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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



A new treatise, In French, on the theory and 

 practice of bee-culture, has appeared in Paris. It 

 is said to be the first work published in that lan- 

 guage, devoted decidedly and exclusively to the 

 Dzierzon system. 



The Austrian Government is fitting out a 

 naval expedition to Africa and eastern Asia, 

 for commercial purposes , and the Minister of 

 Agriculture has inquired of the apiarian socie- 

 ties whether anything can be done by the offi- 

 cers of the expedition to advance bee-culture. 

 In reply he has been requested to instruct those 

 officers to procure, at the different ports they 

 may visit, colonies of the various kinds of bees 

 cultivated there, and send them to Vienna, via 

 Trieste, in the original hives. It is thought 

 that even if the bees should perish on the voy- 

 age, specimens thus obtained would still be im- 

 portant to science, and the samples of hives 

 might furnish useful suggestions. 



"Guide to the Study of Insects." Part II 

 of this valuable publication has been issued. It 

 contains, among other instructive matter, a 

 general account of the Hymenoptera, and of the 

 Honey Bee and its mode of building cells. The 

 next part will treat of Wild Bees, Wasps, Ants, 

 &c. Each part contains about sixty-eight pages, 

 with plates and illustrations. The work 

 will be completed in eight or ten parts, 

 price, 50 cents each. Address Dr. A. Packard, 

 Jr., Salem, Mass. 



" The American Entomologist " is a new 

 monthly, published at St. Louis, Missouri, 

 treating popularly of noxious and beneficial in- 

 sects ; and is a work in which farmers, garden- 

 ers, and fruit growers should feel a special in- 

 terest. The editors are well qualified to make 

 it instructive and useful. — See Advertisement. 



British writers sometimes make strange blun- 

 ders when translating 01 transferring articles 

 from the German, not unfrequently literally 

 oversetting them. To make certain microscopic 

 examinations of bees 1 eggs, Professor Von Sie- 

 bold, in August, 1855, visited Seebach, where 

 the Baron of Berlepsch had a hundred colonies 

 of bees at his disposal, from which to supply the 

 required material. This simple story is told by 

 the London Saturday Review as follows: — 

 " Herr Von Berlepsch began to note with the 



microscope the economy of more than a bun- 

 ered hives, and Professor Siebold brought the 

 trained eye and varied culture of the practiced 

 zoologist to assist in reducing the facts to order 

 and law." 



The Baron will be amused at the part assigned 

 to him. 



IE£PSeveral communications were received 

 too late for this number, and a tew others are 

 unavoidably omitted, though earlier in hand. 



EUPIn Mr. Langstroth's article in this num- 

 ber of the Bee Journal, on " Wintering Bees 

 on their Summer Stands," substitute the follow- 

 ing for the first and second sentences in the 

 second column on page 72 : 



" Now right the hive, put strips on the rabbets 

 so as to raise the frames about half an inch 

 from the bottom-board, and lay a piece of corn- 

 cob sawed to a proper thickness, on the bottom- 

 board parallel with the front entrance and so as 

 to come directly under the front ends of the 

 centre frames, so that the bees will always have 

 a warm and easy access to the central cluster 

 from the bottom-board. By taking off the low- 

 er back piece and raising the ventilator, you 

 have the power, in a few moments, of sweeping 

 out every dead bee from the hive. (Where 

 hives with no rear ventilator are in use, the 

 cob should be placed at the back end of the 

 frames, so that the refuse can be cleaned out 

 from the front entrance. The rear outside 

 casiug can, in that case, be made of one 

 piece.)" 



[For the American Bee Journal.] 



The Honey -Emptying Machine. 



I regard this invention next in importance to 

 the movable frames, and since using it, I have 

 wondered why some " Yankee " did not invent 

 it years ago. 



I have one of my own construction, which 

 works admirably. I think that with this ma- 

 chine and the Langstroth two story hives, we 

 can get large amounts of honey. This style of 

 hive seems better adapted to this mode of get- 

 ting surplus honey than any other ; for the rea- 

 son that we are not obliged to disturb the c<>mbs 

 in the breeding apartment. No bee-keeper can 

 afford to be without one of these machines. 



I would like to inquire of Novice, page 85, of 

 August number, whether the honey is not thin 

 when taken out so soon from the comb after it 

 has once been emptied ? It seems to me that it 

 cannot be as thick and rich as when it is left 

 longer, and the water has had time to evaporate 

 from it. C. B. Biglow. 



Perkinsville, Vt., Sept. 1868. 



