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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



June 



small piece of broken comb containing 

 a few eggs and some honey. Tliis was 

 don^ to save the honey and at the 

 same time not leave it in the open to 

 start robbing. Evidently the bees 

 transported one off the eggs in a suit- 

 able place to raise a queen. — L' Api- 

 culteur. 



GERMANY. 



We American apiarists are not the 

 only ones pestered by the fabrications 

 of mixtures and concoctions of glu- 

 cose and other Ingredients and the 

 selling of the same for honey. In 

 Gtermany. several large factories of 

 such products are in existence and sell 

 openly such products, calling them 

 artificial honey or some other names. 

 In one of these factories an unlucky 

 cat fell In one of the cauldrons where 

 a mixture of extra fine (?) honey was 

 boiling. Nobody was present at the 

 time of the "catastrophe". When the 

 contents of the cauldron were nearly 

 entirely taken oiit and bottled up, the 

 corpse of the unfortuuc^te cat was dis- 

 covered. The employees of the estab- 

 lishment held an inqiiest over the 

 body, and decided to call in the propri- 

 etor. That individual, after inves- 

 tigating the status of his finances, de- 

 cided that he could not afford to lose 

 such an amount of "extra fine honey." 

 and ordered the bottling and selling to 

 proceed. An iniunction was issued to 

 all employees to keep the matter a 

 profound secret. Like all the pro- 

 found secrets, the affair leaked out. 

 The proprietor was prosecuted, appre- 

 hended and condemned to a fine of 

 .1,000 marks ($1,250). What the inward 

 feelings of the consumers of the brand 

 of "extra fine honey" may have been 

 when they read the account in the 

 newspapers is not stated. — From Le 

 Eucher Beige. 



Adrian Getaz. 



YoDkers, N. Y., May 10, 1904., 

 Dear Mr. Hill:— 



As you know, the past winter has 

 been very "fierce" up North and my 

 two out-door hives lost about half of 

 their population. As for the "Bug 

 House," its inmates thrived and in- 

 creased so fast during March and 

 April that they began building combs 

 on the glass sides, for want of room, 

 so I transferred the whole bunch to a 

 regulation hive and put them out of 

 doors, and at present they are "as busy 

 as hatters" on fruit bloom. 



Dickson D. Alley. 



West Berne, N. Y., May,2 1904. 

 Editor Bee-Keeper: — 



I have successfully wintered 104 col- 

 onies in cellar— exactly the same num- 

 ber I put in last fall. This is some- 

 thing that is very seldom done here. I 

 have been moving bees during the last 

 week, and while the spring has been 

 one of the lowest grade, bees are 

 strong and in good condition, though 

 not breeding heavily yet. I hope dur- 

 ing the year to be able to show by pen 

 and camera some of my methods of 

 keening bees and rearing queens. I 

 will prove that the best queens can be 

 reared at home and the nuclei wintered 

 and used again and again, without rob- 

 bing colonies here and there to keep up 

 nuclei. T do not pretend to know it all, 

 but my writings will be founded upon 

 an experience of 15 years. I like the 

 American Bee-Keeper very much. 

 P. W. Stahlman. 



The Bee-Keeper's Review thinks it 

 time for the National Association to 

 publish each year a stenographic report 

 of its meetings, together with the re- 

 port of the genera] manager, for dis- 

 tribution among the memborship. It 

 Is evidently the duty of the associa- 

 tion to do so and it is difPcult to im- 

 agine any valid objection to the pro- 

 ject. Official information .--s to ihe 

 work of the association, in all its de- 

 tails, should be furnished each mem- 

 ber as promptly as expedient. 



A Seasoned Rustic. — The young 

 daughter of a prominent New York 

 ■financier, who has passed most of her 

 years either in the city or at larcre sum- 

 mer resorts, recently paid her first vis- 

 it to a real country home. She was 

 anxious to show that she was not al- 

 together Ignorant of riiral conditions, 

 and when a dish of honey was set be- 

 fore her on the breakf.ist table she 

 saw her opportunity. "Ah," she ob- 

 served. "T see you keep a bee." — Har- 

 per's Weekly. 



