. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July 28, 1904. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. S21 queen ; Which is another way of saying that after that length of time he took the queen from above and put her below. It is not an unusual thing for bees, when excited, to ball their own queen for safety, and it is a pretty good plan to let them alone, and in nine cases out of ten she will nut be hurt. Smoking a balled queen will free the queen pro- viding the smoker be held far enough away. But hot smoke will pretty surely cause the bees to kill her. Hasty's Afterthoughts '? Old Reliable "
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July 28, 1904. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. S21 queen ; Which is another way of saying that after that length of time he took the queen from above and put her below. It is not an unusual thing for bees, when excited, to ball their own queen for safety, and it is a pretty good plan to let them alone, and in nine cases out of ten she will nut be hurt. Smoking a balled queen will free the queen pro- viding the smoker be held far enough away. But hot smoke will pretty surely cause the bees to kill her. Hasty's Afterthoughts '? Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable Glasses. By E. E. Hasty, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, Ohio. THE FAST-GROWING EUCALYPTUS. A planted tree 4 feet in diameter and 150 feet high is pretty well for 25 years of growth even in California—6 feet a year vertically and 2 inches of diameter. Long live the eucalyptus ! With cottonwood and eucalyptus some of southern California is now getting along better for fuel than some of northwest Ohio is. Just think of it once. How much better it is to exercise forethought and produce things than it is wantonly to destroy them I Page 422. DARKENING AND GRANULATING SECTION HONEV. Betsinger, at the Onondaga convention, let loose three ideas of decided interest. I'll change them to questions. Will jarring a white section make it look darker—by caus- ing the honey to touch the front? Will old honey carried up from below cause the new honey it is mixed with to candy ? A trifle of candied honey in the cells of an empty section—can it ever be got out so perfectly that the new honey put in it will not be stimulated to candy ? Page 423. SCIENTISTS AND FORMALDEHYDE. People whom we have to call scientists are now very numerous, and it is written, " Many men of many ; Doubtful if you could scare up a single doctrine so absurd but that some scientists would support it. 'Spects that we shall have to stick to the idea that formaldehyde is itselj a des
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