. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Hreedlng lor 'I'ongfiieM is thus mentioDed in Gleanings in Bee-Culture: " At the Michigan State Bee-Keepers' Convention, held in Thompsonville, Jan. 1 and 2, Mr. J, M. Kankin. who has charge of the apiarian department of the Michi- gan Experiment Station, reported some in- teresting experiments in the line of devel- oping bees with long tongues. He found that the average length of the tongue of black bees is millimeters; Italians, ., while he bad several colonies of a strain of bees at the Experiment Station apiary whose tongues measured 6
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Hreedlng lor 'I'ongfiieM is thus mentioDed in Gleanings in Bee-Culture: " At the Michigan State Bee-Keepers' Convention, held in Thompsonville, Jan. 1 and 2, Mr. J, M. Kankin. who has charge of the apiarian department of the Michi- gan Experiment Station, reported some in- teresting experiments in the line of devel- oping bees with long tongues. He found that the average length of the tongue of black bees is millimeters; Italians, ., while he bad several colonies of a strain of bees at the Experiment Station apiary whose tongues measured millimeters. He believed that, by a process of selection, and breeding with this trait in view, a race of bees might be developt which will secure more of the honey from ; Foiil Ail-and ("old in Oilai-s.— A Stray Straw in Gleanings in Bee-Culture says; " Mr. Editor, you say that when bees quiet down in the cellar after a Are has been started, no one can state definitely how much of the trouble was due to cold and how much to foul air, Quite right. But I'll tell you one case in which you can tell definitely. Temperature in the cellar, ?5(l''"; same outdoors. Bees noisy. Fire started toward evening, running temperature to BO^'. Next morning bees still, with ther- mometer .50^ inside and out. Foul air had all to do with it in that ; Editor Root follows with this footnote: "That is a clear case; and the fact being es- tablisht in t/iis case, it will be reasonable to assume that in the other cases foul air is equally the disturbing ; niaUIng: Rap- idly.—In the American Bee-Keeper, M. F. Reeve tells about a rapid plan used to make vinegar out of soured mead, of which sev- eral hundred gallons would have been other- wise wasted. The mead was made of Cu- ban honey and Demarara sugar spiced, but any solution of honey might be used. A whisky barrel set on end was the genera- tor. Further details are as
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