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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIJUW. 



ing every trace of mold from a room, 

 though he lives iu a locality that seems to 

 rival Florida for moisture; and fouud by ex- 

 periment with a colouy of bees iu a closed 

 room that it was not iu the least injurious 

 to them. The other substance, sterisol, is a 

 solution of milk sugar which has absorbed 

 "formaldehyd. " The dose for persons is 

 a small teaspoonful three times a day in 

 milk. By sending I3I4 marks ( ^15. IG ) to 

 Dr. Paul Rossenberg. Markgrafenstrasse 

 22 are 28, Berlin S. VV., Germany, one evap- 

 orator, 50 pieces of fuel, 100 grammes 

 holzinol and 300 grammes sterisol, may be 

 procured for experiment. Herr Petersen 

 strongly recommends experime iti ig with 

 these substances on the diseases of bees. 

 One application of holzinol appears to be 

 enough to destroy all microbes it reaches. 

 As usual, however, no allusion is made to 

 the possible preservation of germs in honey. 



Free vinons acid has been discovered by 

 Herr Reidenbach in brood combs, especial- 

 ly old ones. It is abundant in brood food. 

 Its source is said to be the glands in the 

 head of the bee, and its office is to render 

 cane sugar capable of assimilation by in- 

 verting it. He thinks it is the cause of 

 mold on brood combs when the hive is mois^ 



In a recent lawsuit, a bee-keeper was 

 sentenced to .5 marks damages, with costs, 

 for refusing to allow a swarm which had 

 settled on one of his trees to be removed by 

 the owner, and which had absconded during 

 the dispute. In the sentence it was stated 

 that an owner of bees always had a claim on 

 them, even when they settle on another 

 man's land. 



The opinion previously reported that the 

 destruction of worker brood in the fall is as 

 regular as drone brood, is opposed by Dr. 

 Dzierzon, who contends it only happens 

 when the Brood is already dead through the 

 lowering of the temperatuie, and says it is 

 certain that living worker brood is never re- 

 moved from the cells. 



" I. B. " became impatient because one 

 of his colonies delayed a long time in kill- 

 ing oft its drones. So one afternoon du- 

 ring a play-spell he took a stick and killed a 

 few on the alighting board, upon which the 

 workers at once took a hand in the slaugh- 

 ter. By next day the drones were all killed. 



Cantor Otto gives several proofs in figures 

 of surplus yield that Carniolans are much 

 superior to blacks in his locality and adds 

 that the Carniolans regalarly visit red clover, 



especially the second crop, and that the pe- 

 riod during which Carniolans display Iheir 

 superiority coincides with red clover bloom. 



Thirst in winter, says P. Neumann, who 

 has kept bees :>•; years, is indicated by loud 

 buzzing, and flying out of single bees, and 

 is caused by candied honey : lack of stores 

 is also indicated by the flying away of bees, 

 and as a rule in this case they soar quickly 

 aloft. 



The same authority was formerly of the 

 opinion that frequent inspection in Spring 

 was necessary to keep informed of the con- 

 dition of his colonies. But noticing that 

 the bees of a ne^r neighbor, in the same 

 kind of hives, were always about 24 days 

 ahead in their development, he restricted 

 his spring visits to only what was absolutely 

 necessary. Therefore his bees developed 

 much better in spring. He now only in- 

 spects these colonies suspected of queenless- 

 ness. He is of the opinion that no queen 

 should be carried over into the third winter, 

 as such queens are often lost in winter. 

 He utilizes rubbish on the bottom boards 

 in spring by drying it, removing the dead 

 bees by sifting, and kneading the remain- 

 der to a ball in warm water. It is thus in 

 handy shape for storing awav until melting- 

 time. 



Elsass-LothringischebBienen-zuecatek. 

 — There are now 88 bee-journals, of which li) 

 are German. 



M. Metais says in the Revue Eclectique d' 

 Apiculture, that he has seen silk obtained 

 with honey as the principal ingredient. It 

 is soft, and able to compete with the finest 

 grades of silk. 



Vogel in his paper says all drones are not 

 only capable of fertilizing a young queen, 

 but all have the same value for that purpose. 

 He distinguishes six kinds: those from eggs 

 laid in drone-cells by a fertilized queen, as 

 soon as preparations for swarming are be- 

 gun; those from eggs laid by workers in 

 drone cells, which cannot be distinguished 

 from the first kind ; those from eggs laid by 

 a drone-layi g queen in worker cells, in 

 which case the cell walls are pressed side- 

 ways, so that afterwards the cells appear 

 rounded; those from eggs laid by worker 

 bees in worker cells ( only when drone cells 

 are not available in the brood nest) which, 

 like the proceeding, are slender: those which 

 are occasionally raised by queenless colo- 

 nies in queen cells, and which are of nor- 

 mal size; and " little drones, " raised in 



