THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



March, 



have its number and is corresponding- 

 fy entered in the book. Correct re- 

 cord should be kept in regard to the 

 queen, her age, her ancestry, etc. All 

 manipulations should be recorded and 

 the amount of honey taken noted. 

 Abbreviations should be used as much 

 as is practical. 



HONEY AS CHICKEN-FEED. 



The Rucher Beige says honey is 

 good for hens. Six parts honey, three 

 parts buckwheat flour, one part sift- 

 ed wood ashes; this mixture is said 

 to be good to promote egg produc- 

 tion, gives the plumage a shiny ap- 

 pearance and is conducive to their 

 health in general. 



the way, but get some agents to do 

 his bidding, therefore bee-keepers' so- 

 cieties should be careful whom they 

 admit to membership and in whom 

 they place their confidence, for such 

 people as try to advance their own 

 interest under the cover of advanc- 

 ing apiculture and being a help to the 

 bee-keeping world in general, are any- 

 thing but a blessing. 



Jungklaus in Deutsche Imk aus 



The bee-keepers in and around Kiel 

 keep on an average about 15 colonies. 

 About one-third of the colonies are 

 in 'box hives, the rest in movable 

 comt) hives. The average net result 

 was 21 pounds of honey per hive. — 

 Schlesw. Hoist. Bztg. 



The idea of constructing a honey 

 extractor that would empty both sides 

 of a comb at one time is not a new 

 one. It has been propounded in our 

 apicultural press a number of times 

 and it has been admitted that the prin- 

 ciple is all right. 



January number of Deutsche Bzcht. 

 has an illustration, reproduced here- 

 with, of a home-made extractor of this 



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Bochmen expresses the same idea in 

 kind having a capacity of 100 pounds raying "Egotism, the aim to always 

 per hour. This mode of forcing the make money out of your neighbor, 

 honey out of the comb does not in- ^nd to be at the head of the heap at 

 jure it as sometimes does the mode ^ny cost, has nothing to do with the 

 employed in the standard machines, advancement of apiculture." 



TRUE. THE WORLD OVER. 



Neumann, in Leipz. Bztg, say;: 

 Selfishness is a human trait. Some- 

 times a person will join a bee-keepc-s' 

 society, become a prominent member 

 and then try to use his influence for 

 selfish ends. When he is shown up he 

 will not meekly step down and out of 



Freudenstein estimates, in the Neue 

 Bztg., that annually about 500,000 col- 

 onies of bees are brimstoned in Ger- 

 many. Every one of those colonies 

 might be saved, he says, by feeding 

 them up with sugar even if no combs 

 are at hand. He warns bee-keepers 

 against the purchasing of combs as- 



