1907. 



AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



zon a new era in bee-keeping com- 

 menced. The invention of the mova- 

 ble comb hive, which he made in 1835 

 enabled him to unravel the mysteries 

 of the hive and from that time on the 



JIAS IT DOWN FINE. 



Geo. Erker says, in Bienen-Vater, 

 that the memory of the honey bee is 

 of three months duration. As proof 

 he mentions that the bees which were 



bee hive has become an open book .^^fl^^^ f^^. ^^^^ ^hree months dur- 



to the bee-keeping world 



AUSTRIA. 



A FEEDING DEVICE. 



Hans Kremser describes in Bienen- 

 Vater, his handy bee-feeder as fol- 

 lows: 



Take any wide-mouthed bottle or 

 jar, holding one or two quarts, or 

 more, fill -it full of syrup, cover with 

 an inverted saucer then turn jar over 

 holding on tight. The "feeder" is now 

 ready to be placed in an upper story 

 or anywhere else where bees have ac- 

 cess to it. The feed will flow from 

 the can as fast as the bees take it 

 from the saucer. (This feeder and 

 the principle upon which it is built 

 is not new but it is good). 



BIG TALK, LITTLE RESULTS. 



At the great bee-keepers' meeting of 

 the Austrian and German bee-men 

 held at Leoben, quite a little time was 

 consumed by the veterans over the 

 question whether there is a noticeable 

 difference between queens reared in 

 pre-constructed and post-constructed 

 cells. W. Guenther said that his bees 

 had not degenerated 'though his 

 queens had been chiefly reared in post- 

 constructed cells for many years. By 



ing the winter mark a new location 

 like a young bee. During their long 

 confinement they have forgotten 

 everything about the location and not 

 a bee will be lost by going to the old 

 location in case they have been moved. 

 The gleaner of this is not absolutely 

 positive of this, but his long experi- 

 ence in cellaring bees has taught him 

 tliat any changing about of colonies 

 wlien bringing them out of the cellar 

 makes no material difiference. Other 

 experienced bee-keepers claim other- 

 wise. If they are right then the hon- 

 ey-bee has a longer memory than 

 three months. Erker admits that a 

 few individual bees in a colony may 

 retain certain impressions beyond ten 

 weeks' time but the large majority do 

 not. The memory of drones is much 

 shorter, he says. 



"SAIL INTO ME." 



Honey Dew Discussion That Has 

 Exhausted the Office Supply of 

 Interrogation Points. 



ADRIAN GETAZ. 



"B 



UT I AM now satisfied that 

 honey dew is a secretion or 

 exudation from the leaves 

 of certain kinds of trees. If any one 



his method a queen rearing colony doubts my contention let him sail into 

 was not taxed very heavily, as to feed- me." 



ing and nursing very much brood, and 

 he preferred not to disturb such a 

 colony very much during the cell- 

 building period. It was, however, as- 

 sented to that normally reared queens 

 lived longer, were of greater longevity 

 than those reared over worker broods. 

 Generally speaking the discussion 

 brought out nothing new. 



This is the invitation extended to 

 bee-keepers by Mr. T. K. Massie in 

 the August number of the Rural Bee- 

 Keeper. 



But what does he mean by that ex- 

 pression, ''Sail into me?" 



He surely does not expect us to 

 tell him that he is a close relation to 

 the celebrated Baron Von Munch- 



