I902 



THF. AM E HI V Ay BEE-KEEPER 



--f »-f ^^M-^4 ^ » -f ^^^^-f -f 4>-f^ ^^f>^-f > 4-f^M-f -f -f » -f-f -f -M-f 



123 



THE 



Bee "Keeping World 



^.^^^^f.H-M-^M-^^^-^^^-^^^^'M- ^^M->^^» ^^MH^^.M^-M'^^ 



AUSTRALIA. 



31. 1901 and Jan. i, 1902, about 15,000 or 

 , ,, , r^ 20,000 bees which were unable to re- 



Bees are verj- succcssftilly and proht- g^in their hives on those two days Af- 

 ably kept m Austraha as is well known. ^^^ go^^g calculating and figuring he 

 Of late years a new enemy, a beetle, ^n^s he has saved each of his colonies 



Thillotochus IMacleayi. has been dis- 

 covered troubling the bees. Formerly 

 this beetle secured his sustainance from 

 certain nectar-secreting blossoms, b^it 

 the Entomologist, Fraggelt, has observ- 

 ed that for two years past it has found 

 an easier way to secure his living. He 



about 250 bees. His conclusion is, that 

 the worth of this .saving is out of pro- 

 portion to the labor required. 



When one has become accustomed to 

 a certain kind of hive, be it a German 

 enters the hives and takes the honey cupboard-fashioned hive, a Graven- 

 from the comb. The insects make their horst Bogenstuelper or an American 

 raids after sunset and during the night, open-at-the-top hive, he is aot to under- 

 sometimes in large numbers. One bee- estimate others, because in his awkward- 

 keeper, in Rumpong Cooma, caught in ness and prejudice he cannot easily 

 one night seven liter full of the robbers manipulate them. — Matthes. in Deuts- 

 by trapping them in dishes filled witli cher Bienenfreund. 



honey water placed at the entrance of 



his hives. (Bienenvater.) 



Ebstern has arrived at the conclusion 



" that colonies standing in intense shade, 



AUSTRIA. store more honey than those not so 



shaded. 



It is proposed to have an internation- 



al exhibition of bees, hives, implements. It is recommended in Deutscher 

 etc.. during 1903 in Vienna. It is hoped Bienenfrund to apply honey in case of 

 that bee-keeping, as it is carried on in scalds or burns. 



different countries may be shown there. 



The exhibit is to be divided into six Guehler, of Berlin, believes tlie con- 

 classes as follows: i. Live bees. 2. fidence of the honey consuming nublic 

 Hives. 3. Implements. 4. Products, could be gained by the bee-keepers 

 5. Artificial products. 6. Literature. adopting a special and uniform pack- 



age and a properly devised label. Such 



a course would prove beneficial in 

 America as well. The name and ad- 



ALGERIA. 



This country is reported in the Leip- dress of the producer should always be 



ziger Bienenzeitung as having 24.776 on all packages, even on section hone3% 



bee-keepers, with 229.143 colonies of 



bees. Editor Reidenbach (Thaelzer Bienen- 



zeitung) favors increase by natural 



GERMANY. swarming. Queens reared under the 



swarming impulse he finds superior. He 



It is recommended quite often by has observed that such queens often 



German authorities to gather up chilled weigh as high as 300 milligram. Queene 



bees on cool and windy days, warm reared under forced methods from 



them and give them back to the colo- larvae never attaining a weight above 



nies. Jilulot tells or gathering on Dec. 245 milligram. 



