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eatlier. The Japs have adopted ing, however, is not done in waxen 

 lie most rational methods of han- cells, but in living reservoirs. A por- 

 ting bees, and to keep them at a tion of the ants have a receptacle, 

 rofit. Australian bee-keepers have globular in shape, about one centime- 

 itroduced the Japan bee into their ter in diameter; this is the store-room 

 ards and succeed remarkably in the of honey from which the other ants 

 nltivation of the same. — Neumann in draw, and they in turn feed these 

 cntral-Blatt. rather clumsy sisters. The uncivi- 



lized natives living in Central Austra- 



SERVlA. lia consider these honey ants (Melo- 

 phorus) morsels of aelicacy. 



It is stated in the 111. Bztg. by S. — — ■ 



rawrilowitsch that in Servia along the AFRICA. 



hores of the Danube fried fish and 



oiled chicken, all of which are cheap- Apiculture among the Egyptians, 



r than sugar, are used as substitutes as is well known, was a well-under- 



jr bee food; this wonderful news S. stood business as far back as 2,000 



r. obtained from a Servian bee jour- years ante Christum natum. Solon 



al. (What next?) the Wise went from Greece 2,500 



years ago to study bee-keeping in 



AUSTRIA. Egypt. Since these times apiculture 



has not made the advances that it did 



Jungklaus reports in "Imker of in some other parts of the world 



lohemia" that at an exhibition of The African bee is a black bee, closely 



oney in Itzehoe, judges entirely ig- related to the German brown bee, and 



ored "liquid" dark honey, giving the the natives in different parts of Afri- 



olid honey the preference. ca have their methods of handling 



these bees. Many of them manufac- 



On the i8th of June all business in ture their hives by a process of 



ne of the mam streets of Budapest weaving grasses and the like into 



ras brought to a standstill by a long cylindrical shaped habitations. 



warm of bees. Said bees were not Such are often placed way un into 



iclined to yield to the orders and the tops of trees with a view of catch- 



ctions of the police force, which ing wild bees. The yields of honey 



ime out sometimes worse for are said to be very large and the 



ear. As a result, long strings of quality of same equal to European 



wagons and people accumulated at honey. 



ide streets. As a last remedj' water 



rom a hydrant was made to play on FRANCE. 



be bees, which took leave at once, ,., o x- .- . . 



„ J 1 ■ J Wax Secretion Experiments, 

 nd business was resumed. 



Mention was made some time ago 



Jungklaus also tells how a young of experiments made by Mr. Sylviac 



roman captured a swarm of bees, and others to determine how much 



eing on a tramp, she found a swarm honey it takes to make a pound of 



f bees hanging on a bush. Wishing wax. The process followed was to 



3_ secure it, she took off one of her hive a swarm and weigh the combs 



kirts, tied up one end and, by the built two or three days later; the sup- 



elp of sticks, spread it out in such position being that the honey brought 



way_ that sne could hive the swarm from the parent hive was approxi- 



ito it.^ After the bees had all mately equal to the amount necessary 



lOved in, she tied up the other end to produce that amount of wax, since 



f the skirt and thus carried the there is no brood to raise and what 



warm several miles to her home. — few bees go to the field get about 



"Well done.") enough (probably) to keep the swarm 



— alive. 



AUSTRALIA. Recently, in reference to artificial 



swarming, somebor.y asked how much 



Bienen-Vater tells of a species of wax a bee can secrete in a day, or how 



nts found in Central Australia which long it would take a swarm of known 



athers and stores honey. The stor- strength to build its combs. 



