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Vol. XXVI. 



SEPT. I, 1898. 



No. 17. 



Bee-keeping is a regular trade in Hannover, 

 Germany. The professional apiarist serves as 

 apprentice two years, then he is ready for a 

 situation with a farmer who owns bees. 



Ham Smith, p. 627, reports five yields run- 

 ning from 1000 to 2000 pounds. If that means 

 per single colony, it's a big thing. If each of 

 the five men had 100 colonies, and their total 

 yield is given, it's rather poor. 



The other day I counted on one comb 

 eleven cases in which the queen had laid eggs 

 in cells containing pollen. In all other re- 

 spects she seemed to be a respectable queen. 

 [I wonder if Mr. Doolittle would think this 

 was "Nature's plan." — Ed.] 



British B. Mann sends me the following 

 summer drinks : Honeyed Buttennilk. — One 

 spoonful honey to three-fourths glass butter- 

 milk. Stir well, then add as much soda as 

 will lie on a dime. Honey Pick-me-up. — One 

 egg well beaten in a pint of cold milk, with 

 one tablespoonful honey added. 



Baron Bela Ambrozy reported at the big 

 German convention last year that, by feeding 

 honey with 50 per cent water, and afterward 

 with 30 per cent, he got no satisfactory results; 

 but by using pure honey he got 3 pounds of 

 comb for every 4 pounds fed. Doesn't that 

 differ from reports in this country ? 



R. C. AiKiN is just as level-headed as can 

 be in that article on p. (512. Instead of ship- 

 ping off and selling at a loss what your home 

 market won't consume, lower the price so 

 your home market rvill consume all. Of 

 course, sell where you can make most ; but if 

 there's any favoring to be done, favor those 

 near home. 



A WRITER in Le Riicher Beige thinks many 

 of the fully matured young bees dragged out 

 of the hive dead owe their death to the fact 

 that they were wrong end to in the cell, re- 

 sulting from their not being able to change 

 position in time for their metamorphosis. 

 Could that be a result of weakness ? 



If C. Gross, p. 626, had said he found the 

 clipped queen with the swarm when he first 

 found the swarm, it would have been a very 

 unusual case. Finding it in the hive next 

 day was not so unusual. I've had more than 

 one case of the kind. A neighboring colony 

 swarmed, and the clipped queen went into the 

 wrong hive. 



Reports from England and Europe as well 

 as this country make out few good honey- 

 yields. Unusual complaints are made as to 

 the amount of honey-dew. Don't honey-dew 

 and poor seasons largely go together? If 

 good honey is present, don't the bees neglect 

 the honey-dew, and carefully gather it when 

 there's nothing better ? 



Some one says bees gather more pollen 

 early in the day because later it is so dry the 

 pollen doesn't pack well. A. Wathelet, editor 

 Rucher Beige, says bees with loads of pollen 

 carry little honey; and, when honey is abun- 

 dant, carriers of pollen are scarce, all being 

 intent upon honey. According to that, bees 

 let up on pollen as the day advances, because 

 nectar flows more freely. 



"When a hive is raised on four blocks, 

 not only do all the bees that are ^ised to the 

 front entrance continue that, but all the later- 

 hatched young bees follow their example. 

 There are occasional exceptions. Years ago 

 when I left an opening at the upper part of 

 the hive at the back end, I'm not sure there 

 was ever a case in which the bees used this 

 opening as an entrance. 



According to Bro. Doolittle, page 624, 

 Nature's plan is to have eggs in the brood- 

 nest placed "in the center, always." Then 

 when a queen varies from Nature's plan when 

 left to herself by putting eggs all around the 

 outside of the brood, Bro. Doolittle, will you 

 please tell us whose plan that is ? [Do bees 

 ever perform any work " always " in the same 

 way ? There are general rules in hive econo- 

 my, but no invariable ones. Am I not right, 

 friend Doolittle?— Ed.] 



About now is time to repeat again that 

 people can be educated to buy candied honey 

 and know what to do with it. C. F. Muth 

 succeeded in building up a big trade that pre- 

 ferred honey in the granulated state. Then 



