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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER." 



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THE BEE-KEEPING WORLD 



Stall Conlribulors: F. Greiner, Adrian Geiaz 

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AUSTRIA. 



were strawskeps. A most attractive 



exhibit was the house apiary on 



Pine Honey and Winter Stores. wheels for seventy-two colonies, 



Sidelights of Herr Bassler's bee- constructed and owned by Wolf- 

 keeping. Sugar-feeding an advantage garten. 



for wintering. Herr B. says about 



his bee-keeping: "I live in the city A la America. 



(Frag), but migrate to Iglau where At the meeting of the Pfalz. bee- 

 the bees have access to pine forests keepers' society at Kirchheimbolan- 

 and heather. A year ago we had a den, comb honey in regular sections 

 remarkable honey flow from these was shown by Geo. Mueller, and 

 sources, and the bees worked strong- Editor Reidenbach encourages this 

 ly during the morning and evening enterprise by saying that such honey 

 hours on the pines. In four days which brings a high price should be 

 the supers were filled so they could produced more extensively; especially 

 scarcely be lifted. I had to extract heather honey should be so produced, 

 eleven times from my best hive. The for this honey is of such body that 

 honey from the pines, etc., is very it cannot well be extracted. 



dark and unwholesome, causing dys- 



entery among the bees. It is im- Freudenstein, editor of the "Neue 

 perative that this may be removed, Bienenzeitung," does not claim to 

 or the bees will sufifer. Some time have been the first one to suggest 

 ago I advised a bee-keeper of limited sugar feeding, but claims to have first 

 experience to remove this honey from discovered that dysentery may not 

 half of his hives and substitute sugar, only be prevented by feeding sugar 

 leaving the rest as they were. He syrup, but also that it is cured after 

 reported that the difference in these the bees have become affected. 



differently treated colonies could be 



plainly seen before winter was half JAPAN 



over. The sugar-fed hives showed * 



not the slightest uneasiness, while the According to 'i' Apiculture Nou- 

 others were restless and developed velle," bee-keeping in Japan is carried 

 the dysentery. The former lost almost on after American fashion, for the 

 no bees and came out strong, the reason that the Americans have been 

 latter dwindled. their nearest teachers. The represen- 



It is claimed sometinies that sugar tation of a Japan apiary in the Schwz 

 s degenerating, but I have practiced Bztg. has all the appearances of an 



sugar-feeding for forty years. I us- 

 ually feed ten pounds of sugar to each 

 colony every fall, and my bees are 

 still vigorous. One colony has been 

 fed 28 pounds of ,sugar each fall for 

 six succeeding years, and is still alive 

 — yes, one of the best I have. Sugar 



American yard. 



SWITZERLAND. 



;y not aiway 

 disease germs. 



The report of the bee-keepers' con- 

 vention at St. Gallen, September 22. 

 is perfectly safe to feed; bough ten f"^ ^3"' ^^ exceedingly interesting to 

 honey not always, as it may contain [^^ gleaner. I shows that the bee- 



keepers in Switzerland are of a pro- 

 gressive kind. The interest that the 

 common citizens in these old-country 

 towns take in such doings is surprising 

 and also speaks well for them and 

 The Frankfurt Exhibition. their hospitality. 



As usupl. the meeting of the Ger- 



mnn bee-keepers at Frankfurt was Herr Kramer mentions the Alexan- 

 prcnmpanied by an exhibition of der method of keeping a plurality of 

 hives and implements; among them queens in single hives, in "Schwz. 



GERMANY. 



