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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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or small bee-keepers to make their 

 \vn foundation, queen bees of all 

 inds, as the browu or German, the 

 talian, Cj'priau Carniolan, Northern 

 r Norwegian, Red-clover queens, 

 leath bees, crosses of all and any of 

 lie above named. There seems to be 

 large business done In bees by the 

 ound or swarm, particularly in Heath 

 ud Carniolani bees. Bee hives are 

 dAcrtised in large numbers from the 

 traw-skep up to the most elaborate 

 Pavillion." Even Dr. Dzierzon is still 

 1 this business selling hives of any 

 iiul. but particularly his "twin hive." 

 iiiong other supplies we also find 

 ood for brood frames. This is soft 

 ood, sawed in strips about one inch 

 ide and 1-4 inch thick. Tobacco ad- 

 ertisements figiire quite prominently, 

 count eight or ten sugar advertise- 

 lents, offering fruit sugar, uncolored 

 eet sugar, crystalized sugars, malt 

 Ligar. crystal sugar free from sul- 

 furic acid, etc. Honey is freely ad- 

 ertised, much more freely than in 

 merica although comb honey is sel- 

 3m advertised, and perhaps little pro- 

 uced. Different shaped glass cans 

 ir holding honey are offered by many 

 rms. Some glass cans to hold as lit- 

 e as one-quarter pound and up to five 

 lounds. Many other things might be 

 . inumerated, but we will let this suffice. 



BELGIUM. 



Mr. C. P. Dadant writes to the 

 Rucher Beige: 



"At the beginning, there is no differ- 

 ence in the appearance of the diseased 

 brood, whether it is foul brood, black 

 brood or pickled brood. Later a con- 

 siderable difference is seen. In cases 

 of foul brood, the dead ba-ood becomes 

 brown, nearly liquid and of a glue-like 

 nature, while in the other diseases it 

 dries out completely to the extent of 

 sometimes falling off from the walls 

 of the cells. 



"Last summer two of my neighbors 

 had diseased bees. In less than a 

 month the bees were cured through a 

 treatment with oil of eucalpytus. The 

 process Avas to put some wool cotton 

 saturated with the oil in a small box 

 with a perforated cover and put the 

 box in the infected hive. The oil was 

 renewed every fourth day until com- 

 pletely cured. I found the formalde- 

 hyde ineffective. There is no danger 

 of getting foul brood from foundation. 

 The melted wax impregnated with 

 spores and entombed in a sheet of wax 

 will never rise from the dead. " 



Frequently spring or well water con- 

 tains some iron. If used in melting 

 wax, the iron is liable to darken the 

 was considerably .^Le Rucher Beige. 



SWITZERLAND. 



J The district around Wynental is 



■afflicted with foul brood. The rather 



idical means of destroying bees, 



>mbs and all, except the hives, is 



racticed to eradicate the disease. 



Foul brood is also reported from 

 lussnacht, Solothurn and Berne. — 

 chweiz. Bztg. 



The question is asked in the same 

 aper: "Why are queens from the first 

 atch better than those of the second 

 le?" (Are they any better?) 



The Schweiz. Bienenzeitung publish- 

 ^ the names of hotel and resorts 

 here only genuine honey is served. 

 A. splendid idea.) 



Spuehler tells in Schweiz. Bztg. of 

 aving invented a reversible extractor; 

 le need of such, he says, has been 

 ^It a long time. His machine is min- 

 tely described and illustrated. Its 

 )nstruction differs from the Cowan. 



Mr. Gunther attempted to calculate 

 the cost of wax in honey or sugar. He 

 lodged a strong swarm on frames hav- 

 ing only very small starters, added a 

 comb of pollen and fed 15 pounds of 

 sugar during the following two weeks. 

 As the weather happened to be rainy 

 the bees could not gather anything out- 

 side. At the end of the two weeks 

 there was enough comb built to fill 11 

 half frames. The brood occupied six 

 and there was about four pounds of 

 syrup in the others, some of it capped. 

 Counting the cost of sugar and the 

 value of the brood, the cost of the 

 comb contained in a frame would be 

 only five cents. The size of the frame 

 is liot given. If it is the Dadant-Blatt 

 the 11 half frames would be equivalent 

 to about eight American L. frames. If 

 it is the DeLayens, it would be con- 

 siderably more. — LeRucher Beige. 



At Baden-Baden, some women were 

 arrested for selling adulterated honey .^ 

 The buyer, a hotel keeper, was sum- 

 moned as witness. On being asked 

 whether he knew the honey was adul- 

 terated, he said he did. The judge 

 then asked him why he had bought it. 



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