1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



99 



DENMARK. 



Judging from the Danske Biauls-Ti- 

 tende, a Damsh agricultural bee jour- 

 nal, bee-keeping in Denmark is carried 

 on according to American principles. 

 Doolittle's conversation translated 

 from Gleanings, are often reproduced 

 in this paper. The Danish bee-keep- 

 ers' societ.v receives a yearly appro- 

 priation from the State. 



BRAZIL. 



Editor Schenk of the Braz. Bienen- 

 phledge, reports of never before having 

 harvested such beautiful orange honey, 

 and in such quantities, as the past 

 honey season. The trees blossomed un- 

 usually early and very profusely, thus 

 affording the bees a gi-and opportunity 

 for seven weeks to gather orange blos- 

 som honey. — From Bienen Vater. 



' SPAIN. 

 The heirs of Mr. Enrique de Merca- 

 der-Belloch have decided to continue 

 the publication of El Colmenero Es- 

 panol and have secured for editor Mr. 

 Pedro Villuendas Herrero. 



FRANCE. 



Mr. Baichere says that the honey- 

 suckle (that is the European kind) 

 produces a considera1)le quantity of 

 nectar but that the flowers are so detp 

 that the bees cannot reach it. How- 

 ever, some kind of bumble bees are in 

 the habit of cutting holes near the hot- 

 toTu of the flowers to reach the acctur. 

 The holes once made are used by the 

 bees and other insects. Tlie honey 

 from the honeysuckle is white and of 

 an excellent taste. — L'Apiculteur. 



A correspondent of the Apiculteur 

 says that somebody had soAvn a piece 

 of buckwheat. Half of the field had 

 been manured, and the other had re- 

 ceived a good dose of lime. Hardly a 

 bee was seen on the blossoms of the 

 manured part, while they were very 

 numerous on the other. This seems to 

 sustain an opinion often expressed in 

 Europe: that the limestone lands pro- 

 duce more nectar than the others. — L'- 

 Apiculteur. 



The same paper quotes from an Eng- 

 lish .iournal the assertion that to cui*e 

 rheumatism it is necessary to get 12 

 stings per square inch. The question is 



asked, which is the worse — the cure 

 or the disease. — L'Apiculteur. 



Dr. Clement, at Lyons, France, has 

 made some experiments on the effect 

 of formic acid on the human system. 

 He took, four times a day, eight to ten 

 drops of formic acid in water. After 

 the first day the effects became appar- 

 ent, and increased during the following 

 three or four days. There is a certain 

 excitation of the muscular system 

 shown by a need of active movement. 

 Also a considerable resistence against 

 fatigue and tired feeling. With the use 

 of formic acid, hard work or exercise 

 can be much more easily performed. 

 And the tired feeling often experienced 

 the next morning after a day of hard 

 work disappears completely. As the 

 honey contains some formic acid, the 

 suggestion comes of itself. — La Re- 

 vue Eclectique. 



Mr. Alphandery gives a description 

 of the cheapest bee hive stand I have 

 yet heard of. Only two pieces, perhaps 

 IxG inches, or about, placed one across 

 the other so the ends come under the 

 four corners of the hive. To bring them 

 to the same level, each piece is notched 

 half way at the middle. The lower one 

 is ])Iaced the notch upward. The up- 

 per one on it with the notch downward 

 slipping in it. This description is not 

 very clear, but with a little reflection 

 the reader will understand what is 

 meant. — Gazette Apicole. 



BELGIUM. 

 Some time ago. I spoke of a discus- 

 sion concerning the existence of laying 

 workers, which had taken place in 

 some of the European bee journals. 

 More recently Mr. Mercier, of Thiri- 

 mont, Belgium, experimented on the 

 subject. He says that when the queen 

 and all the unsealed brood are re- 

 moved, no laying worker appears; at 

 least it has been so in his experiments. 

 He thinks that when all the larvae 

 are too old to produce queens the ex- 

 cess of jelly or royal jelly, is distribu- 

 ted among the larvae and these or 

 some of these become the laying work- 

 ers. It might be well to state that 

 other experiments made before did not 

 turn out that way. In several cases, 

 queen and unsealed brood were re- 

 moved in order to make sure that no 



