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December 



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Bee -Keeping World 



staff Contributors : F. GREINER and ADRIAN GETAZ. 



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GERMANY. 

 "Extracted Honey, finest quality, at 

 60 Marks per pound." Thus adver- 

 tised a certain storeKeeper in Bonn, 

 says the Leipz. Btzg. The price of 

 honey in Germany is much higher 

 than 60 marks, and it was evident that 

 this honey sold by the storekeeper 

 would have to be adulterated. A 

 complaint made resulted in a prose- 

 cution of the man, who was found 

 guilty of selling adulterated honey, 

 although it was shown that he in- 

 formed each purchaser that the 'ar- 

 ticle was not pure honey. 



come foul broody on account of thi 

 lack of pollen. — Schweitz. Bztg. 



Aaman reports of having lost a col- 

 ony of bees by starvation, although 

 the same had a supply of thirty 

 pounds at the beginning of the winter. 

 There was not a cell of honey left, 

 and the possibility of other bees 

 having robbed the colony is excluded. 



The honey gathered in Germany th 

 past season is considerably darker ii 

 color than usual. 



The Hann. Cour. asserts that there 

 are wasps and mosquitoes in New 

 York, but no bees. (Even should the 

 reporter mean the city, he might find 

 himself mistaken, should he come 

 over and make an investigation. "> 



The Luxemb. Bztg. gives the fol- 

 lowing good advice on renewing 

 queens: Insert a ripe or matured 

 queen cell cagea. Keep young queen 

 caged for seven days. Then re- 

 move old queen and release the 

 young. 



As something unusual it is report- 

 ed from the heath (Lunenburg) that 

 single hives have gained as high as 

 four pounds per day. 



The heath prodtices very little pol- 

 len and the older bee-keepers of these 

 localities make the claim that colonies, 

 left in the heath for two years, be- 



The safety of obtaining pure an 

 unadulterated honey lies in the hon 

 esty of the producing bee-keeper 

 whom the consumer buys his supplj 

 — Dickel in 111. Bztg. 



The bee-keeper, Sperling, of Goedc 

 sold 900 pounds of comb honey, saii 

 to be pure "bee honey," to a deale 

 in Dresden. The honey proved t 

 be partly sugar-fed honey. Th 

 authorities took the matter in han 

 and S. was heavily fined. — 111. Bztg. 



The Centralverein has sent in a pe 

 tition asking that apiculture be taugh 

 at teachers' seminaries. 



TUNIS. 

 The bee-keeper in Tunis finds i 

 necessary to use double-walled hive 

 on account of the prevailing coo 

 weather during the honey flow. Th 

 harvest for the bees and the bee 

 keeper is during the latei fall am 

 early spring. P. Neuman translate 

 from the Bulletin de la Societe Ro 

 mand d'Apiculture that the bee-keep 

 ers are imprudent enough to kee] 

 as many as 1,000 colonies in on< 

 place. 



JAPaN. 



The native honey-bee of Japan i! 

 grayish-yellow of color. It is per 

 haps the most docile bee known am 

 may be handled without any protec 

 tion on the part of the keeper. It is 

 also claimed that these bees are more 

 industrious than other races, going 

 out in search of food during rainj 



