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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Februai 



Swarthmore, Pa., Dec. 29, 1904. 

 Editor Bee-Keeper: 



The Society of Apiculture of 

 Aisne, France, has just issued a series 

 of twelve handsome post cards^ each 

 bearing an attractive photo engraving 

 of scenes in and about the apiary, with 

 a view to directing the public atten- 

 tion to honey as a food, and "hydro- 

 mel" as a drink in the place of wine. 

 These cards illustrate subjects of pop- 

 ular interest — several of them depict 

 children in the act of taking honey 

 either from the hive or from a jar; .1 

 man holding a swarm of bees is 

 shown; a horse eating a chunk of 

 honey; a house party indulging in hy- 

 dromel — "' a drink fit for the gods." 

 All in all it is a good ad. and is gotten 

 out in the typical artistic French 

 style. "Swarthmore." 



FEEDING BEES. 

 Sheffield, Eng., Dec. 21, 1904. 

 Editor Bee-Keeper: 



The article on the first page of the 

 December issue, by Arthur C. Miller, 

 is a gem that all bee-keepers should 

 study and act up to. Contrast it with 

 the silly one by Dr. L. E. Kerr on 

 page 248, where he says, "All intel- 

 gent bee-keepers now rely to a great 

 extent upon the sugar barrel." 



T wont stop to argue such rubbish; 

 — to buy sugar, make it into syrup, 

 and waste further time feeding it, 

 when bees pay nothing for the honey 

 they gather and no time is wasted in 

 making syrup or feeding. Nor does 

 he seem to know how to work the 

 "divisible brood chamber hive" to ad- 

 vantage. 



John Hewitt. 



MORE ABOUT BEE-STEALERS. 



Waverly. N. Y., Dec. 6, 1904. 

 Editor Bee-Keeper: 



The item in the Bee-Keeper giving 

 an account of the theft of bees at 

 Glenlock, Pa., remmds me of the 

 theft of a colony belonging to Mr. 

 Peter Bogart. of Lockwood, N. Y. I 

 wish to give it to the Bee-Keeper, as 

 it may be of use to some of them in 

 finding stolen property. The bees 

 stolen were in a box hive. The own- 

 er discovered his loss early the next 

 morning and visited an apiary on a 

 mountain a mile or more distant, 



which was owned by a person hs 

 ing a) shaky reputation. The b« 

 were not found, but he discovered 

 mammoth box hive and greatly w<| 

 dered why a person should make 

 large a hive. Several years after a r' 

 ative of the man owning the large h 

 became angered at him and told 

 man who lost the hive that the lai 

 hive covered the hive he had stolei 

 the time he saw it. Several years 

 ter, a yoke of oxen were stolen a 

 driven to a distant butcher and so 

 The bee thief was strongly suspici 

 ed and fled the country, leavinj 

 good farm partly paid for. A : 

 years after he was detected with 

 other skip in the night, and failing! 

 halt when ordered, was given a s 

 that proved fatal. 



J. H. Andr» 



NEW APIARIAN PATENTS. 



.\ patent has been issued to Os 

 F. Kerr, Texas on a beehive 

 which the following claim is held 



A bee-hive comprising a brood 

 chamber and a comb-frame chaml 

 means for preventing egress from 

 brooding-chamber, an apertured j 

 tition separating the two chamber 

 valve provided with aperture adaj 

 to be moved into and out of regL 

 with those of the partition thereb] 

 cut oflF or establish communication', 

 tween the two chambers, a cover 

 the comb-frame chamber, and smc 

 distributing means carried by 

 cover. 



A United States patent has : 

 been taken out by Carl Ludloflf, 

 Mexico, whose claim is as follows 



A bee-hive comprising a base-fra 

 bottom boards attached to said fr; 

 and having their edges overlap pro 

 ing openings at the ends, a plura 

 of comb-frames removably suppoi 

 on said base-frames one against 

 other, and a cover for passing ( 

 said frames and resting on the bi 

 frame. 



Tn the bee's list of "breakfast foe 

 honey is the "whole wheat," w 

 substitutes, such as syrup, etc., are 

 the pastry flour. 



One hundred and fifty-seven mjj 

 bers were present at the St. Louis 

 tional convention of bee-keepers. 



