. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. this true of September. One day this week the thermome- ter stood at SS degrees, and the next as low as 40 degrees. In the main it has been a delightfully cool, pleasant summer; hut noi good bee-weather. Looking' After the Beeswax. MRS. ANTES AND PART OP HER APIART. to just as weak a condition as if the other manipulations had been made, and with less trouble. Mrs. Antes says she prefers this to clipping the queen, but the two things are quite separate. Clipping a queen's wings does not in the least prevent a second swarm, but does prevent the first s
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. this true of September. One day this week the thermome- ter stood at SS degrees, and the next as low as 40 degrees. In the main it has been a delightfully cool, pleasant summer; hut noi good bee-weather. Looking' After the Beeswax. MRS. ANTES AND PART OP HER APIART. to just as weak a condition as if the other manipulations had been made, and with less trouble. Mrs. Antes says she prefers this to clipping the queen, but the two things are quite separate. Clipping a queen's wings does not in the least prevent a second swarm, but does prevent the first swarm from going off with the old queen. Our Changeable Climate. What a changeable climate we have had this summer. One day very warm, and the next cool. And especially is Bee-keepers, as a rule, are such very busy people that everything that can be set aside during the harvest is likely to be postponed to some future time, and looking after the beeswax is one of the things likely to be so treated. Per- haps few of us are as careful as we might be about saving the little bits of wax. If we have some handy receptacle in the apiary into which they can be thrown they are much more likely to be saved, and they are well worth saving. Now that the harvest is over, it is a pretty good plan to get all the wax into marketable shape at once. Paste of Marshmallows Root With Honey. Steep Js ounces of marshmallows root in }< pint of water; add 3 ounces of gum arable. When the gum is dis- solved, let settle, and pour off. Replace on a slow fire and add 3'2 ounces of liquid honey, stirring constantly. Add the white of an egg beaten to a froth. When it will no longer stick to the fingers pour upon a surface powdered with The " Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable Glasses. By E. E. Hasty, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, Ohio. OUBEN AND HER RETINUE—WHAT SHALL WE CALL THEM ? Good thing to have a fixed name for each of the essen- tial things of apiculture iy we don'I try /or
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