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THE BEE KEEPERS' AeVIEW. 



nothing about the intervals in which just as 

 true a reproduction takes place by super- 

 sedure of queens. 



The convention at Milan agreed that ex- 

 tracted honey after being strained should 

 stand for several days and then be skimmed, 

 before being put up. 



Dr. Metelli's experience of last summer, 

 with ten to twenty swarms a day, showed 

 that when several swarms unite, if the re- 

 sulting cluster is let alone until evening, it 

 divides into lobes, each consisting of one 

 swarm. 



Dr. Metelli, in raising extracted honey, 

 nses a board with a hole about four inches 

 square in the center over the brood chamber, 

 so that if the season turns out a poor one, 

 the honey is not scattered all over, but con- 

 fined below. 



Domenicangelo Jammarrone has for sev- 

 eral years hatched chickens in bee hives with 

 success. He advertises an apparatus for 

 containing the eggs for something over 

 12.00. 



Rev. Niccolo Jozzelli gives the following 

 recipe for shoe-blacking : Add as much 

 lamp-black, or better, refined bone-black, to 

 extracted honey, as will admit of stirring 

 the mixture with a stick while it is cold ; then 

 warm until softened, and put up in boxes. 

 Shoes should be thoroughly dry before ap- 

 plying. This blacking preserves its gloss 

 for a long time, prevents cracking, and soft- 

 ens and preserves the leather. 



Dr. Dubini believes the yellow color of 

 wax to be due to pollen. He breaks up his 

 old combs into small bits, which are soaked 

 in water. After one or two days he squeezes 

 out the pollen with his fingers. It is gener- 

 ally yellow, and swollen by the water. The 

 mashed comb is then put on a wire screen 

 and dried in the shade, then melted in the 

 solar extractor, and never fails to yield very 

 light wax, as if it had been bleached. 



LA KEVUE INTEKNATIONALE. 



During the season of 189.4 Leon Sautter 

 treated with formic acid, for foul brood, 19 

 colonies which first showed symptoms in 

 the spring, at which time six were in an ad- 

 vanced stage of the disease. Fifty per cent. 

 acid was mixed with four times the quantity 

 of water, and poured from a height into two 

 empty combs for each hive, which were put 

 one on each side of the brood-nest. They 

 were examined every eight or ten days, when 

 the treatment was repeated if the colony was 

 still found diseased. On the eighth of Sep- 



tember the whole 19 colonies were complete- 

 ly cured. 



Another correspondent cured twelve, four 

 of which were in an advanced stage ; and 

 another bee-keeper cured a colony in which 

 the brood was all dead, by uncapping and 

 spraying. 



A correspondent of the Schweizerische 

 Bienenzeituny, however, who had succeeded 

 last year by the use of this acid, reported a 

 complete failure this year. 



From a biographical sketch of Dr. von 

 Planta it appears we can place reliance on 

 his utterances on the subject of bee-chem- 

 istry, as he has devoted ten successive win- 

 ters to the study of the subject alone, besides 

 being a competent scientist. 



A case of what appears to be bee paralysis 

 is reported from Chili. The abdomens were 

 distended with pollen which they seemed un- 

 able to evacuate. The editor suggests that 

 the paralysis of the United States may be the 

 same as what is known in Europe as mal de- 

 mai, or May sickness, which does little harm 

 and disappears of itself. For this Hilbert 

 recommended feeding with syrup medicated 

 with salicylic acid. 

 gkavenhokst's illustkiekte bienenzeitung 



Leberceht Wolf saw a laying queen come 

 out of a hive in early spring and fly away, 

 returning in three minutes. 



I. W. Roth, in February, found a queen in 

 front of one of his hives. She was given to 

 a colony found queenless the day before, in 

 which she commenced laying within twelve 

 hours. The apiary was immediately in- 

 spected, but no other queenless colonies 

 found. 



In the December number of this journal, 

 the articles m the Schweizerische Bienenzei- 

 hmg alluded to on page 80 of the American 

 Bee Journal for Jan. IS. 1894, are reprinted, 

 in substance as follows : Dr. von Planta, 

 in a series of accurate experiments, found 

 that the quantity of formic acid which should 

 exist in honey, if Mullenhof's theory, that 

 the bees deposit it from their stings, was 

 correct, is 200 times greater than the actual 

 amount. Sugar syrup suspended in a strong 

 colony, in a wire cage, for 14 days, gave a 

 distinct acid reaction, but the share of at- 

 mospheric acid in the composition of honey 

 was concluded to be very small. Sugar 

 syrup fed to a colony of young bees which 

 did not fly for eight days, was found to con- 

 tain, when capped, the same proportion of 

 formic acid as sealed honey. In both syrup 



