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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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themselves. He observed yellow bees 

 and hybrids having their hives full of 

 brood all the time and still not being 

 as strong as other colonies of the Ger- 

 man blood having not near so much 

 brood in their combs. In this greater 

 longevity may be found the explanation 

 why some colonies give a greater ho- 

 ney yield than do others. — from Leipz. 

 Bztg. 



Standard of Excellence. 



A desirable and profitable stock of 

 bees must be up to the mark in the 

 following named eight points, accord- 

 ing to Dr. Brunnich: 



I. Right amount of brood at the 

 right time; 2. Longevity of workers; 

 3. Good workers; 4. Non-swarmers — 

 i. e. nearly so; 5. Economy in using 

 up stores; 6. Order in the brood nest; 



7 Early and short swarm period; 



8 Supersedure of queen at the right 

 time (at the close of the harvest). 



AUSTRIA. 



Dog in the Manger. 



A bee lawsuit is now recorded on 

 the statutes in Austria which may serve 

 a good purpose in the future. School 

 Director Jarosch, in Nienischitz, main- 

 tained an apiary of sixteen colonies 

 of bees in the school garden, partly 

 for instructive purposes. The village 

 president wanting to become a bee- 

 keeper himself proposed to Jarosch 

 that he surrender one of the swarms 

 to him, but the latter declined. In 

 his ire the village president ordered 

 Jarosch to discontinue keeping bees, 

 and suit was brought. The decision 

 of the court was, "no cause for ac- 

 tion." The village president then set 

 his son to ploughing near the bees 

 one hot August day. The boy was 

 stung, also a neighbor. Another suit 

 was brought and also lost. This ended 

 the matter. 



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KALIFORNY KINKS. 



A. KINKLET. 



WHEN moving bees, cut a strip 

 of burlap two or three inches 

 wide, the length of the entrance 

 to your hive for each colony, and 

 when ready to close them, leave these 

 pieces in a pail of water. Crowd one 

 into each entrance with a jack knife; 

 better than sticks, screen or anything 

 I ever used. No hammering to dis- 

 turb the bees, and the moisture tends 

 to quiet them, as well as being much 

 the quickest way. Try it. 



For the top have a frame of 7-8 inch 

 stuff covered with wire screen, the 

 size of your hive body, with a piece 

 of tin tacked on each corner one inch 

 wide and five inches long, extending 

 two inches down to tack to hive, with 

 tacks or two-penny fine nails that can 

 easily be loosened with a screw driver. 

 Use butter tub staples to fasten supers 

 to bodies as one of the handiest things. 



Put a stick or stone under the back 

 of the hive in the fall, tilting it slight- 

 ly forward. A leaky hive, if sloping 

 well to the front, will often not be 

 seriously damaged, while one level or 

 sloping back will often have moldy 

 combs and become sour. 



Use a common milking stool when 

 going through those spring manipula- 

 tions. It will save you many a back- 

 ache. 



Cut six inches ofif one of those old 

 hand saw points. Put a wooden han- 

 dle on the small end. File the other 

 end square. Sharpen the teeth, and 

 if this is not the handiest all-round 

 hive tool, I do not want a cent. It 

 cuts oft old frames without jar; scrapes 

 two top-bars at a time; carries a good 

 spoonful when cleaning bottoms; just 

 the thing to crowd between hive and 

 super; moves a frame without bruising 

 it. It is simply O. K. 



In transferring, pierce the top-bars 

 with an awl and insert a common 

 toothpick, letting it extend down an 

 inch into the combs until the bees 

 wax them in. 



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