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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



December. 



fereiit colored pollen; oue colony 

 briuging in pollen of yellow color, an- 

 other of pale green, etc. He also ob- 

 served that certain colonies worked on 

 certain flowers of a more isolated local- 

 ity for weeks, when other colonies had 

 not yet discovered the same field of la- 

 bor. AVatching these colonies he found 

 the majority of bees of one to come in 

 heavily laden with honey, the majority 

 of the other to carry only an insignifi- 

 cant amount. He therefore concludes 

 that unequal results are often due to 

 this cause. 



A resolution adopted at the late 

 Strassburg bee-keepers' congress reads 

 thus: Every bee-lieeper shall be oblig- 

 ed under penalty of a heavy fine to 

 report to the authorities any case of 

 foul brood occurring in his yard as 

 soon as discovered. 2. Foul broody 

 colonies are to be destroyed. 3. Bee- 

 keepers should receive a recompensa- 

 tion from the State for such destroyed 

 colonies. 



According to Dtsch. Bfrd. Wax moth 

 and their larvae may be destroyed by 

 taking an iron kettle partly filled with 

 vinegar and dropping into it a heated 

 iron wedge, then confining the vapor 

 with the infested combs. 



Weygandt advises against the use 

 of tobacco smoke when handling bees; 

 says he has observed detrimental ef- 

 fects. — Imkerschule. 



Always use rain water in rendering 

 wax if water is used at all, says Cen- 

 tralblatt. Well water is said to tend 

 to discolor the wax on account of im- 

 liurities it contains. 



F. Greiner. 



WORLD'S FAIR NEWS NOTES. 



Halle a Saale, Germany, will be of- 

 ficially represented at the World's 

 Fair. 



is GO feet long and 14 feet in diameter. 

 It is to be propelled by human power. 

 Aluminum enters largely into the 

 make-up of the machine. 



A line of automobiles carries visit- 

 ors over the World's Fair grounds. 

 The fee charged is 25 cents. Most of 

 the points of interest are touched on 

 the trip. 



A model and the drawings of the 

 new bridge at Kew, England, which 

 was recently opened by King Edward, 

 will be shown at the World's Fair. 



When the Liberty Bell goes to St. 

 Louis to be exhibited at the World's 

 Fair, it will be the first time the his- 

 toric relic has ever crossed the Missis- 

 sippi river. 



The Avork of applying the statt' on 

 the I'alace of Horticulture at the 

 World's Fair has begun. The frame 

 work of this l)uilding was raised in 18 

 working davs 



California World's Fair commission- 

 ers claim they will make an exhibit of 

 apples at the Louisiana Purchase Ex- 

 position that will rival Illinois, Ohio 

 and all other apple producing States. 



Twenty glaziers are putting in the 

 window glass in the Palace of Agri- 

 culture at the World's P'air. The glass, 

 if in one piece, would contain 189,(X)0 

 square feet. There are 141,750 lights, 

 each 18 by 22 inches. 



Queen Victoria's Jubilee presents, 

 which will be shown at the World's 

 Fair, are stored in the vaults of a safe 

 deposit comjiany at St. Louis. En 

 route they were constantly guarded 

 by troops. When they ai'rived in St. 

 Louis they were guanled by a scjuad of 

 police who never lost sight of them un- 

 til they were securely locked in thv 

 vaults. ' 



A Milwaukee man claims to have 

 invented an aerial tricycle which he 

 will exhibit at the World's Fair and 

 win the $100,000 prize. His machine 



Mr. R. Hinton Perry has completed 

 the statuary which he was commis- 

 sioned to execute for the AA'orld's; Fair 

 at St. Louis and the models havo been 

 sent to Mr. Karl Bitter. Cliief Sculp- 

 ture, for enlargement. They consist 

 of groups of two athletic figurfs sup- 

 porting a globe, and are to be used on 

 the corners of the Palace of Machinery 

 at the Fair. They are of a very deco- 

 rative nature and will form most 

 pleasing ornamentations to this splen- 

 did Ex])osition building. 



