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this brood all colonies can thus easily 

 be brought to a state of full strength. 

 Should a colony cast a swarm, the 

 queen is removed aad the swarm 

 allowed to go back. A colony thus 

 treated will quickly fill up their combs 

 with honey. When the locust begins 

 to bloom supers should be put on, or 

 combs given. Toward the end of the 

 honey season .swarms may be ac- 

 cepted. But they will have to be 

 helped from other colonies in shape of 

 brood and combs in order that they 

 may get in condition for winter. 



Schles. Imborblatt reports that five 

 cases of honey adulteration have late- 

 ly been .disposed of by the courts in 

 Berlin. Two men were fined each 

 500 marks, three dealers each 50 

 marks.— Central Blatt. 



June 11 



American hive will find more and. 

 more friends across the water. Ger- 

 stung constructed a "hive which is be- 

 coming quite popular! Strauli shows 

 one in the Bienenvater of December, 

 which he thinks is a vei-y practical 

 hive. The construction is shown plain- 

 ly in the accompanying cut. 



AUSTRIA. 



Some years ago a rather animated 

 controversy was carried on in the 



GREECE. 



The honey from the Mount Hymet- 

 tUfS has always had the reputation of 

 being the finest flavored honey in all 

 creation. The "Rodomeli" "rose hon- 

 ey" has also been noted. It is pro- 

 duced upon an island along the coast 

 of Greece, which is largely covered 

 with wild rose-bushes. From their 

 bloom the bees gather a honey which 

 is very aromatic and well flavored. 

 The rich Turks in Constantinople are 

 willing purchasers of this honey and 

 pay a high price for it. — Breiden in 

 Leipz. Bztg. 



F. Grelner. 



BELGIUM. 



Nordlinger Bztg. as to the advantages 

 of the American L hive over the 

 Dzierzon hive. Our good esteemed 

 friend Stachelhausen on one side — 

 Gex-man bee-keepers on the other. 

 Since then the American system has 

 found some friends in the German 

 countries. A similar battle is going 

 on in Austria at present, Dzierzon on 

 one side, still adhering to his hive of 

 half a century ago; Strauli, of Switzer- 

 land, Alphonsus and others on the 

 other side. It would seem that the 



Mr. Van Hay, one of the staff editors 

 of the Bucher Beige, has an article 

 mentioning something about the length 

 of life of bees. 



He says that the population of a 

 colony is renewed tnree or four times 

 during the summer, and once between 

 October and the middle of April. Or 

 that, at least, the field bees disappear 

 during the winter, and when the 

 spring comes, only tho,se that were 

 young when the winter come remain. 

 A colony Italianized the 26th of Sep- 

 tember had no black bees left the llth 

 of April following. It must be remem- 

 bered that in Europe, bees are win- 

 tered out of doors, and that while the 

 summer in Belgium is much colder 

 than in our middle states, the winter 

 is comparatively mild. — Le Bucher 

 Beige. 



Mr. A. Gustin. in making a list of 

 apicultural tools, mentions a small 

 looking glass. Sometimes one is stung 

 on the face, and with thelooking glass 

 it is easy to see the sting and take it 

 out. — Le Bucher Beige. 



Mr. Burkhardt. in the course of some 

 experiments on the proper size of 

 hives, or rather brood nests, found in 

 large hives and strong colonies from 



