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GERMANY. 



The honey producers in Germany 

 seem to be bothered more than we in 

 America to sell their product. The 

 reason lies in the fact that the selling 

 part of the business has not yet been 

 reduced to the system as here in 

 America. They are lacking the middle- 

 man; the very man cried down so 

 much here. He, as he does in America, 

 could serve a good purpose there as 

 well. 



Very good retail packages for ex- 

 tracted honey are offered for sale to 

 the German bee-keepers, some holding 

 as little as 1-4 poimd, and up to 10 

 pounds, made of flint glass. Glass- 

 works in Silesia make them in six dif- 

 ferent styles. 



The German bee-keepers are in a 

 sad plight as to honey adulterations. 

 A dealer of honey in Hamburg says: 

 "A great deal of artificial honey is 

 consumed in Germany. The product 

 is usually sugar-syrup flavored with 

 a little honey and bee-bread decoction. 

 Unfortunately a great deal of fraud is 

 practiced and the artificial mixture is 

 palmed off as the genuine article, sold 

 to bakeries and small consumers. The 

 authorities are powerless, as there is 

 no sure way to detect the fraud out- 

 side of judging by the taste and odor, 

 and they have given up the idea of 

 watching for adulteration in honey." 



P. Neuimann, after an experience of 

 twenty-five years with foul brood says 

 in Leipz. Bztg. that with the exception 

 of a very few cases he has always 

 been able to trace the different cases 

 to the transmission of the disease from 

 one hive to the other, from one bee- 

 yard to another. Not until the bee- 

 keepers become convinced that the fire- 

 cure is to be practiced on discovery 

 of a foul broody hive will the disease 

 be controlled. 



Generally speaking German writers 

 favor the destruction of foul broody 

 colonies by fire. Editor Reidenbach, 

 (of Phalz. Bztg.), however, is opposed, 

 to this. He makes a distinction be- 

 tween foul brood in light form and 

 that in a malignant form. Under fa- 

 vorable conditions the former generally 

 disappears of itself and. the IvXcEvoy 

 treatment would not be necessary, so 

 he says. Lichtenthaler asserts in Die 

 Biene, that honey per se does not 

 carry the disease to other hives, the 

 infectious spores and the bacilli are 

 contained in the pollen. He says fur- 

 ther that the foul brood is a harmless 

 disease for the experienced, but may 

 become a dangerous affair with the 

 careless and inexperienced. 



The writer of this has been studying 

 and thinking how to get around buy- 

 ing high-priced lumber for bee hives 

 and his mind has turned (?) to the 

 paper and straw. A German friend 

 tells in Leipzigor Biene Zeitung how 

 he makes use of waste paper. He 

 says: "A receptacle is filled up witS 

 the paper and the latter is covered 

 with water. Thus it is left for sev- 

 eral days. Then it is hauled over with 

 a garden rake and stirred smooth till 

 it is a sort of pudding. This is then 

 poured into forms and smoothed down. 

 In this shape it is left to dry for sev- 

 eral weeks when the paper boards are 

 dry enough to be made up into hives. 

 They can be sawed, bored, nailed but 

 not planed.- I maKe the boards 1 1-2 

 inches thick. The hives made from 

 them are very warm in winter and cool 

 in summer. Well painted they will 

 resist the weather first-rate. With the 

 primitive means employed I have not 

 been able to make hives all in one 

 piece." 



Steenhusen, the editor of the Schlwg. 

 Hoist. Bztg. thinks it is unlawful to 

 put out decoy hives, and discusses this 

 question at length in his paper. Others 



