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business in an enclosed yard and no- Ferdinandsruhc for the purpose of 

 thing better need be invented.) breeding the native German bee. 



The Schweizer Bztg. also says, that 

 queens may be marked with any pow- 

 dered color, moistened with fishglue. 

 Such will last years. 



GERMANY. 



Editor Steenhusen says in Schleswig 

 Holstein Bztg. that extra strong col- 

 onies will winter better and use less 

 honey than those of medium strength. 

 He favors uniting in the fall and feed- 

 ing up, though, he says, it may be nec- 

 essary- to give an empty brood cham- 

 ber below, to give bees a chance to clus- 

 ter under the frames. Upward ventil- 

 ation he deems beneficial. 



Peterson says, in the same paper, 

 that he does not purchase any new un- 

 tried tools and apiarian implements un- 

 til they have been found a success with 

 the general bee-keeping public. (That 

 is a safe policy, but if all bee-keepers 

 followed it. progress would be slow. 

 Peterson, for example, uses wire the 

 thickness of a knitting needle for wir- 

 ing brood frames. He says bee-keep- 

 ers have reported unfavorably of the 

 light wire, so he don't use it. I won- 

 der how many more years the bee- 

 keepers of the United States will have 

 to use No. 30 wire for the purpose be- 

 fore Peterson will become convinced 

 that it can be used successfully?) 



According to Claussen it has just 

 been discovered by the firm. Knud 

 Nissen in Altona that honey may be 

 used to make vinegar. Such vinegar is 

 kept for sale by this firm. 



Goeken speaks highly of the Cyprian 

 bee, says, she is the equal in every re- 

 spect of any known bee. The only ob- 

 jection he has against her is her vicious- 

 ness. 



Gerstung says, that it is as yet an 

 unsettled question whether a balled 

 queen dies of suffocation or from 

 being stung. 



Dzierzon favors the "long-idea" hive 

 When such a hive is used, he says, bees 

 never starve. 



The Seipziger Bztg. contains each 

 month a paragraph giving instruction 

 to box-hive bee-keepers; another for 

 frame-hive bee-keepers. The former are 

 written by Seidel, the latter by 

 Benende. Both gentlemen withhold 

 their permission to copy their writings 

 into other papers. Isn't it a little selfish, 

 friends? Remember, about all you 

 know vou have learned from others! 



The bee-keepers of Machren have es- 

 tablished a queen rearing station in 



Our German friends have a good deal 

 to say about the American long- 

 tongued, red-clover queens, as intimat- 

 ed before. Mulot in a humorous frame 

 of mind has this to say in a late num- 

 ber of Die Biene: "The reason why 

 the demand for the red clover queens 

 cannot be satisfied lies probably in the 

 fact that the new larvae transferring 

 machine does not work as well as ex- 

 pected. He therefore proposes to feed 

 the colonies from which the larvae are 

 to be taken, a syrup containing pulver- 

 ized iron, but not more than 150 gram 

 of the latter to one liter of the for- 

 mer (? !!). After such a feeding he 

 thinks the larvae may be picked up 

 readily with a small magnet and trans- 

 ferred uninjured to other cells. (Mu- 

 lot ought to take out a patent on this.) 

 F. Greiner. 



DEATH OF DR. MASON. 



Dr. A. B. Mason, secretary of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 died at his home in Toledo, O., Nov. 

 12, 1902. The sad intelligence comes 

 to us at a late hour, through President 

 Hutchinson, who states that the doc- 

 tor's unexpected death resulted from 

 very severe burns inliicted by an ex- 

 plosion of gas at his home on Oct. 30th. 

 He would have completed the 69th 

 year of his age on the 18th of Novem- 

 ber. 



In the death of Dr. Mason, the 

 American Bee-Keeper not only very 

 keenly feels the loss of a true friend, 

 but is forcibly impressed with the great 

 loss sustained by the bee-keeping fra- 

 ternity of America, whose condolence 

 goes forth to the bereaved family. 



While the history of modern apicul- 

 ture endures, the name of Dr. A. B. 

 Mason will ever be revered. 



