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GEiniANY. 

 Freudenstein holds that the produc- 

 tiou of sugar honey, aud 'Selling it as 

 suchjs a perfectly legitimate bu-siness, 

 and if the bee-keeper can make it a 

 profitable business he should or might 

 in the absence of a natural honey flow 

 enter into it in order to make his bees 

 pay tlieir way. 



years he now has an apiary of 40 

 swarmvS of bees from which he has an 

 income larger than from his farm, he 

 says. 



The dy.sentery is a disease of bees 

 even more dreaded in Germany than 

 •here. The editor of the Neue Bztg., 

 Freudenstein. has for years advocated 

 its cure by sugar feeding; say-s bees 

 need no cleansing flights during win- 

 ter. 



Claussen claims in Schlesie, Hoist 

 Bztg. that queen-s lay more eggs dur- 

 ing their third season than during any 

 previous one. This seems to disagree 

 with our experience in America. Look- 

 ing over my home yard last spring. In- 

 spector Stevens and myself found that 

 nearly all the best and .strongest col- 

 onies were headed by queens of pre- 

 vious year's raising. Other bee-keep- 

 ers here find the same rule existing. 



With the Reitsehe comb foundation 

 moulds, Neue Btzg. says loO sheets 

 may be made by an experienced person 

 in an hour. 



Oo-sch in the same paper, says the 

 impoirt dutj' on honey is five cents per 

 pound. The Austrian government only 

 levies a duty of less than two cents. 



The tobacco pipe i-s still liolding 

 sway as a bee smoker in Germany. 

 That a professional bee-keeper can 

 possibly get along ^vith such an in- 

 efficient afllair when an American 

 smoker is procurable is more than the 

 writer can understand. The German 

 bee-keeper must be terribly wedded to 

 his pipe. Illnstrations are given in the 

 Neue Btzg. showing how an ordinary 

 pipe is converted into a blow-pipe. At 

 the beginning of my bee-keeping ca- 

 reer. I made use of the blow-pipe piir- 

 posely constructed and working much 

 better than an ordinary toljacco pipe 

 possibly could, but by the side of our 

 present smokers it is but a miserable 

 excuse, at the best, and while I still 

 have one in my workshop, it is not 

 taken into use and has not been in 25 

 years. 



The Leipz Bztg tells of a young man 

 jwho became a bee-keeper by finding a 

 Jlate swarm hanging on a bush. He 

 Itook good care of it, wintered it and 

 Ikept carefully increasing. After 16 



A dead air space affords not nearly 

 so much protection as one filled with 

 non-conducting materials, eo writes 

 Dr. Buttel in Central-blatt. An exper- 

 iment shows that when groiind cork 

 retains 77 per cent, of the warmth 

 produced, the dead air space retains 

 only 18 per cent. 



The comb foundation manufacturer 

 who was reported last month to be 

 heavily fined for using a large portion 

 of paraffin in the manufacture of his 

 foundation, makes the following state- 

 ment in the Die Biene: "Chemists 

 have about the same difficulty to dis- 

 tinguish pure beeswax from adulter- 

 ated waxes that they have to tell pure 

 honey from adulterated products. It is 

 not shown that the chemist, who made 

 the analysis, has made his statements 

 under oath. The wax which was used, 

 in the manufacture of the foundation 

 was such as was received from the 

 bee-keepers as pure wax and came 

 from the same locality where the adul- 

 trated foundation was found. He, the 



