1902 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



203 



swarms; year poor in honey, rich in would be an advantage to bee-keepers 

 swarms.' " — Cohnenero Espanol. at large." — E. T. Abbott. 



"Bisulphide of carbon will not only 

 kill the larvae of the bee moth, but it 

 will also kill the eggs. At least this is 

 the conclusion of most of those who 

 have used it." — Bee-Keepers' Review- 



A corporation, with an authorized 

 capital of $50,000 has been organized 

 in California, to produce and market 

 honey. The new organiaztion has its 

 office in Los Angeles, with B. S. K. 

 Bettett as president and general man- 

 ager. 



From a report of the last meeting of 

 bee-keepers there, by the Canadian 

 Bee Journal, it appears that cedar bark 

 is the favorite smoker fuel with the 

 Canucks. Some, however, use and pre- 

 fer planer shavings, and still others, old 

 sacks. The latter, if thoroughly dry, is 

 a fuel hard to beat. 



"It is possible that clipped queens are 

 superseded sooner than those that are 

 not clipped, but the probability is that 

 some have been lead to think that clip- 

 ping leads to supersedure simply be- 

 cause clipping marks the queen so that 

 they know it when they are supersed- 

 ed." — Review. 



In dealing with robbers, "a remedy 

 that has been successful with us in the 

 worst cases," says the Rocky Mountain 

 Bee Journal, "is to saturate a cotton 

 rag with a dilute solution of carbolic 

 acid and lay it at the entrance of the 

 hive that is being robbed. The robbers 

 will summarily leave in great disgust, 

 never to return." 



"I can buy queens for 60 cents, but I 

 don't believe the breeder can give us 

 all good queens for 60 cents- We 

 should not encourage that kind of busi- 

 ness ... I think if queen breeders 

 would sell none but tested queens, it 



''Blake & Jefferson, Safiford's enter- 

 prising bee-men, have constructed on 

 wheels a machine for the extraction of 

 honey. They intend moving it from 

 place to place, where it is needed. A 

 glance at it yesterday moving east 

 along Tenth street and turning the cor- 

 ner into M street, looked for all the 

 world like an electric car.— Pacific Bee 

 Journal, Los Angeles, Calif." 



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GERMANY. 



The well known Emil Hilbert cele- 

 brated his 50th anniversary as a bee- 

 keeper July 15, 1902. Hilbert discov- 

 ered early in the seventies that the ba- 

 cillus alvei could be killed with salicilic 

 acid. This was the beginning of the foul 

 brood-cure. Hilbert was the first to 

 use milk and egg for feeding bees in 

 the spring, thus bringing his colonies 

 to an astonishing state of populousness 

 and general prosperity. He was and is 

 yet a diligent student and careful ex- 

 perimenter; received many honors from 



his own and other governments. Ho- 

 mage has been paid him by the bee- 

 keepers of many lands. The Bienen- 

 vater gives his portrait and a reproduc- 

 tion of a photo, of his apiary. 



The September number of Leipziger 

 B. Z. is filled with advertisements of- 

 fering Carniolan and Heath-bees, naked 

 swarms weighing from four to six 

 pounds, young queen included at 3.50 

 to 4.50 mark. 



The practice of watering bees inside 

 their hives is considered beneficial by 



