, but only 

 clings on and rides to meals and ba?k. 

 Happy to hear it. But those fellow-crafts — 

 men who bestow the enthusiasm usually re- 

 served for sweethearts on their queens won't 

 want 'em lousy for all that. 



In mailing queens for extra long distances 

 Manum sends 75 bees, and puts in a little 

 chunk of comb honey \ nicely cleaned up ) 

 in addition to the Good candy. Gleanings 774. 



Now see here. Rambler ; how do you sup- 

 pose a critic is going to fittingly send you 

 off on the strength of a may-be-so and may- 

 be not farewell ? Just kick the bucket 

 square and I'll forgive you, and do the hand- 

 some thing ; but if you contrive to get well 

 the old grudge holds good. Perhaps it 

 might be as well to say, to those who do not 

 read Gleanings, that they have missed some- 

 thing in missing these 145 illustrated, serio- 

 comic articles. Scenery and character and 

 human life and homespun philosophy have 

 not been so ably illuminated in vain. They 

 will linger in the memory of nearly every 

 Gleanings reader ; albeit the apicultural nug- 

 gets were not always so heavy as to demand 

 a notice from this particular review. 



Rambler pleads for California honey that 

 much of it goes east without ever going into 

 any big honey warehouse, where it could be 

 safely or conveniently naixed. (xleanings 

 J^T. So far so good. Ijet us have genuine 

 facts and valid arguments. But a general 

 disposition to " massacree " friend Dayton 

 will look to us like a " t'other way " sort of 

 argument. 



Bully for F. L. Thompson I He wants a 

 map of the United States in which the large 

 hive localities shall appear in flaunting 

 blotches of contrasted colors. Gleanings 

 808. ' Feerd the scale of the map would 



have to be large to show me in a blue terri- 

 tory and my next neighbor in a red territory 

 — whole thing worse than the map of Ger- 

 many was during my schoolboy days. But 

 Ernest thinks he can manage it, and we 

 mustn't laugh. He proposes to use three 

 colors, third one enveloping all the high 

 mixed folks together " in one red burial 

 blent; "while the first and second show 

 where " birds in their little nests agree to 

 disagree " on the merits of the large cham- 

 ber and small chamber respectively. 

 Gleanings lOi). 



You will see by Gleanings 81G that at the 

 Home of the Honey Bees they now incline 

 toward a feed syrup made by putting co!d 

 water in the extractor and pouring in sugar 

 while the reel is run. Continue running the 

 thing ten or fifteen minutes. Proportions 

 half and half : or two of water to three of 

 sugar for late feeding. No clubs — but if we 

 follow all of Ernest's feeding plans will not 

 Lincoln's story of the college graduate who 

 came home and plowed, and followed too 

 s^/■iV:?/i/ his father's direction to "drive di- 

 rectly toward the black heifer " — will net 

 that just about describe the crookedness of 

 our furrow ? Same story to illustrate A. I. 

 Root's medical teachings. Looks as though 

 we should have to wait until the black heifer 

 lies down some place, and then drive for her. 

 She has been in the all-meat-diet corner of 

 the pasture mostly of late ; but in the No- 

 vember number she kicks up her heels and 

 goes cavorting off to th9 vegetable corner 

 again. 



•J. E. Crane says he has wintered very 

 small colonies upon three combs with entire 

 success. Gleanings 848. More people fail 

 than succeed at that, I reckon. 



Boardman says leave doors and windows 

 all open, and full liglit of day for a spell, 

 after bees are set into winter quarters. And 

 here's another pitfall a heedless bee man 

 might fall into. 



" Very serious damage will result from setting 

 out when tlie weather is cool enough to chili the 

 l)pes that fly oat for the first time. " (xleanings 

 S53. 



Been prisoners so long, and want to rty so 

 badly, that they risk and throw away life for 

 a taste of liberty. 



B. Taylor in Gleaning 8.55 strikes exactly 

 in unison with my latest thought where he 

 advocates a small winter chamber nearly 

 filled by the cluster rather than a big and 

 empty space around. 



