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THE AilERTCAN BEE-KEEPER 



December 



cess, no eflforts were made to dislodge 

 the imruders until recently when the 

 clock stopped. This, of course, could 

 not be tolerated, and the examination 

 of the turret which followed revealed 

 the fact that the bees had accumulated 

 therein between 40 and o'> pounds of 

 honey. Some of the honey had evi- 

 dently been made as long ago as last 

 season, but by far the greater part of 

 it was in excellent condition, at least 

 20 pounds of it being saleable. The 

 natural resentment of the bees at being 

 interfered with made the work of ex- 

 tracting the honey decidedly lively, and 

 several of those who participated in the 

 work carried off souvenirs in the shape 

 of stings. The clock, it may be added, 

 is still stopped, and as bees remain in 

 the turret the visit of the clock-maker 

 may prove interesting. — Sussex Daily 

 News. 



ISLE OF WIGHT. 



Here in this "Garden Isle," as else- 

 where, the 1902 honey crop has been a 

 comparative failure, except in a few 

 favored spots, among which latter, hap- 

 pily, my own apiary is included. It is 

 situated in a sheltered nook and open 

 to the sun. The busy workers made the 

 most of their opportunities, and my 

 twelve stocks have a surplus of 640 

 pounds of honey, as well as giving me 

 two swarms. In the other apiaries near 

 here the yield has been very small, the 

 average varying from nothing to fifteen 

 pounds. In many cases the bees refus» 

 ed the supers altogether. I find that 

 the brood chambers are nearly empty, 

 so shall have to feed to get ready for 

 the coming season of 1903, which we 

 all hope will be more prosperous than 

 the one just past. — Sam Yanks, Sept. 16. 



HUNGARIA. 



Six hundred bee-keepers attended the 

 late convention of the German-Aus- 

 trian and Hungarian bee-keepers at 

 Temesvar, Hungaria. Dr. Dzierzon, 

 now in his 92nd year, was among them. 



There are two reasons why meetings 

 of this kind are more freely attended 

 in Europe than in America. 1. Dis- 

 tances are not as great; 2. bee-keep- 

 ers are more numerous. However, it is 

 a fact that bee-keepers are not as ex- 

 tensively engaged in bee culture as in 

 America; in otlier words, there are a 



great many small bee-keepers in 

 Europe. 



W. Gunther said in an address before 

 the convention that it was generally 

 accepted: the production of one pound 

 of wax cost the bees anywhere from 

 ten to twenty pounds of honey. He 

 had experimented along that line late- 

 ly and had come to the conclusion that 

 under favorabl> conditions six pounds 

 of honey would be sufBcient to produce 

 one oound wax. 



M. Hamsch spoke on American "red 

 clover queens," and cautioned his hear- 

 ers not to spend their dollars on them. 



Lichtenthaler's subject was foul 

 brood, and he said that the disease had 

 spread for the past twenty years and 

 that the frame hive was largely to 

 blame for this, as the diseased combs 

 were often distributed among the other 

 hives, the bee-keeper not knowing that 

 the combs were affected; thus the dis- 

 ease was carried from hive to hive. 

 I The writer believes, in America it 

 works different. Where the frame hive 

 is found there is also usually sufficient 

 intelligence to recognize and combat 

 the disease. Of course there are ex- 

 ceptions I suppose.) 



FRANCE. 



Prof. Dulfour, of Paris, after care- 

 fully counting and estimating the num- 

 ber of eggs a queen bee lays during 

 the course of a year, says she lays from 

 150,000 to 200,000. (Evidently the pro- 

 fessor has not made the acquaintance 

 of a Gallup queen.) 



SERVIA. 



At the close of 1900 there were in 

 the kingdom of Servia T,T47 colonies 

 of bees in frame hives and 104,055 in 

 box, and other hires. A bee-keepers' 

 society has been organized in Belgrad 

 and has 204 members. It is under the 

 special protection of the queen, accord- 

 ing to the Deutsche Bztg. 



SWITZERLAND. 



To subdue the grass around hives 

 the Schweizer Bztg. advises to use a 

 copper sulphate solution, one kilo to 

 50 liter water. (I have tested it. I 

 would rather use it than salt for the 

 latter attracts stock; the former does 

 not. However, sheep and hares do the 



