. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1913 [American ^ec Journalj^w^ a fine powder, is a caustic alkali, and is very irritating when taken into the nose, mouth or lungs of animals. It should certainly prove very much more irritating when taken into the numer- ous spiracles or breathing tubes of bees. One'might set a lot of this irri- tating powder afloat in a bee-cellar if he happened to be a little careless in handling the lime in ; J. M. Francis. This leaves but little to say. Mr. Francis explains fully that " taking up moisture with a;'id//y does not mean taking
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1913 [American ^ec Journalj^w^ a fine powder, is a caustic alkali, and is very irritating when taken into the nose, mouth or lungs of animals. It should certainly prove very much more irritating when taken into the numer- ous spiracles or breathing tubes of bees. One'might set a lot of this irri- tating powder afloat in a bee-cellar if he happened to be a little careless in handling the lime in ; J. M. Francis. This leaves but little to say. Mr. Francis explains fully that " taking up moisture with a;'id//y does not mean taking it up with rapidity. Were it so, a cellar would become as hot as an oven, as will be apparent when lime is slaked hurriedly for mortar. When lime is put into a box, as in the case of an X-ray machine, which has a cubic capacity of not over .50 cubic feet, it soon renders the air free of moisture, but when fresh air is corl- stantly supplied, as it should be in a cellar, it will require large quantities of fresh lime to make a perceptible dif- ference in the amount of moisture in the air, and its greatest benefit is its absorption of carbonic acid gas. Buck Grove, Iowa. Montana as a Bee-Country BY WM. SCHULZE. Reading in the Bee Journal about the merits and superiorities which certain sections and localities of some of the States are said to possess, I have not yet come across anything that could beat the prospects which await the apiarist in certain parts of Montana. I settled here at Chance two years ago last fall, and bought from a num- ber of farmers (ill hives of bees, which had never had any care or attention. As it was late in the season, and I was overcrowded with other work, I could not spend much time with them, and consequently did not expect many of them to pull through the winter nor do much the following summer. However, they surpassed my keenest expectations, producing 40o0 pounds of honey be- sides 50 percent increase. Owing to an unsual early approach of winter,
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