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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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The customary iirico for good comb- 

 honey ranees between 1.20 to 1.30 

 marks at present prices in Germany, 

 equal to about 30 tents. 



Uniting of different colonies is done 

 best by bringing the two or more col- 

 onies to be united together in a new 

 hive. This will prevent all fighting. 

 Queenless colonies may thus be united 

 with queen-right colonies without any 

 trouble, says Fitzky in Centralblatt. 



A singular case of robbing is report- 

 ed in the Leipz Bztg. A certain bee- 

 k<M'per had sold a young swarm of 

 Carniolan blood to a neighI)or. The 

 latter was delighted to see his new 

 purchase do so nicely, filling the combs 

 with honey; but an investigation re- 

 ^■ealed the fact that the young swarm 

 was carrying the stores from the 

 motlier hive to his own. The matter 

 was satisfactorily settled between the 

 two owners of the colonies. 



The German goveinment is looking 

 into the matter of bee-keeping and 

 adulteration of honey at the present 

 time. A government experiment sta- 

 tion with ten colonies of bees has been 

 established near Berlin, and a bulletin 

 has been issued of late treating prin- 

 cipally upon the adulteration of hon- 

 eys; it also tells of the number of colo- 

 nies kept in Germany, etc. It appeal's 

 there were kept in IIhkX 2.605.350 colo- 

 nies. Of these 1.151.771 were in frame 

 hives and yielded 16.171.200 pounds of 

 honey; the others — box hives, straw 

 skeps, etc— gave a yield of 13,729,000 

 pounds. The frame hives yielded three 

 pounds to two of the others. 



ITALY. 



The Quinby or McEvoy treatment of 

 foul-brood colonies has been prac- 

 ticed in Italy very successfully for 

 years. — Raushenfels (in Imkerschule.) 



A bee-keeper of Italy migrated with 

 his 300 colonies across the Meditera- 

 uean Sea to Tunis, but failed to make 

 a success of bee-keeping and produc- 

 ing honey. He succeeded, however, 

 in selling out to the French Bee-Keep- 

 ers Association there and came home 

 a richer man. 



F. Greiuer. 



it "lolling" and Mrs. H. says it's pure 

 una dulterated laziness. 



•' 'Tis strange there should such a dif- 

 ference be, 

 'Twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee." 



Um. Init it's luxur.v. Bees are a do- 

 in" all the work necessary while I loll 

 here. Say, I like that word. I've got 

 some new tobacco too. Has sort of a 

 gimlet taste— sort of bores you, don't 

 yer know — its a mixture called Root's 

 Special. Wal. it Inirns. 



Xow. this lolling is great; productive 

 of great discoveries, too. While a loll- 

 ing and a reading and a smoking, I've 

 .vou ever "lollV Well, sir, that's a 'twixt times been a thinkin' — acci- 

 I'm a doing now. and have been dent — well, here be some o' the thinks, 

 for a month past. Mary calls mine and other folks': 



Dear Bro. Hill: 



Did 

 what 

 doing 



