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Vol. XXV. 



HAR. 15, 1897. 



No. 6. 





Ten cents each is the price at which W. Z. 

 Hutchinson thinks he'd like ihe job of rearing 

 virgin queens, using a lamp-nursery.— Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. 



A HUNDREDWEIGHT OF HONEY COntalnS 32 25 



lbs. of carbon, 53.75 lbs. of water in combina- 

 tion, 13 lbs of water of solution, and about 1 lb. 

 of salts and other matters. 



Thin sheet zinc is recommended by H. W. 

 Brice in B. B. J. as the best covering for hive- 

 roofs. How does it compare in price with tin 

 in this country, Mr. Editor? 



"Are bees domestic animals?" is a ques- 

 tion having some discussion in Europe. How 

 is it here? Some nice legal points may at some 

 time happen to hinge upon the answer. 



Is A colony of bees an organism ? is a quf s- 

 tion over which German bee-keepers are hav- 

 ing a high old time. Gerstung and his sup- 

 porters say it is, while Dzierzon and others scout 

 the idea. 



Dzierzon says in Noerdllnger Bienenzeitung 

 that starving bees throw om brood after suck- 

 ing out its juices only after the brood has died 

 from want of heat, but that bees never destroy 

 living brood. 



John G. Corey spent $14 for a pump and 

 windmill, and S4 for a watering-trough for his 

 bees, and thinks he'll save it in bees that would 

 be lost going long distances for water.— Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. 



Ph. Reidenbach has discovered that, be- 

 sides formic acid, vinous acid (Weinsa^ure) is 

 also present in combs. He thinks it helps pre- 

 vent mold from dampness, and also helps in 

 changing cane to grape sugar. 



A NICE SONG that, to the linden, p. 165. Now 

 what do you think? The author of it read a 

 fine paper on ornamental trees, before a horti- 

 cultural society, enumerating 13 varieties, and 

 never said "linden " once! O Eugene! Eugene! 



Gravenhorst says that, while in most win- 

 ters bees have enough chance for cleansing 

 flights, no matter what direction they face, yet 

 once in a while there will be a winter when bees 

 not facing south will suffer from too long con- 

 fiuement. Facing south is always safe. 



Bees will build combs in wired frames just 

 as readily as if no wire were present; and my 

 experience is that they'll not deviate a hair's 

 breadth to make the septum come where the 

 wire is. If the wire happens to be where they 

 want the septum, all right ; but if not, all 

 wrong. 



A. F. Brown has at seven different times fed 

 200 colonies to get a full working force of field- 

 bees ready for the opening of a given honey- 

 flow, and says, "From this experience I find 

 seven to eight weeks to be nearer right than 

 five or six weeks, as usually given."— American 

 Bee Journal. 



Sixty pounds of extracted honey per colony, 

 J. McArthur thinks a good average from sweet 

 clover, if it is abundant. R. Stolley thinks five 

 colonies will store moie from an acre of sweet 

 clover than would twelve, and estimates 400 to 

 .500 pounds surplus to the acre, if not overstock- 

 ed.— America?i Bee Journal. 



Editor Boehm, of Deutsche Iniker axis 

 Boe?ime7i, has a colony of bees hanging in the 

 open air that has continued from 1894, having 

 a cloth hung around it in winter. It has twelve 

 combs, the middle one 24 inches deep and 16 

 inches wide. Last July it cast a swarm of 1-1 

 pounds, and an after swarm of IJ^ pounds. 



" Can you get extracted honey from old 

 brood combs of as fine flavor as that in first- 

 class sections?" is asked in American Bee 

 Journal. Nine say yes, seven say no. The same 

 question would hardly have had so many 

 negative answers five years ago. [In five years 

 more the answers would all have been negative. 

 -Ed.] 



German bee-keepers don't know much 

 about extremes of temperature if they all have 

 the weather reported in Centralblatt. In 1896 

 the hottest day showed 78° F., against 100° 



