1903 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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cal with bee-blood is not recognized by 

 all. How can it be? Planta's investi- 

 gation regarding the larval food are 

 not in harmony with Schoenfeld. If 

 the larval food is fully digested food 

 — pollen, honey-water — there cannot be 

 any difference between royal food, 

 worker larva or drone larva food. 



Nearly all authorities in Germany 

 claim it of importance to give the bees 

 water in their hives. Herr Miecr of 

 Gera claims in Bienenvater that an am- 

 ple supply of good well-ripened and 

 sealed honey is all that is necessary: to 

 this the editor, says: '"Yes it is true, it 

 is not necesary to water bees in their 

 hives but it is much better to do so." 



AFRICA. 



H. Wiese, a young German bee-keep- 

 er started from Germany for German 

 Southwest Africa last fall with a 

 number of colonies of bees. He writes 

 from Swakopmund that his bees are 

 alive and flying but that they suffered 

 a loss of nine-tenths of the bees on 

 the voyage. 



honey production by the natives of 

 Togoland, that they use decoy-hives 

 made of clay — a sort of earthen pot, 

 sometimes open at the bottom, some- 

 times closed up to within a small en- 

 trance hole; they are placed among the 

 twigs of the trees, and when occupied 

 by wild bees and filled, are taken up. 

 The honey is said to be strong and in- 

 clined to soon ferment. 



GREECE. 

 The honey from the mount Hymettoj 

 had a great reputation even among the 

 ancients. An apicultural school with 

 experimental apiary is to be establish- 

 ed on the same mount. A bee-keep- 

 ers' association has been organized for 

 the promotion of apiculture there. 



The Africa-Explorer, Klose says of 



ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 

 According to a private letter from 

 Mr. Noelting Arg. R. bee-keeping is 

 not as profitable there as it is in the 

 United States, and he thinks the trou- 

 ble may be in the stock, their bees be- 

 ing of an inferior strain. Ten to fifteen 

 kilos is considered a good average 

 yield. 



F. Greiner. 





Dear Bro. Hill: 



"In every age and clime we see 

 Two of a trade can never agree" 

 and if ye would doubt it my boy just 

 cast your eye over the uneasy sea of 



beedom. Mind the April number of 

 The Bee-Keeper. It starts out with 

 Bro. Miller's disagreement with Bro. 

 Gallup over queens; then Bro. McNeal 

 differs with the boys about frame sizes; 

 then Bro. Kerr differs with the Spring 

 Stimulaters — say d've suppose he ever 

 tried "sulphur anVi molasses'' as a 

 spring tonic for his bees? — next Sister 

 Putnam steps hard on Mr. Borrower. 

 He's a mighty useful chap; keeps our 

 tools and our temper from P'etting 

 rusty for want of use. At bottom of the 

 same page you yourself complain 

 cause some of your contemporaries ad- 

 vertise a very dead paper — which was 

 never much alive. Oh, that is by no 

 means all for Bro. Heddon sweetly dis- 

 a"-rees with your ideas of self efface- 

 ment. It's a "scrap" from cover to 



