1901 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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port a good honey season. Gerstung 

 thinks his hive (size of frame principally) 

 is in a groat measure responsible for the 

 high yields obtained. It is said one hun- 

 dred pounds have been harvested from 

 single colonies. 



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Rojina, of Carniola, has come to the 

 conclusion that tlie cause of young 

 swarms leaving their hive after being 

 hived is because the bees have not taken 

 a full load of honey with them. When, 

 for some reason, a scant supply is taken 

 along, they are very apt to leave. 

 Whether the bees have their sacs full 

 he can easily tell by their general ap- 

 pearance ; if they have a short supply 

 he gives them a comb of brood and honey 

 at hiving time, and thus prevents their 

 absconding. 



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A patent has been applied for by Rave 

 in Ostrum to produce honey by feeding 

 sugar to bees. The bee-keepers have 

 raised serious objections; the patent has 

 not been granted. — Schieswicf Holstein 

 Bleneii Zeitimij. 



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A large portion of the drones in a colo- 

 ny of bees found by Runk in Grossstein- 

 hausen possess white eyes. Berlepsch 

 and Vogel have spoken of such bees. It 

 it said they are blind. — Phwlzer Biciien 

 Zeitunq. 



The Boliernian Bienen Vatcr gives a 

 receipe tor discovering adulteration in 

 honey as follows : Mix a small quantity 

 of honey with alcohol and shake well. 

 Let stand a short time. If adulterated, 

 the mixture will show a white sediment. 



From Bienen Vater, Wien, Austria, ac- 

 corning to Dr. Pachner. one thousand 

 drones use up at least 11.5 grains honey 

 daily. Three thousand drones is no un- 

 common thing in one hive. They would 

 use in five weeks about twenty-five 

 pounds of honey. Instead of three thou- 

 sand drones ten thousand workers might 

 have been raised wliich would not only 

 have saved the twenty-five pounds of 

 honey, but would have gathered quite a 

 little surplus besides. 



Horvat has found that the pulverized 

 refuse of carbide lamps (acetylene gas 

 lamps) answers better than any other 

 available substance for driving away 

 ants. 



SAMOA. 



In Deutsche Illustr. Bienen Zettunci, 

 Hufnagel says he imported the first 

 honey-bees into that Island in 188.5 for 

 the purpose of fertilizing pumpkin, 

 melon and cucumber blossoms. It seems 

 the cucumber growers had to, and did 

 employ women help to transfer the pollen 

 from the male to the female blossoms. 

 This is not necessary now to secure the 

 setting of the fruit and, of course, the 

 credit belongs to the bees. 



CHINA. 



When a Chinese bee-keeper builds a 

 new house the wall is so laid as to form 

 a number of excavations two feet high 

 by one foot wide and about three feet 

 above the ground. They are expected 

 to answer as habitation.s'for bees. The 

 openings are closed up with willow-work 

 coated with clay. Only a very small 

 entrance is left for the bees to go in and 

 out. F. Greiner. 



Books should to one of these four ends 



conduce: 

 For wisdom, piety, delight or use. — Denham. 



Bees in a Belfry Cause Trouble. 



Laurel, Del., Aug. 4. — Edward Hop- 

 kins, sixty years old, sexton of Colfax 

 Chapel, Accomac County, is at the point 

 of death from bee stings, and the village 

 is in a turmoil over his strange case. 

 This morning the chapel bell refused to 

 sound when he pulled the rope, and 

 Hopkins climbed the ladder to the belfry 

 to investigate. In the lofty tower, at the 

 top of a twenty-foot ladder, he was set 

 upon by a swarm of angry bees that had 

 taken possession of the belfry tower and 

 were disturbed by his vigorous pulling 

 of the bell-rope. 



In his haste to escape the bees, Hop- 

 kins missed the ladder and fell to the 

 timbers of the tower belfry sustaining 

 serious injuries which, together with 

 the poison injected by the stings of 

 the bees, make his case hopeless. The 

 villagers fumigated the belfry, drove 

 out the bees and secured a large quant- 

 itv of honey from inside the chapel bell. 

 — Phila. Ledger. 



