. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 36 AMERICAN EEE JOURNAL, Jan. 19. 1899. their noses at the hive-entrance sooner than his will ; for. if his hives are painted white, as they should be to protect his colonies from the excessive heat of summer, no winter sun will thaw out his bees throug-h that board, but they will be obliged to depend upon their own internal warmth and the atmosphere outside, while mine are already warm, and are only waiting- a favorable opportunity to fly. So much for that. CRUDENESS IN .\PI.\ I,ITEK.\TURE. An editorial in another bee-paper refers to a "pai
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 36 AMERICAN EEE JOURNAL, Jan. 19. 1899. their noses at the hive-entrance sooner than his will ; for. if his hives are painted white, as they should be to protect his colonies from the excessive heat of summer, no winter sun will thaw out his bees throug-h that board, but they will be obliged to depend upon their own internal warmth and the atmosphere outside, while mine are already warm, and are only waiting- a favorable opportunity to fly. So much for that. CRUDENESS IN .\PI.\ I,ITEK.\TURE. An editorial in another bee-paper refers to a "pair of ; and in judg-ing- a honey exhibit says, " I should have believed the judge was impartial or ; Now this may be a slip of the pen. or a typographical error, but it doesn't look so. Many other things could be referred to, but I for- bear. There is plenty of literary crudeiiess, not chargeable to novices, but publisht over the signatures of would-be-con- sidered experts. But what am I doing ? Guess I'm not feeling very well : in fact, I'm not. for I drank a cup of coffee before retiring last night, and did not sleep well. But let us change the subject. Being past the age of active business life. I have plenty of time to devote to ray bees, and either working for or studying them, nearly my whole time is given. While I have read many works on apiculture several times carefully, and while I read all the current literature on the subject ob- tainable, yet there is much to be learned by actual experi- ence. TWIN QUEENS—COLOR IRRITATING BEES. Some one in last week's Bee Journal reports finding twin queens, and asks if any other person can report a like instance. I had just that experience last summer. A cell was found as long as my little finger, and well formed. I watcht it with much curiosity till the time for the queen to emerge had past, when I opened it and found two queens nearly fully developt, but dead. In my experience in the bee-yard my opi
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