AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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The Lmmb ofBmierem 



conducted by 

 Oldenburg, Grosshekzogthum, Germany. 



Is Pollen Fed to Larval Bees ? 



Doolittle gives some gxiess-work about 

 this matter in Oleanings. Two years aero 

 Dr. von Planta stated the following by 

 careful chemical and microscopical re- 

 searches: 



Analysis of Larval Food (jelly), 

 which is prepared of honey, pollen and 

 water in the chyle-stomach, showing the 

 percentage : 



inclined to believe that the real cause is 

 want of food. 



Nearly all bees in Germany are win- 

 tered on the summer stands. The walls 

 of the hives are double, and filled with 

 straw. In many parts of Germany the 

 old-fashioned straw-skep prevails. A 

 colony in one of my straw-skeps gave 

 me two swarms, and at the end of Sep- 

 tember the weight of the colonies in the 

 three skeps together was 216 pounds. 

 That is sufiScient, and shows that good 

 results can be had even in "box-hives." 



No Wire-Cloth. Before the Entrances. 



If the hives are placed into the cellar 

 or under ground, no wire-cloth is used 

 to keep out mice, as the mice not finding 

 the possibility to enter, begin to gnaw, 



Albuminous matter 4.5.14 



Fat 1.3.55 



Sugar 20.39 



Drone-bees and worker-bees, after the 

 foui'th day, receive an addition of pure 

 honey, therefore the suddenly higher 

 percentage of sugar, viz.: 9.57 to 

 38.49, and 18.09 to 44.93, and the 

 tZrone-bees as well as undigested pollen. 

 We see by this analysis that only the 

 royal-jelly is constantly the same, and 

 the richest and best, and that the drone 

 and the worker-bee larvae, during the 

 first four days, get still better food, as 

 far as albuminous matters are con- 

 cerned, than the queen. 



Wintering Problem No Masterpiece. 



The wintering problem has been set- 

 tled for a long time in Germany, and we 

 very seldom hear of heavy winter losses, 

 even from those countries having a bad 

 climate and a long and severe winter. 

 Dzierzon thinks that the cause of the 

 heavy losses, which are so of ten reported 

 by American bee-papers, are caused by 

 the impractical construction of the 

 American hives — loose* covers, single 

 hives instead of twin hives ; but I am 



and besides spoiling the hives or skeps, 

 the bees are constantly disturbed by this 

 gnawing, and the damage done by that 

 is greater than the harm of eating some 

 honey, etc. H. Reepen. 



CouTentlon rVotice$i. 



Kansas.— There will be a meeting of the 

 Southeastern Kansas Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion on March 16, 1894, at the apiaries of 

 Thomas Willett, 5 miles northeast of Bron- 

 son, Bourbon Co., Kansas. All are invited to 

 come. J. C. Balch, Sec. 



Bronson, Kans. 



Texas.— The Texas State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will hold their 16th annual meeting 

 at Greenville, Tex., on Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day, April 4 and 5, 1894. Everybody Invited. 

 No hotel bills to pay. We expect a large 

 meeting and a good time. Don't fail to come. 



Beeville, Tex. E. J. Atchley, Sec. 



A Binder for holding a year's num- 

 bers of the Bee Journal we mail for 

 only 50 cents ; or clubbed with the 

 Journal for $1.40. 



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