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from bee-keepinn; for the German 

 nation. No wonder Emperor William 

 is so willing to sign the new law, 

 passed by the Reichstag, and intended 

 to promote bee-keeping in Germany. 



The German Central Bee-Keepers' 

 Union held its third annual session in 

 the city of Stettin, Prusia, on Sept. 6 

 to 9, with a grand exhibition on Sept. 

 7 ; opening e.xerci.ses by the honored 

 President Graf (Marquis) Behr Veyer- 

 dank ; a distribution of grand diplomas 

 and prizes of tlie value of 4,0U0 marks 

 from the Union, and two gold medals 

 from Graf Behr Veyerdank. 



Oerman Liatvs on Hee-Keepiner> 



The folowing is a correct translation 

 cf th<3 late enacted laws to jjromote 

 bee-keeping in Germany : 



We, William, King of Prusia, etc., 

 degree throughout our Monarchy, b}' 

 sanction of both Houses, the following, 

 to- wit : 



1. The privilege of bee-keeping to 

 .all inhabitants on their own property. 



2. The same right to all renters or 

 lease holders, by permission of the 

 owner of the property. 



3. Apiaries may be established any- 

 where, against objections of neighbors, 

 V>y enclosure of at least 2J meters high; 

 from April 1 to Oct. 1, 10 meters high 

 (this is in case of neighbors objecting.) 



4. Moving apiaries to forests, buck- 

 wheat fields, or any other pasture, 

 each must respect a distance of 200 

 meters, and 25 meters from any public 

 highway. 



5. Near bleaching, dyeing or tannery 

 establishments, the distance of 50 

 meters must be observed. 



6. Apiaries will be protected by civil 

 right and law. 



7. The swarm issuing is the exclu- 

 sive property of the owner of the 

 parent colony, with the right to cap- 

 ture the same, wherever found, with- 

 out trespassing. 



8. An absconding swarm is owner- 

 less, as soon as sight is lost of the 

 same. 



9. Such swarm will be the property 

 of the capturer. 



10. In case of swarms uniting, each 

 rightful claimant has a joint interest in 

 the same ; but in case of a disagree- 

 ment, decision will be made by arbi- 

 trary lot, or sale of the same, dividing 

 the proceeds according to the interest 

 of each. 



11. If a swarm enters a hive of any 

 other apiarist, inhabited by a colony of 

 bees, all claims on the newly-entered 

 swarm by its former owner ceases at 

 once. 



12. All transgressions of rules 3, 4, 

 5, will be punished by a fine of 150 

 marks, or six weeks' imprisonment. 



13. Any one who wilfully or ma- 



robber bees) by water, fire, steam or 

 poison, or trap, shall be fined 600 

 marks, or an imprisonment, for one 

 year. 



14. A line of 600 marks will be im- 

 posed on any one who sells bees, hives, 

 products, or implements infested by 

 foul brood. 



15. A fine of 60 marks, or imprison- 

 ment for two weeks, will be imposed 

 on any who («) recklessly sells or gives 

 away hives, boxes, products or imple- 

 ments, etc. (6) Who carelessly in his 

 apiary sets up such colonies, or leaves 

 scattered about combs so infested, (o) 

 Who neglects to remove foul-broody, 

 infested hives, or close the entrances 

 of the same. 



16. This law is to take effect on and 

 after Oct. 1, 1889 ; after which date 

 all former statuary laws, rules and 

 and regulations relating to bee-keep- 

 ing, will cease to be in power. 



Maiden Rock, Wis. 



BEE-NOTES. 



Laying Several Egg8 in a Cell — 

 Coninientg. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY J. H. NEWMAN. 



On page 471, Mr. Frank S. Johnson 

 says that his young queen lays 4 or 5 

 eggs in some of the cells, and asks 

 what it means. My queens often lay 

 several eggs in a cell, when they first 

 begin to lay ; the old queens do it when 

 they begin in the spring. 



"Ho>v to Secure %Vorker-<Jonib. 



Kins-ltirdiit and Hces. 



There are some king-birds with a 

 nest near here, and the bees seem to 

 chase them whenever they see them 

 fly, and I have seen 4 or 5 bees chas- 

 ing one king-bird about 40 or 50 rods 

 from the hives. I have not seen the 

 birds catch any bees, and the bees do 

 not attack the birds, except when the 

 birds are flying. The bees did not 

 seem cross at this time, either. 



Priority of Evocation. 



On page 284, Dr. Proctor says : " If 

 Mr. Pettit's logic is true, when a man 

 buys a farm and commences to raise 

 corn, cattle, hogs, and poultry, no 

 other should be allowed to come near 

 him and do the same." 



No other man is allowed to do the 

 same, on the same place. If a man 

 has a place, and begins raising cattle, 

 no one is allowed to raise cattle on the 

 same place, without his consent. But 

 if a man has a l)ee-pasture, everybody 

 is at liberty to use it. 



A man cannot keep bees on his own 

 land as he can other stock, for they 

 have no respect for fences or surveyors' 

 lines. The bee-pasturage does not be- 

 long to the man who owns the land, 

 for he has no control of it, but it is 

 common propertj' — the honey belong- 

 ing to the man who gets it. 



Charlevoix, Mich. 



QUEENS. 



Shall a Colony Rear IIm Queen 

 Aner Swarming ? 



I have been trying to find how to 

 get worker-comb built withoijt using 

 foundation. The bees, as soon as they 

 are a fair-sized colony, and honey 

 coming in, think of increase. They 

 can increase by drones or queens, or 

 both ; of course it takes both drones 

 and queens for increase ; but a colony 

 of bees can increase by rearing drones 

 and letting others rear the queens. 

 They are ready to rear drones long 

 before they are strong enough to rear 

 queen-cells and swarm. So it seems 

 that when they are doing well, if 

 empty frames are put among them, 

 they will — unless it is a veiy small 

 colony — fill it with drone-comb, be- 

 cause they want drones. The more 

 drones, the more increase of their kind 

 among other bees. 



After swarming, they have no brood, 

 and as they mu.st have new worker- 

 bees or die, they give their attention 

 to making worker-comb, because they 

 want workers. Comb built by new 

 swarms, or by nuclei, where the bees 

 plainly see the need of worker-brood, 



Written for the American Rural Home 



BY G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



liciously in any way destroys (so-called ' will be worker-comb. 



I am asked to give an article on the 

 plan of giving each colony a laying 

 queen immediately after swarming, as 

 is recommended by some, and also 

 to tell whether 1 consider the plan a 

 good one or not. As I do not consider 

 the plan a good one, I will try to give 

 my reasons for so thinking. 



For years we have been told that no 

 colony should go without a laying 

 queen for a single day, if it were pos- 

 sible to give it one : and plans for in- 

 troducing queens, which required that 

 the hive should be qneenless for a few 

 days previous, have been severely 

 criticized. We have also been told for 

 years, that the bee-keeper who wishes 

 to secure the best results from his bees, 

 should have a laying queen ready to 

 give to each old colony as soon as it 

 has swarmed, as the time lost to them 

 by rearing a queen is equivalent to a 

 swarm of bees. 



Being eager to know for myself all 

 of the plans which would give the best 

 results, I experimented largely; and the 



