I907-] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 235 



THE BEE-KEEPING WORLD 



Stall Contributors: F. Greiner, Adrian Geiaz 

 Conlribulions'lo this deparlmenl are solicited from all quarters ol the earth 



GERMANY. puffball or some other material is 



According to the investigation by still largely in vogue and is one in- 

 Dr. M. Kuckuck, all the eggs laid by a volving the least trouble. 



normal queen bee contain sperm, or , 



are fertilized. It will be remembered For feeding purposes L u d w i g 

 that F. Dickel championed this theory thinks that sugar syrup need not be 

 for a term of years, and it is owing boiled at all; simply hot water stir- 

 to his agitation that scientists have red into the sugar till all is dissolved, 

 again taken up the matter of "par- Many bee-keepers in Germany (and 

 thenogenesis," which had been laid America. — F. G.; have practiced this 

 "ad acta" since Prof. Siebold. A way and have discovered no disad- 

 great deal has been said pro and con vantage. A poor article of sugar, he 

 during the last few years on the sub- says, in Leipz. Bztg., is not improved 

 ject. Dickel gave his theory and by boiling, and good pure sugar is 

 actual observations at the hive. There wholesome anyway. 



seemed to be a disagreement which 



now seems to vanish. Dr. Kuckuck Kuchenmueller condemns in All- 

 speaks of his investigations in Leipz. gem. Ztg. f. Bzcht. the use of smoke 

 Bztg. but gives no particulars. to subdue bees, and says that by 



• spraying them with sweetened water, 



It is still adhered to in Germany using an atomizer for the purpose, 

 that the only safe way of curing foul they may be brought into a very ami- 

 brood is the destruction of infested cable state of mind, so that work on 

 hives, bees, brood and all. Neumann, the hive becomes a pleasure rather 

 in Leipz. Bztg., gives the American than a dread. He only gives the bees 

 method of treating the disease, not one puff of smoke when he first opens 

 with the intention that it should be the hive; after that the spray does 

 followed, but to show that there is the rest of it. This does not look 

 no sure cure by such a treatment, unreasonable, for the bees would all 

 He considers it very riatural that bee- be busy cleaning ud the sweet spray 

 keepers here are trying to save all wliile the operator conducts his work. 



they can, as, although the states de- 



mand that foul brood must be wiped Far-fetched.— Rose honey is not the 

 out, they, pay no damages to the honey from roses but the honey which 

 losers. Neumann also states that Schi- the bees store during the time when 

 rach advocated the starving cure over the roses bloom, says the Allgem. 

 a hundred years ago. Ztg. f. Bzcht. (Isn't that a little bit 



misleading? — F. G.) 



No honest bee-keeper ought to feed 



sugar for the purpose of increasing A well packed hive preserves the 

 his honey crop, for sugar is not honey temperature conducive to the well- 

 and can never be transformed into being of the bees much better than 

 such. — Leipz. Bztg. single-walled, wooden hives. Herr 



H. Paul experimented with hives 



The British Bee Journal mentions packed with cork, versus wooden 



the fact that St. Augustin, Bishop of hives, and found a great difference 

 Nippo, in his work "De Bono Con- in their heat preserving qualities. For 

 gali," over 1500 years ago, writes example, on October 6, with a tem- 

 that the honey bee is capable to re- peratnre of 48 degrees Fahrenheit at 

 produce without sexual contact. 11:30 a. m., the cork hive showed 75 



degrees F., the board hive only 53 V^; 



N. Ludwig describes several meth- on November 18 at 7 o'clock a. m., 



ods of uniting bees in the fall (Leipz. with an outside temperature of about 

 Bztg.) but says that the old-time 25 degrees F., the cork hive was 

 practice of stupifying the bees with maintaining 48 degrees, while in the 



