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1^ We notice in an English paper of 

 a sale in Lisbon, Portugal, of sixty tons 

 of beeswax. " Prodigious." 



L''Apiculteur, the French Bee paper, 

 for October, has an article descriptive 

 of the New Langtroth hive, with the 

 manipulating side, illustrated by cuts. 

 Also cuts of the cases for 3 prize boxes 

 as used in that hive. The French api- 

 arists are taking advanced ground and 

 will find the New Langstroth an excel- 

 lent hive for their purposes. 



Foreign Items, 



GliEANED BY FRANK BENTON. 



The tenth volume of " Brehm''s Their- 

 leben " has recently appeared. 



Otto Schulz, of Bukow, near Frank- 

 fort-on-the-Oder, offered 1,000 marks to 

 the manufactiu-er of comb foundation, 

 (the same to be exhibited at the bee- 

 keepers' association in Greifswald), 

 whose product should equal his in its 

 beauty, quality, and practical use. 



At the bee-keepers" exhibition in 

 Hagenau, Alsace, a colony of Italian 

 bees having wasp-like bodies was 

 exhibited. They were bred in Bellin- 

 zona, Canton of Tessin, Italian Switzer- 

 land. 



A NOTICEABLE and very practical 

 feature of European bee-conventions 

 is the exhibition that is usually held in 

 connection with each one of them. 

 This is particularly the case in Ger- 

 many, Italy, and France. At these 

 exhibitions specimens of honey, wax, 

 bees, hives, implements, bee-books,etc., 

 are shown. Prizes are given to the 

 meritorious. 



Prof. Dr. Buterow, of St. Peters- 

 burg, Eussia, writes : " Except in the 

 provinces of the Baltic sea, we have, 

 unfortunately, very few bee-keepers' 



associations; only in Kiew there is a 

 society, and in Novgorod a bee-associa- 

 tion is about to be established. Our 

 bee-culture shows no especial progress 

 —is rather less flourishing than it was 

 in olden times; liowever, theoretical 

 knowledge and rational management 

 are really spreading themselves more 

 and more in Russia, and we may well 

 hope that a true period of development 

 in the bee-culture of the country is at 

 hand. The free imperial agricultural 

 society aids, so far as it can, in pop- 

 ularizing bee-culture in Russia ; in its 

 journals, there is always a department 

 devoted to apiarian topics, so that this 

 journal may now be looked upon as the 

 organ of Russian bee-culture. The 

 association has published, from time to 

 time, descriptions of various apiarian 

 implements, in order to bring them 

 before the Russian bee-keepers as mod- 

 els. The works of Dzierzon, and of 

 Von Berlepsch (the latter under my 

 editorship and published by the imperial 

 agricultural society), have appeared in 

 Russian translations, and are certainly 

 very influential in the spreading of 

 rational bee-culture in Russia." 



Th. von Heldenreich, Director of 

 the botanical garden and museum of 

 the University of Athens, Greece, 

 makes the following statements in 

 answer to questions : 



1st. Bee-culture in Greece is not an 

 unimportant branch, particularly in 

 Attica, (the honey of Hymettus still 

 keeps up its reputation), in Candia, then 

 in South Euboea ; in the vicinity of 

 Karysto, is found a peculiar and deli- 

 cious honey smelling of roses, called 

 rhodomeli, that is, rose lioney. 



2d. Movable-combs have not been 

 introduced anywhere, and in general 

 arrangements are very primitive ; noth- 

 ing can be said of scientific knowledge 

 among bee-keepers, who are mostly 

 simple country people. 



3d. Bee literature does not exist at 

 all. 



4th. xlpicultural societies are also 

 wanting. 



