THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



April 



Brossard is a follower of Wygandt. 

 He heats his bee house in winter; says 

 he may warm his bees up to 86 degrees 

 F. and not a bee will Hy out, providing 

 they have water given them. When I 

 come to the aoiary and find bees flying 

 out when the weather is not suitable 

 I know they have no water in the hive, 

 and I must supply them— from Phael- 



xer Bztg. 



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Speaking about some honey crystal- 

 lizing sooner than others, even of the 

 same batch Otto Schulze says this in 

 Deutsche Bienenzucht: "Take honey 

 from combs ,that have not been sealed 

 and fill some glasses. Wait a few days, 

 or till the combs are sealed. Now ex- 

 tract, and with the product fill some 

 more glasses. Seal these, also the o,th- 

 ers. Take another quantity of the 

 same honey as last lot, heat it to not 

 over 122 degrees F., allow it to cool 

 and fill another number of glasses. 

 Seal them as ,the others and label all 

 of them. Store them in the same 

 place. Lot No. i will crystallize first. 

 Lot No. '2 after a time. Lot No. 3 

 will remain liquid a long time." The 

 editor, Gerstung, comments, and says: 

 "Crystallization will be deferred by stir- 

 ring the honey occasionally." 



Deutsche, B. Z. 



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The equalization of our colonies in 

 the spring, in other words, the 

 strengthening of weak colonies at the 

 expense of the, strong is a matter of 

 consideration only for those who have 

 a fall or la,te honey flow. The better 

 way for those who have an earlj' flow 

 is to make the good colonies still bet- 

 ter by taking from the weak and giv- 

 ing to the strong. 



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Wurth in Die Biene Freudenstein 

 seems to have advocated the feeding of 

 sugar syrup; ,then extracting it and 

 selling it as honey. The bee-keepers 

 of East Prussia are entering a vigorous 



protest against anv such practice. 



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According to F. Goeken's investiga- 

 tions in Centralblatt the jarring of the 

 hives by passing railroad trains does 

 not produce an eff'ect detrimental to 

 the welfare of bees during winter. Mr. 

 Dathe has kept several colonies of 

 bees in his living room in which a coal 



fire is kept all winter. They have win- 

 tered O. K. although often jarred, and 

 they develop earlier in spring than the 

 others. When giving water to his bees 

 Mr. Dathe adds a little salt to the wa- 

 ter. 



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Dizerzon says his twin-hive is the non 



plus ultra of a bee-hive and cannot be 



improved. 



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The Bienenvater reports an inhabited 

 old log gum which cast three swarms 

 in 1878 and has not cast another one 

 since. It is a large one. The colony 

 is very populus and the annual yields 

 from it have been good. 



F. Greiner. 



Notes from the Bee-Keepers' Institute. 



March 2 and 3, 1903, Canandaiqtia, N. Y. 



Naples, N. Y., March 4, 1903. 



The bee-keepers were welcomed by 

 Mr. H. S. Case of Canandaigua, in a 

 well worded address. He said he 

 wanted everybody to feel at home and 

 ask for the information they wanted. 

 By hearing the experiences of the 

 others and by comparing notes every 

 one could learn something. He con- 

 tended that the bee-keepers as a class 

 did not do business on business prin- 

 ciples like other classes of men and 

 urged co-operation, especially as to 

 marketing our product. 



Prof. F. Benton remarked that gov- 

 ernmental crop reports would have a 

 tendency ,to give stability to the mar- 

 ket. 



W. F. Marks addressed the meeting 

 on the advantages of the spaced frame. 

 He uses a metal spacer which he be- 

 lieves is superior to the wooden bear- 

 ings of the Hofifman. This style of 

 frame was condemned in common by 

 the bee-keepers present that had any 

 experience with it. 



Speaking on the "requirements of 

 the hive" F. Greiner held that the pres- 

 ent hives were constructed on faulty 

 principles, but were quite well suited 

 to the wants of man. He criticised the 

 thin bottom-boards and flimsy hive- 

 covers and the section-holders which 

 do not protect the top of the sec- 

 tion. 



Prof. Benton said ,that by suitable 

 and sufficient protection he could pro- 



