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 wlioui he sold :i bouse apiary of 30 Reiaenbach claims in Pbalz. Bztg. 

 colonies, obtained 1,000 pounds of that honey is often found in the stoiu- 

 conib honey; the best swarm giving ach of the drone. from which 

 him oO pounds. fact he .iudges that they are fed with 



such rather than with chyle by the 



A certain writer says, that among workers. 

 German bee-keei)ers there will scarce- 



ly one be found who is a pro- EGYPT— GREECE, 

 nounced non-smoker, and that the to- . . ,, 

 baceo iiipe is an indisputable apia- -^^^out migratory bee-keepmg of the 

 rian appliance, so considered. ancients, Hoeckelberger says m Phalz. 

 Bztg. "The bee-keepers of Southern 



The Deutsche 111. Bztg. advises: Egypt migrated with their bees to- 

 Ne^-er to heat up extracted honev for ^^ard the end of October upon boats 

 bottling except when uecessarv to t" tli^ North where the flowers ap- 

 li.iuefv it. Albert! savs "Honev loses peared two mouths earlier m the sea- 

 its aroma bv the heating process and ^on. The boats served at the same 

 often the taste is impaired even when ^^^e as a house-apiary and dwelling, 

 great precaution is taken not to over- The boat was moved South gradually, 

 heat." and when the bee-keeper arrived at 

 his home two months later his hives 



The great bee-keepers' convention were already full of honey." 



in Strassburg has been pronounced a 



success. It was well attended al- The Grecians learned the art of the 



though held during a busv time. Egyptians. The little peninsula Atti- 



' kii contained some 20,000 hives of bees 



l-'or .some years a novel little ma- and bee-keepers moved their bees to 

 chine for casting and pressing sheats Mount Hymettus Avhich was covered 

 of comb foundation has been manu- with thyme and produced the cele- 

 factured and sold by Rietsche, same is brated Hymettus honey. It is said 

 illustrated in 111. Bztg. As an advant- bee-keepers came to this honey para- 

 age of this style of comb foundation dise from all parts of Greece and So- 

 machine is claimed that wax in its Ion the wise had ordered at this time, 

 pureness can be used with it. which that the different apiaries must not be 

 will insure "no sagging." With other located any nearer than 100 meters 

 mills it is claimed pure wax cannot from another. Later bee-keepers even 

 well be used. Every bee-keeper may took their bees to all the little islands 

 make up his own wax into foundation in oi-der to secure all the honey going 

 with this implement. to waste there. 



The Romans also practiced migra- 



Roth at the Strassburg convention tory bee-keeping. They moved sauth 



opposed the use of a large frame in to Tarent. even to Sicily and Ivreta. 

 the brood-chamber. Claims brood is F.Greluer. 



reared untimel.v and it is impractical 



to remove honey dew from the FRANCE. 



winter nest as with the large (Ameri- 



can. frame the different honeys are ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^0^^ TONGUES. 



all mixed through and cannot be sepa- ^Ir. Charton Froissard, in the Ga- 



rated. Gunther expressed his ideas on zette Apicole. relates some experiments 



the subject l)y saying there was no made on the relation of long tongues 



such a thing as best size of frame or to honey surplus. The measurements 



hive. Frames and appliances would made do not give the exact length of 



necessarily have to be varied accord- the tongues, but the depth to which 



iug to existing conditions. the bees could reach through wire 



cloth of the apparatus used. 



Straenli writes very enthusiastically The apparatus was placed in the 



in Deutsche Bzcht. of Pratt's method hive and left until no more honey or 

 of queen-rearing. (Our German friends syrup could be taken by the bees, and 

 are very slowly catching on to our the distance between the wire cloth 

 improved methods of rearing queens, and the food measured. The experi- 

 — The writer.) ments gave, for different colonies, 



