. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Journal, DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. VOL. XX. CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 30, 1884. No. 5. '^^-'^i^^^^Gitr^r^^ Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIKTOK, Nomenclature of Bee-Keeping. A correspondent propounds the fol- lowing questions, based upon our late article on the subject of " Calling things b}- their right ; The queries are as follows : 1. John Phin says if bees feed on meal, say meal. Why not call it artifl- cial bee-bread ? 2. Does not a swarm mean simply the bees, while a colony
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Journal, DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. VOL. XX. CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 30, 1884. No. 5. '^^-'^i^^^^Gitr^r^^ Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIKTOK, Nomenclature of Bee-Keeping. A correspondent propounds the fol- lowing questions, based upon our late article on the subject of " Calling things b}- their right ; The queries are as follows : 1. John Phin says if bees feed on meal, say meal. Why not call it artifl- cial bee-bread ? 2. Does not a swarm mean simply the bees, while a colony means bees, hives, combs, etc. ? 3. Does a stock mean a colony, or a whole apiary ? 4. Are workers erroneously called neuters ; if so, is there a gender other than the two V • •5. Is the white stick candy we get at the store, equally as good as that we make of sugar to give to bees i* 5. Sutton, F. M. Cheney. In replying, we wiU do so by num- bers, in tlie order the questions are propounded to us. 1. The word ?'artificial" is defined to mean something iojnatural, fraud- ulent, or an imitation. We do decided- ly object to the calling of meal artifi- cial bee bread. There is nothing arti- ficial about it. When " comb foundation " was first made, some one called it '• artificial comb," and that erroneous name would, we verily believe, have been what it would have been known by to- day, but for the vigorous protest we gave in the Bee Journal some 5 or 6 years ago. We have no use for the term artificial in all the vocabulary of bee-keeping. 2. No, sir; a " swarm of bees " can only be so called when in the act of leaving the parent colony for the pur- pose of increase. When organized and devoted to their work, they form a "; To call such bees a "swarm" is, at best, a misnomer. 3. A " colony" should never be called a "stock"; that term should only be used to designate the quantity comprising one or
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