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GERMANY. 



The reply jjiven in Pvaxisdei* Bzcht. 

 as to how best to treat after-swarms 

 strikes me quite favorably. It says: 

 It is advisable to give them full combs; 

 if such are not at hand give frames 

 completely filled with foundation. 

 Then have no brood to take care of 

 for some time and are particularly in 

 good shape to store honey. The drawn 

 combs given them places the colony 

 in the best possible shape for storing. 



The same paper reports of an un- 

 capping machine exhibited at a bee- 

 keepers" meeting in Alsass-Lovain. 

 The machine was operated and uncap- 

 ped a comb in a minute on both sides. 

 The inventor, Ollinger, was urged to 

 Lave his invention patented. 



Ruberoid for covering bee-houses and 

 hives is recommended in 111. Deutsche 

 B7tg. The claim is made that repair- 

 ing is not necessary. It is odorless 

 and weax's well. 



Professor Bachmetjew, and before 

 him Professor Koschewnikow have as- 

 certained that there is a slight differ- 

 ence in drones originating from a nor- 

 mal queen and such as originated from 

 unfertile queen and workers. The dues- 

 tion is, however, not fully proven 

 whether or not drones of latter origin 

 are virile. 



Editor Reidenbach (Thai/,. Bztir.) 

 prefers to take the renewal of queens 

 into his own hands. He prefers 

 swarming cells from his most produc- 

 tive swarms. He allows these colo- 

 nies to swarm, and when the first 

 after-swarm issues he ciits out all cells, 

 cages them and the emerged queen 

 in separate cages. With the bees of 

 the after-swarm and those of the 

 prime swarm he stocks up as many 

 nucleus hives as he has queens and 



cells, giving each a brood-comb and 

 queen or cell; the hives are placed as 

 far from each other as convenient, and 

 the entrances are close with grass. 

 At night of the same day or next 

 morning early he opens these up. To 

 prevent iidireeding he thinks it of ad- 

 vantage to take these nuclei to out- 

 yards. In a discussion of the bee- 

 keepers at Kleinbockenheim conven- 

 tion, it was pointed out that when con- 

 stantly breeding in the above manner a 

 swarming race of bees might result, 

 and it was the general opinion that by 

 using post-constructed cells over very 

 young larva a better non-swarming 

 race might be produced. However, it 

 was conceded that greater care should 

 be exercised in thus rearing queens. 



As coming from Germany, very sin- 

 gular advice is given in Imkerschule, 

 by Weggandt., as follows: In hnndling 

 bees I want to caution the bee-keepers 

 as to the use of the tobacco pipe or 

 cigar. G. M. Doolittle, the celebrated 

 American bee-keeper, calculates that 

 frequent use of tobacco among the 

 bees costs the bee-keeper about 25 per 

 cent, of his honey. 



It is reported by two German bee- 

 keepers, one an editor of a bee-journal, 

 that they have observed drones work- 

 ing on Phacelia and other blossoms. 

 One drone was caught in the act and 

 showed pollen packed on the legs. I 

 omit the names of the observers to 

 deliver them from an undue amount of 

 correspondence of prosjiective purchas- 

 ers of new strains of bees. 



It is estimated in Centralblatt that 

 there are 3.000 colonies of wild bees 

 occupying trees, cavities, etc., in North 

 America. The reporter, continuing, 

 sa.vs that it is still one of the privileges 

 and pleasures of farmers in America 

 to hunt these bees and appropriate the 

 honey they have stored. (The latter is 



