. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 14 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. where the swarm has gone, cluster there, and remain for a week or more, and dwindle away one by one until they have all disappeared. Sometimes a swarm will settle in a wild grape-vine, or under a limb of a tree, and be- ing full of honey start combs, and the queen lays a few eggs, then the scouts fail to entice the swarm to leave its young, and remain all summer to make comb and rear brood ; but I never found any honey to amount to much, only enough to feed the brood. But woe to them when .Jack Frost puts in an appearance,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 14 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. where the swarm has gone, cluster there, and remain for a week or more, and dwindle away one by one until they have all disappeared. Sometimes a swarm will settle in a wild grape-vine, or under a limb of a tree, and be- ing full of honey start combs, and the queen lays a few eggs, then the scouts fail to entice the swarm to leave its young, and remain all summer to make comb and rear brood ; but I never found any honey to amount to much, only enough to feed the brood. But woe to them when .Jack Frost puts in an appearance, or a ring-tailed coon reaches his paw in the combs and breaks them apart; then the poor little bees have to bid farewell to this cold, vain world, and pass to that bourne from which no bee has ever yet returned. G. POINDEXTER. Dewitt Co., III., Dec. 14. c Beedom Boiled Down ) Pawn Your Watch and Get a Bee= Book. A beginner wrote to a well-known American apiarist, asking for a few pointers on bee- keeping, as he had no money to buy a bee- book. The reply was at once laconic and practical: "Pawn your watch and get ; —Gilbert Wintle, in Canadian Bee Jour- How to Keep Honey Indefinitely. Mr. Charles Weber, son of C. H. W. Weber, told me that it was no trick at all to keep all honey except alfalfa liquid indefinitely under all conditions. The temperature must be brought up to 145 degrees Fahr., and kept there continuously, without variation, for S6 hours. That is the whole secret. "But," said I, " will this not darken the honey? " " No, sir, if you do it right. Lonr/ heating, f07i(m!/ci«s/7/applied at a muderate tempera- ture is much more effective than a high tem- perature for a short time. The latter spoils the flavor of the honey, as well as darkens it, while the former leaves it with its original delicacy of flavor, and with no darkening of ; He emphatically stated, however, that his formula would not apply in the case
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