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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



January- 



just same principle as Rambler's joun- 

 cer. (Say. tell R. that name is wrong, 

 it oughter be a "shookeree".) After 

 that the old gent cut his gums from 

 large logs and in short or shallow sec- 

 tions, and he got a right smart more 

 honey and the shooking business was 

 a heap easier. 



One winter most of the bees died in 

 them shallow gums and the old man 

 was a— goin' to burn 'em, but one day 

 a feller who was going down the river 

 stopped over for dinner and seein' 

 them hives asked about 'em. Say, 

 you'd a grinned to split to have heard 

 the virtues of them ere gums. 'Fore 



that feller went he'd traded a hog for 

 all the empty gums 'cause where he 

 lived 'twas prairie country and big 

 logs warnt to be had. It seems grand- 

 dad had heard that great big gums was 

 the best, so he went in for 'em, regular 

 Jumbos. But he had to give up the 

 shakeree biz because it took two men 

 to move the big gums when full. But 

 them big gums was the thing for his 

 locality, sure. 



I learnt from that, that when my 

 goods aint no good in some other 

 chap's hands, it's the fault of "locality" 

 b'gosh. Yours as ever, 



John Hardscrabble. 



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SWITZERLAND. 



Honey bees are not taxed in Switzer- 

 land. The government considers bee- 

 keeping a branch of agriculture, and 

 nothing pertaining to this is subject to 

 taxation. 



on a frame 27 centimeters wide than 

 in one 23i/2. 



GERMANY. 



In speaking of a certain recently in- 

 troduced bee-hive Wilkins says in 

 Phaelzer B. Z. that many bee-keepers 

 imagine that bees require but very lit- 

 tle air and they therefore neglect to 

 ventilate their hives sufficiently. The 

 consequence is, that such hives are too 

 damp in winter. Dystentery and other 

 diseases are then the result and the 

 bees die. He wants his bees well pro- 

 tected against cold, but at the same 

 time well ventilated. He also favors a 

 larger brood-frame than the standard 

 German frame which is 37x201/2 cen- 

 timeters, thinks that 37x27 centime- 

 ters give better results, as the bees 

 have then a chance to store an ample 

 supply of food in the upper part of the 

 frames. Honey thus stored is always 

 accessible to the bees, and as long as 

 it lasts they cannot starve. In the 

 spring bees bred up much faster when 



When the bee journals of Germany 

 speak of artificial queen cells, they do 

 not mean the cell-cups as used for 

 queen rearing by American breeders, 

 but the large, roomy cell used for con- 

 fining the queen when introducing her. 

 This method of introducing queens by 

 a large wax cell, seems to be very 

 popular. The cells are made very light, 

 dipping but once. 



Dickel says in Die Biene that he can- 

 not understand how people who are 

 fully acquainted with the unvarying be- 

 havior and the general conduct of the 

 bee can attribute to so low an order 

 of creation, intelligence, faithfulness, 

 love, industriousness and other virtues, 

 and represent them as worthy of imi- 

 tation by human beings. He says that 

 all the actions of the bee serve uncon- 

 sciously to them, the only purpose of 

 self-preservation and the propogation 

 of the race; that all members of a col- 

 ony contribute their share according 

 to their individual animal instinct and 

 desires to accomplish this end. 



