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Many of our extractors would have to be 

 ni'^de^differoiitly to Ki't in so thick a case, 

 however. A very simple cenlrifiifiral to 

 whirl the case only ouyiit not to cost niucli. 

 I 'aUier thitik e.iex\vise whirling would till 

 both sides at once in such a case — at least 

 edu'vvisH wliirliu}; when honey is thin throws 

 out both sides at once. 



It's yood reading to read about the Aspin- 

 wall wooden combs, thoroughly soaked in 

 hot wax^but <:;uess I won't darken counsel 

 this lime by words without knowledjje. !See 

 the excellent article itself, page 4."). 



The general effect of R. L. Taylor's last 

 experiments iu feeding back, given in the 

 opening article of this year, is to make the 

 mystery look darker than before. ( )ue would 

 almost say there )nust be some undiscover- 

 ed leak somewhere through which so much 

 good material gets away. AViio knows but 

 tiie little snipes fly out with it, and play 

 Lidy B )untiful by offering it to whatever 

 bees or insects they can find willing to ac- 

 cept it V Think the Millennium has come, 

 and want to si)read it. Wax rendering from 

 old combs is seldom so well treated as iu 

 that same article, it seems to me. 



The General Round-Up, 



Yes. friend York, as yon remark on page 

 21:51) of the American Bee Journal, I a'u, to 

 my disgrace, over 200 pages behindhand — 

 di-like to throw good things overboard so 

 badly. S ly ! Offer a fellow some brotherly 

 counsel what to do. Shall I jump down to 

 present date and grab hold again ( have 

 done th it l)efore ) or shall I do some other 

 way 'i Oi' lias the present state of things 

 some advantages, in that you preach a good 

 thing to the people., and then, when they are 

 just about forgetting it, I preach it to 'em 

 ag lit! ? S Ju ? 



New French way to prevent swarms mix- 

 ing. Will work sometimes no doubt. Fun — 

 for all except the perspiring wight who prac- 

 tices it on a swarmy -June day. Partially 

 cl »-e, with a wad of grass, the entrance of 

 the second one that starts, then pick up the 

 hive and run with it forty rods, putting it 

 doivn in a U'^w landscape. Gleanings 4. 



Tlie French have al-so found that the bee 

 escape can be worked in an empty hive, in 

 which the combs destined for the extractor 

 are put without brushing and left there a 

 few hoars. Gleanings, .")0. Most of us would 

 prefer to brash them clean aiid have the job 

 done with at once. Possibly, in robbing 



times, the shorter exposure of the hive might 

 pay. 



Who can contradict the following provok- 

 ing straw in Gleanings, 4S, mostly copied 

 from the British Bee Journal ? 



"An pg« when first laid, stands on end attaeh- 

 e 1 to the base of tlic cell. In a ffw minutes a 

 nnrsp bee lays it down Mil its side. On the fec- 

 o id day we find tin' 1)p(>k havi^ shifted its p<)«iti<iii 

 To an aiiKle of alxuil X) dcgrcoH : on the third it 

 is niovnd asiain to a liorizoutal position, and on 

 the lourtli day it liatchos out." 



Fm skeptical about much of this ; but my 

 eyes are not keen enough to enjoy the job of 

 disproving it. 



F. Greiner, Gleanings 14;5, says an egg ly- 

 ing on its side dies before it hatches — yet he 

 says that eggs do not move readily, except 

 by breaking out the part of the bottom to 

 which they are attached 



E. E. Slingerland, Gleanings F>5, seems to 

 make a caiiital point on house apiaries, iu 

 dispensing with the floor. Walking on the 

 floor ( wh«n it is also their floor ) must annoy 

 all the colonies in the vicinity more or less ; 

 so he just heaps up and levels up dirt for 

 the keeper to walk on. Moreover he is un- 

 doubtedly on the right track when he warns 

 against any needless cubic feet of space in- 

 side for winter. Bees themselves can miti- 

 gate the chill and damp of a small space. I 

 suspect that it would pay to All big sacks 

 with chaff wnd straw and pile them in where 

 there /.s too much space. 



H. W. Mitchell's uncapping rig, shown in 

 Gleanings . 59, seems to be one of the best 

 out, for a simple home made affair. Half 

 barrel bottom, with cheese-cloth strainer 

 bound over. Al:)ove this is mounted a box 

 with open top and hopper-shaped bottom, to 

 hold most of the cappings, and let the honey 

 drop out upon the cheese-cloth. A rei-olv- 

 ing comb rest is rigged to a cross piece on 

 the top of the upper box. 



In qieen rearing work Doolittle averages 

 two queens a month from each nucleus. 

 Gleanings (>1. 



T. S. Ford, whom Gleanings endorses as 

 the best posted man in the country, says 

 queens do carry paralysis, and some queen 

 breeders do keep paralysis in their apiaries. 

 Gleanings fio. 



B. Taylor says colonies furnished with 

 great abundance of section room during a 

 good harvest will have more finished honey 

 than they would if crowded a little, and a 

 lot of unfinished honey as clear gain- 

 Gleanings 102. If this is correct it is quite 

 important. Grain of salt for me. 



