1904 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



39 



insects are liable to take the disease, 



we may understand why it is so diflli- 

 cult to get rid of it in certain localities. 

 Mr. Baucbenfels, the editor of L'- 

 Apicoltore, does- not think that bees 

 can carry their eggs. He says if it 

 were so, when they are queenless, they 

 would build queen cells and transfer 

 some eggs to them rather than build 

 around the egg, tearing down the ad- 

 jacent cells. The same says that dur- 

 ing the spring of the year, it is the 

 brood that gives off most of the vapor 

 expelled. When using hives with a 

 glass window, the amount of water 

 condensed upon the glass is almost in 

 proportion to the amount of brood 

 raised. 



1900, viz., 93 1-2 pounds per hive. (Aver- 

 age summer count.) I still hope to 

 do better, as I have started an out- 

 apiary, (see photo), in which I am 

 using the Bolton hive. This hive Las 

 a devisible brood chamber, and the 

 bodies, which are the same size as 

 your "Ideal super," permit of inver- 

 sion. Unlike the Heddon hive it is 

 fitted with hanging frames. 



I should like to know something 

 about Mr. H. J. Shrock's hive protec- 

 tor mentioned in the September num- 

 ber of The American Bee-Keeper (page 

 215), but not described there, if it will 

 not inconvenience you. 



Yours sincerely, 



N. E. Loane. 



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MR. LOANE'S APIARY IN TASMANIA. 



TASMANIA. 



Kindred, Tasmania, Nov. 17, 1903. 



Editor American Bee- Keeper: It was 

 with great pleasure that I read your 

 well-informed paper for September. 

 The bee-keeping industry is not carried 

 on extensively in our little island state, 

 though it can, I feel sure, be made to 

 pay well. Now that we are in the 

 commonwealth, we have to compete 

 with the continental states, where big 

 yields of honey are often recorded. 

 One bee-keeper in Victoria last season 

 cleared $4,400.00 from 200 colonies; but 

 that is unusual. We have no droughts 

 to contend with here, and have mild 

 winters. I have kept bees for nine 

 years, and the best yield I had was in 



AUSTRALIA. 



Harrison says that one warm night 

 will accomplish the ripening of nectar. 

 (The experience of the writer of this 

 is, that honey is not usually ripe till 

 sealed. Such honey extracted when 

 sealed will keep years without mate- 

 rially deteriorating, while honey ex- 

 tracted when unsealed will quite com- 

 monly turn sour in course of time. We 

 have just opened several cans of two 

 and three years ago, which was fully 

 sealed when extracted, and it is fine.) 



ENGLAND. 

 BienenVater tells of a bee-keeper In 

 England who fed his bees on sugar 

 which contained sufficient poison to 



