904. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 233 



leld in Doonbion, and was well at- large share is imported from Hungaria, 

 ended. The whole city was deco- Italy, California, Cuba, Brazil and 

 •att'd and the authorities and the dlf- Australia. Some Brazil honey ranks 

 erent societies spared no pains to equal to German honey; other Ameri- 

 iiake it pleasant for the bee-keepers, can honey does not. 

 I may report more of this convention A large share of the table honey is 

 ator. — ^F. Greiuer.) mixed — using beet sugar as a basis 



■ and adding a little heath honey to 



Wurth finds a queen in a new color and flavor. A great deal of mon- 

 warm this way: After the swarm ey is made with this substitute. The 

 well gathered it is dumped out or city of Berlin is one of the heaviest 

 haken off onto a clean piece of consumers of extracted honey. What 

 round (we here use a white sheet) Guehler deplores most is the fact that 

 nd the hive is set near it. When the there are a number of extensive bee- 

 ees begin to enter the hive, the latter keepers (having as many as three hun- 

 3 gradually moved back and the bees dred colonies each) who use their bee 

 re thus forced to spread out thinly, business as a means of advertising- 

 he vigilant eye of the bee-keeper can. their foreign and mixed product. At 

 bus easily discover the object he is most, he says, they can produce fifteen 

 fter. thousand pounds of honey in a year. 



. Some years the three hundred skeps 



When a large number of colonies are produce no more than three colonies, 

 D be moved into the Heath, Rud. and yet they maintain a wholesale 

 >athe recommends, in Centralblatt, to business, selling great quantities of 

 ike a load of the strong colonies first, honey, making it appear as though it 

 'ext, and a few days after, move a was all the product of their own bee- 

 )ad of weak colonies and place theru yards, thus misleading the consumers. 



heife the strong ones have stood, • 



iving the latter ones new locations. To bleach wax and make it white it 

 hus they are hindered from swarm- is exposed to sunlight in moist atmos- 

 and the weak ones are greatly phere, and in very small particles. 

 ?nefited. It will be remembered that The process requires from five to six 

 I the heath sections, straw-skeps are weeks, unless one and one-fourth to 

 I general use. and the bees do i^ one and three-fourths per cent, of tur- 

 •eat amount of swarming. Small aft- pentlne has been added to the wax, 

 •-swarms, with their young queens, when the time may be shortened to 

 ay be converted into good strong six or eight days, so says Pr. Wegw. 



varms by the above method, and it 



rikes me that perhaps we might prac- BOHEMIA. 



ce a similar plan when moving into All the preparatory work for win- 



ickwheat. — fF. G.) ter should have been finished by the 



last of September. Bees should not be 



A. Boehme, in speaking of the disturbed after this. The best time 

 hacelia, says in Centralblatt: The to judge the strength of a colony of 

 hacelia is a better pollen producer bees is — not during the noon hours, 

 lan honey yielder. Does not do well but early on a cool morning. The 

 irlng the latter part of the season, quantity of winter stores a hive con- 

 lerefore secrei:es honey at a time tains may be guessed at. Weighing 

 hen other blossoms furnish plenty, not necessary. — Boehm h-i Deutsche 

 quires rich ground. During wet Imker. 



ather the flower heads draw too • 



uch moisture and hold it; consequent- The advice by F. Tobish in the same 

 bees are often prevented from work- paper to winter bees upon good 

 g on it. As a crop the plants lodge healthy honey is cheap. The question 

 id rot badly. I do not consider it a is what is such honey? How can we 

 ofitable crop to grow. During wee positively know it? In another place 

 eather it is difl3cult to harvest the of the same paper Friend Tobish ex- 

 ed. presses some other ideas which I have 



■ found to be correct: The use of the 



Guehler estimated the value of drone trap is not to be recommended. 

 le average honey crop in Germany at Regulate the '^"+'^nt of drones by al- 

 1,000,000 marks. He also says that lowing but a small amount of drone- 

 prmany does not produce, and never comb. Drones are necessary. The 

 Is, its supply of honey, and that a observing bee-master will find the 



