.13A iiEJL'K£EPERS' REVIEW. 



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As his emimeratiou is likely to become in 

 amensiirea staudnrd. it is worth while to 

 point out tliat (ileaninj^ts prints the graud 

 averatie iucorrtctly— 7<; when it should be 

 S7(i. The original census was in Talestine 

 in 1891 ; but he has rei)eated it in Ihe Alps 

 in lS7r> with nearly the same results. 



Baldensperger also proposes to cut down 

 the standard of bee life from \2 to IS"). Som 

 of the brethren are iucliued to kick at this, 

 and to claim that bees are not so short lived 

 in this country. Unless this is so, however, 

 his proposition seems to be all right. That 

 is if we put into a colony what amounts to 

 (!,0(X) bees of a different color, and at 40 days 

 there are less than lOl) of them left, these 

 should not be called bees of the normal age, 

 but cases of extreme longevity. Therefore 

 he says let the normal life limit be put at 35 

 days. Chance for other experiments to work 

 htjre. Uatil more evidence arrives 1 think 

 that most apiarists will still figure on 4'J days 

 of life for their little cattle. 



The new Weed process, whereby a nicer 

 looking and tougher foundation is made, 

 and the nuisance of picking loose an end 

 every sheet entirely obviated, is i)leasautly 

 talked of on page !);■);"■>. Exactly how the 

 main thing is done, in transforming the 

 wax into a sheets, seems to be held back. 

 Perhaps they wait to have the patent grant- 

 ed first before telling us all we want to 

 hear. Mr. Washburn comes to the front 

 again, cliangiug the every tliing-toomuch- 

 iu-spots machine of Weed to a machine as 

 free from the too-much-in-spots evil as was 

 the famous •' One-hoss Shay "of the Deacon. 

 The sheets in loose rolls of about 2;") iiounds 

 each are fed out of a tank of warm water to 

 the ordinary foundation mill. At present 

 they halt a bit to cut off eacli sheet, but they 

 hope soon to go right ahead like the all- 

 creation printing press of a daily news- 

 paper. 



A. I. Root himself actually writes up the 

 Atlanta bee convention very nicely on page 

 !ir)9. One bee keeper present had never seen 

 candied honey till he saw some at the con- 

 vention. The candying tvil can hardly be 

 as prevalent in liis locality as it is with most 

 of us. If A. I. Root would only get the bee 

 fever over again it would be tlie biygest 

 kind of an item. 



It seems Dr. Miller for one has tried the 

 malted milk for bee food ( to stimulate 



brooding) which Langstroth so greatly de- 

 sired to have tried. Couldn't see that it 

 amounted to anything. (Meanings page 7. 

 Skylark is going to have liis improved bees 

 send a deputation into the house to inform 

 the family when a swarm is coming out. 

 I'd sooner risk the bee-telephone. 



Page 10 of Gleanings gives us somewhat 

 amazing news from that far distant land, 

 Evansville, ludina. It is of a honey plant 

 which covers the country, and fills all the 

 ''barls, "and is inexpressible and full of 

 glory in quality. (!alls it the dry-weather 

 vine, friend Wallenmeyer does. If he «x- 

 aggerates a little we won't be spunky, cos 

 he was about to get married, and may have 

 been looking at the vine with ihe same eyes 

 he had been looking at his Jeanette with. 

 Accompanying the article is a nice picture, 

 of friend W., and of her, and of all the hon- 

 ey things except the honey moon. On the 

 whole we should like to have some botanist 

 get after the plant and some agricultural 

 experiment station get after the question 

 whether it is too self-assertive and dangerous 

 to be allowed dissemination. 



The infallible method of queen introduc- 

 tion from Dr. Metelli of Italy is introducing 

 her twice. First build up a small colony 

 around lier, and then unite the two colonies 

 by a safe method. Might pay for the both- 

 er sometime when you want to queen a big 

 and savage colony of hjbrids. The queen, 

 with her extemporized colony, is put in the 

 super wiili wire screen below them for two 

 days, and then the screen is withdrawn. 

 Gleanings 18. 



The writer who presents the above, 

 Charles Norman, also proposes the terms 

 " forecells " and "affercells" for the two 

 kinds of queen cells. The former term 

 sounds to me a little queer, and will have 

 to be explained too many times. Wouldn't 

 one new term answer ? saying cells and 

 " aftercells, " usingthe term " normal cells " 

 for the former when we specially fear being 

 misunderstood. The latter kind, being 

 spliced on at right angles to a worker cell 

 are just a trifle o/> normal. But the coi.trary 

 brother will say they are just as normal 

 as the others are. and just as good. 



Heddon's Quarterly seems to have drop- 

 ped out of the ranks, at least for the pret-ent : 

 and, to make its place good, the Pacific 

 Slope BeeJourual makes its bow and goes 

 in. 



