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It is conceded that the press founda- per cent, of nitric acid to the wax 



tion bulges and buckles much less bleaches it perfectly. No details are 



than that made on rollers. It is given. — L'Apiculteur. 



supposed that the rolled foundation 



being pressed very hard, is in a strain- 

 ed condition and regains it natural 

 texture under the influence of the 

 heat of the hives and the working of 



the bees. Some claim that it is im- 



possible to make foundation thin Preventing Swarming. 



enough for sections with the press. Mr. Goury practises a method to 



Others say it can be done. Very likely, prevent swarming which is about the 



the ability of the operator has a good reverse of what we Americans do in 



deal to do with the results. It might the same circumstances. When the 



depend also what one would consider flow opens, he places a second story 



Albino Drones. 



Mr. Deletang has a queen whose 

 drones have white heads. — L. Apicul- 

 teur. 



"thin enough," and what is not. 



Lately • an improvement has been 

 introduced. Besides the foundation 

 imprints, the faces of the press have 



on the first, but he puts a portion of 

 the combs having brood in the second 

 story, the new empty combs alter- 

 nating with those already there in 



grooves corresponding to the wires of both stories. How he manages at ex- 

 the frame, The press is of such size tracting time is not stated. It must 

 that the frame will just go around it, be remembered that the European 

 the wires resting in the grooves. The apiarists usually wait until quite late 

 press is opened, the wired frame put to extract. By that time there are but 

 on one of the faces, the melted wax few combs having brood. — La Revue 

 poured on, and a few seconds later, Eclectigue. 

 you take up a frame with the founda- 

 tion made and fastened to the wire 

 far better than it could otherwise be 

 done.^ — L'Apiculteur. 



To Make Hens Lay. 



If you want plenty of eggs, feed 

 your hens with the following mix- 



• tures: Honey six parts, buckwheat 



Honey vs. Sugar. flour three parts, wood ashes one 



Several cases are cited when very part.— La Revue Electigue. 

 young children who had to be fed " ~^ 



on milk were habitually ''onstipated. Noise and Bees. 



In such cases, water and sugar must A correspondent states that during 

 be added to the milk so as to make the Franco-Prussian war, one of the 

 it as near as possible like the mother's battles took place near an apiary. He 

 own milk would be. It was found was himself both a soldier and an 

 that by using first-class honey instead apiarist, and kept "one eye on the 

 of sugar, the constipation did not oc- enemy and the other on the bees." 

 cur and the babies were in perfect He says they did not seem to be 

 health. — Bulletin de la Suisse Roman- disturbed in the least by the noise of 



de. 



Bleaching Wax. 



The Apiculteur says that a bee 

 keeper found that the addition of one done ordinarily.— La Gazette Apicole 



the battle. They were flying in and 

 out as usual. One swarm came out, 

 flew around a while and settled on an 

 apple-tree, just like it would have 



