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AUSTRIA. 



Alfonsus says, in Bienenvater, that 

 the Central Verein has designed and 

 adopted a honey jar which is sold by 

 the manufacturers to bee-keepers only. 

 It is hoped that when the fact becomes 

 generally known all honey put up in 

 these jars will stand above suspicion. 



The Austrian Bee-Keepers complain 

 of poor honey seasons. Rain and cool 

 weather have prevailed there as well as 

 in the United States during the honey 

 season. Only a few bee-keepers report 

 fair honey crops. 



SPAIN. 



Workingmen, who were engaged in 

 the construction of the Trafalla rail- 

 road, Spain, while cutting up a huge 

 elm tree found a cavity inside of the 

 body of the tree. It had no exit. The 

 wood and bark around the cavity were 

 perfectly sound. Fifty rings of wood- 

 growth could be counted, each repre- 

 senting a year's time. In the cavity was 

 found a squirrel's skull and otherwise it 

 was well filled Avith combs full of honey 

 in a fair state of preservation. 



GERMANY. 



The display of electricity in the skies 

 diminishes the secretion of nectar in the 

 blossoms, sometimes entirely stops it. 

 says the Preussische Bztg. It also af- 

 fects the temper of the bees, causing 

 them to be ill natured. 



Dzierzon tells in Leipziger Bztg. how 

 to obtain a good stock of pollen-filled 

 combs to be used in the spring for 

 stimulating. It will be remembered that 

 D. uses twin-hives. The partition 

 (wood) between the two colonies is re- 

 moved and replaced by a screen-board. 

 The queen of one colony is removed. 



The queenless colony having a queen- 

 right colony on the other side of the 

 screen does not feel its hopeless con- 

 dition and keeps right on working. As 

 the amount of brood to be fed decreases 

 from daj' to day more and more pollen 

 i>; stored from day to day and the result 

 will be poUen-fiUed combs. They should 

 be removed occasionally and empty 

 comb given. Sealed brood should be 

 added from time to time for obvious 

 reasons. A queen should again be intro- 

 duced in time that a generation of bees 

 ■may yet be reared before winter sets 

 in. The pollen-filled combs may also be 

 used to good advantage in the fall to 

 fix up late young swarms having a short 

 supply of pollen in their hives. 



The bee-keepers of Germany, and 

 even a few German bee-keepers in 

 America condemn the American hives 

 as impractical on account of the open 

 top feature. Usually they condemn be- 

 fore they give them a thorough trial. 

 Once in a while I find a venturesome 

 fellow over there that actually tries 

 them. E. Stolzer says in Bztg. for 

 Schlesurg Holstein in substance: 

 "Among the American bee-keepers the 

 principle 'time is money,' is the leading 

 and deciding one when selecting a hive. 

 Where bees are kept by the hundred 

 colonies, hives m'ust admit of being 

 manipulated easily and quickly. The 

 American bee-keeper does not often 

 handle single frames but prefers to 

 handle them in whole sets. Thus he can 

 manage large apiaries without extra 

 help. By adding or renewing these sets 

 of combs the hives may be enlarged to 

 any extcni: or reduced to the minimum. 

 This ir business and only practicable 

 with hives accessible from the top. The 

 principle is worthy of applying to con- 

 ditions here, etc'' 



In the Bztg. for Scleswig-Holstein 



