1907. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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being a most dangerous practice. The Dzierzon used to advise not to put 



combs may be from foul broody hives the bees into cellars till toward Christ- 



and then the disease is carried in mas, but we have found it a safer 



them. On the other hand, there is practice to do so early in November, 



no money in selling combs. They 



are too valuable to sell. The brim- 

 stoning of bees is only practiced by 



TRANSVAAL. 



According to the Boer Commander 



box-hive and straw-hive men, and the Jooste, bee-keeping is not carried on 

 practice of canstantly killing ofif the in the Transvaal on improved lines; 

 heaviest colonies has resulted in the in fact, not at all, except as bee-trees 



poorest race of bees for honey-pro- 

 duction. 



FOOD OF LARVAL QUEEN AND DRONES. 



R. Guenther says, ordinarily the 

 queen and drones are fed by the 

 workers the pre-digested food (chyme} 



are hunted out and the honey taken. 

 In doing this the Boer gets lots of 

 stings; but bees must do well. Jooste 

 says that he found bee trees on his 

 farm that contained honey combs 

 seven feet long. 



The Boer is very fond of honey but 

 does not take to whiskey. Saloons 



and the fully digested food chyle, but ^^e therefore not knowu in Transvaal 



it would be wrong to suppose that (Happy land).— Die Biene. 



either the queen or the drones were 



unable to subsist on the raw material, ANPTFMT FPVPT 



honey and pollen. Young queens, in ^, , , , 1-1 



/ , ^ , . . , ihe knowledge we have ot bee- 

 particular, are often seen sippmg hon- 1 ■ ■ t- ^ 



, , ,, t^i & keepmg ni Egypt, as it was some 



ey from the cells. a^^^ ^^ 11 1 j ^ j 



■' Dooo years ago. has been deducted 



from the carvings on monuments and 

 APIARY ON WHEELS DESTROYED. Pyramids as well as from finds un- 



A house-apiary on wheels is owned earthed in that country. Dr. H. But- 

 by P. Kiemes, of Rievenich. The out- ^'^ speaks of this prehistoric bee- 

 fit consists of two wagons, each with knowledge in Centralblatt. It seems 

 fifty-two hives o! bees. The owner ^'^^^ ^hese people knew something 

 moves them to different fields, accord- '^^^^^ ^^^e natural history of the hon- 

 ey bee. which we did not till 5000 

 years later. They probably knew what 

 the sex of the workers and the queen 

 were. The very names which the 

 queen carried in after times up to 



ing to the season. The last honey- 

 flow comes from the heather, an herb 

 growing in large quantities on the 

 plains in many parts of Germany and 

 blooming in August and September. 

 The apiary of Mr. Kiemes had just 

 been moved to the Heath by Thal- 



within modern times shows that she 

 was considered of masculine gender; 



r , -^ ,1 . ^ , while from the hieroglyphics it may 



fang when it was broken into by , , , , , , . , 



^, ■ ^ , ^, , -^ be deducted that at those times they 



thieves. One of the wagons, bees, , , , ^ , 



, ,1, , , , , regarded the queen as a female, 



honey and all, was burned and the 



other badly damaged. The loss is 



estimated to be about $1,000.00. SWITZERLAND. 



Finds that have been made in 



Switzerland indicate that there was a 



The Leipz. Bztg. advises the Ger- prehistoric race of people who kept 



man supply dealers to follow the ex- bees and utilized the honey. What 



ample set by the American manufac 



turers, allowing a reduction on prices made of stone 



for early orders. bee-paper. Th 



is supposed to be a honey strainer 

 ; reproduced in a 

 implement is kept 



