. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 566 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Sept. 7, The "Old Reliable" seen thru New and Unreliable Glasses. By E. E. HASTY, Richards, Ohio. EDITOR root's "unconscious ; When that beauty's found and cauiriil, Next catch a man who's wise and knows it not ; Then let a saintl_v priest, that isn't proud. Send them to nuptial heaven in a cloud. TIN-P.\N MUSIC FOR BEES PRETTY OI,D. That was a brig-ht idea (page 537) which explained tlie orig-in of tin-pan music for bees by an act of the British Parliament a thousand years ag-o
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 566 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Sept. 7, The "Old Reliable" seen thru New and Unreliable Glasses. By E. E. HASTY, Richards, Ohio. EDITOR root's "unconscious ; When that beauty's found and cauiriil, Next catch a man who's wise and knows it not ; Then let a saintl_v priest, that isn't proud. Send them to nuptial heaven in a cloud. TIN-P.\N MUSIC FOR BEES PRETTY OI,D. That was a brig-ht idea (page 537) which explained tlie orig-in of tin-pan music for bees by an act of the British Parliament a thousand years ag-o. Alas, what a merciless thing- truth is, and what a lot of pretty conceits it destroys I It kills oflf our William Tells, and makes our Pocahontas-es mere young squaws. The trouble here is that the custom of making- a racket to settle a swarm is certainly many hundreds of years older than that parliamentarj- act. Vir- g-il, nearly a thousand years before, speaks of it as well known, and seems to connect it with the events of Jupiter's babyhood—which would be g-etting- back about as far as Adam. This much is the best we can say—that the law may have done something to prevent the custom from going out of use. TWO YE.\KS TO GERMINATE BASSWOOI) SEED. As to basswood seeds alluded to in the editorial note, page 536, a friend of mine with botany on the brain tells me that basswood is only one of several genera of trees that regularl}' require two years for the germination of their seeds. Most bee-folks who have planted them gave them up after one year. Two years gives that under-the-snow rascal—the stump-tailed burrowing inouse—extra oppor- tunities to gather them in as winter provender. It is desir- able to find some waj' to get on Nature's blind side, and re- duce the germinating- period to one year; but tnay-be we won't succeed. I am trying the trick of picking the seed from the tree a little before it is ripe and planting it then. If I find out anything I'll report. HOW T
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