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THE BEE-KEEPERS' li^ / . 



A. von Rauechenfels denies that two stories 

 of shallow frames offer no obstacle to breed- 

 ing, as compared with one story of deep 

 frames. " In April," he says " when the 

 colony has already set one foot on the bot- 

 tom board, i. e. all frames on which they 

 have wintered are closely covered and the 

 point of the cluster touches the bottom, it 

 may be ; in March it is not so." (Probably 

 April and March in upper Italy correspond 

 with May and April here, or if not quite 

 that, there is at least two weeks' difference. ) 

 " In March the days are frequently cold and 

 the nights always so, and the queen does not 

 leave the frames of the upper story, not un- 

 til April, when the air is warm, does she ex- 

 tend her laying to the lower frames. * * 

 The queen goes from one comb to the other, 

 but always in the upper story, and can lay 

 comparatively few eggs, because there is 

 still much honey in the combs, while the 

 frames of the lower story are comparatively 

 empty. When on the contrary there are four 

 or five, or even only three, deep frames in 

 the hive, the bees extend themselves below, 

 and one gets in that way, with a less number 

 of frames, a much greater amount of brood, 

 which also develops better, because it is en- 

 closed in a more limited and therefore 

 warmer space." It will be interesting to 

 compare with this, however, a paragraph in 

 Mr. Aspinwall's article, on page 120. 



L'Apioulteub. — Ordinary light honey 

 (doubtless extracted) has been quoted at 

 Paris for the last few months at !}{ cents a 

 pound. (It seems probable that the 13 1-5 

 cents, given as the average price by M. 

 Madeline, refers to the retail trade.) Chili 

 honey at Harve now (May) averages 1}4 

 cents. Last December it was quoted at 

 from 5^2 to G^ cents, while Mexican and 

 West Indian was 3 to 3)^, and San Francisco 

 honey 1%. According to M. Madeline, the 

 quotations at Hamburg at the time he made 

 his report were 2 l-.'i to 2 2-.') cents for Mexi- 

 ican and West Indian, and 2 3-.') for very 

 choice Chili honey. 



At the meeting of the Federation of French 

 apicultural societies, M. Beure reported that 

 twenty colonies wintered in a dark apart- 

 ment had consumed an average of 4 lbs. 4. J) 

 oz. per colony, from Nov. Ist to March l.'ith, 

 and twenty colonies of the same strength, 

 (both sets being the result of uniting the 

 previous fall) had consumed an average of 

 8 lbs. 6.2 oz., making a difference in favor of 

 the former of 4 lbs. 1.3 oz. per colony. This 



was winter before last. Last winter twelve 

 colonies wintered in a shed, and twelve 

 which had remained in the apiary, were 

 weighed on the 2Sth of October and the 29th 

 of February. The former consumed an 

 average of (> lbs. G.4 oz., the latter 10 lbs. 5.G 

 oz., a difference in favor of the former of 3 

 lbs. 1.'>.2 oz. per colony. 



Abbe Pincot is inclined to think that 

 swarming may be prevented even after there 

 are sealed queen cells. In 1894, being pre- 

 vented by illness from putting supers on, 

 some of his colonies swarmed. On examin- 

 ing the rest, these were found with numer- 

 ous sealed queen cells. Over each he put an 

 upper story, into which were raised three 

 frames of brood, so as to be above the brood 

 below, and the remaining space filled out on 

 both sides with full sheets of foundation 

 above and drawn combs below. They did 

 not swarm. He had a like experience in 

 1883. 



M. Vivien- Joly, in October and March, 

 weighed ten ordinary straw hives and ten 

 straw hives with a % inch wooden lining, all 

 of the same strength. The latter averaged 

 three pounds of honey more than the for- 

 mer, at the second weighing. 



Abvada, Colo. May 28, 189.5. 



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Eight Extba Pages again this month " as 

 usual." 



The Season in Canada has been very poor 

 so far. Frosts in the spring and drouth af- 

 terwards are the causes. 



Mb. Chas. E. Parks, secretary and treas- 

 urer of the G. B. Lewis Co., died July 1st 

 Mr. Parks was a bright, genial business man 

 whom it was a pleasure to know. The busi- 

 ness of the firm will go on as heretofore. 



