. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 298 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. May Buckwheat Sown Early, according to J. T. Van Petten, in Gleanings, yields honey on hot forenoons that succeed cool, damp nights. He has had two crops of Japanese in one season. Curing Paralysis by Mixing Colonies.—O. O. Poppleton thinks this would not be satisfactory with him, as he never had a paralytic colony to cast a swarm. Moreover, many col- onies, especially those lightly affected, seem to get well of themselves early enough for late swarming, and he wants a cure that will act early in the season.—Gleaning
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 298 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. May Buckwheat Sown Early, according to J. T. Van Petten, in Gleanings, yields honey on hot forenoons that succeed cool, damp nights. He has had two crops of Japanese in one season. Curing Paralysis by Mixing Colonies.—O. O. Poppleton thinks this would not be satisfactory with him, as he never had a paralytic colony to cast a swarm. Moreover, many col- onies, especially those lightly affected, seem to get well of themselves early enough for late swarming, and he wants a cure that will act early in the season.—Gleanings, p. 29(3. The Disk Section-Cleaner.—James Roat (Gleanings, 98) says it must be run at high speed, 3,000 revolutions a minute or more, as the sand-paper doesn't clog as soon at high speed. He thinks a sulBcient speed cannot be attained by toot-power. One sheet of sand-paper will clean about 70 sections, altho he has done twice as well. In his locality propolis is very bad. Spraying Fruit-Trees.—C. P. Dadant says spraying does no good and may do harm before the blossoms have been off a week. "The fruit being well formed, the surface retains more of the poison, which is therefore more effective. It must be remembered that as the fruit grows, its skin expands, and a part of its surface is thus deprived of its protecting coat of ;—Busy Bee. Keep Up the Standard of Comb Honey is the cry of Editor Hutchinson. He says he would give a cent a pound more for his own eating for comb honey without any founda- tion, and the greatest blessing that has lately fallen to bee- keepers was the failure of the deep-cell foundation. He re- joices in the "change of ha^; on the part of the enterprising Medina folks, who have sent him a sample of their latest pro- duct, a foundation running 18 feet to the pound. May Sickness, of which much is said in Europe, and which is much like, if not identical with, the spring dwindling of this country, M. CI. Laurent says i
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