. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The ' Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable Glasses. By E. E. Hasty, Sta. B. Rural, Toledo, Ohio. When Honey Had the Field. The days that never will come back—and we don't want 'em to come back. But some- how we lick our lips at them still—the days when there was no su^ar. and honey had the whole field to itself. Page .506. Experiments as to Odors and Bees. L. Forestier's verification c f previous ex- periments as applied to bees is of interest. If not quite positive evidence that recognition is by smell, it weighs in that direction very
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The ' Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable Glasses. By E. E. Hasty, Sta. B. Rural, Toledo, Ohio. When Honey Had the Field. The days that never will come back—and we don't want 'em to come back. But some- how we lick our lips at them still—the days when there was no su^ar. and honey had the whole field to itself. Page .506. Experiments as to Odors and Bees. L. Forestier's verification c f previous ex- periments as applied to bees is of interest. If not quite positive evidence that recognition is by smell, it weighs in that direction very decidedly. A bee wet in dilute alcohol and allowed to enter home at once is stopped by guards. Kept till the scent of alcohol is com- pletely evaporated, it is recognized as a fellow citizen again. As one bee might die of lone- liness and worry, take a dozen it you wish to repeat this. Page 56". Tests for Paraffin in Beeswax. So strong, hot lye eats up beeswax and makes a soap of it; but paraffin resists and remainsparaffin still. I suppose a good-sized piece of the suspected foundation should be put in—kept hot for awhile—well stirred— then cooled. Then if anything solid or semi- solid appears, warm water will tell whether it is soap or paraffin. Manifestly this will not detect the taliow or rosin sometimes used by noQ-manufacturing rogues. If foundation was three-quarters beeswax and one-quarler paraffin, I wonder how a slip of It would look if bathed for awhile in lye at 135 degrees. Should expect it to look different from a slip of pure foundation. Page 568. The French Wax-Kettle Method. The French kettle, on page 583, may very likely be a good one; but when they back it to extract entirely all the wax from old combs they are asking us to believe ralhertoo much. The essential operation, after all, differs but little, I should say, from that of other kettles. And possibly also the contents of a wax-ket- tle might be stirred properly in some more simple way th
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