1907. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 141 



of certain glands located along in made artificial flowers and for this 



the mouth and the honey is not purpose dipped little cups similar to 



used for food by the bee until it is the cell cups of Doolittle. One day 



thus transformed. his mother was watching him graft- 



The lips of the "stomach-mouth" ing cells (natural cells which he had 



are fringed with hair pointing in- collected from his hives) when his 



ward. It is said this hair acts as a supply gave out. It was then that 



strainer to catch and separate the pol- his mother suggested to him to try 



len from the honey. But the gleaner such cells or cups as she was using 



of this cannot see how the pollen for her artificial flowers. He at once 



can be strained out of the nectar by acted on that suggestion. However, 



this apparatus, for, according to the these cells were not accepted as 



above representation, this nectar does regularly as natural queen or drone 



not pass through it at all without it cells, 



went into the true stomach. 



The great bee-keeners' meeting of GERMAN SOUTH WEST-AFRICA. 



the Austrians and Germans will be ^r. E. Tisch compares this Ger- 

 held in Frankfurt a. M Aug 2 o „^^ ^^^ ^-^^ ^^^ ^^^^j^ -^ ^^^^^.^ 



8, a full week The city not only ortions of Germany, which is a bar- 

 provides suitable buildings for the ^^^ j^„^ ^{^-^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ 

 gathering and the exhibition connect- furnishing an immense bee- 

 ed wi h It, but also donates $500.00 pasture. Just such lands seem to be 

 to make it a su ccess. ^^ Eldorado for bee-keepers in Afri- 

 ca. There seems to have been the 



The Prussian government announc- difficulty with the wild bees that they 

 es a bee-keepers' institute lasting could not be induced to stay in hives 

 from the 21st to the 2Sth of May, to offered them by man and they would 

 be held m Berlin. The principal m- sail away and seek abodes in the 

 stitute-workers are Rev. Gerstung, on woods. A missionary by the name 

 theories; Rev. Ludwio-, on the prac- of Judt succeeded in so making a 

 tical matter. Admission is free, hive as to find favor with these bees 

 Board and lodging will be provided during the 8o's, and since then bees 

 at reasonable rates. have done wonderfully well, giving 

 100 pounds of honey in a season; 



That G. M. Doolittle was the first they work the year around. Feeding 



to make practical use of artificial is never necessary. One of the best 



queen cells in America, there is, per- honey-plants seems to be a locust, 



haps, no doubt. Langstroth invented (acacia cafra, acacia tenax, etc.), a 



the frame himself, although some one variety in bush form, also what is 



else may have used a similar affair called wild tobacco (nicotiana 



even before he did. The artificial glauca), with far showing yellow 



queen cell is now claimed by Wm. blossoms, and Talmarix articulata. 



Wankler, a bee-keeper in Germany, -n. • ^u • u 



t, ■ „ t-uu ^ ^u ^ 1 During the rainy season bees are 



having exhibited them as early as j i. i.u u- ui ^ / 4. \ 



.00 • r> u 1 A 4. ^-, ^^ -ru moved to the highlands (steppe), 



1882 in Bruchsal, August 27-29. The , . * • -^ r A 



1 M -i- r 4-1 11^ where a new vegetation springs forth 



exhibition of these cells was accom- ; jj , time, covering the ground 



panied by wooden cell cups similar to ^-^^ hyacinths orchidele and lilia- 

 the Swarthmore cups. Mr. Wankler J j^ J ^ ^^. 



was regarded as a crank or lunatic .^nt nuous sea of blossomsf and 

 by his brethren and the invention ■ j r u j • i. 



was ignored. Mr. F. Benton is said "^^"^^^ °^^^^^ ^"^ '"'^'^^^ ^^^''™- 

 to have bought the outfit in 1883 and '"^ ^°°"^ *^^"^- 



Editor Alfonsus (of the Bienenvater 



of Vienna) certifies to the correctness AUSTRIA. 



of Mr. Wankler's assertion, having 



seen the exhibition. The Bienenvater Some bee-keepers believe there is 

 has a long article from Wankler, de- nothing in color, i. e. painting 

 scribing the method of queen rearing, neighboring hives, particularly nu- 

 of which I will only mention here cleus-boxes, of different colors; but 

 how it happened that he came to use it may be observed that such bee- 

 artificial cells. The mother of W. keepers have a great deal more 



