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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE, 



US 



A GLIMPSE AT AN AUSTRALIAN" API- 

 ARY. 



EXHIBITED BY AMATEOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



R. ROOT:— I am obliged to you for your in- 

 sertion of my statement in Gt^eanings of 

 Oct. 1st. I should be sorry for any one to 

 be misled by pictures too brightly colored. 

 I send, under separate cover, two of my 

 amateur photos. The one is to give you an idea of 

 the size of our largest S. A. apiary, belonging to 

 Messrs. Colman & May, at Mount Barker. 



AN AUSTRALIAN APIARY. 



The other is a practical proof of the temper of 

 Cyprian bees. The gentleman handling the frame 

 is Mr. A. E. Bonney, known by name to you. The 

 boy is my youngest brother, aged years; the open 

 hive at which they stand contains Cyprian bees, the 

 progeny of an imported Cyprian queen from Mr. 

 Frank Benton. You will notice that neither Mr. 

 Bonney nor my brother has any jirotectioiT beyond 

 their ordinary clothing. 



PRACTICAIi TEST OF THE TEMPEli- OF CYPRI.\NS. 



I may say, that my camera and myself blocked 

 the entrance to another hive of Cyprians whilst the 

 photo was being taken, and that none of us had the 



slightest trouble from the bees. Lest any one 

 should wonder at the boy being apparently content 

 to stand where he does, I will add that I have ac- 

 customed him to holding frames of all sorts of bees 

 so that he is not a stranger to the business. 



The S. A. Legislature have this session passed the 

 "Foul Brood among Bees "act, a copy of which I 

 intend sending you. The act is in what will prob- 

 ably seem to you a crude form; but as the " liberty 

 of the subject " has to be jealously guarded, we 

 found it difficult to frame it in any other way. The 

 act provides for fining any bee-keeper knowingly 

 keeping hives, bees, etc., affected with foul brood. 

 I can assure you the measure is necessary here. 

 We are, as bee-keepers, daily in dread of outbreaks 

 of foul brood in our own hives, as there are a good 

 number of obstinate bee-keepers who will not rec- 

 ognize the danger of keeping this scourge amongst 

 their bees, and who take no steps to eradicate it. 



F. A. JOYNEK. 



Adelaide, South Australia, Dec. 1.5, 1887. 



Tlianks tor your amateur pictures, friend 

 J. You see we have had our engravers 

 copy them, that our readers may get a 

 glimpse of your far-away land. We are 

 glad to see the boys work into apiculture ; 

 but please be careful that you do not get 

 that niue-year-old boy stung so as to give 

 him a backset. He may get along all right 

 ninety-nine times out of a hundred ; but as 

 boys will be boys, by some little bit of care- 

 lessness, or absence of mind, the huudreth 

 time he may make a bad move, resulting 

 in letting loose the latent fire that Cyprians 

 almost always have in reserve. I know you 

 can work with them if you mind your p's 

 and (['s ; but woe betide the one who forgets 

 or gets careless. 



THE FOOD OF LARVAL BEES. 



PROF. COOK INTRODUCES TO OUR NOTICE OUR GOOD 

 FRIEND STACHEIiHAUSEN. 



K. EDITOR:— Since the article which 1 wrote 

 on the glands of bees and the food of larva?, 

 1 have had some correspondence with L. 

 Stachelhausen, of Selma, Texas, one of our 

 German-American bee-keepers whose in- 

 formation and opinion are worthy of great respect. 

 He does not accept the view of Schiemenz and 

 Leuckart, which I presented, but that of Schonfeld. 

 He presents his case with so much of reason that I 

 am a convert at once, as all must be it the facts 

 stated are as he represents them, and 1 have little 

 doubt but they are. I am glad we have one in our 

 brotherhood who is so conversant with German re^ 

 search, and so excellent a scientist, that he sees the 

 true bearing of each fact. I hope that Gleanings 

 will not let him longer hide his light under a bushel. 

 At my request Mr. S. has consented to the publi- 

 cation of his views. He asks that I comment upon 

 the subject, which I am very pleased to do, as I had 

 already contemplated sending another article to 

 Gleanings, giving the views of Schonfeld. I have 

 re-written the article, and have commented In ( )'8. 



A. J. Cook. 



OBJECTIONS TO THE GLAND THEORY. 



Until 1870 it was believed that chyme was fed to 

 the young larva^ or, rather, that the larval food in 

 the ceils is chyme. In that year, Von Siebold ex- 

 amined and described the salivary glands of the 



