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Vol. XXIV. 



FEB. 15, 1896. 



No. 4. 



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Great Britain, says B. B. J., imported in 

 1895 honey to the value of $200,000. 



Centralblatt says foul -brood spores can 

 give the disease after being kept seven years. 



In France there is complaint that honey 

 granulates too slowly this year, making con- 

 sumers suspect its genuineness. 



Dm YOU EVER know so much inquiry about 

 sweet clover as at the present time ? [No; and 

 it's a good omen for bee-keepers. — Ed. J 



Gravenhorst says he has often had laying 

 workers in the same colony with virgin queens, 

 the laying workers disappearing when the 

 queens commenced business. 



A leaflet for bee-keepers to scatter among 

 consumers is now hatching in Hutchinson's 

 brain. Good thing. [Yes: and Hutchinson is 

 a good man to get it up.— Ed.] 



Hot water is objected to as a drink by some 

 people who forget they are themselves using it 

 three times a day. Hoiwaier is none the less 

 hot water because it is flavored with tea or 

 coffee. 



I INDORSE the editor's good opinion of Hor- 

 lick's malted milk. A cup of it with hot water 

 makes a drink with the refreshing qualities of 

 beef tea, with the added advantage of an abid- 

 ing strength that beef tea doesn't possess. 



Gardening, literature, law, medicine, re- 

 ligion, poultry, have formed departments of 

 bee-journals, and now the Xebraska Bee-keeper 

 has started a department on irrigation. May be 

 that will help the honey crop in dry seasons. 



De La yens reports in L' Apiculteur a thor- 

 ough series of experiments which seems to show 

 that bees ventilate, not to cool the hive, but to 

 evaporate the honey. The number of fanners 

 early in the morning was in proportion to the 

 flow of honey. 



M,eusetyphusbacillu8 is what they're now 

 proposing to kill mice with in Germany. P^ive 



cents sent to the station at Leitmeritz brings a 

 package with instruction for use. It's harm- 

 less to other animals. Its very name ought to 

 frighten the mice away. 



Unite a swarm having a virgin queen with a 

 colony having a fecundated queen, whether she 

 lays or not, and Gravenhorst says the bees with 

 the virgin queen will be killed. But remove 

 the virgin queen and sprinkle the bees with 

 salt water, flour, etc., and all will be well. 



Meat-cutters may be a good thing for peo- 

 ple who have to gum it; but I'll give a meat- 

 cutter odds any day, and do a better job on a 

 beefsteak with my teeth. [If you have good 

 teeth, that is all right; but many haven't, and 

 hence the chopper is almost a necessity. — Ed.] 



M. Legros, by his improved glossometer, 

 finds the length of the average worker's tongue 

 to be (3.5 millimeters (.356 of an inch); and by 

 selection he has obtained bees whose tongues 

 measuri 7 .'> millimeters — again of about ^V of 

 an inch.—UAjnrulie^ir. I wish I had a gloss- 

 ometer. 



R. L. Taylor, in Review, while he doesn't 

 hold out very great encouragement for feeding 

 back, thinks it may succeed with right condi- 

 tions, such as black or hybrid bees, a prolific 

 queen, time immediately at close of white-hon- 

 ey harvest, small brood- chamber, or one sec- 

 tion of Heddon hive, and sections well toward 

 completion. 



When it comes to adulteration of wax, Amer- 

 ica must take a back seat for Germany. Much 

 has been said about adulteration of foundation; 

 and now comes an enterprising firm at Cologne, 

 boldly advertising Gewerbe-wachs (trade-wax) 

 of three grades at 18, 35, and 31 cents a pound. 

 The best is % beeswax; the cheapest is pure 

 Gewerbe-wachs. 



Renewal of Queens. Herr Strut z says in 

 Centralblntt that he thinks strong colonies usu- 

 ally renew their queens annually at the close of 

 harvest, and that prime swarms do the same. 

 That may be partially true; for, naturally, a 

 queen that had laid heavily throughout the 

 season would be more likely to be superseded 

 than one whose laying room had been limited. 



